The Internet unquestionably represents one of the most important technological developments in recent history. It has revolutionized the way people communicate with one another and obtain information and created an unimaginable variety of commercial and leisure activities. Interestingly, many...

Both telecommunications providers and policy makers would like to see consumers upgrading their fixed, wireless-fixed and wireless IAS. While telecommunications providers value such upgrades to increase the average revenue per user (ARPU), policy makers hope for socio-economic benefits by...

This paper identifies substantial flaws in how U.S. government agencies and courts assess the impact of proposed mergers by firms using broadband networks to reach consumers. Based on current market definitions, consumer impact assessments and economic doctrine, antitrust enforcement agencies...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the factors that affect consumers' intention to use a global business-to-consumer sharing platform.Design/methodology – The questionnaire collected 300 copies from June 25 to July 11, 2019, of which 281 were used for statistical processing. The structural...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the existing shortfall in telecommunications infrastructure in Peru, particularly in terms of Internet connectivity in urban areas, let alone rural ones. However, this challenge has also led to a shift in the population’s perception regarding the relevance of...

The study aims to investigated of iGen customer loyalty model that effected by service quality, culture, loyalty program and trust trough customer satisfaction. Following the conceptual model, an inclusive set of hypotheses have been developed. The demanded data were collected from 663 samples...

This paper discusses the impacts of providing energy efficiency information to online shoppers. It lays out mechanisms by which this may improve appliance purchase and use decisions, raise awareness, improve innovation and align market forces with sustainability objectives. It finds that...

I explore the competitive effects of on-net/off-net differentiation in a market with two asymmetric networks by combining the literature on on-net/off-net differentiation with research on costly consumer search in an agent-based simulation model. All consumers in the market are subscribed to one...

In this Perspective, I review arguments that broadband providers may be anticompetitively imposing usage-based pricing to protect their profits from “core” services (e.g., voice, video, texting) against the proliferation of “over the top” services and, as such, new price regulation of...