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Much of the recent debate over Internet policy has focused on the permissibility of business practices that are …
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An important reason for the Internet's remarkable growth over the last quarter century is the "end-to-end" principle … this made deployment of internet infrastructure cheap and efficient, but it has created fertile ground for entrepreneurship … would be premature. Physical ownership of internet infrastructure does not translate into a practical ability to control its …
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Connectivity, the characterising feature of the Internet, requires the definition of access prices, transit charges …, among connected operators. However, for many information exchanges, the network hierarchies in the Internet are not fixed … another. We study the impact of interconnection with transit demand on prices and profits for Internet Service Providers …
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband Internet access in regional markets with …
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Internet ; investment spillover ; national roaming ; regulation …
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Network neutrality constitutes today an emerging branch of economic analysis. This article explores this literature to open the discussion to new economic issues observed from the industry's practical experience that have not been yet addressed by the existing literature
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The paper focuses on the cost characteristics of Internet technology and on the question whether there are monopolistic … bottlenecks in Internet services which justify regulatory intervention into the market. The analysis is prompted by a discussion … of the cost characteristics of the Internet, which could be the source of monopolistic bottlenecks in Internet services …
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related to an “open” Internet. Almost everyone would agree that the Internet generates a great many positive benefits … be designed. This essay examines three sources of benefits from the Internet - general purpose technology, network …
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The Economist puts it best: “The details around network neutrality, the principle that internet-service providers (ISPs …
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