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 …

Enormous growth and rapid changes challenge business strategy and the economic theory of the online industry. In the … new marketspaces of the Internet much is happening, while causes and effects often seem unclear. The fundamental relevance …