While second-degree price discrimination is standard in commercial practice in many industries, consumer advocates and public interest groups have reacted with skepticism against tendencies to move away from flat rates and introduce greater tariff diversity. This paper provides an empirical...

Recently the importance of public investment in the EU digital internal market has been increasingly stressed. The paper analyses how government subsidies for ICT investments should be assessed from an economic point of view. The focus is on the limits of financing ICT via usage-dependent user...

Multimediale Informations- und Führungssysteme in Kultur und Freizeit spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle für Besucher von Sehenswürdigkeiten und Ausstellungen. Derartige Systeme können als Weiterentwicklung von herkömmlichen Audioguides ihre Nutzer bei der Orientierung im...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are an important determinant of productivity growth and innovation. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries. A typology of innovation processes in ICT industries...

Das Internet der Dinge wäre undenkbar ohne den rapiden technologischen Fortschritt in der Telekommunikation während der vergangenen Jahrzehnte von spezialisierten schmalbandigen Netzen hin zu All-IP-Breitbandnetzen. Dadurch wird ein hochvolumiger Transport von Datenpaketen für ein großes...

Multimediale Informations- und Führungssysteme inKultur und Freizeit spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle für Besuchervon Sehenswürdigkeiten und Ausstellungen. Derartige Systeme können alsWeiterentwicklung von herkömmlichen Audioguides ihre Nutzer bei derOrientierung im Ausstellungsraum...

The importance of connectivity is growing across the world as the need for access to information and communication technologies is becoming more important for economic development. This paper presents the concept of the connectivity frontier as the expected achievable level of commercially...

I investigate the effect of open source on standardization outcomes in a market with positive network externalities. In a closed source world, it seems reasonable to assume that the probability of a standard being chosen is positively correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert...

This study analyzes the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access. The geographic spread of ISPs is a key consideration in U.S. policy for universal access. We examine the Fall of 1998, a time of minimal government subsidy, when...

Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...