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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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We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality …
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We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality …
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Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties: Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … service provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet. Pricing, moreover, is not contingent on the type of content …
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We discuss the issue of a possible abolition of network neutrality and the introduction of paid prioritization by residential broadband access networks. We show that, in short run analysis where bandwidth is fixed, and in the absence of congestion, network neutrality tends to maximize total...
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory … nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
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Coordinating the timing and location of new production facilities is one of the challenges of liberalized power sectors. It is complicated by the presence of transmission bottlenecks, oligopolistic competition, and the unknown prospects of low-carbon technologies. The authors build a model...
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Large publishing companies have been dominating scientific publishing for long, which leads to high subscription fees and inhibited access to scientific knowledge. At digital era, the opportunity of an unrestricted access appears feasible, because the cost of publishing should be low. It is no...
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Unter dem Stichwort „Netzneutralität“ wird in Öffentlichkeit und Politik zur Zeit intensiv diskutiert, welchen Anforderungen die Datenübertragung in Telekommunikationsnetzen künftig genügen muss. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob Daten priorisiert werden dürfen und wenn ja, in welchem...
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The neutral architecture of the Internet is being challenged by various parties, such as network operators providing … the connections to end-users, who are interested in gaining control of the information exchanged over the Internet. What …
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