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 …

We propose a two-sided model with two competing Internet platforms, and a continuum of Content Providers (CPs). We … study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation …