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A Snapshot of the Current State of Residential Broadband Networks

Jacob Malone (), Aviv Nevo () and Jonathan Williams ()
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Jacob Malone: University of Georgia, Department of Economics, 310 Herty Drive, 535 Brooks Hall, Athens GA 30602
Aviv Nevo: Northwestern University, Department of Economics, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Jonathan Williams: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Department of Economics, 141 South Road, Gardner Hall 107, CB# 3305, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

No 15-06, Working Papers from NET Institute

Abstract: The way in which consumers use the Internet is changing rapidly, and over-the-top video services (OTTV) are a major contributor to this trend. The dramatic rise of OTTV services has led to major changes in the telecommunications sector and greater attention to several important and ongoing public policy debates. We provide an essential component to inform these policy debates: an in-depth descriptive analysis of the rapidly changing way in which consumers use the Internet from a representative sample of consumers. At the core of our contribution are unique data from the spring and summer of 2015 that we acquired from a North American ISP that provides detailed disaggregated high-frequency information on individuals’ Internet usage. We provide insight into temporal patterns in usage within the day, measure persistence in the level and composition of usage across days, and contrast usage patterns for consumers that subscribe to traditional pay TV services (i.e., purchase a bundle of services from the operator) to those that do not. We also present results on how the level and composition of usage for a consumer changes immediately after “cutting the cord” and dropping traditional linear TV service.

Keywords: Residential Broadband; Demand; Net Neutrality; Usage-based Pricing; Municipal Broadband; Cord Cutting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L13 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2015-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ict, nep-ind, nep-net and nep-reg
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