Internet access and investment incentives for broadband service providers

Edmond Baranes and Jean-Christophe Poudou

22nd European Regional ITS Conference, Budapest 2011: Innovative ICT Applications - Emerging Regulatory, Economic and Policy Issues from International Telecommunications Society (ITS)

Abstract: This paper studies a model of the Internet broadband market as a platform in order to show how different pricing schemes from the so-called net neutrality may increased economic efficiency by allowing more investment of access providers and enhancing consumers surplus and social welfare.

Keywords: Network neutrality; Flat rates; Termination fees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 L86 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ict, nep-ind and nep-net
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