This paper explores the relationship between certainty of bandwidth and certainty of pricefor Internet services over a statistically shared network. Both are important policyobjectives. Certainty of bandwidth is necessary if the Internet is to serve as a platform foradvanced communications,...

Economic incentives for security investment in elements of the Internet is of increasing concern. This paper contains an exploration of the incentives for Internet service providers (ISP)s to invest in security. The analysis focuses on the spillover effects of ISP security investments to other...

Prior studies have shown that while ISPs are well positioned to provide residential and SME users critical protection from cybercrime, their incentives to do so are often insufficient. The presence of competition in providing broadband service is a factor we might expect to impact such...

Questions about universal service continue to evolve with our information and communication services. Though universal service began as a corporate strategy to support monopoly, it is now a policy to prevent some sectors of society from being excluded from access to communication and...

The term ‘algorithmic governance’ has two meanings in the policy debate and existing literature: (1) the role of algorithms in governing our lives, and (2) the governance of the algorithms. Algorithms govern our lives both explicitly and implicitly. Explicitly, the public sector and...

Economic incentives for security investment in elements of the Internet is of increasing concern. This paper contains an exploration of the incentives for Internet service providers (ISP)s to invest in security. The analysis focuses on the spillover effects of ISP security investments to other...

Prior studies have shown that while ISPs are well positioned to provide residential and SME users critical protection from cybercrime, their incentives to do so are often insufficient. The presence of competition in providing broadband service is a factor we might expect to impact such...