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The Effect of Content on Global Internet Adoption and the Global “Digital Divide”

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2010

A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …

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Search and the City: Comparing the Use of WiFi in New York, Budapest and Montreal

Forlano, Laura - NET Institute - 2009

grown exponentially. There has been little analysis of the ways in which the use of the wireless Internet via WiFi may … differ from that of the wireline Internet. This paper compares the results from a six-month survey of the use of WiFi … more acute understanding of the ways in which the user patterns of particular modes of Internet access may differ …

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The Effects Of Competition On The Price For Cable Modem Internet Access

Chen, Yongmin; Savage, Scott J. - NET Institute - 2007

under duopoly if consumer preferences for the two products are more diverse. Focusing on the price for cable modem Internet …

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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Termination Rate Regulation in Asymmetric Oligopolies: the Case of Spain

Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel Luis - NET Institute - 2011

We examine the effects of mobile termination rate regulation in asymmetric oligopolies. We do this by extending existing models of asymmetric duopoly and symmetric oligopoly where consumer expectations about market shares are passive. We first calibrate product differentiation parameters using...

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Nonlinear Pricing with Product Customization in Mobile Service Industry

Luo, Yao - NET Institute - 2011

This paper proposes to incorporate product customization in the Maskin and Riley (1984) nonlinear pricing model in order to capture major features of mobile service data. In particular, consumers are characterized by a two-dimensional type. One dimension is observed by the provider and...

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Network Competition: Workhorse Resurrection

Tangerås, Thomas P. - NET Institute - 2010

I generalize the workhorse model of network competition (Armstrong, 1998; Laffont, Rey and Tirole, 1998a,b) to include income effects in call demand. Income effects imply that call demand depends also on the subscription fee, not only on the call price. In the standard case of differentiated...

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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation

Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - NET Institute - 2010

We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive … content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service …

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Mobile Termination and Consumer Expectations under the Receiver-Pays Regime

Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel Luis - NET Institute - 2010

We analyze how termination charges affect retail prices when taking into account that receivers derive some utility from a call and when firms may charge consumers for receiving calls. A novel feature of our paper is that we consider passive self-fulfilling expectations and do not allow for...

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Giving the Old Platform a New Lease on Life: The Unintended Effect of Backward Compatibility on Platform Adoption Decisions

Hann, Il-Horn; Koh, Byungwan; Niculescu, Marius F. - NET Institute - 2012

We investigate the impact of backward compatibility on the adoption of multi-generation platforms. Our context is a mobile platform where platform users download services from third party providers. For each hardware platform generations, the services depend greatly on the embedded...

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Bundling Incentives in Markets with Product Complementarities: The Case of Triple-Play

Macieira, Joao; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, Joao - NET Institute - 2013

We analyze firms' incentives to bundle and tie in the telecommunications industry. As a first step, we develop a discrete-choice demand model where firms sell products that may combine several services in bundles, and consumers choose assortments of different types of products available from...

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