The Economics of the Internet: Infrastructure and Regulation

Cave, M.

doi:10.1093/oxrep/17.2.188

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“…From the demand perspective, in order to economize usage time (Rappoport et al 2002) or to exploit the benefits of economies of scale (Cave and Mason 2001), users are likely to prefer broadband over narrowband services. Factors, such as level of income and education, user location and service availability, previous experience, and usage pattern, are also associated with broadband Internet adoption (see Rappoport et al 2002;Lee et al 2003;Garcia-Murillo 2005;Whitacre and Mills 2010;Parajuli and Haynes 2017).…”

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Broadband and narrowband Internet in Nepal

Parajuli

Haynes

2017

Asia-Pac J Reg Sci

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This paper examines the relationship between asymmetric digital subscriber line (broadband) and dial-up (narrowband) Internet subscribers in Nepal. While the number of broadband subscribers is increasing, the number of narrowband subscribers has been decreasing over the last couple of years. As expected, broadband subscribers ''Granger cause'' narrowband subscribers to decline. This suggests that digital subscriber lines are a superior good that is a substitute and replace dial-up services. This relationship should be stable in the short-run. The public sector incumbent Nepal Telecom provides both digital subscriber lines and dial-up access while commercial Internet Service Providers supply dial-up services. Hence, a large proportion of the revenue of the commercial providers is likely to be eroded compared to the incumbent. Given this context and to ensure that there is free and fair competition to support rapid growth in the Internet sector, the Government of Nepal needs to address important regulatory and policy issues related to this narrowband-broadband transition.Keywords Narrowband Á Broadband Á Internet Á Dial-up Á Asymmetric digital subscriber line Á Nepal JEL Classification L86 Á L96 Á O18 Á C32

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“…However, insufficient research efforts were devoted to Internet economics in the early 2000's 8 . One of the major reasons may be inadequate data availability.…”

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A Cross-Category Analysis of the Network Effects on Website Usage

Chiang

Jane

2015

ijecs

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This article addresses the issue of network effects derived from network externalities for website usage. A sample of 72,057 browsing behaviors was collected and examined by using Poisson models. Results show that total hourly pageviews of a website are positively related to an individual's hourly pageviews. Gender, age, income, and education are significant factors (e.g., males view more pages on the news, auction, searching and blog websites, and females view more pages on social networking, shopping, and video-sharing websites).

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“…2 In most countries only the local access price is currently regulated. However, 1 See Kende (2000), Cave and Mason (2001) and Vanberg (2003) for recent overviews. 2 Cave and Crandall (2001) give an overview of the wholesale market for premium sport in the United States and Europe.…”

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“…1 there is scope for public intervention in other segments of the Internet market as well. In particular, the wholesale markets for backbone connectivity and premium content have been given much attention from antitrust authorities (Cave and Mason, 2001). One rather mild form of intervention is to impose a non-discriminatory requirement, where providers of traded Internet services are required to set identical prices in different countries.…”

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Strategic Regulation Policy in the Internet

Foros

Kind

Sørgard³

2006

J Regul Econ

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Some countries are importers while others are exporters of global backbone connectivity. At the same time, input components such as local access are non-traded. This paper analyzes a non-cooperative regulatory game between importing and exporting countries, assuming that the prices of both traded and non-traded inputs can be regulated. We show that exporting countries choose a more restrictive regulation of non-traded goods than importing countries do. We further show that a requirement of international non-discrimination may hurt importing countries, and give firms producing traded inputs incentives to invest in quality degradation. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006Complementarities, Regulation, Non-discrimination, Internet, L13, L51, L96,

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“…2 2 Cave and Mason (2001) take up interconnection agreements as an important issue for the Internet. …”

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Interconnection Agreement Between Internet Service Providers and the Optimal Policy Intervention: The Case of Cournot-Type Competition Under Network Externalities

Daitoh

2008

Japanese Econ Rev

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We derive the optimal subsidy policy for an interconnection agreement between two symmetric Internet service providers (ISPs) competing á la Cournot in a network service market. The interconnection quality agreed upon is lower than the socially optimal level, as suggested by Crémer et al. (2000). In the basic model where both ISPs compete in the domestic market, the optimal investment subsidy rate depends positively on the strength of network externalities. In the extended model where home and foreign ISPs compete in the home market, the optimal subsidy rate for the home government is higher than in the basic model.

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The Economics of the Internet: Infrastructure and Regulation

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Broadband and narrowband Internet in Nepal

A Cross-Category Analysis of the Network Effects on Website Usage

Strategic Regulation Policy in the Internet

Interconnection Agreement Between Internet Service Providers and the Optimal Policy Intervention: The Case of Cournot-Type Competition Under Network Externalities

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