| Price Setting in Two-sided markets for Internet Connectivity (2009) | |||||||||||
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| Due to a lack of incentives, Internet peerings are a notorious bandwidth bottleneck. Through the use of direct interconnection and content delivery networks, content providers are able to provide better services to their customers. These technologies have a profound impact on the business models of internet service providers. Instead of competing for consumers and keeping uplink connection costs low, ISPs face a two-sided market in which they compete for EUs and generate revenues on the CP side of the market. This work presents a formal model for the providers? pricing decision towards content providers and discusses consequences for the Internet. | |||||||||||
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