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(2002-07-22)This paper examines the impact of increasingly common congressional committee jurisdictional turf wars on policy outcomes. It develops a theoretical model that shows how legislators balance the benefits of expanded ...
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(1997-09)The deregulation of telecommunications has taken a major step with the WTO agreements in February of this year. Namely, each of the major Far Eastern countries has agreed to open their market in some form of planned ...
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(2000)The Internet is widely regarded as primarily a content delivery system. Yet historically, connectivity has mattered much more than content. Even on the Internet, content is not as important as is often claimed, since it ...
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(2002-07-22)This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66 countries. By studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows that supply constraints ...
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(2002-07-22)This background briefing paper was drafted by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative to help the Mass Broadband Initiative advisory committee understand the context of several important regulatory issues affecting ...
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(2001-10)Bringing networked computing to new users and new contexts entails a disruptive decrease in the level of user patience for complexity. This paper discusses the tensions involved in making devices as easy to use as traditional ...
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(2000-09)International Internet Telephony has been evolving since its introduction in 1996. In 1996, the typical player was someone like Delta Three, who used the Internet as a backbone network, used agreements with local ISPs to ...
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(1997-08-15)Mobile communications and Internet based computer communications are the two fastest growing areas of communications indicating an enormous business potential in the intersection of these two domains. Since the introduction ...
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(2002-07-22)In this paper, we study the local dial-up Internet access market using a game theoretic model. In particular, we consider the Nash equilibrium of the service providers and examine their behavior on investment and output ...
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(2000)The Internet is the latest in a long succession of communication technologies. The goal of this work is to draw lessons from the evolution of all these services. Little attention is paid to technology as such, since that ...
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(1994-05)This memo discusses an extension to the Internet architecture and protocols to provide "integrated service", i.e., to support real-time as well as best-effort IP service. This memo outlines a proposed technical framework ...
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(2002-07-22)In this paper, we first discuss the concept of "Bill-and-Keep" whereby the party that receives a call pays for receiving the call. We explore if this outcome is efficient and consistent with competitive markets. Following ...
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(1995)The Internet, a growing network of networks, is an often touted and often misunderstood technology. It has its own infrastructure complete with service providers, private networks, user communities, international links, ...
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(1995)This paper describes the emerging field of Internet Economics and some of the constituencies which are shaping it. It defines the motivating factors for looking at this area, reviews some recent research results, and ...
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(2002-07-22)Peering and transit are two types of Internet interconnection among ISPs. Peering has been a core concept to sustain Internet industry. However, for the past several years, many ISPs broke their peering arrangement because ...
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