Cost-based vs. usage-based pricing and the Internet

 

Abstract

In this paper we investigate possible welfare improvements due to the introduction of price discrimination between traditional and innovative uses (e.g. dial-up access to the Internet) of telephone networks in a market framework in which the cost-orientation principle has been widely applied to both intermediate and final services and has produced an increase of both access and local call charges.



 


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