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| Title: | The Economics of the Internet Backbone |
| Authors: | Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business |
| Keywords: | Internet backbone, network effects, competition, monopoly, MCI,
WorldCom, tipping |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | NET Institute Working Paper;04-23 |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses the economics of the Internet backbone. I discuss
competition on the Internet backbone as well as relevant competition
policy issues. In particular, I show how public protocols, ease of
entry, very fast network expansion, connections by the same Internet
Service Provider (ISP) to multiple backbones (ISP multi-homing), and
connections by the same large web site to multiple ISPs (customer
multi-homing)enhance price competition and make it very unlikely that
any firm providing Internet backbone connectivity would find it
profitable to degrade or sever interconnection with other backbones in
an attempt to monopolize the Internet backbone. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/28417 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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