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Competition in Access to Content

Competition in Access to Content

  • Tania Jiménez20,
  • Yezekael Hayel20 &
  • Eitan Altman21 
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Abstract

We study competition between users over access to content in a telecom market that includes several access providers and several content providers. We focus situations where exclusive agreements exist between content and access providers, which allows access providers to offer content services for free for their subscribers. We call access providers having such agreements ”super” providers or ”enhanced” service providers. We show that the competition between the users results in a paradoxical phenomenon in which subscribers of enhanced providers prefer to defer part of their demand to other content providers whose content is costly. We show how this phenomena can be exploited by the content providers so as to maximize their benefits.

Keywords

  • Content Provider
  • Internet Service Provider
  • User Cost
  • Network Neutrality
  • Side Payment

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  1. LIA-CERI, University of Avignon, France

    Tania Jiménez & Yezekael Hayel

  2. INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

    Eitan Altman

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  1. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Robert Bestak & Lukas Kencl & 

  2. Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, 600 Mountain Avenue, 07974-0636, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

    Li Erran Li

  3. Instituto IMDEA Networks, Avenida del Mar Mediterraneo 22, 28918, Leganes (Madrid), Spain

    Joerg Widmer

  4. Tsinghua-ChinaCache Joint Laboratory, Tsinghua University, FIT 3-429, Haidian District, 100016, Beijing, China

    Hao Yin

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Jiménez, T., Hayel, Y., Altman, E. (2012). Competition in Access to Content. In: Bestak, R., Kencl, L., Li, L.E., Widmer, J., Yin, H. (eds) NETWORKING 2012. NETWORKING 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30054-7_17

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