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The Interplay of Competition and Cooperation Among Service Providers (Part II)
Xingran Chen, Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar
This paper investigates the incentives of mobile network operators (MNOs) for acquiring additional spectrum to offer mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and thereby inviting c…
Is Non-Neutrality Profitable for the Stakeholders of the Internet Market? - Part II
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar, George Kesidis
In this part of the paper, we obtain analytical results for the case that transport costs are not small (complement of Part I), and combine them with the results in Part I of the p…
The Interplay of Competition and Cooperation Among Service Providers
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Xingran Chen, Saswati Sarkar
We consider the economics of the interaction between Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). We investigate the incentives of an MNO for offer…
Is Non-Neutrality Profitable for the Stakeholders of the Internet Market?
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar, George Kesidis
Net neutrality on the Internet is perceived as the policy that mandates Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all data equally, regardless of the source, destination, or type…
Uncertain Price Competition in a Duopoly with Heterogeneous Availability
Mohammad Hassan Lotfi, Saswati Sarkar
We study the price competition in a duopoly with an arbitrary number of buyers. Each seller can offer multiple units of a commodity depending on the availability of the commodity w…