An Internet Cost Model, Assignment of Costs Based on Actual Network Use

Abstract

In a transforming, complex, and innovating telecommunications industry with evolving business models, providers have to resolve how the pricing of their services in a context with many unknowns and few equations. This paper proposes a cost assignment model based on differentiating the set of required services a user consumes in a granular network architecture, to get a requested content. Unlike the flat rate model, this model is focused on obtaining a variable pricing methodology that reflects the actual use of network resources that users utilize to get specific content. There are exploring elements to establish the importance of this topic; the theoretical models of pricing are reviewed, the complexity of the costing issue and the influence of content providers on the real network operating cost are explored. Also, a precise cost model is proposed, as well as some cases of the application of the model in the real world.

Consenso basado en internet model, implementación y evidencia empírica

“…fueron elegidos algunos artículos que, por cuya originalidad, serían propuestos para ser publicados en el International Journal of Web Portals, mismos que debían ser ampliados, profundizados y adaptados para formar parte del Journal, así con base en el artículo presentado en ése congreso, surge el artículo An Internet cost model, assignment of costs based on actual network use (Ramirez, Gutierrez, Monguet, Muñoz 2012b) que, como se ha dicho, profundiza en el modelo propuesto además de ampliar el modelo a algunos casos de posible aplicación y exhibe, de forma muy resumida, una implementación exitosa del modelo en una arquitectura de red.…”