Impact of Competition Between ISPs on the Net Neutrality Debate

Coucheney, Pierre; Maillé, Patrick; Tuffin, Bruno

doi:10.1109/tnsm.2013.090313.120326

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“…This holds in situations where ISPs compete [2] and even when ISPs are monopolistic and need side payments to invest more in infrastructure [10]. To the best of our knowledge, the present paper, along with its preliminary conference version [16], is the first contribution developing the idea of side payments' use as a barrier to entry for CPs willing to enter the market and compete with incumbents.…”

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Preventing competition using side payments: when non-neutrality creates barriers to entry

Maillé

Tuffin²

2016

Netnomics

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Network neutrality is often advocated by content providers, stressing that side payments to Internet Service Providers would hinder innovation. However, we also observe some content provider actually paying those fees. This paper intends to explain such behaviors through economic modeling, illustrating how side payments can be a way for an incumbent content provider to prevent new competitors from entering the market. We investigate the conditions under which the incumbent can benefit from such a barrier-to-entry, and the consequences of that strategic behavior on the other actors: content providers, users, and the Internet Service Provider. We also describe how the Nash bargaining solution concept can be used to determine the side payment.

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Preventing competition using side payments: when non-neutrality creates barriers to entry

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2016

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“…Our work focuses also on the issue of side payment-charged by the search engine, instead of the ISP. However, departing from [13], in our work the search engine faces no competition from other search engines, while the content providers do. And, as we will see in the body of the paper, the search engine modifies the service that content providers receive when a side payment is charged, which is not the case in the network neutrality analysis in [12].…”

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Search engine and content providers: neutrality, competition and integration

Guijarro

Pla

Vidal

et al. 2014

Trans. Emerging Tel. Tech.

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In recent years, there has been a rising concern about the policy of major search engines. The concern comes from search bias, which refers to the ranking of the results of a keyword search on the basis of some other principle than the sheer relevance. This search bias is also named search non-neutrality. In this paper, we analyze one non-neutral behavior, that is, a behavior that results in a search bias: the payment by content providers to the search engine (aka. side payment) in order to improve the chances to be located and accessed by a user. A game theory-based model is presented where a search engine and two content providers interact strategically, while the aggregated behavior of users is modeled by a demand function.The utility of each stakeholder (i.e., the users, the search engine, and each content provider) when the search engine is engaged in such a non-neutral behavior is compared with that of the neutral case, when no such side payment is present.Additionally, the paper analyzes the organization of such an industry, specifically, the search engine and content providers incentives for a partial and full merger with the content providers, and the effects of each organization on the users. This paper concludes by identifying the circumstances under which the search bias, on the one hand, and the integration, on the other, will effectively result in the users being harmed. This eventual harmful situation will provide a rationale for regulatory measures to be adopted.

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“…These works usually employ game theoretic tools (e.g., non-cooperative game theory and Stackelberg games) to analyze the driving forces the Internet economics evolution [10], to propose new business models [11], [12] and to study different aspects of the problem as, for instance, the impact of competition between ISPs on the network neutrality [13], the feasibility of charging the content providers [14], or even the potential of building new OTT infrastructures exclusively employed for content distribution [15]. However, despite the interesting theoretical conclusions of these works, the observation of the actual progress of the firms would be of great importance, providing us with further insights, as we will see in the following section.…”

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Shedding Light on the Internet: Stakeholders and Network Neutrality

Antonopoulos¹,

Kartsakli²,

Perillo³

et al. 2017

IEEE Commun. Mag.

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Abstract-The latest impressive technological advancements in the telecommunications domain have entailed the involvement of new network operators andOver-the-Top (OTT) providers that offer their services over the existing networks. This entry of new stakeholders has changed the Internet dynamics and triggered a long-standing conversation on whether different types of data in the network should be prioritized, also known as the network neutrality debate. On the one hand, OTT providers benefit from the current neutral Internet policy of not discriminating against any application or content in order to transfer their data for free, whereas network providers would like to seize the business opportunity and create revenues by supporting the prioritized delivery of data. In this article, we want to shed some light on the emerging Internet ecosystem and the conflicting interests of its stakeholders. To that end, we first identify the different Internet players and describe their interrelationships. Furthermore, in an effort to offer a new perspective on the network neutrality debate, we propose two novel econometric models that employ recent financial data to capture the relationship between the OTT revenues and the financial gains and investments of the telecommunication operators. Our empirical results provide tangible answers to fundamental questions that had not been answered before, showcasing that OTT and telecommunication providers have aligned interests and their collaboration could be beneficial to both parties.

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Impact of Competition Between ISPs on the Net Neutrality Debate

Cited by 30 publications

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Preventing competition using side payments: when non-neutrality creates barriers to entry

Preventing competition using side payments: when non-neutrality creates barriers to entry

Search engine and content providers: neutrality, competition and integration

Shedding Light on the Internet: Stakeholders and Network Neutrality

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