Sponsored Data: On the Effect of ISP Competition on Pricing Dynamics and Content Provider Market Structures

Effects of vertical integration on internet service providers’ zero-rating choice

“…Moreover, Gautier and Somogyi (2020) explore the difference between zero-rating and prioritization (differentiating in speed), and Lorenzon (2021) examines the CPs' investment in their content quality and the ISP's investment in its network capacity. Vyavahare and Manjunath (2018) studies zero-rating in the presence of competition between ISPs. Jeitschko et al (2020) is the closest in spirit to our paper; they investigate the relationship between the ISP's vertical integration and zero-rating practice.…”

Analyzing Network (Non-)Neutrality for Monopolistic, Competing, or Vertically Integrated Content Providers with a Unified Model

“…Note that there exists an extensive literature focusing on other aspects related to neutrality, such as (non exhaustively) incorporating into the picture transit ISPs [18], advertising [22,23], zero rating practices [16,20,27], heterogeneity among countries [1,19], impact on investment [6,24], etc. We aim here at focusing on the relations between the three main actors of the neutrality debate: end users, ISPs, and CPs.…”

Analyzing Network (Non-)Neutrality for Monopolistic, Competing, or Vertically Integrated Content Providers with a Unified Model

“…Note that there exists an extensive literature focusing on other aspects related to neutrality, such as (non exhaustively) incorporating into the picture transit ISPs [18], advertising [22,23], zero rating practices [16,20,27], heterogeneity among countries [1,19], impact on investment [6,24], etc. We aim here at focusing on the relations between the three main actors of the neutrality debate: end users, ISPs, and CPs.…”