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Pricing residential broadband internet

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Humberto T. Marques-Neto,

Virgilio A. F. Almeida,

Jussara M. AlmeidaAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference

Article No.: 48, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/1368436.1368493

Published: 04 December 2006 Publication History

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Pricing could be used to foster fair use of Internet resources and help to control backbone congestion. This paper presents a mechanism for pricing residential broadband Internet services based on the following information: user subscription, ISP backbone usage historic data, and estimated future consumption of each user. Our proposal combines concepts from flat rate pricing, usage based pricing, and time based pricing models. This is an ongoing work and we are currently working a simulation in order to evaluate the results obtained with the proposed pricing scheme.

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CoNEXT '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference

December 2006

318 pages

ISBN:1595934561

DOI:10.1145/1368436

Program Chairs:
C. Diot
Thomson, France
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M. Ammar
Georgia Tech

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Published: 04 December 2006

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