A Survey of Time-Dependent Pricing for Internet Access

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The tremendous growth in demand for broadband data is forcing ISPs to use pricing as a congestion management tool. This changing landscape of Internet access pricing is evidenced by the elimination of flat rate data plans in favor of usage-based pricing by major wired and wireless operators in the US and Europe. But simple usage-based fees suffer from the problem of imposing costs on all users, irrespective of the network congestion level at a given time. READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT: http://trends-in-telecoms.blogspot.c...icing-for.html