Pricing residential broadband internet
Humberto T. Marques-Neto, Virgilio A. F. Almeida, Jussara Marques Almeida · 2006
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.