Last call for the buffet: Economics of cellular networks

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 111-121

  Blackburn, Jeremy ^a,b   Stanojevic, Rade ^a   Erramilli, Vijay ^a   Iamnitchi, Adriana ^b   Papagiannaki, Konstantina ^a  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross subsidization; Network e?ects; User behavior

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; CELLULAR OPERATORS; COST INFORMATION; CROSS-SUBSIDIZATION; INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT; USER BEHAVIORS; USER INTERACTION; VOICE AND DATA;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COSTS; INVESTMENTS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84887101267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2500423.2500441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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