Offering supplementary network technologies: Adoption behavior and offloading benefits

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 355-368

  Joe Wong, Carlee ^a   Sen, Soumya ^b   Ha, Sangtae ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; offloading; pricing; supplementary technologies; technology adoption

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; WATERWORKS; WI-FI;

ADOPTION DECISION; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES; OFFLOADING; REVENUE MAXIMIZING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85027948087     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2014.2300863     Document Type: Article

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