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Georgia Tech Study Confirms Benefits of Tiered Pricing for Internet Service


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August 14, 2011

ATLANTA – Aug. 17, 2011 – Wholesale broadband providers can enhance their profit margins by instituting a small number of pricing “tiers,” concludes a new study by Georgia Tech College of Computing researchers, and those companies that already do so should be satisfied to learn they are likely implementing near-optimal pricing structures.

Georgia Tech Study Confirms Benefits of Tiered Pricing for Internet Service

Subtitle: 
Pricing traffic based on data destination can yield greater profit for ISPs
Summary Sentence: 
Broadband providers can enhance profit margins by instituting a small number of pricing “tiers," researchers found.

Wholesale broadband providers can enhance their profit margins by instituting a small number of pricing “tiers,” concludes a new study by Nick Feamster (Computer Science) and colleagues. Source: Office of Communications

Location: 
Atlanta, GA
Contact: 

bstreich [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Brendan Streich)

404-313-5944

Release: 
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 11:32
Expire: 
Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 11:32
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