Broadband services price competition modeling

Conference: CTTE 2011 - 10th Conference of Conference of Telecommunication, Media and Internet Techno-Economics
05/16/2011 - 05/18/2011 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: CTTE 2011

Pages: 7Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Angleou, Georgios N.; Economides, Anastasios A. (University of Macedonia, Information Systems Dept., Thessaloniki, Greece)

Abstract:
In the new era of the telecommunications business field, a large number of potential investors are capable of entering in the market of the broadband services provision. This paper provides a model for analyzing the new perspectives for new investors in this field. It integrates compound Real Options and Game Theory techniques and adopts price competition analysis, for the broadband services provision, in order to find the optimal business strategy. Finally, it applies the analysis to a real life business case by formulating and solving it.