A Practical Review of Pricing and Cost Recovery for Internet Services
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Suitable pricing models for Internet services represent one of the main prerequisites for a successfully running implementation of a charging and accounting tool. This paper introduces general aspects influencing the choice of a pricing model and presents a survey of relevant approaches to be found in the scientific literature. Based on cost model investigations some detailed insight into price and cost issues from an Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) point of view is given. Moreover, current challenges as well as problems are discussed in a practical context as investigated in the Swiss National Science Foundation project CATI – Charging and Accounting Technology for
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Pricing and Cost Recovery for Internet Services: Practical Review, Classification and Application of Relevant Models
Suitable pricing models for Internet services represent one of the main prerequisites for a successfully running implementation of a charging and accounting system. This paper introduces general aspects influencing the choice of a pricing model in practical situations and presents a survey as well as a classification of relevant and advanced approaches to be found in the scientific literature. ...
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