Smart Data Pricing / Information and Communication Technology (ePub)

A comprehensive text addressing the high demand for network,
cloud, and content services through cutting-edge research on data
pricing and business strategies

Smart Data Pricing tackles the timely issue of surging
demand for network, cloud, and content services and corresponding
innovations in pricing these services to benefit consumers,
operators, and content providers. The pricing of data traffic and
other services is central to the core challenges of network
monetization, growth sustainability, and bridging the digital
divide. In this book, experts from both academia and industry
discuss all aspects of smart data pricing research and development,
including economic analyses, system development, user behavior
evaluation, and business strategies.

Smart Data Pricing:

* Presents the analysis of leading researchers from
industry and academia surrounding the pricing of network services
and content.

* Discusses current trends in mobile and wired data usage
and their economic implications for content providers, network
operators, end users, government regulators, and other players in
the Internet ecosystem.

* Includes new concepts and background technical knowledge
that will help researchers and managers effectively monetize their
networks and improve user quality-of-experience.

* Provides cutting-edge research on business strategies
and initiatives through a diverse collection of perspectives.

* Combines academic and industry expertise from multiple
disciplines and business organizations.

The ideas and background of the technologies and economic
principles discussed within these chapters are of real value to
practitioners, researchers, and managers in identifying trends and
deploying new pricing and network management technologies, and will
help support managers in identifying new business directions and
innovating solutions to challenging business problems.