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Trends in Communications
Telecommunications
Economics
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Outline
● ICT Industry
● Positive and Negative feedback
● Free Business model
●Negative Pricing
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ICT Industry
MARKET
E GOODS USERPROVIDER
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ICT Industry
● Earn Money
● Make Business
● Return on their investment
● Reputation
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ICT Industry
● Internet Usage
● Digital Era
● Information and Advertising
● E-Costs
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Industrial vs Information Economy
Industrial Economy: ●Long Time Oligopolies
●Negative feedback
Information Economy:● Temporary Monopolies
● Negative feedback + Positive feedback
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Positive vs Negative feedback
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Positive feedback
Adoption of new Technologies●VHS vs Betamax●AC vs DC supply
Competition in Markets●Mobile telephony subscriptions
●Social Networks
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Information Industry
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Free Business Models
Business profit by giving something for nothing
1. Direct cross-subsidies
2. Three party market
3. Freemium
4. Non monetary markets
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1. Direct cross subsidies
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2. Three party market
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3. Freemium
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4. Non monetary markets
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Negative Prices
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Conclusions
Special thanks to Harald Overby
Associate professor @ NTNU Trondheim
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
