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Impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Analysis of institutional authors

Guijarro, LuisCorresponding AuthorPla, VicentAuthorRamon Vidal, JoseAuthor

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August 21, 2025
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ISP Pricing and Platform Pricing Interaction Under Net Neutrality

Publicated to: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 15358 84-93 - 2025-01-01 15358(), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81226-2_8

Authors:

Guijarro, Luis; Pla, Vicent; Ramon Vidal, Jose
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Valencia, Camino Vera S-N, Valencia 46022, Spain - Author

Abstract

We analyze the effects of enforcing vs. exempting access ISP from net neutrality regulations when platforms are present and operate two-sided pricing in their business models. This study is conducted in a scenario where users and Content Providers (CPs) have access to the internet by means of their serving ISPs and to a platform that intermediates and matches users and CPs, among other service offerings. Our hypothesis is that platform two-sided pricing interacts in a relevant manner with the access ISP, which may be allowed (a hypothetical non-neutrality scenario) or not (the current neutrality regulation status) to apply two-sided pricing on its service business model. We conclude that the platforms are extracting surplus from the CPs under the current net neutrality regime for the ISP, and that the platforms would not be able to do so under the counter-factual situation where the ISPs could apply two-sided prices.
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Keywords

Internet service providersNet neutralityPlatformReduced inequalitiesTwo-sided pricinTwo-sided pricing

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 70/78, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence.

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Impact and social visibility

Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries, with a probability of 60% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Guijarro Coloma, Luís Alejandro) and Last Author (Vidal Catalá, José Ramón).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Guijarro Coloma, Luís Alejandro.

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Awards linked to the item

This work has been conducted during a research stay in Summer 2023 at the Weizenbaum Institut, Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Research Group Digital Economy, Internet, Ecosystems and Internet Policy thanks to Dr. Stocker's invitation. Financial support is acknowledged from Grant PID2021-123168NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI, Spain/10.13039/ 501100011033 and the European Union A way of making Europe/ERDF and Grant TED2021-131387B-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI, Spain/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/ RTRP.
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