Pricing the Internet

This is a preliminary version of a paper prepared for the conference ‘‘Public Access to the Internet,’’ JFK School of Government, May 26--27 , 1993. We describe some of the technology and costs relevant to pricing access to the Internet and suggest a possible smart-market mechanism for pricing traffic on the Internet.

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