Etudes économiques dans les réseaux de télécommunications (original) (raw)

For about two decades, the technological evolutions in the networking and computer science domains have drastically reshaped the usages of information technologies, but also the power ratios among the different actors involved. New participants enter the market, to provide (direct or indirect) services to users: access providers, content providers, transit networks, content delivery network, all contribute to the supply chain. Nevertheless, because of the rapidity of the changes, the economical equilibria are likely to become less and less stable, as illustrated by the trend in the latest years, of content providers getting more and more revenue (and power) at the expense of connexion providers (access providers, but especially transit providers). In that context, the strategic decisions of actors, and the choice of rules that regulators may enforce, are delicate to make. My research work has for aim to understand, and if possible, to anticipate the consequences of the appearance of...