STRATEGIC INTERACTION OF PROVIDERS FOR DIFFERENTIATED INTERNET SERVICES

As computing and Internet connections become general-purpose technologies and services aimed at broad global markets, questions arise about the effectiveness of such markets in terms of public welfare, the participation of differentiated service providers and end-users. Motorola’s Iridium Global Communications project was completed in the 1990s due to similar issues, reaching the goal of technological connectivity for the first time. As Internet services are characterized by high innovation, differentiation and dynamism, they can use well-known models of differentiated products. However, the demand functions in such models are hyperbolic rather than linear. In addition, such models are stochastic and include providers with different ways of competing. In the Internet ecosystem, the links between Internet service providers (ISPs) as telecommunications operators and content service providers are important, especially high-bandwidth video content providers. As increasing bandwidth requires new investments in network capacity, both video content providers and ISPs need to be motivated to do so. In order to analyze the relationships between Internet service providers and content providers in the Internet ecosystem, computable models, based on the construction of payoff functions for all the participants in the ecosystem, are suggested. The introduction of paid content browsing will motivate Internet service providers to invest in increasing the capacity of the global network, which has a trend of exponential growth. At the same time, such a browsing will violate the principles of net neutrality, which provides grounds for the development of new tasks to minimize the violations of net neutrality and maximize the social welfare of the Internet ecosystem. The models point to the importance of the efficiency of Internet service providers, the predictability of demand and the high price elasticity of innovative services.

Identifica ISP: Autenticação Mútua entre Múltiplas Entidades para Serviços de Suporte Técnico Prestados por ISPs

Os Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ainda utilizam mecanismos frágeis para autenticação e identificação entre as entidades envolvidas em suporte técnico especializado (i.e., clientes, técnicos e gestores). Tais mecanismos geram insegurança aos usuários, pois costumam adotar dados estáticos não autenticáveis (e.g., CPF em cartões físicos ou virtuais) que podem ser facilmente roubados, clonados ou reproduzidos. Neste trabalho, propomos um sistema para autenticação e identificação de clientes, técnicos e gestores de ISP, composto por: (i) um aplicativo para dispositivos móveis suportado por um sistema de back-end e (ii) a implementação de protocolos de segurança que oferecem serviços de identificação e autenticação. Uma demonstração da aplicação ilustra o modo de utilização do sistema. Uma avaliação conceitual dos serviços de segurança, amparada pela análise dos protocolos por meio da ferramenta Scyther, sustenta a segurança provida pelo sistema.

Which Service Attributes Sway Internet Service Providers? Analysis Through Triangulation Approach

Internet service providing industry is considered a mainstay for all types of organizations all over the world. In order to be competitive, internet service providers (ISPs) need to realize that all service quality attributes do not carry the same value in customers’ eyes. Therefore, the present study proposes a rationally appealing methodological framework for prioritizing attributes of the SERVQUAL model without restricting them to their dimensions. The responses on 22 attributes of service quality collected from 401 internet users were processed through a triangulation approach comprising three ranking methods: Relative to an Identified Distribution Integral Transformation (RIDIT), Grey Relational Analysis (GRA), and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). A correlational study of these results was also computed using Spearman’s rank-order correlation coefficient, which proved positive. The consistent outcomes reveal a definite set of users’ priorities for the quality attributes of internet services, and it denies the general thought that the rate of internet service providers is the primary concern of customers. The findings uniquely contribute by highlighting important facets of service quality from customers’ viewpoint. The study would benefit ISPs to empathize customers’ needs corresponding to essential attributes. In this way, they would be able to rationalize the budget for top-ranked features, and redesign operational strategies accordingly.

SHARED NETWORKS: THE PATHS OF LATIN-CENTRIC INDIGENOUS NETWORKS TO A PLURIVERSAL INTERNET

This research paper examines the emergence of shared networks in Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico): internet first mile signal-sharing practices that articulate interconnection infrastructure and coexistence values to extend the internet to areas where the services of existing larger internet service providers are unsatisfactory or unavailable. In the case studies analyzed, indigenous people become internet codesigners by infrastructuring for their own local networks and interconnecting to the global internet. The paper argues that a hybrid materializes at the level of network interconnection when comunalidad, or the way of these communities, supported by unlicensed frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, towers, radio antennas, houses rooftops, routers, and cables meet the values of the internet service providers and their policies. Shared networks are a result of what these arrangements both enact and constrain, and the evidence of vivid struggles of Latin-centric indigenous networks towards a pluriversal internet.

Decision Making System Internet Addiction in Children Aged 7-17 Year Use Forward Chaining Method (Case Study : Terik Village – Krian, Sidoarjo)

Based on a survey conducted by the APJII (Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association) team in 2018 with a percentage of more than 64.8% using the internet. The highest percentage is at the age of 7-19 years, which is 91%, this shows that the number of internet users is getting higher every year. This study aims to help treat children who are addicted to the Internet and as advice or a reference for making decisions on how to deal with people who are addicted to the Internet. The method used was to collect data on the distribution of questionnaires or questions that were carried out directly on children aged 7-17 years in the blistering village. The results of external application testing with Likert scale calculations get a percentage result of 78.36% (very useful).

Liability of Internet Service Providers for Online Copyright Infringement: International Experience and Recommendations for Vietnam

The advent of the Internet has posed unprecedented challenges on enforcing copyright. Online copyright infringements are pervasive, while it is not easy to impose liability on direct infringers, i.e., Internet users. This leads to a debate over whether online platforms or online intermediaries, which are often named “Internet Service Providers” (ISPs), should be held liable for these infringing activities or not, and if so, how to balance between Internet freedom, technological innovation and the need for effective copyright enforcement in the digital era. The aim of this paper is to provide answers to these questions by analyzing ISP’s liability from different international approaches such as the United States, the European Union, and China; hence, some experience for Vietnam could be drawn. Finally, the authors make recommendations to address the shortcomings in Vietnam’s intellectual property law with respect to ISP’s liability. This research is perfectly timing, given that Vietnam is amending its Intellectual Property Law to implement its commitments under the new generation free trade agreements and to meet the demand of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Implementation of Multihoming Border Gateway Protocol for Internet Connection of Two Internet Service Providers

Today the internet is inseparable in the life of modern society. For this reason, fast and reliable internet is very important. To achieve this, on the internet there are various kinds of technologies that make it very reliable. One of the technologies used in the internet is the Multihoming Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This BGP technology allows every router on the internet to be connected and exchange routing information needed on the internet. BGP Multihoming allows two or more Autonomous Systems (AS) to connect and exchange routing information without any routing information being wrong. So if there is one AS experiencing interference then it will not significantly affect the other AS. That is because there are two or more pathways that can be traversed to get to the destination AS.