pricing
RSS pricingPricing Differentiated Services: A Game-Theoretic Approach
White Paper The goal of this paper is to study pricing of differentiated services and its impact on the choice of service priority at equilibrium. The paper considers both TCP connections as well as non controlled (real time)... [20 Dec 2007]
Pricing and Revenue Optimization: A Manufacturing Perspective
White Paper Pricing and revenue optimization is the process of intelligently using a combination of market, customer, product, promotion, and supply-and-demand data to improve business margins by either increasing unit prices or... [17 Jul 2008]
Pricing blunders: Enough is enough... it's time to pay up
Comment This week we have seen yet another pricing blunder on the web. If companies are running any promotion of this kind, then the onus is on them to ensure no pricing blunders occur for the duration of the... [02 May 2003]
Pricing Parts for Profit
White Paper Often treated as an afterthought, pricing is one of the most powerful ways a company can improve its performance. A precision pricing methodology - one that assists with the formulation of prices based... [30 Aug 2006]
Pricing in the Shadow of Firm Turnover: ISPs During the 1990s
White Paper The paper also finds a survivor bias in pricing: ISPs who survive tend to have higher prices than younger firms. This paper examines the relationship between changes in price levels and the evolution of the market for... [19 Oct 2007]
Pricing Access to Internet Service Providers
White Paper This paper studies the efficient pricing of termination services for calls that are made to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Different solutions to the pricing of terminating ISP-bound calls are... [03 Dec 2008]
Apple fans up in arms over 'unfair' Mac mini pricing
News Apple's "most affordable" Mac - the Mac mini - has drawn a storm of protest from European shoppers, who are petitioning Cupertino to bring EU pricing better in line with that of the US. The online petition states: "We'd... [17 Jan 2005]
Apple pricing 'blunder' caught on camera
News Plus: Read our leader on Apple's camera pricing blunder. Apple appears to have become the latest firm to offer goods online at the wrong price and subsequently refuse to honour the sales. A number of customers shopping... [04 Jan 2006]
More money for high-tech road pricing
News Seven local authorities are sharing £7m to explore ways to tackle local congestion and help develop government plans on road pricing. Last year the government's road pricing feasibility study recommended... [29 Nov 2005]
Oracle Blends Managed Services With OnDemand Pricing
White Paper This whitepaper explores Oracle Managed Services offerings for PeopleSoft and Siebel, and sees how they can deliver an easier deployment, with on-demand pricing. Growing businesses are increasingly realising that Managed... [26 Oct 2009]
Leading Reinsurer Deploys New Calculation Engine for Effective Premium Pricing
White Paper To increase the accuracy of premium pricing and to take a range of financial scenarios into account, RVK decided to deploy a new solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Spagat, a bespoke vertical application from... [01 Jan 2007]
A New Pricing Model for Next Generation Spectrum Access
White Paper This paper briefly reviews several concepts that are central to the design of spectrum management algorithms emphasizing on pricing. These include FCC auctions, single-unit auctions, and peak-load pricing. [07 Dec 2006]
An Optimal Weighted-Average Congestion Based Pricing Scheme for Enhanced QoS
White Paper Pricing is an effective tool to control congestion and achieve Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for multiple differentiated levels of service. This paper considers the problem of pricing for... [04 Aug 2008]
Three-tier iTunes pricing to save digital music?
News Apple and major music labels are betting that the launch of three-tier pricing at the iTunes Music Store will boost music sales with a new mix of song-based packages and give consumers more options. Music executives said... [07 Apr 2009]
Oftel dismisses broadband pricing row
News But the regulator says it has not received a formal complaint from PlusNet and is not planning to investigate broadband pricing in the UK. Telecoms regulator Oftel has dismissed claims by a UK internet service provider... [19 Aug 2003]
