Secondary Market Mobile Users for Internet Access

Abstract

There is a fast growing number of public spaces offering Wi-Fi access to meet the rising demands for the Internet. It is common for such service to be offered to users at no charge or for a flat fee. Both situations provide very little incentive for Wi-Fi providers to offer better service to the users. Similarly, Wi-Fi providers pay a monthly flat-rate to ISP for Internet access, which does not incentivize ISP to offer better service to Wi-Fi users. As a result, Wi-Fi users may experience poor Internet connection when network becomes congested during peak hours. In this paper, we propose a dynamic pricing mechanism for both ISP and Wi-Fi providers in order to give mobile Wi-Fi users better service, while providing economic incentive for both ISP and Wi-Fi provider.