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An earlier and more detailed preprint: A refutation of Metcalfe’s Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections , A. Odlyzko and B. Tilly. [PDF]

This paper is based on a more extensive manuscript, presented at TPRC 2004, Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation , A. M. Odlyzko. [PDF]

Content is not king, A. M. Odlyzko.
First Monday 6(2) (February 2001),
http://firstmonday.org/.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
[First Monday version]

Internet pricing and the history of communications, A. M. Odlyzko.
Computer Networks 36 (2001), pp. 493-517. Also to be published in
Internet Services, Lee McKnight and John Wroclawski, eds.,
MIT Press, 2001.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
An extended abstract, entitled
Internet pricing in light of the history of communication has
appeared in Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks,
S. Fahmy and K. Park, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 4526 (2001), pp. 237-243.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
An even more abbreviated version has appeared under the title
Should flat-rate Internet pricing continue?,
IT Professional 2 (no. 5) (Sept.-Oct. 2000), pp. 48-51.
[IT Pro version]

Both of the above papers are derived from a larger and more comprehensive
work:

The history of communications and its implications for the Internet,
A. M. Odlyzko.
[Abstract]
[PDF]