Net-meter; An Innovative Meter for the Internet Economy in Iran

We know nothing is comparable with the Internet. But just to have it in numbers, Deloitte has recently estimated that a connectivity drop for an area with around 10 million population would cost up to 23 million dollars per day! Amazon has also claimed about 10 thousand bucks of loss for each second of lag for its website visitors.

As a policy simulator, Net-meter tries to measure the price elasticity of demand and the willingness to pay for the Internet among Iranian users by means of gamification. Totally interactive and adaptive, this simulator guides the users through this journey by using their responses on one side, and on the other, the most up-to-date data provided by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

More precisely, the user enters information such as internet data usage, the type of internet used (mobile or fixed), the operator providing it, and some background variables in Net-meter, then this user can compare his/her monthly internet expenditure (in dollars) and also internet speed with his/her counterparts around the world.