The group was founded in August 2004 as a means to lay out a research programme on service pricing in Next-Generation Networks (NGN) at the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Auckland.

• Develop innovative pricing schemes for IP-based communication networks
• Investigate the utilisation of new enabling tools, which include intelligent agents and policy-based network management, to assess the potential of short-term customer-provider contracts to promote economic efficiency on wireless IP-based network service markets.
• Create an analytical framework to develop a dynamic model of competition between IP-platforms.
• Establish links with New Zealand telecommunications industry to help advance knowledge generation on key issues regarding regulation and policy towards NGN.