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Bundles and Range Strategies: The Case of Telecom Operators

Pernet, Sophie - 2006

Against a background of competition and the generalisation of IP that characterises the field of electronic communications, the concept of the "bundle" has resulted in the emergence of "triple play", and even "quadruple play." This paper offers an overview of the growth of this phenomenon by...

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Triple Play Time

Hollander, Claude; Hollander, Abraham - 2006

Abstract: Digital convergence thrusts telephony, television and the internet into the socalled 'triple play' offerings, creating new forms of rivalry between cable operators and telephone companies. Markets participants feel compelled to enter new industries to survive, even though their core...

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Service Bundling and the Role of Access Charge in the Broadband Internet Service Market

SHIM, Sunghee; OH, Jungsuk - 2006

Using the classical Hotelling model, this paper analyzes the incentive for a CATV service provider to bundle broadband internet services when entering the broadband internet services market. In addition, the effect of such service bundling by an entrant on the market incumbent with ownership...

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Spectrum Management and Broadcasting: Current Issues

Cave, Martin - 2006

Broadcasting policy has traditionally been supported by a 'command-and-control' system of assigning frequencies for terrestrial transmission, but this link is being eroded by the emergence of other technologies – cable, satellite, IPTV, mobile broadcasting - and by the emergence of...

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The Role of Public Service Broadcasters in the Era of Convergence A Case Study of Televisió de Catalunya

PRADO, Emili; FERNÁNDEZ, David - 2006

The development of the convergence process has several implications in the reconfiguration of the media landscape. Public services broadcasters have new opportunities to fulfil their public service duties in a new competitive environment, which involves developing new applications on new...

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Traditional paradigms for new services? : The Commission Proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'

SCHEUER, Alexander - 2006

graduated regime of regulation with a lighter-touch approach in view of such services, is presented along with the main lines of …

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Media industry facing biggest upheaval since Gutenberg. Media consumers morphing into media makers

Heng, Stefan - 2006

The advance of innovative information and communication technologies has triggered a fundamental upheaval in the media industry. The technology is reforming the conventional media model. The media mix will become more varied; interactive and personalised offers are taking root and finding their...

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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - 2011

, particularly those based in Europe, joined the rankings of the world’s leading Multinational Corporations. Their … early and unrelenting expansion transformed it into one of the world’s most international of Multinational Corporations, and …

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Is Market-Oriented Reform Producing a “Two-Track” Europe? Evidence from Electricity and Telecommunications

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - 2011

The European Commission has formally recognised that adequate provision of basic household services, including energy, communications, water and transport, is key to ensuring equity, social cohesion and solidarity. Yet little research has been done on the impact of the reform of these services...

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Infrastructure regulation: what works, why, and how do we know?

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - 2009

. Despite this ambitious reform programme, there are signs that regulation is not always working. The Commission itself has … intended that new regulation will be implemented to improve this situation. As part of efforts to make these markets perform … better, policy-makers are turning their attention to better understanding the consumer. Previously, regulation was usually …

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