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...

We explore an essential-good monopolist's motivations for tying and the role of multihoming and the reversible tie when there are network effects in a complementary market. We consider the configuration where consumers purchase a system sequentially and a subset of consumers multihome. In...

Many media industries can be characterized as a quot;closed content marketquot; in which only subscribers of the distribution network operator (Network Provider: NP) have access to the content provided by Content Provider (CP). In these markets, the NP frequently charges the CP for providing...

Wireless operators often outsource the task of creating content to independent content providers in the mobile Internet market. Revenue streams of the mobile Internet market typically consist of two main sources, data traffic and content sales. It is often the case that only the revenue from...