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Cable mergers and monopolies : market power in digital media and communications networks

Title
  1. Cable mergers and monopolies : market power in digital media and communications networks / by Mark Cooper.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : Economic Policy Institute, [2002], ©2002.
Author
  1. Cooper, Mark N.

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Additional authors
  1. Economic Policy Institute.
Description
  1. vii, 176 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Monopolistische concurrentie
  2. Massamediaindustrie
  3. Consolidation and merger of corporations > United States
  4. Digital communications > Economic aspects > United States
  5. Competition > Government policy > United States
  6. Fusies
  7. Monopolies > United States
Contents
  1. Introduction and overview -- Pt. 1. Video -- Underpinnings of public policy toward mergers in communications and media markets -- The persistent failure of competition in the cable market -- Discrimination and anticompetitive practices of cable operators in video programming markets -- Pt. 2. High-speed Internet service -- Unique characteristics of digital communications platforms -- The threat to open communications platforms -- Cable market power in advanced telecommunications markets -- Pt. 3. The AT&T/ Comcast merger harms competition and is not in the public interest -- The merger should be rejected under both the antitrust laws and the communications act -- Policies to ameliorate anticompetitive problems will be difficult to craft.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-173).