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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449886803321

Titolo

What's wrong with competition policy in new media [[electronic resource] /] / guest editors Chris Marsden and Damian Tambini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50946-5

9786610509461

1-84544-778-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (64 p.)

Collana

info: the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media ; ; v.7, no. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

MarsdenChris

TambiniDamian

Disciplina

338.4730223

Soggetti

Mass media

Telecommunication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of contents; What's wrong with competition policy in new media?; Free, open or closed - approaches to the information ecology; Competition and the exercise of market power in broadcasting: a review of recent UK experience; Broadcasting, universal service and the communications package; Competition policy and regulatory style - issues for OFCOM; Competition in the media sector - how long can the future be delayed?; Consolidation in the USA: does bigger mean better?

Sommario/riassunto

The current European consensus on competition in communications is based on ashared vision of contemporary market and technological developments. Roughlystated, the position, outlined in the 1994 Bangemann Report and the 1997 EuropeanGreen Paper on Convergence (Marsden and Verhulst 1999, Blackman, 1998), claims thefollowing:B Due to the ''end of spectrum scarcity'' and the convergence betweentelecommunications, computing and broadcasting, much of the sector specificregulation that encumbers the communications sector can be gradually removed.B Where previous technological constraints made some