Competition and the Future of Digital Music: Hearing Before Antitrust Task Force of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, February 28, 2007, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007 - 122 páginas |
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... able to give their approval before the next election . Excuse me for being so candid about this consideration . And from at least one perspective , this merger can be said to turn a duopoly into a monopoly circumstance . And , finally ...
... able to give their approval before the next election . Excuse me for being so candid about this consideration . And from at least one perspective , this merger can be said to turn a duopoly into a monopoly circumstance . And , finally ...
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... able to make appropriate technological adjustments . Another scenario involves consumers being forced to abandon their current satellite radio receivers and purchase new ones in order to reap the benefits of the merger . The companies ...
... able to make appropriate technological adjustments . Another scenario involves consumers being forced to abandon their current satellite radio receivers and purchase new ones in order to reap the benefits of the merger . The companies ...
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... ABLE TO EXERCISE UNLIMITED MARKET POWER IN THE NATIONAL RADIO MARKET My training as an economist tells me that XM and Sirius are acting like classic market players . Adam Smith noted in The Wealth of Nations over 230 years ago that all ...
... ABLE TO EXERCISE UNLIMITED MARKET POWER IN THE NATIONAL RADIO MARKET My training as an economist tells me that XM and Sirius are acting like classic market players . Adam Smith noted in The Wealth of Nations over 230 years ago that all ...
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... able to expect a government bailout for questionable business decisions ? ANY CHANGES IN THE MARKET ENVIRONMENT DO NOT JUSTIFY THE RISK OF MONOPOLY As for these parties ' assertion that the audio marketplace has radically changed and ...
... able to expect a government bailout for questionable business decisions ? ANY CHANGES IN THE MARKET ENVIRONMENT DO NOT JUSTIFY THE RISK OF MONOPOLY As for these parties ' assertion that the audio marketplace has radically changed and ...
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... able to control more than one of these channels . 6 Three - Year Freeze on Price Increases : Because some of the services that will compete with satellite radio are still nascent ( such as mobile wireless entertainment ) , the new ...
... able to control more than one of these channels . 6 Three - Year Freeze on Price Increases : Because some of the services that will compete with satellite radio are still nascent ( such as mobile wireless entertainment ) , the new ...
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ability anticompetitive Antitrust Division antitrust laws Antitrust Task Force Association of Broadcasters audio entertainment benefits Biggio cable Chabot Chairman combined company Commission Committee Communications compete competition competitors consumer choice content providers CONYERS costs currently digital music DirecTV diversity duopoly EchoStar EchoStar/DirecTV Merger fact FCC rules FCC's Federal firms Gigi Sohn going Government-sanctioned monopoly HD radio hearing incentive innovation Internet radio iPods issue JACKSON LEE licenses listen Major League Baseball market power marketplace Mel Karmazin merger to monopoly merging parties million monopolist multi-channel nationwide offered proposed merger public interest question radio stations Ranking Member Rehr relevant market satellite radio monopoly satellite radio providers satellite radio service satellite television SHEILA JACKSON LEE Sirius and XM Sirius Satellite Radio Sohn subscribers sumer talk television terrestrial radio Thank transaction violate FCC XM and Sirius XM Radio XM Satellite Radio XM/Sirius
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Página 59 - Reports with approximately 5 million paid circulation, regularly, carries articles on health, product safety, marketplace economics and legislative, judicial and regulatory actions which affect consumer welfare.
Página 10 - The unifying theme of the Guidelines is that mergers should not be permitted to create or enhance market power or to facilitate its exercise.
Página 75 - ... where in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.
Página 33 - The price of monopoly is upon every occasion the highest which can be got. The natural price, or the price of free competition, on the contrary, is the lowest which can be taken, not upon every occasion indeed, but for any considerable time together.
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Página 52 - No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Página 73 - I would like to thank the Chairman, the Ranking Member and the Members of the Committee for inviting me to testify on the antitrust aspects of the merger between XM and Sirius.
Página 9 - Without, legislation, the objective of these bills, the setting up of a joint venture, would violate sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and section 7 of the Clayton Act which are on the books to protect the public.
Página 15 - Our public interest analysis may also entail assessing whether the merger will affect the quality of communications services or will result in the provision of new or additional services to...