Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age (69 page)

Viacom,
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,
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Video market: AOL Time Warner and online,
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; of Comcast,
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,
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,
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,
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; and Comcast-NBCU merger,
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; disruption to cable industry revenues posed by,
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; as growing,
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,
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; high-speed access as key to,
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,
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; online streaming,
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,
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; online video distributors (OVDs), Comcast-NBCU to license to,
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,
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; of phone companies,
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,
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; premium pricing of movies,
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; standardized video connections, proposal for,
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Video on Demand (VOD) packages,
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,
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,
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,
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Vivendi,
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,
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,
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Vodafone,
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VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol),
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Voluntary services from private carriers,
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Voting trusts,
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Wabash
cases,
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Walker, Robert,
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Wall Street Journal
,
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,
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,
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,
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Walt Disney Company: Comcast's attempt to take over,
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,
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; negativity toward AOL–Time Warner merger,
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; negotiations with Cablevision,
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; as owner of ABC TV,
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; in programming industry,
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,
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,
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Warner Bros.,
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Washington, Stanley,
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Washington Post
,
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,
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Waters, Maxine,
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,
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Waz, Joseph,
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Weinberger, Casper,
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Weir, Colin,
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Welch, Jack,
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Western Electric,
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,
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Western Union,
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Wholesale access to high-speed services,
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,
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Williamson, Oliver,
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Wireless access: auctions of additional spectrum,
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; bundled resold,
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; cable compared to wireless business,
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,
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,
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; as complementary service to cable,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; and content providers,
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,
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; entry for new players virtually impossible,
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; growth for phone companies in,
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,
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,
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; history of,
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; lack of government oversight,
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,
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,
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,
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; market structure in U.S.,
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; online video over,
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; pricing,
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; similarities to cable,
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; spectrum issues,
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; subscriber fees,
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; and video traffic,
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WOW!,
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,
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,
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Wright, Bob,
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Xbox,
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,
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Xfinity,
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,
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Yahoo!,
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YouTube,
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,
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Zachem, Kathy,
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Zucker, Jeffrey,
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; on African American–targeted programming,
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; and NBC finances,
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; on NBCU sale to Comcast,
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; ouster from NBC leadership,
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,
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; programming continuing after his exit,
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; at Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing,
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,
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,
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; testimony on blending content and distribution (2010),
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