Title :
A study on vertical restraints in triple-play market of China
Author :
Zheng, Li ; Tang, Shoulian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
This paper examines vertical restraints in the triple-play industry of China. In China, there are cable group and telecom group. Most of the high quilty program producers are under the control of cable operators; there are a little program producers who are willing to cooperate with telecom operators, and they are always small and weak. So cable group has market power and the incentives to impose vertical restraints in this market. In order make competition to be fairer, our suggestion to the regulators is to separate TV channels from the cable operators.
Keywords :
cable television; marketing; telecommunication industry; China; TV channels; cable group; cable operators; telecom group; telecom operators; triple-play industry; triple-play market; vertical restraints; Cable TV; Communication cables; Convergence; Government; Industries; Telecommunications; Network convergence; Triple-play; Vertical restraints;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Applications (ISRA), 2012 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2205-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISRA.2012.6219309