Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age (68 page)

SBC,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Scalia, Antonin,
(i)

Schumer, Charles,
(i)

Schwartzman, Andy,
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Scripps,
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,
(ii)

Seidenberg, Ivan,
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Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing (2010),
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)

Shammo, Francis,
(i)

Shanoff, Dan,
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,
(ii)

Shell, Jeff,
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Sherin, Keith,
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Sherman Antitrust Act (1890),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Silver, Josh,
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Sirius-XM satellite radio merger,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Sloan, Allan,
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Smartphones,
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Smith, E. Stratford,
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SNL Kagan: on Comcast growth,
(i)
; on discontinued pay-TV subscriptions,
(i)
; on NBC finances,
(i)
; on retransmission fees,
(i)

Solomon, Norman,
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Southwestern Cable,
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“Specialized services,”
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Specter, Arlen,
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,
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,
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Spiwak, Lawrence,
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Sports Business Journal
,
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,
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Sports programming,
(i)
; Bowl Championship Series,
(i)
; and Comcast's competitor providers,
(i)
,
(ii)
; and Comcast's dominance after merger,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; and Comcast's premerger holdings,
(i)
; history of,
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; importance as revenue producer,
(i)
; NBC affiliates’ concerns over merger's effect,
(i)
; NBC assets,
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,
(ii)
; and pricing model,
(i)
; and satellite companies,
(i)
; Verizon's complaints about Comcast's practices,
(i)
.
See also
ESPN; Olympics; Regional sports networks;
specific sports leagues

Sprint,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Standard Oil,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Starr, Paul,
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Starz,
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,
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,
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Stephenson, Randall,
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,
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,
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,
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Steyer, Jim,
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Storer Communications acquisition,
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,
(ii)

Streaming video,
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,
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,
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Subscription-content model,
(i)
.
See also
Sports programming

Summer of Love (1997),
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,
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Supreme Court, U.S.: on cable-modem service not subject to common-carriage regulation,
(i)
; on copyright noninfringement by cable systems,
(i)
; on FCC's broad powers,
(i)
; on movie studios’ divestiture of theater chains,
(i)
; on restraint of competition in railway industry,
(i)
; ruling against ICC (1887–1905),
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; on sugar trust,
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Surface Transportation Board,
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Swift-Tauke bill (proposed 1987),
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Swisher, Kara,
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Syfy,
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,
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,
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,
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Taft, William Howard,
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Tagliabue, Paul,
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Tauzin, Billy,
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TBS,
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TCI (TeleCommunications, Inc.),
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,
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,
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,
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,
(v)
,
(vi)

TechDirt
,
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Telco pay-TV packages,
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Telecommunications Act (1996),
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; reclassification of high-speed Internet access,
(i)

Telemundo,
(i)
,
(ii)

Telephone industry: access fees for online services sought by (1987),
(i)
; becoming obsolete,
(i)
; competition with cable business prohibited,
(i)
; and dial-up service for Internet access,
(i)
; discriminatory practices of Bell Telephone,
(i)
; DSL service,
(i)
; entering video market,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; fear of cable industry,
(i)
; legislation (1996) allowing to compete with cable,
(i)
; local phone markets,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; regulation of,
(i)
,
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,
(iii)
,
(iv)
.
See also
Wireless access;
specific companies

Teleport,
(i)

Television History–The First
75
Years
,
(i)

Television stations: competing with cable operators,
(i)
; conventional revenues,
(i)
; history of,
(i)
; NBC network affiliates, reaction to Comcast-NBCU merger,
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There Must Be a Pony in Here Someplace
(Swisher),
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30
Rock
,
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,
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,
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3G standards,
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Time Warner: and Adelphia bankruptcy,
(i)
; alignment with Comcast,
(i)
; clustering of customers,
(i)
,
(ii)
; compared to Comcast,
(i)
; cooperation by not competing,
(i)
; customer base, size of,
(i)
; ISPs seeking competitive terms from,
(i)
; market share of cable industry,
(i)
; opposition to local high-speed networks,
(i)
; profit margins of,
(i)
; in programming industry,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; retransmission negotiations with Fox,
(i)
; and sports programming,
(i)
; in Verizon deal for joint marketing with Comcast,
(i)
,
(ii)
.
See also
AOL–Time Warner

Time Warner Cable,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Tisch, Larry,
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TMobile,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
.
See also
Merger of AT&T and TMobile

Topolski, Robb,
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Transportation Act (1920),
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Trans-Video Corporation,
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Triple-play packages,
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TV Everywhere: Comcast's focus on,
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,
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,
(iii)
; and content business,
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,
(ii)
; effect on competition,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
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,
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; FCC's attitude toward,
(i)
; genius of,
(i)
; labeling as “specialized service,”
(i)
; and sports programming,
(i)
,
(ii)
.
See also
Xfinity

TV One,
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2G standards,
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Union Pacific Railroad,
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United States: communications business in 2012 in,
(i)
; falling behind internationally in communications,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Universal Service Fund federally subsidized wireless services for the poor,
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Universal Studios,
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,
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Usage-based billing,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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USA Network,
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,
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,
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U.S. Steel,
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Utility services,
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,
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,
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,
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U-verse fiber-to-the-neighborhood service,
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,
(ii)

Vail, Theodore,
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Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
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,
(ii)

Varney, Christine,
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Verizon: acquisition of MCI,
(i)
; and auctions of low-frequency spectrum,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Broadband Internet Access Policy Statement, agreement to,
(i)
; in cellphone market,
(i)
; cooperation by not competing,
(i)
; emergence of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; ending unlimited data plans,
(i)
; FiOS fiber-optic service,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; inability to compete with cable industry,
(i)
; and installation of high-speed access across fiber-optic lines,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; joint marketing agreement with Comcast and Time Warner,
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; market share of wireless industry,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; pay-TV business attempt of,
(i)
; pricing of wireless service,
(i)
; seeking release from obligation to provide phone service to all Americans,
(i)
; and smartphones,
(i)
,
(ii)
; on sports programming,
(i)
; suit against Comcast (2010),
(i)
; wireline compared to wireless business,
(i)
.
See also
Wireless access

Versus,
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,
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,
(iii)

Vertical mergers and integration: AOL–Time Warner,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Bewkes on,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Comcast-NBCU,
(i)
,
(ii)
; distributors need to consider,
(i)
; FCC view of,
(i)
; Financial Interest and Syndication (fin-syn) Rules,
(i)
; as stifling competition,
(i)
; of TV networks,
(i)