Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellite and the Market Power of Cable
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“ Duplication of Public Goods : An Evaluation of the Welfare Gains from the proposed
Echostar and DirecTV, the two primary Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) companies serving the US, claim that efficiencies from their proposed merger would result from the redeployment of transmission capacity to avoid signal duplication. Currently, both companies use transmission capacity to deliver most of same television channels to many US cities. In particular, they both transmit the local p...
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