Cable Market Research Articles

An overview of cable modem technology and market perspectives

Cable modem technology enables its users to access the Internet at line speeds of some 300 kb/s and above. It utilizes coaxial cables entering subscribers' premises to simultaneously deliver cable TV programs, access the Internet, and also provide voice telephony. This overview article describes the basic technology, its standardization, and the huge potential market worldwide.

Opening the broadband cable market: a new Kingsbury commitment

Profiles broadband communications, wondering whether AOL Time Warner will keep its side of the bargain that promises to provide a universal telephone service, in exchange for accepting regulations regarding monopoly. Recommends that only by quality of service monitoring can AOL Time Warner be seen to be keeping its side of the bargain. Concludes that quality of service monitoring is a timely approach in the USA with regard to broadband communications systems.

Price-Quality Tradeoffs and Welfare Effects in Cable Television Markets

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 reduced restrictions oin the cable TV industry, providing completely deregulated rates in March 1999. In this paper, we develop a simple tradeoff between price and quality in order to calculate the welfare tradeoff to consumers of the provision of one additional satellite channel.

Product Differentiation in Cable Programming: The Case in the Cable National All-News Networks

Product competition for news viewers in the cable national all-news market was examined. As the cable news networks do not directly compete with each other on price to consumers, it was expected that they would compete for audience by differentiating programming. A content analysis identifies program differentiation among the competing cable all-news networks. Each offered a distinctive style of programming. The different program formats and substantive content in each have the effect of counterprogramming, giving viewers a choice.

Market Concentration in Taiwan’s Cable Industry

abstractThis study reviews theoretical approaches of media concentration, examines the domination of two media conglomerates, the United Communications Group (UCG) and the Eastern Multimedia Group (EMG), over Taiwan’s cable industry, and analyzes the market situation under their operation.The study reveals that UCG and EMG engage not only in horizontal integration, but also in vertical integration. As of early 1999, among the existing 105 cable systems and 100 cable channels, UCG and EMG owned 62 systems and controlled 40 channels; i.e., they held 60 per cent of Taiwan’s cable systems and 40 per cent of the channel market share. These two figures for 1999 are up 49 per cent and 10 per cent respectively from 1997.After investigating ownership concentration and conglomeration, which has occurred in Taiwan’s cable market, the study concludes that Taiwan’s cable industry is dominated by UCG and EMG, and its future development and their further influences need to be carefully explored.

Asian Power Cable Market: Indonesia's Cable Market Suffers the Worst Blow from the Asian Economic Crisis

Asian Power Cable Market: Indonesia's Cable Market Suffers the Worst Blow from the Asian Economic Crisis

Global Power Cable Markets: Asia Will Continue to be the Long Term Focus of World Power Cable Markets

Global Power Cable Markets: Asia Will Continue to be the Long Term Focus of World Power Cable Markets

Predation in Local Cable TV Markets

Predation in Local Cable TV Markets

Cable television and government policy in Japan

Abstract The development of the cable industry in Japan has been steady but slow. The Japanese cable penetration rate is not as high as in the USA and Canada for several reasons, and in this article the focus is on how broadcasting policy in Japan has affected the cable television market. Nevertheless the number of cable television systems has increased every year, and the future of the cable business in Japan is also discussed.

Broadcasting & cable market place, 1992: the industry source for radio, television and cable

Broadcasting & cable market place, 1992: the industry source for radio, television and cable

Cable television and competition: Theory, evidence and policy

There is currently widespread discussion in the USA of the merits of amending legislation to allow competition in the cable television market, notably from the telecommunications companies. This article explores what economic theory can contribute to this debate, and adduces empirical evidence on the effects of competition in the cable market where it presently exists. The authors conclude that blocking entry into cable, and indeed into telecommunications markets, is likely to be poor policy, and that increased competition would foster the development of an efficient modern broadband network.

THE VALUATION OF FEDERAL LOANS AND GUARANTEES: A GRAPHICAL APPLICATION OF CAPM

This paper attempts to present the anal ysis of federal credit activity in the context of modern capital theory as it relates to the pricing of portfolios and securities. This market pricing mechanism may be the most useful means for measuring the values of alternative mechanisms of financial assis tance. Its principal virtue is that it employs a market-centered measure of value. The value of federal participation in par ticular security issues can be approximated by valuing those issues with and without federal participation and comparing the difference in values. A strategic variable in this approach is the proper rate of interest to be used in developing market-equivalent present values. The higher the market rate relative to the rate actually charged, the greater the value of federal participation. With some qualifications, we suggest that the capital asset pricing model may yield reasonably accurate estimates of the appli cable market rate of interest and, hence, the value of federal involvements. Improved measures of the true public costs of federal credit activities will permit better management of the growth and dis tribution of such financial involvements. I