Bundling

Plum Insight: Video content and broadband – a marriage made in heaven

24/02/2017
Insight
Author(s): Grant Forsyth
Telecommunications Broadcasting Digital platforms

In the developed world there is now strong convergence between the retail pay TV markets and the retail broadband markets in which suppliers in both markets increasingly compete for the spend of the same consumers. This trend is likely to continue as the capability of fixed and mobile broadband networks continues to improve rapidly over[…]

Assessing the proposed merger between Sky NZ and Vodafone NZ

15/09/2016
Project
Author(s): Grant Forsyth, David Lewin, Sam Wood
Telecommunications Broadcasting Legal and transaction services

In 2016, Vodafone New Zealand and Sky Network Television Limited proposed to merge their businesses, and applied to the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) for clearance. Under the New Zealand Commerce Act 1986, the NZCC can grant clearance if it is satisfied that the Proposed Transaction will not have the effect or likely effect of[…]