After years of regulators pushing network competition, basic economics is now making market consolidation inevitable.
He feels the BBC network is unfair competition for his own station.
In his defense, Ergen will argue his satellite TV network will generate competition against cable companies, nearly all of which are local monopolies in their own right.
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" They are also entitled to "competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.
Ivillage, one of the biggest Internet success stories, has plenty of competition from Network for Women, MSN Women, Oprah.com and Forbeswoman.
If merchants had simply been able to either offer discounts or assess surcharges based on both payment type and payment network, more thorough competition would have been established, ultimately resulting in lower merchant costs and lower prices for consumers.
These moves seem to be motivated by its failed bid to acquire T- Mobile last year, an attempt that would have given the carrier enough spectrum and scale to build a robust LTE network and fend off competition from Verizon and Sprint, but was thwarted by the FCC on anti-competitive concerns.
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Microsoft's Distributed Systems group utilized a new file system architecture, dubbed Flat Datacenter Storage, over a full bisection bandwidth network to burn through the competition.
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Our Droids, iPhones, and Kindles depend on spectrum to talk to the world, and the existence of robust competition among wireless network operators give Apple, Google, Amazon, and others leverage to build the kinds of devices they want and to get them into the hands of consumers.
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Before 2010, featurephones were still the norm in South Korea, and thanks to a rule set in early 2005, those devices required a domestic, mostly Java-based middleware called Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (or WIPI in short) that standardized network access to ensure fair competition between mobile companies.
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Oprah Winfrey's beleaguered network just knocked out its biggest competition: The Oprah Winfrey Show.
While the domain name business was opened for competition last November, Network Solutions still controls the lion's share of that business and derives most of its revenue from it.
The audience was diminished by competition from the Fox network, which showed a science fiction drama, and NBC, which allowed affiliates to show a baseball playoff between the New York Yankees and Oakland A's.
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Ultimately, this will mean more competition and market share erosion for network and cable television.
He initially considered creating a single-genre cable TV network but recognized that that concept faced significant competition from crime-related programming such as prime-time newsmagazines.
As Tony Miller, Definity's boss, points out, price transparency not only helps consumers manage their resources, but also promotes competition among doctors participating in the network.
What's more, even with sagging ratings--Idol averaged some 25 million viewers this season, down from 30 million three years ago--the singing competition continues to catapult its host network to No. 1 among viewers aged 18 to 49, a demographic advertisers pay a premium to reach.
Naveen in Bangalore writes: Tomorrow, another social network will become popular and Facebook may face stiff competition.
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For HTC, deepening a relationship with the world's largest social network could help it boost its popularity amid stiffening competition.
Krizelman and Paternot consider the competition to be America Online and the Microsoft Network, even though Globe members must buy their Internet access somewhere else.
Life remained good, even after satellite-based competition from DirecTV Group ( DTV) and Dish Network ( DISH) began to tighten things up a bit.
Helping viewers discover new content is a field suddenly filled with competition, from the social networking based to Dish Network's Hopper that records everything on primetime network TV and even filters out commercials.
It's partly to take advantage of the network's massive Summer Olympics promotional platform (as well as Sunday Night Football, which is a key player in the network's performance), and partly to avoid the competition.
This network enhancement with extended spectrum yet again sets us apart from the competition.
In spite of--or perhaps because of--growing competition, Landgraf vowed to do what his distinctly edgy network has always done: take risks.
China Mobile and Unicom compete nationally, but the government has licensed only two operators, believing that the cut-throat competition of markets such as Hong Kong's impedes network development.
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In the face of growing competition from cable channels and the Web, the Fox broadcast network has had a better story to tell than most.
In addition teachers, engineers and executive mentors support the teams directly (in person or by utilizing a social network) as the students progress through the idea-research-implementation competition phases.
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Among 18 to 49-year-olds, the network ended the first half of the season in last place among its major broadcast competition.
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