BSkyB's response to the Consultation Document of December 2007 on the pay TV market in the UK has been published by Ofcom. This includes a submission prepared by CRA which reviews the analysis and arguments in Ofcom's document on the potential "short term" and "long term" consequences of vertical integration in pay TV. Ofcom is considering whether vertical integration between wholesalers and retailers of premium content operating at different levels of the pay TV supply chain may create the incentive and ability to foreclose pay TV competitors.
A team from CRA's European Competition Practice in London including Cristina Caffarra, Andrea Coscelli and Adrien Cervera-Jackson, as well as Dr Pierre Régibeau (University of Essex) and Prof John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) have been supporting BSkyB through the investigation
See CRA Report