Bundling telecommunications services: competitive strategies for converging markets.

§06§With the advent of digital convergence, incumbent telephone and cable companies have begun to offer their services, such as voice telephony, Internet and TV in so-called triple play packages. While carefully recognizing the technological, legal and economic framework of the fixed-line telecommunications industry, this book investigates whether bundling is indeed a profitable pricing strategy for the firms and if it can possibly facilitate the leverage of market power into neighboring markets. §02§Dr. Jan Krämer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, from where he also obtained a diploma degree in Business Engineering in 2005 and a doctorate degree in Economics in 2007.