OPINION: The ComCom should be able to put behavioural conditions on mergers

The Commerce Commission has only a limited toolkit for dealing with mergers like Fairfax-NZME and Sky TV-Vodafone. With special feature audio.

Clare Curran
Wed, 24 Aug 2016

It might not be headline news but the major shake-ups of our media environment threaten a seismic shift in the New Zealand media landscape. Do we care? Should we care? Yes, we should.

The proposed mergers of NZME and Fairfax, and of Sky TV and Vodafone are being considered as the remnants of

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