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In today's economy, many activities are networked. The importance of network industries that deliver products and services is growing. Traditionally, only the effects of competition have been analysed within networks. Increasingly, companies are discovering that even cooperation between competitors can bring benefits to all involved. Network interconnections are analysed where networks not only provide services within their own network but also provide access to others' networks. This paper models and analyses co-opetition in network industries using biform games as a combination of non-cooperative and cooperative game theory. The authors propose a division of biform games into sequential and simultaneous games. A proposed basic model of a network industry with two networks is defined to analyse the interconnections. The model can be solved as a sequential biform game and as a two-stage non-cooperative game. The results are analysed and an illustrative example is solved.