providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice‚ data‚ text‚ sound‚ and video" is known as Telecommunications Industry. Hence‚ Telecom Service Providers are organizations which provide the aforementioned services through the land-line and wireless networks. (http://www.bitpipe.com/tlist/Telecommunications-Industry.html) Goldman Sachs research says‚ "India will overtake US by 2050" and the reasons for these predictions are India’s increased openness to trade‚ investment in information and
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up the length and breadth of the country as telecom and power networks. The Indian cables industry offers lucrative scope for stable revenue streams to manufacturers of both power and telecom cables. The report is an application of various Business marketing concepts with respect to the telecom cable industry in India. As an introductory background‚ the report outlines the structure of Indian Telecom Sector. Emphasis has been given to the telecom cables sector going by its higher percentage
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TV dilemma How to become an oligopoly firm in soft drink market? (source: "A new-age drink war starts as Soda Flops‚" Time‚ December 18‚ 2000 There are many soft drinks in the market‚ yet the main suppliers of popular soft drinks are only two: Coke and Pepsi. The soft drink market in America is a very big business with annual sales of $58 billion. Coke‚ with its patented Coca Cola drink‚ enjoys the dominant role in the soft drink market‚ and runner-up Pepsi is always challenging Coke for the
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Oligopoly Characteristics Oligopoly is the main form of modern market structure. The term "oligopoly" is used to define a market in which there are few companies‚ some of which control a large share of the market. In the oligopoly industry some major companies compete among themselves and the introduction of new firms on this market is complicated‚ because of the presence of barriers to entry. Products manufactured by firms can be both homogeneous and/or differentiated. Homogeneous products have
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No. 12 UBS TELECOM INDUSTRY ’Indian Telecom Industry’ is the fifth largest and fastest growing industry in the world. Three types of players exists in ’ Telecom Industry India ’ community - * State owned companies like - BSNL and MTNL. * Private Indian owned companies like - Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices. * Foreign invested companies like - Hutchison-Essar‚ Bharti Airtel Tele-Ventures‚ Idea Cellular‚ Spice Communications etc. Bharti Airtel now is the largest telecom company in
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ANALYSIS OF MARKET STRUCTURE DATE: 8TH NOVEMBER 2014 SR. NO TOPIC PAGE NO. 1 OLIGOPOLY 3 2 PERFECT COMPETITION 5 3 MONOPOLY 7 4 MONOPOLISTIC 9 5 COMPARISON 11 Oligopoly An Oligopoly is an industry dominated by a few firms‚ e.g. supermarkets‚ petrol‚ car industry etc. The main features of oligopoly: An industry which is dominated by a few firms. Interdependence of firms‚ firms will be affected by how other firms set price and output
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Michael Porter’s five forces Analysis Rivalry among competitors The Indian Telecom industry is comprised of three types of players. The State owned companies‚ private companies and foreign invested companies. Main State owned companies are BSNL and MTNL. Major private Indian owned companies include Tata teleservice‚ Tata Communications‚ Reliance communications. And finally‚ the major foreign invested companies in this sector are Vodafone‚ Idea cellular‚ Bharti Airtel Limited. BSNL Bharath Sanchar
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collusive oligopoly (10 marks) * * Oligopoly‚ is a market form in which where few sellers dominate the market for an identical or differentiated good‚ and where there are high barriers to entry. The market is determined by very few‚ however very large firms. The barriers of entry are very significant‚ as they include high initial fixed costs‚ access to resources and economies of scale and legal barriers. Unlike perfect competition where there are identical products‚ in an Oligopoly you have
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Oligopoly An oligopoly is a market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers (oligopolists). Oligopolies can result from various forms of collusion which reduce competition and lead to higher costs for consumers.[1] With few sellers‚ each oligopolist is likely to be aware of the actions of the others. The decisions of one firm therefore influence and are influenced by the decisions of other firms. Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the
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Oligopoly is a market structure in which only a few sellers offer similar or identical products. It is an intermediate form of imperfect competition. OPEC is an epitome of Oligopoly. Features of Oligopoly: • Non Price Competition • Interdependent decision making • Entry Barriers If organizations behave in cooperative mode to mitigate the competitions amongst themselves it is called Collusion. When two or more organizations agree to set their outputs or prices to maintain monopoly it is called
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