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Flagship firms, consolidation and changing market structures within the mobile communications market

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The structure and character of the European Union (EU) mobile telecommunications market are changing. Consolidation, scale economies and the far-reaching repercussions of 3G have given rise to a series of 'flagship firms' that have sought to co-ordinate the 2G and 3G licences held. In this paper, the co-ordination strategies of two flagship firms, Vodafone and Hutchison Whampoa, are examined. The paper concludes that competitive enhancing co-ordination strategies can be identified in six different areas, though these have not been uniformly adopted by the two flagship firms examined.

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  • Whalley, Jason, 2004. "Flagship firms, consolidation and changing market structures within the mobile communications market," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 28(2), pages 161-175, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:28:y:2004:i:2:p:161-175
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