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

Jason Whalley

Telecommunications Policy, 2004, vol. 28, issue 2, 161-175

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: 3G; Market; structure; Flagship; firms; Hutchison; Whampoa; Vodafone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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