The Competition between Regional Standards and the Success and Failure of Firms in the World-Wide Mobile Communication Market

Jeffrey L. Funk
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Jeffrey L. Funk: Kobe University

Kobe Economic & Business Review, 1998, vol. 42, 137-161

Abstract: This paper describes the evolution of competition in the world-wide mobile communication market. Most firms have succeeded with products (infrastructure and phones) and phone services that are based on domestic standards, while relatively few firms (Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia) have succeeded in the development of infrastructure and phones that are based on non-domestic standards. The lack of firms which have succeeded in non-domestic standards means that firms are given a significant competitive advantage when their countries create or adopt early a system which eventually becomes a world-wide standard. Systems that were adopted early and were open in terms of both content and the standard-setting process became world-wide standards.

Keywords: Cellular; Standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L96 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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