Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications

Foreign Investment and Consolidation in the Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Market

During the implementation of market-based reforms in mobile telecommunications, the Brazilian Government opted for dividing the country in ten regions, thus creating a highly fragmented market. Later on, through several mergers and acquisitions the market was consolidated by three main foreign groups. This paper analyses the rationale behind the Government’s decision to fragment the market and ...

Hospitals, market share, and consolidation.

A large reduction in use of inpatient care combined with the incentives in the Affordable Care Act is leading to significant consolidation in the hospital industry. What was once a set of independent hospitals having arms-length relationships with physicians and clinicians who provide ambulatory care is becoming a small number of locally integrated health systems, generally built around large, ...

VLSI in Mobile Communications

In recent years, the demand for mobile operation of all types of electronic systems has become significant. It seems that by merely providing the same functionality of a desktop system in a mobile unit, a significant market advantage can be obtained for virtually any electronic function. Consumer electronics companies have been highly successful by creating portable televisions, video tape reco...

Analyzing Marketing Strategies in the Emerging Mobile Communications Market: An Agent-Based Approach

40 Analyzing Marketing Strategies in the Emerging Mobile Communications Market: An Agent-Based Approach; Weiyang Wang, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan Manabu Ichikawa, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan Hiroshi Deguchi, Interdisciplinary Graduate...

Lecture Mobile Communications