Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, and Collaboration in Telecommunications
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Joint ventures among telecommunications firms have become increasingly common in recent years. These joint ventures have occurred in almost all areas of telecommunications including information services, manufacturing, and mobile service. The firms involved in the collaboration have often been domestic U.S. corporations, such as AT&T and GTE, or international corporations, such as GPT (General Electric Corporation and Plessey) from the United Kingdom and Siemens from West Germany. These joint ventures are a marked change from the situation that prevailed as recently as 1980, when a single firm in each country provided telecommunications services and when one or two large domestic firms manufactured equipment, especially central office and transmission equipment. Underlying the increasing popularity of joint ventures over the past 10 years are two important changes. The first is the globalization of telecommunications markets; the second is the increasing
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تاریخ انتشار 2008