Future of telecommunications operator alliances

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 635-641

  Monlouis, J ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; MARKETING; STANDARDS;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATORS;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032154507     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(98)00043-3     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. When this paper was being written (May 1998), it was quite clear that marriage is not forever. But nobody was in a position to assert about divorce that it is not just the same.
2. We might consider other symmetries used in physics, but it would only make this article more complex, without modifying either its rationale or its conclusions.
3. ‘Local’ must be taken in its largest meaning, i.e. geographical or categorical.
4. We consider that the steam engine, the railway development and the assembly line work were the main technological characteristics of the first, second and third industrial revolutions, respectively.
5. The same phenomenon occurred in the midst of the XIXth century, when the shock of the abolition of slavery turned out to be favourable, because of the re-direction of available workforce and funds towards the most profitable sectors. Sometimes, in history, money and morals get on well together!
6. It is the reason why this establishment, and not the people, was at the origin of the so-called ‘Perestroı̈ka’, which entailed the collapse of the system. On this subject, Gorbachev’s memoires, published in 1995, should be read by anyone who is interested in the history of USSR.
7. Public Utilities Commissions, in charge of the telecommunications regulation at state level.
8. AT&T had been prohibited from entering this market since the ‘Consent Decree’ of 1956.
9. The dream vanished when AT&T eventually divested its computer branch, a long time after its costly NCR acquisition.
10. To understand the stakes and reality of the European construction, it is essential to read the CDU/CSU document (September 1994), entitled: ‘reflections about European policy’.
11. See Hayashi, K., NTT’s transformation: from public telephone operator to major multimedia enterprise, Telecommunications Policy, 1997, 21(2), 101–111.
12. The Japanese trade deficit in services is the first in the world (nearly $5 MM in January 1998).
13. About the problems faced by international alliances in telecommunications, see in particular Cane, A, Business as usual despite phoney war, Financial Times, 17 March 1998.