After a decade of meteoric growth, the telecommunications industry now faces mounting challenges, leading to question whether the industry may fall victim of its own success. Dramatic forces are radically changing the telecommunications landscape, and it is not at all clear how it will evolve...

This paper is an effort to capture the canvas of GATS and its interrelationship with over all trade value chain and MNC business models. Looking at the patterns of services trade, it is interesting to note that on one end, the improvements in telecom infrastructure facilitate new ways to export...