The Japanese broadband market was very competitive until recently owing to the interconnection rules and the significant market power (SMP) regulations on the incumbent fixed telecom giant, NTT East/West. Japan's regulator, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), could let the...

Purpose — This study assesses the effectiveness of initiatives by expatriate employees of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T, popularly referred to as the ‘Bell System’11The use of the term ‘Bell System’ as a synonym for AT&T reflected the firm's initial dependency on...

The U.S. telecommunications industry has collapsed. As I write this essay, Global Crossing is bankrupt, WorldCom is near bankruptcy, and Qwest may have narrowly avoided it. AOL TimeWarner has lost tens of billions of dollars of shareholder value since its merger, and ATamp;T continues to divest...