telecommunications market is, like most telecom markets in the world, one from monopoly to limited competition, from state ownership to … market driven and from closed to open. To study inter-firm collaboration types, benefits, and barriers, a qualitative … results provide better solutions to support and encourage inter-firm collaboration for telecom enterprises. …

. Collaboration with an academic institution can assist in overcoming this dilemma. This process is not without its difficulties and …

economies of scale. An empirical analysis of Georgia cities reports that while cities’ choice of service collaboration is … affected by the transaction characteristics of services, their level of service collaboration is greatly influenced by the …

point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …

An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices.While the standard view is that competition … access, with orwithout competition from a DSL provider, and using education dispersionand ethnic diversity as proxies for …, competition reduces prices. As preference becomes morediverse, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; andwhen …