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Strategies for Success in the New Telecommunications Marketplace ForacompletelistingoftheArtechHouseTelecommunicationsLibrary, turntothebackofthisbook. Strategies for Success in the New Telecommunications Marketplace Karen G. Strouse Artech House Boston (cid:149) London www.artechhouse.com LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Strouse,KarenG. Strategiesforsuccessinthenewtelecommunicationsmarketplace/KarenG. Strouse. p. cm.(cid:151)(ArtechHousetelecommunicationslibrary) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN1-58053-142-3(alk.paper) 1.Telecommunication(cid:151)Management. 2.Competition,International. I.Title. II.Series. HE7631.S76 2000 384(cid:146).068(cid:146)8(cid:151)dc21 00-048093 CIP BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Strouse,KarenG. Strategiesforsuccessinthenewtelecommunicationsmarketplace. (cid:151)(ArtechHousetelecommunicationslibrary) 1.Telecommunication(cid:151)Management 2.Competition,International I.Title 384(cid:146).068 ISBN1-58053-142-3 CoverdesignbyGaryRagaglia '2001ARTECHHOUSE,INC. 685CantonStreet Norwood,MA02062 Allrightsreserved.PrintedandboundintheUnitedStatesofAmerica.Nopartofthis bookmaybereproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechani- cal,includingphotocopying,recording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretrievalsys- tem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. Alltermsmentionedinthisbookthatareknowntobetrademarksorservicemarks havebeenappropriatelycapitalized.ArtechHousecannotattesttotheaccuracyofthis information.Useofaterminthisbookshouldnotberegardedasaffectingthevalidityof anytrademarkorservicemark. InternationalStandardBookNumber: 1-58053-142-3 LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:00-048093 10987654321 ToArthur Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv 1 Map of the Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Accessproviders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Wireline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Mobilewireless. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fixedwireless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Handheldwireless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Satellite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Transportproviders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Interexchangecarriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Interexchangeresellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Carrier(cid:146)scarriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Internetprotocoltelephonyproviders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Internetserviceproviders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 vii viii StrategiesforSuccessintheNewTelecommunicationsMarketplace 1.3 Services,software,andcontent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Operationssupportsystemsproviders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Applicationsserviceproviders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Portals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1.4 Convergence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 Today(cid:146)s Telecommunications Landscape. . . . . . . . 23 2.1 Uniquemarketcharacteristicsandchallenges . . . . . . . . . 24 2.2 RoleoftheInternet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.3 Howmergershavechangedthemarket. . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.4 Non-U.S.markets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 TheAmericas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Asia/Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.5 Strategicpositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3 Competitive Successes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.1 Growththroughmergersandacquisitions . . . . . . . . . . 44 WorldCom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 SBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 BellAtlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.2 Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 MCIFriendsandFamily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 AT&TDigitalOneRate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Sprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3.3 Embracingcompetition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Contents ix 4 Blunders in the Competitive Market. . . . . . . . . . 59 4.1 Positioningandpricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Integratedservicesdigitalnetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Iridium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 AT&T(cid:146)schannelconflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.2 Handlingthebrand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 AT&T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 MCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 4.3 Opportunitycosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Internetfax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Holdingcourt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5 Rewriting the Rules for Success. . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.1 Porter(cid:146)scompetitivestrategymodel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.2 Conventionalwisdomunraveled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 5.3 Competingagainstrealandstrategiccompetitors . . . . . . . 80 5.4 Keepingupwiththechangingfuture. . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 5.5 Technologyasbarriertoentryandasdifferentiator . . . . . . 86 5.6 Customerbuyingpatterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5.7 Usageaccelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 6 Strategic Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 6.1 Qualityversuspricedebate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 6.2 Buildversusbuydecisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 6.3 Economiesofscaleandscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 6.4 Settingmarketsharegoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 7 Strategies for Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 7.1 Misconceptionsaboutstrategydevelopment . . . . . . . . . 114 7.2 Strategyisubiquitous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 x StrategiesforSuccessintheNewTelecommunicationsMarketplace 7.3 Strategiesandthepathstodifferentiation . . . . . . . . . . 117 7.4 Planningstrategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 7.5 Marketingstrategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 7.6 Operationsstrategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 7.7 Financialstrategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 7.8 Strategytools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 8 Business Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 8.1 Thevalueproposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 8.2 Transformingthebusinessmodel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 8.3 Newmodels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 8.4 Emergingmodels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Bandwidthbrokers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 DataCLECs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Business-to-businesscommerceportals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 8.5 Supportingtools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Balancedscorecard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Customersegmentationanalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Scenarioplanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Valuechainanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Customerlifecyclevalueanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 8.6 Roleofinformationtechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 9 Core Competencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 9.1 Identifyingrealstrengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 9.2 Corecompetenciesbybusinessmodel. . . . . . . . . . . . 151 9.3 Identifyingmarketopportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 9.4 Outsourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 9.5 Seekingandtargetingcompetitorweaknesses . . . . . . . . 158 9.6 Supportingtools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Corecompetenciesanalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 EVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 9.7 Roleofinformationtechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Contents xi References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 10 Organizational Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 10.1 Companyculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 10.2 Knowledgemanagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 10.3 Organizationalstructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 10.4 Reengineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 10.5 Skillsandtraining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 10.6 Supportingtools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Groupware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Self-directedteams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 10.7 Roleofinformationtechnology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 11 Competitive Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 11.1 Thenatureofcompetitiveparity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 11.2 First-moveradvantage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 11.3 Gametheory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 11.4 Choosingparitybattles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 11.5 Retainingthecustomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 11.6 Raisingthebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 11.7 Supportingtools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Decisionsupportforcompetitiveactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 11.8 Roleofinformationtechnology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 12 Distribution Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 12.1 Differentiationwithinthedistributionchain . . . . . . . . 198 12.2 Coexistingwholesaleandretailstrategies. . . . . . . . . . 199 12.3 Thecaseagainstverticalintegration . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 12.4 Supplierandpartnerstrategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 12.5 Internetstrategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 12.6 Supportingtools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Verticalintegrationframework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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The author examines the slow pace of competitive development in the US telecommunications industry and the lack of risk-taking to provide consumers with a better service. The author also considers the situation in other developed countries.
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