Consoles have tended to be much more closed ecosystems, with high barriers to entry.
Ma Bell is long gone, and so are most oligopolies with high barriers to entry.
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The high barriers to entry in the utility industry will also help fend off any additional competition.
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With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
The financial services industry, long protected by complex regulations, high barriers to entry and economies of scale, is ripe for disruption.
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With such high barriers to entry, it is unsurprising that most purveyors of elite education are old, and many are charities.
Mr Mitarai was lucky enough to inherit a firm with this kind of leadership, in a sector with high barriers to entry.
We focus on picking stocks with high barriers to entry that we think can maintain a competitive advantage over the longer term.
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The acceleration of vaccine development through cloning has broken down the sector's traditionally high barriers to entry, which has attracted the attention of pharmaceutical companies.
With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature in that they require massive scale and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
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"They have very high barriers to entry and financial stability, " says Schulte, noting also that KMP has no problems borrowing to fund new pipelines and terminals.
"There is value in the market for very well-located retail assets in secondary markets, where there are high barriers to entry and good demographic fundamentals, " he says.
Not easily imitated creates high barriers to entry for competitors.
One reason, argues Ian Maxwell of Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, is that only the biggest firms can afford to get over the high barriers to entry in the high-return, low-risk niches of the mining business: iron ore, alumina, diamonds and industrial minerals.
We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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Further, the complexity of wafermaking and a constrained supply of silicon provide high barriers of entry to potential competitors.
Daily deals once excited Wall Street because of their high margins, but low barriers to entry invited a raft of competition from related businesses, which forced a re-rating of Groupon and the industry as a whole.
When the means of production were expensive and the barriers to entry high, having a dad who owned a newspaper chain or a billboard company was a pretty good way to get a running start in the media business.
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The regulators explained that their progress has been hampered by lack of resources, the large agencies tried to impress committee members by describing their hefty expenditures on heightened compliance and stronger controls, and the smaller agencies complained about high costs of regulations, barriers to entry, and took as many shots at the Big Three as they could fit in.
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Barriers to entry are very high, with a handful of participants dominating the market.
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The barriers to entry are not high.
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In addition, barriers to entry in the tower sector are high.
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In other words, the barriers to entry in many market segments are prohibitively high.
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The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.
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