The result is a three-carrier oligopoly with attractive competitive characteristics for Sprint, Lee says.
Rating firms have become an anointed oligopoly (with margins to match) because they are embedded in regulations.
Instead, there are two utterly conflicting rules on the future of the oligopoly waiting to be finalized.
Westpac Banking ( WBK, 108.6) is the oldest in an oligopoly of four and operates throughout the South Pacific.
The industrial structure that fosters productive innovation best is oligopoly, argues Mr Baumol.
And then use that content to disrupt the cozy media oligopoly that prefers to sell via expensive monthly subscriptions.
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All these rules make it hideously difficult for new parties to break the electoral oligopoly of the existing ones.
Since credible authentication is crucial in the tiny but fiercely competitive oligopoly of high-stakes dealers, historical research has also prospered.
They receive subsidised loans from state-controlled banks, they are given land cheaply and they usually enjoy a sheltered monopoly or oligopoly.
Until this year, in fact until the past few weeks Microsoft struck me as a company stuck in oligopoly management techniques.
The combinations of United and Continental, Delta and Northwest, and Southwest Airlines and AirTran may have tipped the industry into oligopoly.
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With no regulator to keep them in check, they could easily establish a tight oligopoly, then quietly start to fleece consumers once again.
Collectively, the three agencies comprise a government-sponsored oligopoly with no financial incentive to serve the buyers of corporate debt their reports are meant to protect.
One effectively cements the power of the oligopoly ( section 932).
The bottom line: America has two enterprise systems, a free enterprise system that exists to serve customers, and an oligopoly system that exists to benefit corporations.
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What he worries most about is not the short-term fluctuations related to Thailand, but the longer-term implications of the creation of an oligopoly in the drive market.
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In oligopoly, a few big firms compete with each other, but not primarily by trying to charge the lowest prices, which are thus usually higher than in a perfectly competitive market.
With the barrier to entry that much lower on the Web, he explained how the media industry was no longer an oligopoly with four or five companies controlling both content and distribution.
Health plans passed the cutbacks along by consolidating into an oligopoly in which each plan had so many members that no provider could afford to refuse to do business on their terms.
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This approach is based on an industrial-age understanding of oligopoly, where over time a pool of competitors shrinks to just the most efficient handful that can all be profitable in the long term.
The decision could help companies like Netflix and Apple in their negotiations to add more programming to their online services, by undermining the oligopoly of the cable-television and satellite TV networks.
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Its ruling families have a long history of issuing themselves supervoting shares, either because their oligopoly power has simply enabled them to do so or by invoking the need to defend the fourth estate.
Behind the warm and fuzzy facade is a merciless commercial hierarchy ruled by an oligopoly of carriers as indispensible as the local electric company--and with the clout to act like a bunch of bullies.
Lately, however, groups of hospitals and doctors have banded together in search of oligopoly power of their own, linking so many providers under one banner that no plan can afford to pass it by.
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This has created an oligopoly that lulls users of their ratings into a false sense of security and spreads moral hazard: investors tend to rely on the ratings rather than making credit judgments of their own.
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How do you penetrate an oligopoly?
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Fifth, they cannot be seen as taking a biased approach to sovereign debt risks, a hard stance on Europe (downgrading the one country after another) and a soft on the US. Already, a number of European countries are pushing for the creation of European credit agencies that would threaten the credit agency oligopoly.
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