In any case, only a handful of states have plans to introduce full-scale competition for residential users before 2000 (although in some states plans for competition for industrial users are more advanced).
It has certainly wreaked havoc on U.S. and European workforces, and the larger scale of competition has led to a great reshuffling of business organizations and relationships.
He foresaw "the chilling prospect of a disparity of scale in which all competition, not just the BBC, is frozen to death".
"We now want to scale the ideas past the competition to provide additional mentorship and training as well as financial resources to let the winners become successful, " said Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson, speaking on behalf of the Appfrica consultancy which runs the competition.
Last year, AMMB pursued local acquisitions to build scale in the face of rising competition.
The LTE slice of the market is now facing hyper-competition totally out of scale from what we witnessed with early W-CDMA launches a decade ago.
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Thus, competition will reduce economies of scale by dividing workloads between two different prime contractors and two separate supply networks.
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With limited scale and resources to invest relative to its competition including Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Huawei, amongst others, the longer term outlook remains challenging for BBRY, in our opinion.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
The single currency is boosting competition and encouraging firms to exploit economies of scale through mergers.
In the tech-hardware business, competition over price is really a function of scale: firms with higher volume can make things more cheaply.
Of the 836 products reserved for manufacture by small-scale industries, he has exposed only 14 to full competition (a committee had suggested exposing the whole lot).
But they may be underestimating the potential for productivity gains in Europe, as the single currency boosts competition and encourages firms to exploit economies of scale through mergers and acquisitions.
Now the focus was on mega-mergers, mostly between regional competitors with considerable overlap, in a bid for economies of scale that would let the industry switch its focus from competition between rail firms to competition with trucks.
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While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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These moves seem to be motivated by its failed bid to acquire T- Mobile last year, an attempt that would have given the carrier enough spectrum and scale to build a robust LTE network and fend off competition from Verizon and Sprint, but was thwarted by the FCC on anti-competitive concerns.
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But the real advantage to Pfizer's scale is that it can outbuy and out-license the competition.
The report isn't measuring the scale of the additional divestment in branch numbers, but in its impact on competition.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
Doing it will not be easy, because the top chaebol remain powerful (the four biggest account for a third of domestic output) and because competition will accelerate bankruptcies and lay-offs, bringing large-scale unemployment to the country for the first time in 20 years.
However, some question whether the new measures will alone be enough to spark real competition as new players will have to take on well-established brands with huge scale.
But to lead them in a competition with another group, subjects voted for a person who scored high on the dominance scale.
Not only did consumers enjoy the benefits of more options and greater competition, but the larger market also allowed businesses to take greater advantage of economies of scale, pushing prices down.
Done well, the competition could be just the national motivation the digital-learning movement has needed to see large-scale adoption of high-quality blended-learning programs.
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