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- Date: 25 Dec 92 19:08:11 GMT
- From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Cellular Rates in South Bend
- Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
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- Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 919, Message 8 of 14
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- TELECOM Moderator noted:
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- > With only two, there might as well be only one ... it is very
- > easy for each of them to keep track of what the other one is
- > doing and work with each other under certain unspoken gentlemen's
- > agreements."
-
- It is easy, although it would be illegal. But I don't think that's
- what we're seeing. The cellular providers are spending their energies
- in expanding the market -- signing up people who don't yet have
- cellular service. You don't see ads asking people to switch; you see
- ads suggesting that first cell phone purchase.
-
- There's enough growth to be gained in this way that they don't need to
- compete aggressively. Once a market is saturated, I think we'll see
- actual competition between the providers.
-
-
- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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