Market potential. Forecasting for new providers of local telephone services to business customers

Jill Hesser, Donald A. Anderson and Steven H. Cohen

Deregulation is creating competition in the communications industry, allowing telephone service providers, media companies and other firms to offer everything from local telephone services to video-on-demand.

Market potential. Forecasting for new providerd of local telephone services to business customers

Steven H. Cohen Stratford Associates, United StatesDonald A. Anderson StatDesign, United States andJill Hesser US West Inc., United States

INTRODUCTION

Deregulation is opening up competition in the communications industry in the United States, Europe and beyond. The recently passed Telecommunications Bill in the United States will allow telephone companies, media companies and other enterprises to provide businesses and consumers a full range of offerings: from local telephone service to video-on-demand. The distinctions among phone companies, long distance carriers, cable TV providers...

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