Saturday, February 8, 2014
Greater Scale Leads to Lower Prices, Even in a More Concentrated Mobile Business?
If telecommunications really is a business with scale characteristics, then additional scale should lead to lower retail prices. And there is evidence that higher concentration levels in the U.S. mobile business have happened at the same time that retail prices have dropped.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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