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The communications industry is going through a period of considerable change as market forces and a proliferation of information technologies and information service providers enable a convergence between telecommunications, computing and media to take hold. Competition, the dominant process affecting the emergence and evolution of the new communications industry, is going to revolutionize the ways in which companies will be structured and run and the ways in which communications technologies will be harnessed.
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Adjali, I., Fernández-Villacañas Martin, J.L., Gell, M.A. (1996). Internal Markets. In: Cochrane, P., Heatley, D.J.T. (eds) Modelling Future Telecommunications Systems. BT Telecommunications Series, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2049-8_4
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