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Telco Focus on Business Customers

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Telecommunications companies must constantly adapt their business models to maintain their competitive position in the business customer segment. In all three major business segments of the B2B market—i.e. network services, software services, and computing services—disruptive effects will change the telco landscape.

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    Michael Eugene Porter is a visionary and university professor for economic science at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of the Harvard Business School.

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    Inbound: A foreign company buys a line on the provider’s local home market for the connection of its business site.

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    Outbound: A domestic company buys a line abroad (as a rule, via the foreign partner of the domestic provider) for the connection of its foreign business site.

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    Amazon Web Services.

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  • Porter, M. E. (1980). Competitive strategy. New York: Free Press. isbn:0-684-84148-7.

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Glohr, C. (2019). Telco Focus on Business Customers. In: KrĂĽssel, P. (eds) Future Telco. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77724-5_26

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