What Does the Future Hold for Electronic Communications?

Laurent Gille (1, 2)

1 ECOGE - Economie Gestion
2 SES - Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales

While they dominated the digital industry 20 years ago, telecoms operators are now confronted with an all-powerful Internet industry. Faced with a market that seems to be slowing in growth, faced with a technological evolution fragmenting the value chain, this article examines the relationships and confrontations of the telecommunications industry and the Internet industry. It seeks to appreciate the power relations and strategies that these vertical relationships could manifest in the coming years.

Keywords: Telecommunications industry; Internet industry; vertical integration; dominance; value chain; double helix

Domains: Economics and Finance

Laurent Gille. What Does the Future Hold for Electronic Communications?. Digiworld Economic Journal, 2017. ⟨hal-02552783⟩