Business Models

The Rise of the “Keiretsu”

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A Keiretsu (Japanese: 系列, literally system or series) is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. Emerging in the Japanese economy in the second half of the 20th century, these groups succeeded the older zaibatsu (family-owned monopolies) following the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II. The keiretsu model—exemplified by groups […]

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Mobile Virtual Network Operator(MVNO)

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A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a telecommunications service provider that offers mobile communication services to consumers without owning the physical infrastructure of a wireless network. Instead, MVNOs lease network capacity from established Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) — companies that do own the radio spectrum licenses, cell towers, and core networking systems. MVNOs are

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