Word: movers
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...While India's telecom pond is still small, Mittal, a former bicycle parts maker, has used first-mover advantage to become a big fish. Bharti has the largest market share nationally, at 28%, and his lead is widening by the day. In September, two out of three consumers joining mobile phone services chose his Airtel network, which covers an area with a potential 600 million customers?a market nearly twice the size of the U.S. He has even branched into domestic long-distance services, and this year Bharti became the first private company in India to launch an international long...
...That's a wise philosophy considering how high the stakes are. Being the first mover in any new technology is a huge risk, especially within an industry where consumers have come to resent being promised so much yet receiving so little (WAP, anyone?) But Hutchison has decided the potential benefits, which could be vast, outweigh the risks, no matter how daunting. As a new entrant without any legacy network to upgrade, 3 is hoping to leapfrog the competition and establish an important early foothold in the telecom standard for the future?a future in which slower rivals are stuck with...
...biggest wind-power user, surpassing the U.S., and the second biggest solar-energy generator after Japan. This is remarkable for a country that is not particularly windy, nor sunny. In Germany and beyond, says Reinhard Loske, energy spokesman for the nation's Green Party, Scheer "is the prime mover for the cause of renewable energy...
Last Friday, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) fired questions at the new mover-and-shaker on the Cambridge theater scene, grilling the incoming director of the American Repertory Theatre (ART) on a wide range of topics...
...strange incident in Ryazan has never been fully explained. But Berezovsky's interest in the subject is as belated as it is unconvincing. He did not explain why it took him so long to conclude that Putin was aware of the bombings. As a prime mover in the inner circle around Yeltsin, Berezovsky prided himself on knowing exactly who was doing what in the highest reaches of power. He, like other businessmen-powerbrokers, collected information on rivals, friends and the Kremlin. He also had access to information provided by a security organization that was described in press accounts...