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Dataquest Insight: The Pure-Play Utility Model for Communications Service Providers: Option or Threat?
4 September 2009
 
Wm. L. Hahn  

Most large communications service providers that run networks will not volunteer to become utility players. But will they be pushed into it?




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 "The Elephant in the Network"
    
 Definition of the Utility Model
    
 Factors Influencing the Utility Model
    
 CSPs Will Not Seek to Become Utilities
    
 Costs of the Utility Change-Over Are Not Clearly Defined
    
 Utility Model Already Exists — on a Smaller Geographic Scale
    
 Scenarios for Utility Model Emergence

    
 Background and Context

    
 Telecommunications Sits Between Retail and Utility Status Today
    
 Electric Companies — the Other Utility Model

    
 The Impact

    
 Conclusion

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Key Industry Measures: Spending and Full-Time Equivalent Scores
 

Table 2.  
 Financial Performance of Electric Utilities, 2005-2008
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Carrier Revenues and Margins by Strategic Division, 2008
 

Figure 2. 
 Scenarios for Utility Model Emergence
 

Figure 3. 
 Key Industry Measures: Retail, Utilities and Telecommunications Industries
 



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