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Reliance Jio's Second-Mover Advantage
Reliance Jio's Second-Mover Advantage
The decision of Airtel to enter the 4G market first, beating new entrant Reliance Jio by a few months is analysed here. In a game where capacity is the critical decision variable, the first mover has an advantage. But the telecom war is not a capacity game but a price game, where there is a second-mover advantage. Has Airtel made a mistake? The variable of brand is introduced to argue that Reliance's reputation as a firm that practices rock bottom pricing made the order of play irrelevant from a pricing point of view, but made early entry advantageous in establishing a brand presence.42
It is 2015, 15 years since Reliance Communications disrupted the telecom market with ‘monsoon hungama’, ...
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