Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B) Case Solution
This is just an excerpt. This case is about STRATEGY & EXECUTION
PUBLICATION DATE: October 18, 2016
The case matches "Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (A)," HBS case number 417-017, which resolves reforms to guidelines in Israel's telecommunications market carried out and started under the management of Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon in 2009-2010. The case highlights the difficulties dealt with by a political leader trying to set up legal and regulative reforms in the face of unpredictability and protection from an incumbent oligopoly. When Kahlon got in workplace, 3 cellular business, Pelephone, Cellcom, and Partner (the Big Three), controlled the marketplace. Versus Big Three opposition, Kahlon should choose whether to continue pressing modifications to present brand-new rivals in the market, get rid of agreement termination charges, and minimize the payment of inter-connection charges in between cellular service providers, which advantaged incumbent business and increased customer costs. Kahlon used an unique political design that won him support from profession civil servants within the ministry of interactions and ministry of financing, from journalism, and from the general public. This (B) case explains the effective application of the reforms, which resulted in the entry of brand-new rivals into the market, a sharp decrease in customer costs, and layoffs and decreasing efficiency at the Big Three.