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- The Bargaining Power of Suppliers for Blackberry has increased, due to Blackberry’s eroding market share. Firms who dominate the mobile communications industry, such as Apple and Samsung, have relatively higher bargaining power, because their larger product orders account for more of the suppliers business.

Bargaining Power of Suppliers: The bargaining power of suppliers in the industry is low. There are numerous suppliers in this industry, and the large department stores have the ability to negotiate for the lowest prices. In addition, the switching costs are low, as the products are not highly differentiated. There are a large volume of purchases in the industry, allowing the department stores to exert even more power over the suppliers.

Bargaining power of buyers is medium-high because of the low switching costs and wider spectrum of similar products selling at competitive prices due to the influence of developing countries

Bargaining power of supplier: High levels of competition among suppliers act to reduce prices to producers. This is a positive for Ford Motor Company. Standardization of parts allowed Ford to reduce dependency on fixed supplier/vendor which goes into producer’s favor.

There are many network equipment suppliers, which are suffered from the down telecom market. Having mature technologies also commoditize the products. As such, the bargaining power of suppliers has been weak.

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Bargaining power of buyers: Businesses and individuals all fall under the customer's category for this industry. Big customers do get volume discounts and can negotiate prices with sales representatives. However smaller customers have to take what is being offered to them. The only say they have is that they can switch between the players, but due to intense competition, the prices offered are generally the same across the service band.

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The market greatly depends on how powerful buyers are in terms of their willingness to pay certain prices. The following determines the bargaining power of buyers

Mobile phones have become a necessity for life, and without this thin gadget, many people would feel incomplete. We now use mobile phones in our everyday life as a phone, voice recorder, diary, alarm clock, watch and for making and confirming appointments, dealing with clients etc. Mobile phones are for many, fundamental when organising their lives. Mobile phones are not simply an electronic gadget, and it is difficult to define in one way about the usage of mobile phones. With the advances of technology, mobile phones are becoming a way of life. Mobile phones are not used as just communication tools but are also considered as devices which have strong communication networks along with the other functionalities such as audio solutions, FM

MediaTek is one of the only companies who are apply to supply chipsets in the Chinese 2G mobile phone Market, so in terms of this bargaining power of buyers is relatively low because consumers don’t have various other suppliers they can purchase from. On the other hand bargaining power of buyers is high to medium in a sense that consumers can easily switch from the low-end product which is what MediaTek offers to the high-end 3G mobile phone product.

Buyers in telecom industry can be classified in two categories depending on the type of consumers, Individual and Enterprise Customers. Enterprise customers are organizations like banks, IT companies. There are multiple players in the telecom industry like Airtel with variable product offerings and prices which gives buyers many options to select operators and thus increase the bargaining leverage.

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The industry has grown very rapidly in the last decade due to intense competition and was exposed to immense technological advancement possibilities as well. Considering the growth rate and current market state; the telecommunications of Bangladesh has the following implication of Porter’s diamond model, which is further explained below in details: