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Assignment: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives
1. Use Evaluate a company’s recent (with in the last year) actions dealing with risk and
uncertainty.
India is a developing country with second largest consumer market in the world. There are lot of
possibility to expand the business for any organization in India. As USA, India have multiple
player in the wireless market. In the three-headed slugfest between Bharti Airtel Ltd, Reliance
Jio Infocomm Ltd and the Vodafone-Idea combine, each entity has already spent somewhere
between 2 trillion and 3 trillion in gross capital investments. But the sharp rise in investments, ₹ ₹
especially since the entry of Reliance Jio, has also led to a shrinking of the market size. As the
chart above shows, industry revenues have fallen by about a third since Reliance Jio’s entry. And
this is before the new entrant’s latest salvo that involved a sharp cut in post-paid tariffs and
international calling rates. (Telecom-firms-may-well-lose-by-winning, 2018)
After Jio launch its services in the market in 2017, all the other players observing high risk in the
market. Even Jio itself took a big risk by lowering the price plan for wireless services. They
started a new race in the telecomm market where existing players are collaborating with each
other like Vodafone-Idea merger. Prior to 2017 telecomm companies were in the profit and
customer were paying high service fees for wireless services, but Jio changed everything since
it’s launched. On the launch they lowered the price for the internet packages which forced other
companies to lower their plan’s price to be sustain in the market.
"India's digital services market is continuing its exponential growth trajectory with Jio expanding
its coverage and further deepening in existing areas to achieve 99 per cent population coverage
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