The mobile phone landscape looks drastically different today than it did three decades ago. In 1983, Motorola accounted for seventy five percent of the mobile phone market. But by 2021, its market share had shrunk to just 2.2%. How did this happen, and how has the mobile industry changed over the last 30 years?   In 1983, Motorola launched one of the world’s first commercially available mobile phones—the DynaTAC 8000X. Motorola went on to launch a few more devices over the next few years and quickly became a dominant player in the emerging industry. In the early days of the market, the company’s only serious competitor was Finnish multinational Nokia.   By the mid-1990s, other competitors like Sony and Siemens started to gain some solid footing, which chipped away

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The mobile phone landscape looks drastically different today than it did three decades ago. In 1983, Motorola accounted for seventy five percent of the mobile phone market. But by 2021, its market share had shrunk to just 2.2%. How did this happen, and how has the mobile industry changed over the last 30 years?

 

In 1983, Motorola launched one of the world’s first commercially available mobile phones—the DynaTAC 8000X. Motorola went on to launch a few more devices over the next few years and quickly became a dominant player in the emerging industry. In the early days of the market, the company’s only serious competitor was Finnish multinational Nokia.

 

By the mid-1990s, other competitors like Sony and Siemens started to gain some solid footing, which chipped away at Motorola’s dominance. In September 1995, the company’s market share was down to 32.1%. By January 1999, Nokia surpassed Motorola as the leading mobile phone manufacturer, accounting for 21.4% of global market share. That put it just slightly ahead of Motorola’s 20.8%.

 

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Describe the market for mobile phones in 1983 and illustrate how equilibrium price and quantity determined in this industry.

Will Motorola make an economic profit in the long run on its mobile phones? Explain

Describe the market  for mobile phones in the mid-1990s. Can economic profit be earned in the long run? Explain.

Explain two ways policymakers respond to the inefficiencies of monopolists 

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