Future analysis, forecasting and planning for telecommunications, energy and public utilities

Within their national borders, public utilities and public enterprises operate in a largely homogeneous environment. To a considerable extent, the same market conditions, national economic factors, and technology are found throughout any one country. It is in comparing the public enterprises of different countries that significant differences among the basic environments of these organizations emerge--differences in the economic structure and organization of the industry, in the role of national government, and even in the analytic techniques used by forecasters.