Only when the firm possesses certain heterogeneous core knowledge and competence can it obtain monopoly position in the factor markets and gain super profit that exceeds the average profit.

BSNL already has a monopoly in landline services in most of India, and hopes quickly to gain a stronghold in the mobile market with an aggressive pricing strategy.

There is a trend that the powerful companies are likely to misuse the standardization mechanism to gain technical monopoly statutes in the market place following the rise of influence standard.