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Another specialist area is mobile telecoms operator ( carrier ) business where billion-dollar investments in networks are needed but marketshares are won and lost on issues from segmentation to handset subsidies.

A specialist simulation was developed by Nokia called Equilibrium / Arbitrage to have over a two day period five teams of top management of one operator / carrier play a " wargame " against each other, under extremely realistic conditions, with one operator an incumbent fixed and mobile network operator, another a new entrant mobile operator, a third a fixed-line / internet operator etc.

Each team is measured by outperforming their rivals by market expectations of that type of player.

Thus each player has drastically different goals, but within the simulation, any one team can win.

Also to ensure maximum intensity, only one team can win.

Telecoms senior executives who have taken the Equilibrium / Arbitrage simulation say it is the most intense, and most useful training they have ever experienced.

It is typical of business use of simulators, in very senior management training / retraining.