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Rivals like AT&T and WorldCom have repeatedly complained that the interconnection fees make competing for a slice of Mexico's $12 billion telecommunications market a losing battle.

Companies are competing for a slice of the £73bn decommissioning market in the UK, with the clean-up of the sprawling Sellafield site representing at least half this sum.

"With a company in bad times, if you have enough cash to weather it out, and your competition doesn't, at the end of the day there are fewer people competing for a slice of the pie," said Clay Ryder, chief analyst at Zona Research in Redwood City, Calif.

Royal Phnom Penh is one of five domestic carriers competing for a slice of the country's growing tourist trade, a business relying almost exclusively on the draw of centuries-old temples clustered around the northwestern town of Siem Reap, a regional center about 80 miles from the Thai border.

It's likely the study will be greeted with some scepticism though, since it is co-authored and partly funded by Nestlé - one of the main companies competing for a slice of the market for probiotic products - worth more than £300m a year in the UK alone.

They account for 55% of the capital raised in Hong Kong in that period and now make up nearly one-third of listed companies, half the stockmarket's capitalisation and 60% of its turnover.They also help explain the burgeoning operations of the big global investment banks that are competing for a slice of this lucrative market, and their worries that the flow of big mainland IPOs might dry up.

They pointed to a growing number of partnerships between Western Union and banks that might have competed for a slice of the business.

Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade has argued that the broadcaster should be able to compete for a slice of the licence fee because advertising would no longer cut the mustard (a suggestion politely refuted by C4).

So investors are still likely to compete for a slice of funds run by the likes of Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital, two industry leaders.Does all this mean that Mr Andreessen's timing is off?

All of these companies are competing for a piece of the roughly $36 billion market for business intelligence software, according to DataRPM chief executive Sundeep Sanghavi (that's a pretty big pie to slice).

If surgeons are rushing around competing for a bigger slice of a fixed pie in private practice, that is not compatible with improving the NHS.