Case Study: Telus

Any change in the factors that make up the macro-environment can have a direct impact on the Comcast Corporation. These factors can affect the Porter Five Forces that shape their strategy and their competitive advantage over other firms.

Due to continuous innovation in technologies, cost of production has been reduced drastically and has caused the emergence of new devices in the global handset market and competition among companies have been increased heavily for survival. It has forced companies to change their business strategies. Few big companies acquired small companies to increase their market share, few followed a brand extension strategy by launching new products and hence increased their market penetration. For this reason, an integration between Microsoft and Nokia, two market leaders in their own rights, may create new opportunities to challenge the market.

Barb Williams and Rick Thomas, while attending an executive education course at a well-known business school, came across a case which involved calculating the cost of capital for Telus Corporation (Telus). Basic data such as the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Data on Telus’ Common Stock, Market Index, and the Average Annual Returns in North American Capital Markets were provided. In order to calculate Telus’ cost of capital we need to calculate the company’s Cost of Equity, Cost of Debt, and Tax Rate along with their weighted cost and then apply these to the Weighted

The future of the telecommunication industry is an exciting future. No longer can these companies depend on telephone service plans to maintain profit. Each company needs to find other avenues, packages and services that can be sold to existing customers while attracting new customers. The companies

This first work term was done at Telus Corporation (also known as TELUS), one of the three major telecommunications companies operating in Canada. The duration of the work term was spent working in the Enterprise Architecture department as a Technology Architecture Assistant, and working with the Wireless Development team as a temporary Software Tester.

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Introduction Within the telecommunications industry, everything ranging from television to internet services continues to face evolving and transformational changes more often than other industries such as services. It should come to no surprise given the advances in technologies across the globe, that an industry that is heavily technological based should also follow suit. This allows for both old and new organizations to tap in the growth of both the human and technological capital to bring about revolutionary changes in the telecommunications world. For example, the introduction of fiber optics made way for telecommunication conglomerates to offer faster internet services to their consumers.

Verizon Wireless is utilizing many ways to create its current culture. By implementing a mandatory training program for executives, the process of cross-train along with problem solving, and solutions being presented to a board, has set the example for training on all levels (Freifeld, 2012). Verizon has dedicated a plan to choose top performing graduates and enroll them in an internship, which aids in the employment of intelligent and career centered employees who also care about customer service. This training along with employee recruitment meets both the role modeling, training, and coaching process along with the organizational goals and performance criteria. Verizon has developed steps to hire and train at a challenging level.

Data/Broadband Offerings. As the communications industry continues to move toward Internet-based technologies that are capable of blending traditional wireline and wireless services, AT&T plans to offer services that take advantage of these new and more sophisticated technologies. In particular, the company intends to continue to focus on expanding its AT&T U-verse high-speed broadband and video offerings, while developing IP-based services that allow customers to unite their home or business wireline services with their wireless service. In addition, this company’s size and leverage ought to allow it to take advantage of a maturing telecommunications space via increased spectrum, capacity, and data services.

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Historically, Verizon Wireless focused its customer-base direct marketing efforts primarily on speaking to customers during the points in their lifecycle when they were equipment-upgrade-eligible. The purpose of these communications was to renew customer contracts using an equipment-upgrade message and offer. The challenge was that these points in the customer lifecycle coincided with spikes in customer churn.

Audit planning is the important part of audit process conducting at the beginning of the audit process. This process involves the collecting of information about the client and their business, recognize

Telstra Corporation Limited (known as Telstra) is Australia 's biggest and leading telecommunications and media organization operating since 1901, which creates and runs telecommunications systems and markets voice, mobile, web access, pay TV and other entertainment items and administrations. In Australia Telstra provide 16.9 million mobile services, 7.2 million fixed voice services and 3.3 million retail fixed broadband services and that’s why we have an global existence covering 22 countries, including China.

The telecommunications industry is leading to the transformation of national and regional economies globally, creating one of the most powerful platforms of information and knowledge sharing globally. This entire dynamic of how economies benefit from the more efficient use of information fascinates me, as I have seen first-hand how telecommunications technologies are changing lives for the better. The current projections for global telecommunications spending are projected to be $100B US in 2012, rising rapidly to $125B by 2015, a three year increase of 25% (Biancini, 2011). It's going to be critical to understand the underlying technologies of telecommunications to also ensure industry partnerships are technically sound and profitable as well (Cuéllar-Fernández, Fuertes-Callén, Laínez-Gadea, 2011). All of these factors of the telecommunication industry are fascinating to me, and have motivated me to commit myself to studying this area extensively both in formal classes and on my own.

The Vodafone case study has given us a good overall view of the company and shown the companies good and bad points, whilst showing the mobile phone business as a whole and explaining the ups and downs of the industry.