Charging Regulations for Cellular Phone Companies in the Philippines

Besides, there are always many new entrants enter the market with the flow of labor and capital (Laudon, 2014, pp. 124). Although the requirements for the entry to the mobile market is relative higher than others, the number of new entrants are considerable while customers are more selective. As a result, those companies like the T-Mobile in this case that are lack of competitive advantages will be omitted by customers. As for the substitute, the development of entertainment tools decrease the desire of the mobile phone although there is little instrument can replace the mobile phone

Trends in the market include the growing number of people within the 15-29 age range. Also, phones are being used for much more than just calling, other functions like texting and music playing capabilities have dominated much of a user’s data usage. As for market characteristics, the mobile industry has reached almost 50% penetration with about 130 million subscribers, and reaching its maturity. The cost structure has been very confusing for consumers, with hidden fees, overcharges, and lacks to reward users who do not use their plans to the max. And finally, channels include all service provider stores and retail consumer stores, for example, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy.

The generation of talking face-to-face is slowly fading away, and the technology era is going to keep on growing. One of the most widely used technology services known today is the cellular phone industry. According to the Pew Research Center’s website, 90% of American adults own a cell phone. Of that 90%, the smartphone ownership is at 64% (2013). Verizon Wireless, along with the other major carriers, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T, have taken this data and comprised a growing industry where competition arises from all angles. These companies have battled one another on pricing, plans, and customer service for many years in order to stay on top. Unfortunately, these are major factors in whether or not a customer will choose the particular company over another.

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

The unit of analysis was the individual mobile phone service subscriber. Data were analyzed in two major stages, that is, through descriptive statistics and specific tests of hypothesis. Cross tabulation was used to analyze demographic variability of the respondents. Descriptive statistics including measures of central tendencies, measures of dispersion, frequencies and percentages were calculated to examine the respondents’ characteristics. These statistics showed the basic characteristics of research variables. The second stage of analysis focused on testing specific hypotheses of this study. To analyze qualitative data, content analysis was used following the suggestion by SPSS BOSS (2015). As noted by

In basic terms, a market structure regarded monopolistic is deemed to have some elements or components of both competition and monopoly. In such a market structure, there exists a large number of entities offering for sale goods that in addition to being substitutes also happen to be differentiated significantly. In this text, I highlight the mobile phone market monopolistic competition. Further, I discuss how such a market would be impacted by both an increase in the price of an input regarded important and a decrease in the demand of mobile phones.

This paper will discuss how the American Telecom industry would have been impacted if AT&T and T-Mobile would have gone through with their merger. The Telecom is working every day to make itself better and with the increase in the uses of mobile-users, companies are doing their best to provide the best services for their customers. There are a lot of disadvantages of the growing number of customers though and that was the case when AT&T proposed to merge with T-Mobile.

The U.S. cell phone industry quietly launched in 1983 as an exclusive product targeting affluent professionals with $3,995 of disposable income to spend on a cell phone (Wolpin, 2014). While sales exceeded the industry’s initial projections due to an unanticipated ‘cool factor’ associated with having a cell phone, sales were pedestrian due to a limited number of cell phone providers selling the service in major metropolitan areas. Therefore, the industry slowly grew to 340,000 subscribers by 1985 (CTIA, 2016). In 1992, with the advent of 2 year service contracts, cell phone service providers began selling cell phones for a penny to accelerate adoption of the technology. Subsequently, by the end of 1995, the number of cell phone subscribers

     In today’s telecommunication market there is a lot of competition by industry giants such as Sprint,

The use of cellular phone has skyrocketed since low-price phones and services plans became widely available to the general public in the recent years. As cellular phone is getting more and more

In this following report I will discuss the phone industry and analysed it in great detail. I will analysis the market structure and try and understand why the mobile industry falls to heavily oligopoly structure. I will highlight all the structures, however I will discuss in detail how, for example Vodafone can be incorporated in the porter’s five forces method to show how the mobile industry has devolved over the years and to understand if consumers are driven by the actual technology of the phone but if it driven more by style.

Oligopolistic Markets are less common, but still prevail in the modern economy. An Oligopolistic business is one with few competitors, basing its revenue off of “outsmarting” its opponents by analyzing their decisions and predicting the outcome. Having an analysis of an opponent provides the basis for Oligopoly, as income is based on providing a product that has more features than another product, released to the public around the same time. The Cellular industry provides a pristine example of the Oligopolistic Market.

The main objective of this research is to assess the different promotional strategies of SMART and Globe Telecom Networks in the Philippines. The reasons that pushed the researchers to write about this topic is because one of the most widely used technologies today involve the use of networking, and the main providers of such networking use different promotional strategies to beat the competition. The researchers will provide adequate information about the processes and procedures of the networking companies and also the different perceptions of the respondents the researchers are going to interview.

This Market Essay is based on the cellular service provider market. The current United States cell phone market is made up of four major providers: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and TMobile. This market is a perfect example of an Oligopoly, which outlines a small number of sellers in a particular market where serious price competition doesn’t happen. This allows the small number of sellers to collaborate to keep prices high for the consumer. I chose this topic because it is a clear example of how an oligopoly functions in today’s economy, and the impact it has on hundreds of millions of consumers. Cell phones have become one of the most relevant, significant pieces of technology in today’s society. Not only have we become increasingly dependent on these high-tech pieces of hardware in our individual daily lives, but these can also be considered a matter of national defense in which our very safety and well-being potentially be compromised. To own a cellular phone is not enough. The phone has little use to the consumer unless it is attached to consumer provider plan. These carriers do not manufacture the cell phones directly. The providers place their software in the phones that they obtain through the manufacturer suppliers. The cellular contract provided by your carrier activates the phone to towers they have supplied which allows the consumer to then use the device in a typical manner.

National Telecom Policy defined certain objectives, including availability of telephone, FDI and manufacturing of telecom equipment