Comparative Study of Marketing Mix of Vodafone and Airtel by Arun Verma

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

India is one country which is developing rapidly at the moment along with China (Lal and Clement, 2005). The political, economic, social, cultural, technological and legal climate in India is extremely suitable for international entrepreneurs since business prospects in a country are heavily dependent on the above mentioned parameters. Since India is the second most heavily populated country in the world, British telecommunication company, Vodafone has enormous business opportunities in India. Mobile phone usage in India is increasing rapidly in recent times (Press Information Bureau: Government of India, 2010). A substantial portion of Indian

The aim of this report is to research into the Vodafone group and their entry into the Indian Market. The research was carried out of Vodafone’s history, their existing market strategy, the internal environment of the company and external

Industry Factors: Indian telecom network is the second largest in the world after China. India has 864.72 Million wireless telephone connections and a tele-density of 73.34% as on December 2012. (Dept. of Telecom, Government of India, 2012-2013)

The telecommunication act bought about a drastic change, ILEC- provided wireline subscriptions started to decline whereas cable-telephone, VoIP and wireless subscriptions started to increase. According to the statistics, more than 40 % of the consumers started to consider mobile as their primary means of communication.

Vodafone is one of the most important players on the European telecommunications market. However, this does not mean that the company has an easy job at retaining its customers and at increasing its market share. The most important competitors of Vodafone are represented by Orange and Cosmote. The regulations in the business field determine these companies to provide similar products and services, at similar prices. Therefore, it is important that Vodafone focuses on its communications strategy in order to strengthen its position on the market.

The telecommunication industry that AT&T essentially created has undergone radical advancements, particularly within the last decade. According to the IBM Institute for Business Value, approximately 15% of the world’s population had access to a telephone in 1999 but by 2009, 70% of the world’s population had mobile phone subscriptions (Nelson & van den Dam, 2010). Given the extraordinary explosion of mobile computing and wireless communications, continued advancements within the global telecommunication industry are certain. A number of trends drive this evolution including the advancement of devices and network access technology, changes

This course provides an overview of the telecommunications industry with focus on areas such as overview of the industry, technologies, policy,

From the time of its invention to 1880, there were 50000 subscribers of the telephone. However, it took nearly a hundred years for the system to improve dramatically. The operators were eliminated because the users could now make their own connection without calling the operators first. By the 1960’s - U.S. Telephones total 80,969,000; world's total reaches 159,200,000; telephone companies were forming everywhere and by 1964, some 2,535 companies were in existence. The more the telephones improve, the more the people wanted more from it. In the twentieth century, the telephone is the main medium to reach just about anyone. It is also the favored medium of communication in the business world. Nowadays, the telephone system can be configured to suit a business' needs. At my job for example, the telephone has multiple functions. One is the paging system to reach someone; it can be used to make conference calls to multiple companies at the same time. With the invention of cellular phones, one can be reached anywhere in the world and be connected to the internet; as long as you have a signal of course.

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

The business case presented focuses on insatiable demand amongst a growing population for a service built on dilapidated, poorly maintained infrastructure, against a backdrop of government deregulation in the telecoms sector. As of 1992, there were a mere 78k telephone lines for the 27m people living in 4.7m households (a population set to double over the coming 24 years), with users suffering success rates of just 25%. Demand was forecast to grow to 500k subscribers by 1996. The recent deregulation of the telecoms sector (via the break-up of TPTC into TPC and TTCL) and the formation of a regulator (TCC) had

It is thought that ¡¥the best defence is the attack¡¦. As certainly opportunities will be given in the sectors of mobile phones and Internet services, BT will meet the challenge to enter. The participation of the UK in European Union may lead to further evolution in the sector of telecommunications within the Community. Moreover, it is expected that in the near future alternative technologies will transform the way telecommunication services were offered till now. For instance the future coming of Web phone may cause a complete change to the market.

Since the introduction of the first mobile phone in 1924, there has been a steady climb in developing and enhancing, the mobile phone and its supporting technologies. The cellular network infrastructures as well as service providers have been hard at work; in making sure they are providing the best service as well as devices. The infrastructure alone

With new players like Reliance Jio entering, the industry is like to see some radical change in market share of its players. Bharti Infratel’s revenue base will depend on the performance of these telecom operators.

The Aural Plus is a shock and water resistant cell phone with high quality speakers that eliminates the need for an additional Bluetooth speaker or headphones. In a culture in which the cell phone has nearly become an additional appendage, offering a product that remains one step ahead of the rest of the competition makes it much easier to establish a name for oneself. The Aural Plus does this with its enhanced features while at the same time appealing to both the youthful, fun loving crowd as well as the conservative socially responsible. With such a wide ranging demographic and potential consumer base, the Aural Plus has significant potential to become a major competitor in the cell phone market.