Contemporary Development in Business and Management

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 three recommendations for possible action markets of the product in the landline phone services is addressing the issue due to product decline and appeal to consumers. The strategy requires innovation whereas targeting the aging population with minimum of innovation.

In 1995 mobile phone has introduced to Bangladeshi people. The first mobile service provider company was Citycell.

Telecoms Business Unit comprises of fixed line and broadband services (AOL, TalkTalk, Opal) as well as mobile business, which includes virtual networks (MVNO) such as Fresh and others and the German service provision, The Phone House. The common factor for the numerous subsidiaries is the ‘service provision’ in mobile, fixed-line and broadband markets.

Grameen Bank provides various services that benefit not just a group of people but the impoverished people in the whole world, starting from Bangladesh and spreading across to every part of the world where underprivileged people live. Speaking exclusively about the services of Grameen Bank, the organization specializes in providing small loans to impoverished farmers and other small startup entrepreneurs in Bangladesh and beyond without requesting collateral from loan recipients. That is apparently why the bank is popularly called ‘the bank of small business’ and their motto is ‘banking for the Poor’ (Grameen Bank, n.d.). Through its services, many communities have flourished and various startup ventures are

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.

| * Card phones installed in public areas, where were carefully chosen to maximize phone usage * Organized a large multi-media campaign for pay-phone launch with public demos * Retail dukas could sell the cards at 14% margin * Set competitive pricing, 50% lower than most of the other service providers * Trained technicians to provide quality services and recruited professionals to better manage the company * Selected durable equipment and replaced them in 5 years to ensure quality

Mobile phones have become a necessity for life, and without this thin gadget, many people would feel incomplete. We now use mobile phones in our everyday life as a phone, voice recorder, diary, alarm clock, watch and for making and confirming appointments, dealing with clients etc. Mobile phones are for many, fundamental when organising their lives. Mobile phones are not simply an electronic gadget, and it is difficult to define in one way about the usage of mobile phones. With the advances of technology, mobile phones are becoming a way of life. Mobile phones are not used as just communication tools but are also considered as devices which have strong communication networks along with the other functionalities such as audio solutions, FM

Telco is a public listed company, in an Asian Country, which has been in operation for the past 15 years. Telco is the market leader in mobile telecommunication services within the country. It is a highly reputed company and had won a number of awards for its high level of quality. The past financial statements show that company has been highly profitable and has grown rapidly over the past decade. Almost 65% of the countries mobile users

Now Government of Malaysia plans to have a telephony penetration rate of 50% for the whole country and 25% for the rural areas by year 2020 (State of Hawaii Government, 2002). Scrutinizing the background of Malaysian telecommunication sector, competition can be seen as main factor by the telecommunication service provider companies. Companies like Sapura Digital Sdn. Bhd., Celcom and Mobikom Berhad have gone through a market evaluation stating the fact that their companies either should be merged with giant and more competitive companies or to be gone through potential bankruptcies. This reflects a fact as how the market is being penetrated and flooded by the competitors. Only Telekom Malaysia (TM) Sdn. Bhd., with its TM Touch services has managed to maintain its credible presence in the industry. TM has been ranked as one of the leading telecommunication service providers in the entire Asia with significant investments in overseas. Beside TM, three other major companies have been operating in Malaysia namely Celcom, Digi and Maxis. These three service providers usually cover the following segments of the Malaysian telecommunication market traditional telecommunications, IP services, wireless and mobile markets and technologies, broadband markets and technologies. They also provide most sophisticated mobile services with an expanding number of value added services such as Short Message Service (SMS), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Subscription Services (SS),

One of the major advantage for any industry in Bangladesh is lower cost of land in urban areas. This helps all the major telecommunication firms in our country to set up offices inside the main city.

The booming revolution in Information Technology sector has pushed the India’s telecom market significantly. India has shown tremendous growth in past few years in terms of mobile services. Mobile phones are a vast improvement over the telecommunications technology of the past, and now become an important asset in today’s busy life. Mobile phones have become the necessity in today’s competitive environment to meet the emerging global economy.

From the time mobile phones were introduced in the country in 1997, until the end of 2002, the market was dominated by just one technology, namely, GSM. In December 2002, Reliance Communications (then known as Reliance Infocomm) launched CDMA services across 17 circles on a countrywide basis. CDMA has since been growing faster than GSM; although on a lower base.

A vibrant new World of unlimited opportunities, where "Air' symbolized a word of unlimited freedom to think …………. to dream & to achieve, where "Tel' connotes new innovative yet simple ways to communicate spontaneously, not just through words but through ideas, emotions and feelings. leadership. Airtel comes to you from Bharti Cellular Limited - a part of the biggest private integrated telecom conglomerate, Bharti Enterprises. Bharti Enterprises has been at the forefront of technology and has revolutionized telecommunications with its world-class products and services. Established in 1976, Bharti has been a pioneering force in the telecom sector with many firsts and innovations to its credit. Bharti has many joint ventures with world leaders like Singtel (Singapore Telecom); War burg Pincus, USA; Telia, Sweden; Asian infrastructure find, Mauritius; International Finance Corporation, USA and New York Life International, USA. Bharti provides a range of telecom services, which include Cellular, cordless Basic, phones. Internet Apart and from recently being introduced largest National Long of Distance. Bharti also manufactures and exports telephone terminals and the manufacturer telephone instruments in India, it is also the first company to export its products to the USA. Bharti is the leading cellular service provider, with a footprint in 15 states covering all four

1.2 Todays’ modern world witnesses the redefined communication by the courtesy of improved technologies and availability of latest gadgets. As a result, majority of todays’ population has access to mobile phones and thus the world has become a global village. By virtue of the latest developments in the telecommunication field specifically, today any particular individual can be contacted with the mobile phone at the ease