Executive summary: We are in the era of entertainment through mobile handsets. Downloading a ring tone, watching your favourite movies of tracking cricket score, sending messages, doing internet and chating the list of activity that you can do using your cell phone is endless. To supplement stagnant voice revenues cellular operator are now turning to VAS to boost revenues in both data and value added voice service. Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have deep rooted presence in the Indian telecom sector through their wide product offerings and excellent distribution networks. The real aim of this project is to study the effectiveness and responses towards marketing strategies adopted by Airtel, Vodafone and Idea. But many sub objectives are …show more content…
TRAI has endeavoured to encourage greater corporation in the telecom sector together with better quality and affordable prices. OPPORTUNITIES India is the fourth largest telecom market in Asia after china, japan and South Korea. The Indian telecom network is the seventh largest in the world and the second largest among emerging economies. The industry has witnessed an explosive growth in recent years. “Teledensity has more than doubled from 2.3% in 1999 to 4.8% in 2002 and to 21.85% in 2007.” However, the world average is almost 7.5 times and the Asian average 4.5 times the Indian average. The Indian telecom market size of over US $ 8 billion is expected to increase three fold by 2012. The expansion of the telecom industry in India has been fuelled by massive growth in mobile phone users, which has reached a level of ten million users in December 2002, and increase of nearly 100% in 2002. This exponential growth of mobile telephony can be attributed to the introduction of digital cellular technology and decrease in tariffs due to competitive pressures. For the first time in India, the growth of cellular subscriber base has exceeded the fixed line subscriber base. However, cellular penetration is still 1% as compared to world average of around 16%. However, the world average is almost 4 times the Indian average penetration rate. With the introduction of Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) technology,
Cellular communications is such a large aspect of today’s industries, and with the number of consumers already with cell phones drastically increasing all the time, it is good to think about the future, and maybe making the customers you already have, happy and content. There are only so many “new” customers you can gain in today’s market. 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 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
As such, The particular consideration in the advertising plus the imagination in the general public include grabbed by it. During the last few years,Cell phone devices have received dramatical increase as well as there are at present close to a pair of billion dollars usersworld-wide. Indeed, in many formulated countries, cellular phones are getting to be an essential company deviceas well as a part of everyday life, as well as in many creating countries, cellular phones tend to be easily supplantingantiquated wireline
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 telecommunications industry has steadily rebound since 2009; this is because of the growth of not only the mobile and broadband structures, but also the increase of the video market. In Figure 1, the projected outcome is indicates a steady increase in the new 4G mobile broadband networks which will fuel continued wireless growth. “Business customers in particular will continue to use this technology to expand their capabilities beyond the desktop computer. Emerging markets such as China, India and Latin America are expected to see strong growth,” (Verizon, 2011).
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
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
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
Marketing plays the most important role for the success of a business. In this chapter, the business’ marketing objectives are laid out together with the plans or actions that will be needed to achieve these objectives. Furthermore, this chapter includes the profile of the respondents which aided the researchers to create this part of the feasibility study.
The market covered in the telecom industry are mobile phone, fixed line, broadband, internet etc. by the above figure we can say that the growth rate of telecom industry is positive 33 % from 2006- 2013. And future it will be increase more because it’s now leading industry in the world.
Bharti must focus on retaining their market share in order to be successful in the Indian mobile phone market. Doing so would require innovation, improvement, and implementation of these ideas and improvements. While much more reluctant to pay a premium price, as of 2003 the Indian market is one that is quite competitive. Bharti possesses the largest economy share when compared to its competitors. Bharti owns 25% of the wireless market with its next closest competitor being Relianace at 19.5%. So while growth is encouraged, it is essential to Bharti that they maintain their current market share. In order to do this, Bharti must study
In this part, related literatures about marketing strategy concepts, methodology, and theory, are reviewed. These concepts, theory and methodology are the foundations of research design of this work.
Date: Program: Course Authors Teacher Title Strategic question Purpose 2008-05-26 International Marketing Master Thesis International Marketing (EF0705) Parunya Vanasakul Ploychompoo Wankeao Supisra Arayaphong (830422) (850418) (831102) Tobias Eltebrandt The battle of DTAC in Thailand’s mobile phone operator market How can DTAC gain higher market share by focusing on customers in Bangkok? The purpose of this research is to investigate, analyze current competition between DTAC and other competitors with customer insight in order to find out the possibility for DTAC to gain more market share in Thai telecommunication market by focusing on customers in Bangkok area. Researchers apply ‘Business Strategy theory and Marketing mix for
Supply- The telecommunications industry is a vast one with a large number of private players who are constantly bringing down the cost to consumers thereby making services more affordable and helping improve life in general and business in particular. On the Indian business scene are successful government owned institutions like MTNL and BSNL on the one hand, and even more successful and aggressive players like the Tata’s and Reliance on the other. Competition has just begun and is heating up every day with either lowering of tariffs or introduction of newer and improved services to keep a larger share of the market. If airtel will be able to provide better services for low cost then it will be able to