Telstra's Marketing Strategy

The second service targets the enticement of new customers while also catering to loyal customers. This service would consist of

Telstra is Australia’s largest and most efficient telecommunications company, which provides one of the best-known brands in the country. They offer a full range of services and compete in all areas of telecommunications both domestically and internationally. Telstra’s vision is to enhance its position as the leading full service telecommunications and information Service Company in Australia as well as to expand its presence internationally. (Telstra Website, 2008)

Telus appeared in the late 1990’s by the merger of Alberta-based Telus and BC Telecom in an environment of significant changes for the incumbent carriers who had previously enjoyed a monopolized service offering. Soon after its creation Telus found itself in the early 2000 to be facing major hurdles of maintaining its financing plans. The early 2000 offered an environment of increased competition for telecom companies, saw the crash of the dot-com bubble and offered a weaker business climate as a result of the 9/11 tragedy. Within this environment, the ratings by credit rating companies had a profound influence on how telecom companies would continue to do business.

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

From the presentation of the Facts, Telstra has breached the law. They are not the official telecommunication partners of the official technology partners but they are using the

1.0 IntroductionTelstra Corporation is a telecommunications and information services company. It provides a range of services including fixed line services, Internet access, and business services. Telstra is the market leader in the telecommunication industry in Australia, with one of the most prominent brand names. However, its products and operating services face an increasing threat from competitors. An analysis with recommendations of Telstra marketing is necessary in order to improve its performance.

Telstra have dominated the telecommunications market for over a century by providing integrated services with vast geographical coverage. Telstra’s main areas of expertise are providing telephone, mobile, internet services and its 3G network to households and businesses across Australia with 9.2 million fixed line services and 9.7 million mobile services. Telstra have strived to be number one in their industry and achieve ultimate customer satisfaction (Telstra website 2009).

The telecommunications coverage in rural and regional areas in Australia has monopolistic characteristics. Telstra has a competitive advantage over Optus with 99.3% coverage of the population compared to Optus with a 98.5%, this is equivalent to an estimated 192,000 more potential customers. Although Telstra has this competitive advantage they claim that the revenue received from their rural base stations does not cover the cost of development and maintenance.3.

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.

For a wireless communication company the two things are very important which will help a company to become the supreme leader in the market and those two things are Coverage & Customer service.

Comcast is a large cable and satellite television provider in the United States. The company has been plagued with internal weaknesses and external threats in recent years and is in desperate need of turning around its customer service department as quickly as possible. Aside from customer service, the way the television industry is marketed to is changing, Comcast has to stay on the cutting edge in price, product quality, flexibility of plans, and customer service. Comcast has many different areas of their business that need to be analyzed to see where they can invest time and monetary resources to improve the quality of their product and service to their customers.

The first solution for Telezoo was to re-segment their target market to whether micro-segmentation or macro-segmentation and readjust the cost of their service based on the target market. Telezoo need to re-segment

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.

Customer service is an important factor to increase sales in almost all industries. Broadstripe, a small provider of cable, Internet, and phone services saw it as a solution to increase sales as their company was filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2009. To improve the customer service experience, Tony Lent, Chief Commercial Officer at Broadstripe, launched a 60-day MBG offering

1. Business DriversWoolworth’s supermarkets was established in Australia in 5th December in the year of 1924.Their corebusiness is provide all grocery and daily needed things under one roof like vegetables ,fruits etc. In the last few years business has expanded to the United States of America, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and European countries. But, nowadays they came up with new product called Woolworths Mobile which is deal with Mobile Phone Plans like Vodafone, Optus and Telstra. However they are using Telstra’s network (carrier) because they don’t have their own networks .Already they started this business before few months ago with premium selected store in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.So why are we here? What is the purpose of this project?Increasingly in each city Woolworths Mobile is finding that the staff organizing the training courses (known as Training Coordinators) are becoming overwhelmed with the volume of administrative work involved in responding to enquiries for Mobile Phone and its Plan because the staff of general store doesn’t have knowledge about mobile technology, advertising the Mobile phone plans, process of signup the Mobile phone contract, and invoicing sales representative. These are all currently manual processes completed using