...we want to be the best on basic services like voice and 2G data services. That is why we are not concentrating on value-added services and post-paid services. Third, we want to be the lowest on costs. We are small and we need to compensate for some of the scaled advantages enjoyed by our rivals, but we have an advantage because we don't have legacy issues. Has the dynamic pricing model been successful in the circles you are present? Has it increased calling? The plan is a little bit complicated to communicate. So it takes a little bit of time for the users to understand it. But now the concept has started to pick up. The plan does two things: it drives users to the Uninor network and it also enables us to utilise our network optimally. It's also a way for us to control our costs. But, it is still early days to measure the success. What next from Uninor's camp on the pricing front? There are several things lined up. Right now we are trying to hold the dynamic pricing position. We will soon come out with other pricing and segmentation solutions. The focus will be on generating usage, based on cost. There is price sensitivity in the market. If we play it correctly, balancing the average revenue per user and usage, it will be a success. Then we plan to bring in segmented solutions for different segments of population such as the youth, housewives or professionals. Uninor is operational in 13 circles. But, it has not got any start-up spectrum in Delhi and allocation of additional...
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...----------------------- HKUST ACCT 101- L18 GROUP 5 2005-2006 FALL SEMESTER Financial Ratio Analysis Content Introduction………………………………………p.3 Overview of AT&T………………………………p.4 Overview of China Mobile (HK) Ltd…………….p.5 Overview of Hutchison…………………………..p.6 Overview of New World Mobility……………….p.7 Overview of SmarTone…………………………..p.8 Overview of Sunday……………………………...p.9 Overview of Verizon…………………………….p.10 Financial Ratio Analysis…………………..…p.11-19 Conclusion…………………………………...p.20-22 INTRODUCTION In this project, we aim to find out the most outstanding telecommunications company for investors to invest on by using financial ration analysis. The seven firms under investigation in this project are AT&T (US), China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd., New World Mobile Ltd., SmarTone-Vodafone, Sunday Communications Ltd., Verizon Communication (US). We are going to begin our analysis by a series of overviews on each firm and related processed data. It is then followed by a clear analysis on the financial ratio of each firm and finally a well-supported conclusion will be provided to end up this project. This project is carried out under certain assumptions. It is presumed that there are only 7 firms in the telecommunication market for our investor to make accurate calculation and recommendation. There is also an elimination of all other resources except the financial records, which...
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...iPad Prospects After the Kindle Fire: 65% Market Share and Most of the Profits par4par“But, in comparison with the iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 33 percent smaller display, no cameras, no 3G wireless, less memory and only two-finger multi-touc [...] 2 comments, 1 called-out + Comment now par4par “But, in comparison with the iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 33 percent smaller display, no cameras, no 3G wireless, less memory and only two-finger multi-touc [...] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduces the Kindle Fire (Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Jeff Bezos unveiled the $199 Kindle Fire this morning with great fanfare, but a closer look should disappoint those looking for an iPad killer. The Kindle Fire is poised to nibble at Apple’s market share. But this low-cost and under-powered tablet is more likely to suffocate its Android-based brethren than the iPad and actually should cement Apple’s dominance of the general-purpose tablet market. On the plus side, the Kindle Fire has a custom Amazon user interface that supports tight integration with Amazon’s content and media apps. It also includes one month’s free subscription to Amazon Prime (a $6.58 value!), which includes free 2-day shipping and some free streaming video access. In short, at $199, the Kindle Fire is an attractive Amazon shopping and content consumption device. But, in comparison with the iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 33 percent smaller display, no cameras, no 3G wireless, less memory and only two-finger...
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...John Weatherwax Week 7 En 1320 Research paper New technology break troughs, Research question, less than 30 years ago we had no cell phones If we can talk on a cell phone that is a watch today and where will we be in 30 more years? Just by what I have seen and heard from various producers of cell phones I do believe that the cell phone tech is going to be in the field of a wearable devices the new (in the last few years ) watches are just the start. In the 50’s Dick Tracy had a watch that the new watches mimic so what is next will it implants or projectable it is hard to tell but in my thoughts it will be in the realm of a wearable and possibly a wearable projection device. Articale #1 Cast your mind back to late 2008, when the first Android-powered handset saw the light of day. Obama won his first Presidential election, Apple launched its App Store (the iPhone had appeared the year before), Google announced its own Chrome browser and we got our first look at the company's new mobile OS on the T-Mobile G1. The Android of 2013 is a world away from that 2008 version, where the Android Market was in its infancy, there were no native video playback capabilities and the G1 had no multi-touch support. But Google is going to have to keep innovating and improving its mobile OS to keep the lion's share of the smartphone market. We've taken a peek into the future to consider what Android might look like in the year 2020. With new Android monikers now appearing about once...
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...ANNEXURE Dear respondent, I am Balbir kaur student of final semester MBA, School of management studies, Punjabi university,patiala .I am doing a survey on Mobile banking in different banks, so I would be grateful if you could spend some of your time in filling up this Questionnaire. Name______________________________ 1. Age: a)18-20 b)21-25 c) 26-30 d)31-40 e)41-50 f)>50 2. Monthly Income a)5,000-10,000 b)10,001-15000 c) 15,001-20,000 d) 20,001-25,000 e)>25,000 3. Which are the banks you are dealing with? a) ICICI Bank b)HDFC Bank c) Bank d) Axis bank e)IDBI Bank f) Others 4. Since how long are you holding a Account in the following banks Years | ICICI | HDFC | HSBC | Axis bank | IDBI | Others | a)6m-1yr | | | | | | | b)1yr-2yr | | | | | | | c)2yr-5yr | | | | | | | d)> 5yr | | | | | | | 5.In last 6 months which channels did you mostly used for your every daily transaction? Channels | ICICI | HDFC | HSBC | Axis bank | IDBI | Others | a) Branch transaction | | | | | | | b) ATM | | | | | | | c) Tele-banking | | | | | | | d) Online banking | | | | | | | e) Mobile banking | | | | | | | 6. In which of the following banks are you aware of Mobile Banking services? Banks | YES | NO | ICICI Bank | | | HDFC Bank | | | HSBC Bank | | | Axis bank | | | IDBI Bank...
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...Importance of cell phones for sales representatives Name 1 Name 2 Name 3 Name 4 University of North Alabama Executive Summary The nexus one and the android operating system make it a great phone to have. The only downfalls are the short battery life and the service provider it is under. The phone is great otherwise because of its internet capabilities and just being an all around great smartphone. Its screen resolution is really good for a touchscreen and it already comes with a four gigabyte memory. All around this phone has everything that someone needs to stay in the technological era. Blackberry phone is one of the most popular phone in United States, it one of the most useable phone in the business world. The blackberry phone is made for business purposes but it has become very popular in commercial purpose. Today blackberry holds a very high reputation in mobile market. Blackberry has very unique features like being able to go on internet and check your e-mails, download music etc. It has sprint blackberry very good service nationwide. Thus sprint blackberry phone can be very useful phone for the company. The Droid has many useful features to offer its users. The Droid offers voice command capabilities, which allows its users to navigate through traffic while locating directs, read important e-mails and even place phone calls. This smart phone has two different types of keyboards, which is beneficial to those consumers who have difficulty using...
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...Nokia’s Net Cash went down 24% in one year. From page 5 of the earnings Release: “Year-on-year, net cash and other liquid assets decreased. ‘The company’s prospects in both phone categories don’t look stellar. And bad things happen to cash when the market loses confidence in a company’s future: vendors want to be paid more quickly, customers become more hesitant, all precipitating a crisis’( Nokia: Three Big Problems, 2012) 2 System defects Nokia isn’t fast enough on its software development. ‘Symbian’s architecture is complicated and weird, and its attempts at running a touchscreen horrendously lousy.’ (Nokia’s problem, 2010) That is true that when all of the same industry chooses to give up the old-fashioned system of Symbian and start running Android, Nokia is still running the Symbian system.When he realized that the system problems have seriously affected its development, Nokia finally choose a replacement system---Windows phone 7, but there is strong objection of Windows Phone 7. 3 Poor design of smart phone (low performance) Nokia realized that smart phone is becoming trend of mobile industry and started to produce smart phone. However is not very successful because of its low performance of smart phone. ‘If Microsoft is building its own smartphone, Nokia will race RIM to the deadpool’(Wilhelm, A, 2012) ‘It’s fact that Nokia has failed to build hardware that ignited the Windows Phone platform; the mobile project remains mired in single digits. Therefore, the partner...
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...It's not easy finding stocks that are on the cutting edge of their industry, publicly traded, and poised for more growth. Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR ) is a quiet tech company that's leading the machine-to-machine communication market, also called the Internet of Things, and its upside can't be overlooked. Although Sierra has been on Wall Street since 2000, its business has shifted since then, with some of its technology now powering innovations in Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA ) Model S. And as the company's focus has shifted over the years, so has its potential. So, Sierra does what exactly? Let's keep this simple. If the Internet of Things, or IoT, is the connection of everyday objects to the Internet, then Sierra Wireless is the company that makes that connection possible. IoT will allow cars to communicate with each other, vending machines to tell companies when they need to be refilled, and energy systems to manage power usage on their own. Sierra's wireless modules and cloud management services both allow formerly non-connected devices to connect to the Internet and be easily controlled. Tesla's Model S is a perfect example of a connected car, in which Sierra provides the 3G-connection module that allows the car's infotainment system to tap into AT&T's wireless network. Tesla can then access data about the car's systems and make upgrades and adjustments based on feedback from the vehicle. Tesla is clearly a leader in automobile connectivity, but it's not the only company...
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...LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY Form/LPUO/AP-3 (The format to be used for Planning the academic activities other than Lecturers/Tutorial/Practical like Assignments, Case study, Presentation, Quiz, Projects, Class tests, industrial visits, teaching practice, court visits etc. to be undertaken as a part of the continuous assessment for the Course) (TERM PAPER) School: LSB Department: Management Name of the faculty Member: Rajbir Singh Sethi Course No.: MGT 511 Course Title: Business Environment Class : BBA Section 1813 Batch 2010 Max. Marks :25 Date of Allotment :31/1/2011 Date of Submission:18/4/2011 . |Roll No. |Objectives of Academic Activity |Topic |Model* | |R1813 A01 |To enable students develop the |Disinvestment of PSU's |Analytical | | |Analytical skills by going through | | | | |the various practices going on in | |5 Marks-Viva | | |the field of Business & its | | ...
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...Match the Skill Sets as per Telecom Sector Expectations for Telecom Sector Skill Council (Proposed) Reshaping the Skill Sets to match Telecom Sector Expectations(Proposed) Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 Key Objective of SIP 3 BODY 5 a) Introduction 5 b) Methodology 6 c) Results and Discussions 7 d) Conclusion and Recommendations 7 e) Limitations 7 Annexure 7 a) References 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Key Objective of SIP My study aims to conduct the knowledge and skill gap analysis that are present in telecom sector. I will have to make qualitative analysis of these various job roles once they are identified. The qualitative assessment will be done by obtaining information from industry professionals of the requirements of certain job role, difficulties in recruitment of certain job role, turnover ratio of employees of certain job role etc. Thus by gathering all the relevant information an assessment will lead us to the skill gap that have been created in industry. A highly skilled workforce works more efficiently and effectively. Those skills, however, need to match with the changing needs of business. A skilled work force drives innovation, which in turns drives the need for other skills. The Skills Gap Analysis helps us to understand the mismatch between the skills that exist in a sector and those being demanded by industry (Companies). The Skills Gap Analysis provides primary researched data aimed to understand the existing workforce at...
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...watch does. The smart watch looks like a little smartphone that's been melted around a wristband. It has a huge, curved screen, chromed edges, and even has a little home button below the display. Rado is not a smart watch that will be too big at the wrist, and the watch is compatible to any smartphone, but with less function like not compatible with BBM messages if not connect to the actual blackberry phone, like blackberry passport, Z30, Q10, Z10.the watch is water resistant, which means the users can get the watch wet, or been beaten by rain. The watch has its own speaker and microphone. It vibrates when you get messages or an alarm goes off. It's studded with sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope and compass, optical heart rate, ambient light for screen brightness, UV and barometer. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1 and 3G cellular. It's got 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM and a dual-core processor. And it weighs 66 grams (2.3 ounces). The Rado watch has a 2-inch 480x360-pixel AMOLED display, the product carry a bigger screen and larger pixel count. Reject and mute calls, predefined texts, take call and use headset. User can read texts, email and calendar reminders on display social networking services: Facebook, Twitter (CNET, 2014). ------------------------------------------------- Product Rationale ------------------------------------------------- This product was selected because to better and make it for...
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...THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LVII, NO. 5 • OCTOBER 2002 Information Production and Capital Allocation: Decentralized versus Hierarchical Firms JEREMY C. STEIN* ABSTRACT This paper asks how well different organizational structures perform in terms of generating information about investment projects and allocating capital to these projects. A decentralized approach—with small, single-manager firms—is most likely to be attractive when information about projects is “soft” and cannot be credibly transmitted. In contrast, large hierarchies perform better when information can be costlessly “hardened” and passed along inside the firm. The model can be used to think about the consequences of consolidation in the banking industry, particularly the documented tendency for mergers to lead to declines in small-business lending. IN THIS PAPER, I TAKE UP the following question: How does organization design inf luence the process by which capital is allocated to competing investment projects? I contrast two basic organizational forms. The first is “decentralization,” in which small, single-manager firms choose between relatively few projects. The second is “hierarchy,” in which large firms with multiple layers of management evaluate many projects. The goal is to understand what projectlevel characteristics lead either decentralization or hierarchy to be the preferred design. This question can be given a concrete motivation. Over the last several years, there has been enormous consolidation...
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...Chapter 01 Executive Summery This report looks in to the three products that have being selected .They're Coca Cola, pizza, Sony Ericsson. With aid of the information I've gathered, I have evaluated each product and analyzed their product levels and given reasons why I placed the characteristic of each product in that specific level, and explained how a marketer can use these to make product awareness. Then, I've placed the products in the tangibility continuum and I have the reasoned out why I placed each product in the tangibility continuum. The chosen service product is further analyzed and given methods of how to improve the tangibility of it. Chapter 02 Product levels Introduction of 5 product levels In the 1960's, the economist Philip Kotler changed the perception of marketing. He described what marketing is rather than what marketers do, thereby changing marketing from a departmental specialization into a corporate wide doctrine. For Kotler, marketing was a 'social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others'. For him, a product is more than physical. A product is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, or use, or something that can satisfy a need or want. Therefore, a product can be a physical good, a service, a retail store, a person, an organization, a place or even an idea. Products are the means to an end wherein the end is the satisfaction...
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...Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Company Background 3. Vision & Mission 4. Micro & Macro – product related 5. KSF 6. SWOT 7. Strategic Thrust 8. Strategic options 9. Recommend Strategy – medium term 10. Strategic Marketing Mix – 4ps – Action Plan (Box) 11. Managing and developing strategic direction e.g. performance measures, control etc. 12. References Executive Summary Company Background Apple Inc. is an American corporation that designs and manufactures computer hardware, software and other consumer electronics. The company is best known for their Macintosh personal computer line, Mac OS X, extremely loyal user-base, iTunes media application and the iPod personal music player. The company headquarters is in Cupertino, California, CEO and co-founder is Steve Jobs and the company boasts 284 retail locations spanning 10 different countries. Apple was established on April 1st, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. Steve Jobs was said to own 45% of the company, Steve Wozniak with 45% and Wayne with the remaining 10%. While Jobs and Wozniak were young with little to no assets, Ronald Wayne was older with personal assets and was scared to put these at risk. This resulted in Wayne selling his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak for a reported 800$. Today Wayne’s share of the company would be worth over 3 billion dollars. Apple has developed a unique reputation in the consumer electronics...
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...TELECOM INDUSTRY Telecommunication is the transmission of messages over significant distances for the purpose of communication. In the modern age of electricity, telecommunications has involved the use of electric means such as the telegraph and telephone, the use of microwave communications and the use of fiber optics. Telecommunication has proved to be a vibrant industry across the world with a high growth rate during the past few years. The on-going process of deregulation, privatization, and market liberalization has caused basic changes in the market structure of telecommunications from monopoly to that of a competitive one. These developments have resulted in the establishment of regulators in most countries. The regulators are faced with the challenge of developing a competitive environment in the industry; providing a level-playing field to incumbents and to new entrants in the sector. Telecom industry of Pakistan World has become a global village and this is due to prompt, easy and accessible communication. Telecom segment has changed the shape of communication everywhere and this is a hot issue in Pakistan now a days. Telecom sector has emerged as a fast growing industry during past few years and now Pakistan is promising as one of the most progressive country where the number of mobile phone subscribers has reached 40 million. For the reason different companies are being attracted to invest heavily in this division. Due to the enormous competition among different...
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