Chapter-1 INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction 17 May marks the anniversary of the signature of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union. Since 1973, the occasion has been recognized as World Telecommunication Day. So the significance is clear here that Telecommunication Sector has a particular acknowledgement in the world and the result is the creation of World Telecommunication Day. In fact, Telecommunication is one of the talks of the world at present. Tele density of Bangladesh is still the lowest in South Asia, according to the statistics of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). About 1.56% among 100 people has access to telecom facility. It shows the high potential in the telecommunication sector in Bangladesh. The existing telecommunication companies operating in Bangladesh have been enjoying competitive advantage because of less global competition but this scenario is soon to be changed as global giants are focusing on Bangladeshi markets with differentiated service and competitive advantages. With the advancement of science and technology, we wonder regularly. Today’s world is the world of technology. No doubt of it that the most success sector is telecommunication. Few days ago people can not even imagine about the today’s communication ways. And it is also true that people have become more desperate to think about new things in this sector. In this course of action, mobile, voice call service, SMS, video telephony, teleconference, video conference etc. along with other communicating ways, have emerged. So, the best news from the business point of view is the creation of the telecommunication market. Its size is beyond imagination that there are 750 GSM operators doing business throughout the world. The picture of Bangladesh helps to realize the matter more clearly that we have six operators even in this small country. And out of 14 corer population, almost 2 corers are using this service. Millions of dollars have already been invested in this sector and also are being invested. Technology was not only transforming the character of the telecommunications industry from within, but more significantly, much more significantly in my view, is changing the role played by telecommunications in economic and social life. Telecommunication has come to play a significant role in facilitating Bangladesh as well as the whole world changing social division of labor between material production and business and consumer services. Optical fiber cables, microwave and satellite links to the mainland, to say nothing of cross-border 2

roaming with cellular mobile telephones and pagers, are daily reducing the transactions costs of doing business, widening the scope of markets as well as bringing together friends and families. But more than that, telecommunications is becoming part of the strategic valuechain at the heart of modern business. Obvious examples include the customer services banks provide over their ATM networks; the facilities offered by airline and travel agency customer reservation systems; the information available from online service providers; the planning and co-ordination and monitoring and control facilities available over wide area computer networks together with file transfer and data management capability; and so on. Much speculation takes place as to the future possibilities afforded by inter-active multi-media broadband networks, often with the thought that the technological potential is developing so rapidly that research and development engineers are fast creating solutions in search of problems, and services in search of markets. So it can be easily said that working and studying with this sectors not only clear our view about the Telecommunication but also grasp ample opportunity from this sectors. 1.1 Origin of the Report: BBA program at Daffodil International University requires a three months long internship program to introduce the students with the real life business administration. Banglalink Bangladesh limited was the organization where the internship took place. The topic was set and supervised by the internship supervisor Lecturer Mostafa Monzur Hasan, and also guided by the SME Channel Manager, Mahmudul Hasan of the Orascom Telecom Limited (Banglalink). 1.2 Objectives of the Study: The root objectives are given below:  To have an idea of Customer Relationship Management activities of corporate sales of Banglalink.  To identify problems regarding CRM of corporate sales and services of Banglalink.  To develop some recommendations regarding the problems found. 1.3 Scope of the Study: The report focuses on customer relationship management in corporate sales.. It also determines the loyalty factor of Banglalink. This report covers the present status of corporate 3

sales as well as the customer cause and effect relationship analysis of their promotional activities, their tariffs and other issues. This study covers only Dhaka City because of possible complexity and difficulty in covering whole country and because of shortage of time and manpower required for the survey. 1.4 Sources and Methods of Data Collection: The study was conducted based on both primary and secondary data. The sources of those data are stated below: Primary Source: The primary data were collected by customer survey conducted on corporate clients of Banglalink. I had collected customer survey from one hundred corporate clients of different organization. Customer survey had been conducted by twenty-four questions location at Dhaka city. It had taken ten days to collected respond. The survey technique was face-to-face mock interview. Secondary Source: The secondary data were collected from the following sources:  Internal newsletter of the company  Various research journals of different research organizations  Web pages  Annual reports of the company  Various books and other internal publications of the company 1.5 Limitations: Despite of the researcher’s highest effort the internship is not free from limitations. Some of those limitations are mentioned as follows: • • • • One of the major limitations faced while conducting the study was to communicate with the selected corporate clients because they were very busy with their regular jobs. As, I had more dependence on the primary sources, so there might be some levels of inaccuracy with those collected information. Confidential information regarding past marketing and sales information was not accurately obtained. Many of the analysis on the obtained data are based upon my sole interpretation. This in result might bring some biases, as lack of knowledge and depth of understanding might hinder me to produce an absolute authentic and meaningful report.

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Chapter-2 ORGANIZATION PART

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2.0 Organizational Overview:
2.1 Background In Bangladesh, Banglalink aims to understand peoples' needs best and develop appropriate communication services to improve peoples' life and make it simple. All our work is aimed towards meeting our vision. All members of the Banglalink family are highly passionate individuals, fully committed to achieving the vision that we have set ourselves. Our customers' needs matter most to us- making their life simple and improving it is all we want. To ensure our vision is achieved, we have set ourselves a few values, we want to be • • • • Straight Forward Reliable Innovative Passionate

All the Banglalink family members have one thing in common- a passion to serve. We want to go that extra mile, so that you can have the best possible service Investing in the future of Bangladesh. The biggest barrier today for people is the cost of handsets. We will strive to lower the total cost of owning a mobile. We are here to help make a difference in people's lives by providing affordable and reliable connectivity solutions. We will strive to connect people and link their lives by listening to them and by understanding their needs. We are here to help you speak your language. 2.2 Incorporation of Banglalink Orascom Telecom Holding purchased 100% of the shares of Sheba Telecom (Pvt.) Limited (“Sheba”) in March 2005. OTH operates a GSM network in Bangladesh and provides a range of prepaid and postpaid voice, data and multimedia telecommunications services. As of March 1, 2005, Banglalink served approximately one core subscribers. Banglalink estimates that it had 8.3% market share of total mobile subscribers in Bangladesh 2.3 Operating License Banglalink’s license is a nationwide 15-year GSM license that expires in November 2011. It was acquired for US$ 60 million and re-branded and launched its services under “Banglalink” in March 2005. . 6

2.4 The Project 2.4.1 Basic Objectives For Which Your Company Was Formed Are Highlighted Here Under:  To provide mobile telephone service to the people from the public sector;  To ensure fair competition between public and private sectors and thereby to safeguard public interest;  To meet a portion of unmitigated high demand of mobile telephone;  To create a new source of revenue for the government. 2.5 Launch of Banglalink:
The long awaited launching of a mobile telecom network by a state-run enterprise had finally materialized on 1 March 2005. It also fulfilled a cherished dream of people who continuously demanded to the government for such an enterprise. The government started the "Mobile Telephone Project" and Bangladesh Telegraph & Telephone Board (BTTB) was entrusted with the responsibility for implementing the same. The Project work started in June 2004 and the network was soft launched on 1 march, 2005. I am happy that BTTB had been able to keep its promise and deliver in time. Banglalink. was formed to operate the network installed by Ericsson and it has been successful in operating a standard network and give proper service to the people of Bangladesh. Banglalink has introduced many attractive packages and all of them have been welcomed by the market. From the very beginning of its launching, Banglalink got huge popularity as it triggered the true competition in the market. I am happy to know that within one year, Banglalink has covered 64 districts, 120 upazillas and most part of the three major highways of the country. However, there is still a long way to pass for improving its network. People have high expectation from Banglalink. They expect continuous network coverage all over the country, prompt customer service, and more value added services, data services of high band-width etc. from Banglalink. Banglalink must honor its customers by improving its services day-by-day so that people can realize that even in a competitive scenario, the public sector organization can achieve remarkable development if they get opportunity.

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2.6 Present Status of Banglalink: Definitely there is no justification brooding on the past unless we utilize that experience in the further course of time. Let’s try to find out the present standing of Banglalink. • • Subscriber Base: At present there around 1, 00, 00,000 subscriber of Bamglalink. Among them there are 850,000 prepaid and 2450 postpaid and 20,287 PCO subscriber Customer Care: There are eleven customer cares of Banglalink situated on Dhaka, Mymenshing, Barisal, Khulna, Bogra, Chittagong, Uttara, Faridpur, Sylhet, Rajshahi and Comilla etc. • Changes Taken Place In The Market

2.6.1 Market competitiveness: - Competition among the mobile phone operators has reduced subscription rates and call rates. This triggered a lot of changes in the market. - There are now options in the hand of the customers at an affordable price. This contributed to the high growth rate in this sector. - Increase in number of players in the channel has reduced revenue for everyone. 2.6.2 Migration of businesses: - High profitability has attracted many people to the distribution channel. A lot of people got involved in subscription selling business as a supplementary to their original line of business. Some others came into this business as a replacement for their original business. - Because of drastic reduction in call rates, profitability of PCOs has dropped, and as a result, some PCOs are migrating to subscription distribution business. - Because of rise in number of mobile phone connections, revenue from recharging business has increased. - In some areas, growth in subscription business has declined, as many of the potential customers have turned into current subscribers. This loss of revenue from subscription business was compensated in cases by profit from selling handsets. 2.6.3 Supporting businesses: - A lot of supporting businesses have strung up to cope with the high demand created by extremely high growth rate in the market. - Many people are now involved in businesses of scratch cards, electronic recharging, handsets, accessories, PCOs, handset repair, value added services (ring-tones, music, games, downloads), etc. 8

2.6.4 Industry Growth: Important Factors Growth in mobile phone subscription business is affected by various factors: - Entrance of new companies. Whenever new companies have entered the market, there had been a surge in subscription selling business. This has happened in case of entrance of Banglalink and that of Banglalink. - New package offers by existing operators. New offers from existing operators have always created interest among the customers. A segment of the customer segment is always interested in buying new offers. Reduction in tariff and subscription fee has encouraged these kinds of buyers. These low price offers have also brought some periphery customers under mobile subscription - Penetration of mobile phone subscription. There are some areas where there has been a drop in subscription selling, because of increase in current subscribers and reduction in potential subscribers. 2.6.5Consumer Profile - At the point of purchase, sellers do get the opportunity to draw a picture of the consumer. - Age of visitors: Most of the visitors at the mobile phone shops are young, between the age of approximately 15 and 30 - First time buyers: Of all the visitors at the shops, most are found to be current owners of mobile phones. The ratio between new users and current users vary from place to place. In most of the places, around 10-30% visitors at mobile shops currently do not possess a mobile phone. The rest (70-90%) are current owners of mobile phone. Of the current owners most are young and always looking for new offers. Some even buy more than one connections at a time. The current non-users of mobile phone who visit shops are mostly from the lower SEC and possess little knowledge about mobile phones 2.7 Departments of the Banglalink:
As the service marketing concept must demand the process, persons, physical evidence along with products, place, price, promotion, any service company must have its department compatible with this concept. Banglalink dose not deny the concept, having the following department to achieve its objectives: • • • • Human Resource Marketing Customer Service Billing And It

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Operations: Network Planning System Engineering: Procurement Finance

2.8 Banglalink and its business analysis
Banglalink is a newly emerged Govt. mobile service operator in country’s cell phone service market with nation wide coverage. Within a very short period of time, it has covered 61 dist. HQ, 158 thana and the main national highways and developed 11 full-fledged customer care centers. Over 200 outlets are being working to distribute Sims and Scratch cards in the country.. Banglalink has gone into interconnection agreement with all four private cell phone service providers named City cell (PBTL), AKTEL (TMIB), Grameen Phone (GP) and Banglalink for providing more superior services to banglalink’s consumers. Recognizing its tremendous success (introducing web based lottery, self employed virtual dealership, fastest coverage progress and price-cut), BANGLALINK has been emerged a trend setter in mobile phone sector of Bangladesh. It got unique position for its special features that other players are not offering right now, such as, born out of commitment. To make profit but not at the cost of customer, nationwide transmission backbone support, professional excellence, transparent financial transaction, all transaction through Bank, fewer Packages, no tricks: customer Confidence, no incoming Charge, all Package has BTTB incoming and outgoing, 100% ISD and EISD facility. The most

remarkable success of Banglalink is the slump in Tariff Structure. As soon as Banglalink announced its tariff the long-lasting oligopoly between other private mobile operators were shattered. Healthy competition came into the mobile market causing almost 50%, if not more, reduction in price both in terms of SIM price and usage rate. The slump in price made mobile phone affordable even for the low-income group of people. Using a mobile phone soon became a necessity; it's no more a luxury. The strength of Banglalink was the confidence of the subscribers in the government institution. On the other hand it's being the part of government, is probably the biggest weakness from operational perspective of Banglalink, which will be understandable as we go through this article. At a time when people were desperately searching the way out to get rid of the oligopoly of a few operators, j Banglalink started its operation with big bang of response. People became frenzy to get a Banglalink SIM. Another good reason for that craze was its flexibility in connectivity with the other operators. It's the only SIM, which has such a, versatility of connections having ISD, Economy ISO service along with both incoming and outgoing connectivity with any of the land phones. The biggest weakness was a premature

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entrance in a mature market. As soon as anyone could catch hold of a Banglalink mobile, he started comparing it with the services of Grameen Phone, Banglalink or Aktel. Having the slightest of ideas of what problems can impound and compound starting a commercial operation with such a small coverage containing pockets all over the places, Banglalink had its first setback. Many of us used to say "Where is the harm in throwing a system on use with such a small number of BTSs if operator like Grameen Phone could start its commercial operation with couple of BTSs around." But "think-tanks" of Banglalink miserably failed to identify the difference of stepping into a developed market and that into a developing market. Moreover, the progress of development of network was far below the expectation of subscribers. Above all the interfacing with other operators was so poor, especially with GRAMEEN, mostly because of non-cooperation, it became a nightmare for the Banglalink subscribers to use a Banglalink mobile. Peoples' hope was immediately dashed out and all the opportunities Banglalink had started with immediately began shrinking and squeezing.

2.9 Network Coverage: Network Coverage, now-a-days, has become most strategic strength for any operator and Banglalink has given the highest priority regarding the coverage. At present, TBL has 668 BTS around the Bangladesh and the distribution is like in Dhaka City (177), Dhaka Division (134), Chittagong City (71), Chittagong Division (77), Khulna Division (50), Rajshahi Division (86), Barisal Division (35) , Sylhet Division (38). In fact it has network coverage in 61 districts but the truth is that the weakest part of the TBL is its low network coverage.

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2.10 Marketing Mix:
2.10.1 Product Profile: Different packages of Banglalink. Personal package 1 (Post- paid) :  Provides you the lowest call rates • Waiver of monthly fee if usage is greater than Tk.500 (without VAT) • Duplicating mobile number facility • Up to 2 supplementary connections with attractive group talk rate. Personal package 2 (Post- paid) :  Minimum monthly bill of Tk.1,000 at the lowest call rates • Monthly 150 FREE News SMS • FREE itemized bill • FREE golden number upon availability • Duplicating mobile number facility • Up to 2 supplementary connections with attractive group talk rate. Personal Call & Control (Post- paid) : • • • • Usage through recharging scratch card/I ‘top up Lowest monthly fees Helps you keep your usage within your control. ISD and E-ISD:

All Banglalink Sims are ISD and it has opportunity to call only 7.50/= to 55 countries by using 012 code called economy ISD. • Corporate Package:

Banglalink has around 40 corporate clients using prepaid or postpaid service. • International Roaming:

It has roaming facilities in 5 country also. The fortunate matter is that within one month it is going to inaugurate roaming service in over 400 operators of 159 country.

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2.10.2 Price: Pricing is one of the marketing mix tools that a company uses to achieve it marketing objectives. Banglalink decides its service pricing on the basis of cost based pricing. They always think about the consumer purchase capability. That’s why they try to fix a reasonable price for the consumer. Pre-paid (Standard) Package : • • • • • • • • • Connection fee : 450.00 Tk. (20 Tk. Talk Time Free) 1st pulse for first 30 sec and 15 sec pulse onwards Any other operator tk - .99/min [9-5 pm] Any other operator, tk- 1.45/min [5-12 pm] Banglalink to Banglalink, tk- .25/min [12-9 pm] Banglalink to Other operator, tk- .25/min [12-9 pm] 20% Incoming bonus. 4 (FnF) facility in any operator ( Banglalink to Banglalink 0.25 Tk or Banglalink to Other operator .79) VAT will be added as usual

SME Enterprise Package : • • • • • • • • • • Connection fee. 499.00 Tk (50 Tk. Talk Time Free,50 Free SMS) 20% Incoming bonus. Any other operator, tk - .99/min [9-5 pm] Any other operator, tk- 1.25/min [5-12 pm] Banglalink to Banglalink, tk- .25/min [12-9 pm] Banglalink to Other operator, tk- .25/min [12-9 pm 1 sec pulse banglalink to banglalink & 15 sec pulse other operator Minimum Monthly Bill tk - 100 4 (FnF) facility in any operator ( Banglalink to Banglalink 0.25 Tk or Banglalink to Other operator .79) Vat applicable

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PCO Package : • • • • • Connection fee : 600 Tk 1 sec pulse Payment facility in Cash Card Minimum charge 500 Tk . If monthly bill exceeds 2000 tk 5% exempted and if 4000 tk. 10% exempted.

2.10.3 Place: Banglalink has a proper distribution team and channel. It has already appointed 62 dealers over the country. Besides it is distributing its product by customer care and bank. It is struggling very hard to make its product available countrywide. The distribution channel for mobile phone subscription has changed somewhat over the last year or so. There is still a multitude of levels within the channel. This channel has shrunk vertically during the last year or so and created a shallower channel.

Company

Customers

Main Dealers (Area-based)

Authorised Dealers SubAuthorised Dealers Area-based Authorised Dealers

Wholesalers Wholesalers without Stores

Retailers

Fig 1: Distribution channel

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2.10.4 Promotional Activities of Banglalink Promotion: Promotion is one of the marketing tools that a company uses to achieve its marketing objectives. Each promotion tools has unique characteristics to improve their total sales. Banglalink are trying to do more promotional activities for their service. Banglalink Marketing promotion can be classified in several steps

Advertisements in the national newspapers Examples of advertisements published in the national newspapers:

Advertisements through billboards The billboards installed so far by Banglalink Bangladesh Limited are listed below: SL No 1 2 3 4 5

Location

qty

View

Kachpur- Dhaka Facing Op N. U- Dhaka Facing Saidabad bridge Mohakhali Flyover (Both) Shahabagh

1 1 1 1 1

Unipol Unipol 15

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

GEC Circle (Ctg) Gabtoli Bus Stand-Savar face Chittagong Railway Station Dhanmondi Rassel Square Cox’s Bazar,near sea beach Patanga sea beach more Dewanhat moor, Ctg Zatrabari Moor Uttara, Azampur Asulia road, Dhaka Khamarbari, Farm gate Sheraton Hotel Gulshan-1, Moor Khilgaon Flyover Mohakhali, Airport Bus Branding Agrabad, SK Mujib Road Banani, Front of Community Center Malibagh Moor Mirpur-10 Hatikamrul Moor, Shirajgang

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1

Unipol Unipol Unipol Unipol Unipol

Unipol Bus Unipol Unipol

Unipol

Table 2: Advertisements through billboards Advertisement through Electronics media: Banglalink published their advertisement different channel as like- ntv, channel 1, Rtv, Bangla vision, ATN Bangla, radio today etc. Personal Selling: Personal presentation by the firm’s sales forces for the purpose of making sales and building customer relationship. Banglalink uses personal selling in different stages of marketing and distribution. Company distributes their product (SIM, Scratch, I-top, Cash card) among the wholesalers and retailers by maintaining the excellent relationship. Banglalink’s communicate with corporate client by its sales force building and keeping relationship with potential and existing valued customer. Sales promotion: Sales promotion includes a wide way of tools that can attract consumer’s attraction, strong incentive of purchase, free gifts, discount and several types of occasional program. Banglalink sales promotion includes credit sales, commission etc. Banglalink arrange conference every year among the dealers, wholesalers and retailers. They always try to 16

influence and convince them for creating a market demand and sale their product. here is some examples of Banglalink promotion that can be highlighted : Road show: Banglalink organized a two days long road show. Here subscribers got the opportunity to buy SIM of different pre-paid package at 70TK,where regular offer is 150TK. Handbag Distribution: At Bangla academy “Ekusay Boi Mela” Banglalink distributed handbag in visitors who bought book from fair. There was slogan on handbag for raising awareness for reading book. Scarf Distribution: Banglalink distributed scarf to attract their existing and new customer at Pahela Baisakh, That scarf create brand awareness of Banglalink. Public Relation: Public relation is used to promote products, people, places, ideas, activities, organizations and even nations. Public relation can also influence a product sales or brand awareness. Banglalink arrange meeting always with the wholesalers and retailer for maintaining a good relationship with them. General people can also come to the Banglalink office for their queries and for expressing their concern about any telecom related factors. Following address is the public relation office of Banglalink:

Social Commitment: Blood Donation program: One of prominent social contribution of Banglalink is in the field of Voluntary blood donation. Banglalink has sponsored and directly participated in various voluntary Blood Donation Programs around the country. ORCA (Old Rajshahi cadet association) had organized a blood donation program which was sponsored by Banglalink. Blanket distribution Program: In Ranjpur district Banglalink distributed 500 blankets in distressed people by Anjuman Mofidul Islam. In Bangladesh every year in cold prone area people died in cold related disease due to their disability to buy warm cloths. 17

2.11 Service offered: Services Banglalink ISO facilities: Every subscriber of Banglalink gets the opportunity of economy ISO or EISD in 25 countries. In this way subscriber has to pay 7.50 Tk per minute. To get this service instead of access code 00 dial 012, then country code, then area code and then desired number SMS A SMS of 160 characters nationally charge Tk .0 .75 only and internationally Tk.1.62 Both Bengali & English language can be used. Banglalink Push-Pull Service It is like SMS, one can get answer to the question he requires. Banglalink offers different types of Entertainment through push-pull service. To know the song 5858 You will be able to get the Sehri and Iftar's time during the Ramadan, Cricket, Weather, Quotes, Jokes, Horoscope, Pray time with the push-pull service. Banglalink Own VAS Offerings: 1. GPRS: 2. Cricket Update: 3. Post-paid bill query. 4. Cash card electronic charging: 5. Music station 6. Friends and family Number. 7. Voice adda 8. MCA 9. Amar Tunes 10.Voice Portal 11. Call me back 12. I- bubble 13.Namaz Alert 14. Payment through ATM. 15.Ring Tones 16.Yellow Pages 17. Conference Call. 18

Some Other Value Added Service of Banglalink: Jokes joke Example: joke 001 Send to 500 wt Example: wt dhaka Send to 500 Joke Number: 001 - 200

Weather

City Name: Dhaka, Delhi, Tokyo, Bangkok, Beijing, Singapore, London, New York, Paris, Moscow, Calcutta, Chittagong, Barisal, Bogra, Sylhet, Sydney, Melbourne, Karachi Division: dhk, cht, khl, syl, jes, raj, brs Taxi Type: navana,metro,anudip Signs: ari, leo, sag, tau, vir, cap, gem, lib, aqu, can, sco, pis Love Quote Number: 001 - 095 Fun Quote Number: 001 - 038 Birth Quote Number: 001 - 076 Friend Quote Number: 001 - 043 Division: dhk, cht, khl, syl, jes, raj, brs Ph Number Type: pol, fire, amb

Taxi

Horoscope

Quotes

Cab Example: Cab dhk navana Send to 500 hor Example: hor ari Send to 500 qot Example: qot love 023 Send to 500

Emergency

emrg Example: emrg dhk pol Send to 500 International fc Weather Example: fc new york Forecasting Send to 500

City Name: Dhaka, Delhi, Tokyo, Bangkok, Beijing, Singapore, London, New York, Paris, Moscow, Calcutta, Chittagong, Barisal, Bogra, Sylhet, Sydney, Melbourne, Karachi Bangladesh as ban,India as ind,Pakistan as pak,Australia as aus,etc

Cricket

cric Example for Bangladesh : cric ban Send to 500

Table 3: Value Added Service of Banglalink

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2.12 SWOT Analysis of Banglalink Bangladesh Ltd:

Strength 1. Low cost provider regarding its competitor. 2. Banglalink’s all connections are ISD & EISD. 3. Banglalink is the only indigenous company using GSM service. 4. From the very beginning it is providing free TNT incoming & Outgoing. 5. It has also provided incoming facility up lifetime. 6. Moreover its contribution to our economy can be notable. Opportunities

weakness 1. The progress of development of network is far below from the subscriber expectation. 2. Lower number of human resource. 3. Failed to identify difference between developed market and developing market. 4. Banglalink does follow aggressive marketing but it should follow smooth strategy. 5. Banglalink faces coordination problem of Management system.

Threats

1. Banglalink can use the image of 1. An upcoming mobile service provider named multinational organization. WARID TELECOM a concern of Dhabi group and present market rivals. 2. Introduction of new technology and services. 2. The invention of technology which is new modern and consumer oriented. 3. Expand the market in the rural area. 3. Another invisible threat is land phone 4. Banglalink can use the experience operator. strong network facilities. 5.Banglalink can use soft switch network, Table 4: SWOT of Banglalink

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2.12.1 Analysis of Strengths: • Banglalink’s all connections are ISD & EISD: It’s a big strength of Banglalink. It’s the only SIM which has such a versatility of connections having ISD, Economy ISD service along with both incoming and outgoing connectivity with any of the land phones. This is not seen to other providers. It gives a tremendous competitive advantage to the Banglalink Bangladesh ltd over its respective competitors. • Banglalink is the only indigenous company using GSM service: Banglalink is the only local organization which is providing GSM technology in this country. The other local organization named pacific telecom is providing CDMA technology which is more expensive. So Banglalink can take this advantage over its competitors. • It has also provided incoming facility up to lifetime: Banglalink have a strong strength over its competitors incase of incoming facility. Banglalink present incoming duration is up to lifetime. • From the very beginning it is providing free TNT incoming: Banglalink is the only provider which is providing T&T incoming free from the very beginning. Whether other operators providers providing such kind of facility just now. • Moreover its contribution to our economy can be notable: As a multinational company Banglalink have a strong contribution in our national economy. Its one of the high profit generating in Bangladesh. • Low cost provider: The most remarkable success of Banglalink is the slump in tariff structure. It is the lowest cost provider in Bangladesh telecommunication market. As soon as Banglalink announced its tariff the long lasting oligopoly between other private mobile providers were shattered. Healthy competition came into the mobile market. 2.12.2 Analysis of Weaknesses. • Lower number of human resource: The number of employee of Banglalink is too much lower regarding its requirement. As a result the service quality and customer satisfaction go down. • Failed to identify difference between developed market and developing market: Banglalink failed to identify the difference between developed market and developing market. There strategy making is not match with the current situation.

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Weak management system: poor coordination among different functional department of Banglalink as result service efficiency goes down.

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The progress of development of network is far below from the subscriber expectation: the expansion of network coverage is too much slow. People thought that Banglalink should use the GSM network facilities; as a result Banglalink can cover the most of the area of Bangladesh.

2.12.3 Analysis of Opportunities • Banglalink can use the image of multinational organization: People want to better facility from service industry. So Banglalink can use such kind of soft corner of consumers and promote the service to them. • Introduction of new technology and services: Banglalink can implement new and consumer oriented technology in this sector. Because people have inclination to new and modern technology. Now a day’s people are ready to accept the new thing. • Expand the market in the rural area: Till now there is huge area is remain out of coverage where a huge number of target consumers are available. So Banglalink can bring that respective area under coverage and catch those potential consumers. • Banglalink can use the experience of multinational one of the old and experience organization in Bangladesh telecommunication sector. They have special experience about the consumer behavior of Bangladesh. They know about the consumer’s need and want. • Banglalink can use soft switch network: The soft switch network separates the bearer and control layers and a soft switch centric network can be built on different types of bearer networks such as TDM, IP and ATM unlike, legacy network that depend on a single specific switching technology. Based on strategic planning and the developmental phase, an operator can select suitable bearer mode technologies for different phases, from the perspective of long term sustainable development, the IP centered soft switch network defines the future. So Banglalink can use this technology and practice competitive advantage over rivals. 2.12.4 Analysis of Threats 22

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An upcoming mobile service provider named WARID TELECOM a concern of Dhabi group: At present Bangladeshi mobile sector is almost saturated , after that a new company named WARID is going to starts its operation in Bangladesh which going to become a big threats to Banglalink and other operators.

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The invention of technology which is new modern and consumer oriented: Technology is changing with day run. It changes the consumer’s demand pattern by offering different attractive features. As a result consumer shifts from one technology to other technology, which might create a big problem to Banglalink and others.

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Another invisible threat is land phone operator: In Bangladesh land phone operator is expand the market with day run. People are switch from mobile to land phone operators. As a result ultimately the number of mobile user is decreasing and create problem to the mobile operators as well as Banglalink.

2.13 Conclusion: Banglalink Is A Trend Setter In Bangladesh Banglalink is the private cellular operator in Bangladesh. Banglalink has a goal to receive an economic return on its investments and to contribute to the economic development of Bangladesh where telecommunications can play a critical role. Banglalink believes in service, a service that leads to good business and good development. Telephone helps people work together, raising their productivity. This gain in productivity is development, which in turn enables them to afford a telephone service, generating a good business. Thus development and business go together. The main goal of banglalink is to deliver SIM kits to the subscriber at a cheap rate and make a competitive market. All the categories of subscribers, in our initial offerings, had collected their SIM kits through banks. This is very satisfactory of SIM collection rate. When the subscriber received their SIM kits, the innocent smile of them shows recessive support to banglalink. This is the great achievement of banglalink. In service sector, FDI inflow in Bangladesh is enormous. Telecom sector is become the core of interest in FDI in Bangladesh. So it is expected in the long run, Banglalink has to face an immense competition. As well as we are also forecasting the market culture might change if the profit margin reduce at current ratio. In the long run banglalink can able to face the market competition successfully if it can meet the strategic marketing approaches in all levels of policy decisions and applications. 23

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3.1 Customer Relationship Management in corporate sales of Banglalink Banglalink is the only mobile Telecommunication service provider in private sector in Bangladesh providing services throughout the country. Since, launching its commercial operation on 30 September 2005 Banglalink grows from strength to strength with the vision to provide universal mobile telecommunication services all over Bangladesh at an affordable cost. At present, Banglalink is providing various services to its subscribers throughout the country: corporate service is one of them. Banglalink supports to various organizations officers and staffs through corporate service. Banglalink has around 52 corporate clients using prepaid, postpaid, Professional Package services. 3.2. Banglalink Customer Relationship Management policy in Corporate Sales. Banglalink maintains customer relationship management which is really need for profit maximization. Customer relationship management is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationship by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. This is the process of managing detailed information about individual customer and carefully managing all customer “touch point” to maximize customer loyalty. 3.2.1Goals of customer relationship marketing The primary goal of relationship marketing is to build and maintain a base of committed customers who are profitable for the organization. To achieve the goal the Banglalink will focus on the attraction, retention and enhancement of customer relationship. 3.2.2 Customer relationship management builds up a profitable relationship as follows Identify prospect and customer- Banglalink find out the potential customer. Build, maintain and mine a rich customer database with information derived from all the channels and customer touch points. 3.2.3 Identify prospect and customer: Banglalink identify prospect and customer through different kind of government organization, private organization or association such as – FBCCI, DCCI, ICCI, IEB, DRU, Nitol Group etc. It also collects reference group and official personal reference. 3.2.4 Differentiate customers in terms of their needs and their image 25

Banglalink offer their customer to understand their condition. Banglalink

offer them post

purchase reassurance and promote the price value relationship, then spend proportionately more effort on the most valuable customer. Applied actively based costing and calculate customer life time value. Estimate net present value of all future profits coming from purchases, margin level, and referrals, less customer specific servicing cost. Banglalink estimates customer life time value, net present value of all future profit through company's papers, documents, goodwill etc. 3.2.5 Interact with individual customer: Banglalink interact with individual customer to improve knowledge about their needs through communication. It creates long term relationship and committed to loyal customer to develop service. It also identify close service gaps and improve the service recovery to solved the customer problem. • • • Banglalink offers negotiable price for large volume of customer. Offering the attractive rate at the competitive market-customer want to better service at lower rate. For that reason Banglalink offers lower rate to attract the customer. Increasing the longevity of the customer relationship- the more involved a customer is with the company, the more likely subscriber is to stick around. Banglalink treat their customer as partners. It also provides emergency service for the customer. 3.2.6. Customer relationship management maintain relationship as follows • Focusing disproportionate effort on high value customer- The most valuable customer can be treated in a special way. Thought gestures such as – Eid greetings, Christmas, birthday cards, small gifts, or invitation to special event can send a strong signal to the customer. Banglalink also send or fax helpful news – paper clipping and relevant articles. • Enhancing the growth potential of each customer through “share of wallet” cross selling and up selling. Banglalink offers bonus taka such as if any Banglalink subscriber recharge 300 tk for this purpose he or she will get 345 tk. Other facilities like National University's result, load shading update, Unlimited GPRS facility etc. • Making low profit customers more profitable - Banglalink always monitoring their corporate subscriber and find out the lower profit customer. Then they identifying the problem and take necessary steps to solve the problem. 26

3.4 The Graphical Representation of Corporate Client Respondents
Graphical Representation of Monthly average call volume

Low Level (250 Min/Month) 19% Top Level (600 Min/Month) 46%

Middle Level (450 Min/Month) 35%

Top Level (600 Min/Month) Middle Level (450 Min/Month) Low Level (250 Min/Month)

According to the corporate survey, pie chart shows top level of corporate subscribers uses average 600 minutes per month which percentage shows46%.Next mid level of corporate subscribers uses average 450 minutes per month which percentage shows 35% and low level of corporate subscribers uses 250 minutes which percentage shows 19%.It proves that maximum corporate subscribers use more with satisfaction.

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3.5 Corporate Client Respondents Consumption Level
Consumption Level of Different Subscribers
Consumption Level in Tk. Per Month 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Proff. Pre Paid Ex. Pre Paid Category of subscribers Ex. Post Paid

Line chart shows professional prepaid subscriber uses 750tk per month then Executive prepaid subscriber's uses 1250tk per month and finally executive post paid subscriber uses 2250 per month. It proves that different type of category subscriber consumption level is different. Although number of Executive prepaid subscriber is higher than Executive postpaid but proportionately executive post paid consumption level is high. 3.6 Corporate client respondents Satisfaction Level about different services of banglalink
Graphial Representation of Customer Satisfaction

80 70 60 Satisfaction Level 50 40 30 20 10 0 Tariff Network Customer Service VAS GPRS Tariff Network Customer Service VAS GPRS

Corporate Components

According to corporate survey bar diagram shows that Banglalink corporate tariff is satisfactory because it lies on 80% satisfaction level. Next network bar shows that 60% of 28

satisfaction level. Then customer service bar shows that70% of satisfaction level. Value added services bar shows that 30% of satisfaction level and GPRS bar shows that 40% of satisfaction level.

Chapter-4 FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS & CONCLUSION

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4.1 Findings of the Study There are some important findings, which are given below: 1. Customer does not get diversified corporate SIM packaging 2. Customer’s are not well-known about corporate services and tariff 3. District level govt. & private offices have no idea about corporate facilities 4. Existing customers are facing problems of billing system 5. Existing customers are not happy to promotional campaign 6. Maximum subscribers face network problem. Its graph shows 65% corporate clients are not well satisfied with network facility cause they are agree with moderate. then 25% corporate clients are agree with better network bar and only 10% clients are agree with best network bar. So it proves that maximum subscribers are not satisfied with network facilities.

GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF NETWORK COVERAGE
70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 MODERATE BETTER BEST Series2 Series1

7. Customers want to get free hot line 24 hours service. It graph shows corporate clients want to get 24 hours hotline service 24%.Then free hot line service want to get 68% and only office time hot line service want to get 8%.
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF HOT LINE SERVICE
70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 24 HOUR HOTLINE SERVICE

Series3 Series2 Series1 FREE HOT LINE SERVE FOR 24 HOUR ONLY OFFICE TIM HOT E LINE SERVICE Series4

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1. Majority of the customer complain to tariff & want CUG services. 9. The basic desire of the customer is to improve the value added service and reduce the charge.. It graphs prove that maximum subscriber are not satisfied with value added service charge that for reason insufficient bar 78%. Then only few corporate clients are satisfied with value added service that for reason sufficient bar shows 22%.
GR APH ICAL R PR SE E E TATION OF VAS

80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 SU FFIC N IE T IN FFIC N SU IE T Series1 Series2

4.2 Recommendations
Banglalink Bangladesh Ltd. can follow various measures to overcome these problems. Here are some recommendations in this regard: 1. Banglalink corporate SIM packing must be different compare to other provider’s packages. 2. Corporate booklet must be necessary to inform about the corporate facilities. 3. Corporate proposal must be sent to the government or private offices at the district levels through market coordination officers or dealers. 4. They should improve the performance of the billing system in a quick manner. 5. Attractive promotional items are necessary to satisfy the corporate clients. 6. Network facilities should be wide. 7. Promotional advertising must be necessary for corporate package. 8. Provide free 24 hours hotline service for corporate clients. 9. Corporate tariff must be lower than other packages. 10. They should develop new competitive packages for the corporate customers. 11. Increase the value added services. 12. Closed user group (CUG) must be needed for corporate package. 13. Should be monitor the existing customer and provide better service. 14. The complexity of the GPRS facility should be reduced.

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4.3 Conclusion Banglalink Bangladesh ltd introduce in 2005. When service came with lower tariff was the strong path to influence people about the new service. In that time Banglalink followed a smooth marketing strategy. Banglalink formed a cheap rate for the first time in Bangladesh. Banglalink maintains relation ship marketing policy as well. So that there sales volume is more then others. At a time Banglalink takes also better position in consumer mind by its quality, attractive tariff plan etc. I gather some essential information from my survey that has needed to improve in some sector like network coverage, marketing strategy, promotional activities, customer satisfaction etc. Finally it says that Banglalink estimates of life time relationship value accentuate the importance of retaining current customers. Banglalink provides proper information to their customer about new product or service. It is another good way to stay in touch and increase sales or get referrals. Banglalink offer discount for valued customer to maintain good relationship.

Report on Customer Relationship Management in corporate sales of Banglalink is the part of our credit course of BBA Program. I learn so many things from this report about Banglalink Bangladesh its service nature, its distributors, retailers, consumers and its overall marketing condition in communication sector. This report will assist me to build up a better career in the job section.

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Appendix
Questionnaire of Survey on Corporate Customer Satisfaction of

Banglalink.
Assalamu alaikum I am an intern student of Daffodil International University working at Corporate Division, Marketing Department of Banglalink. I have need to survey to identify Corporate Customer satisfaction. You are one of the respective corporate users of Banglalink. You are cordially invited to participate in corporate customer survey. In this survey, approximately 100 corporate people will be asked to complete the survey that asks questions about corporate service. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. There are no foreseeable risks associated with this project. However, if you feel uncomfortable answering any questions, you can withdraw from the survey at any point. It is very important for me to learn your opinions. Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. Your information will be coded and will remain confidential. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact [Md. Arif Rabbani] at [01922591691] or by email at the email address specified below. E-mail: arjewel27@gmail.com Date:…………….. Time:…………….
Full name of the organization: Employee name: Designation: Sex: Age: Contact number: E-mail address: Address Web site:

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Questionnaire for Corporate Customers: 1) What is your expectation to Banglalink corporate tariff? o Competitive o Satisfactory o lower 2) What is your opinion about network facilities? o Moderate o Best o Better 3) What kind of service you expect from corporate package? o 24 hours hotline service o Free hot line service for 24 hours o only office time hotline service 4) What kind of promotional advertising essential for Banglalink corporate package? o Personal selling o Reference group o Corporate dealer 5) Which time slot you prefer to communicate for your business purpose? o Corporate hour o Off-peak hour o Super off-peak hour 6) Is the Customer Care satisfactory? o Yes o No 7) Is the VAS sufficient for BL? o Yes o No 8) How much effective GPRS service in your business? o Better o not so good o best 9) Are you satisfied with GPRS unlimited service? o Yes 35

o No 10) How much time per day, on an average do you spend to communicate in Corporate Hour?

11) What is your monthly average call volume? o 150 - 300 minutes o 300 - 600 minutes o More than 600 minutes 12) Assuming corporate user, which service will you prefer? o Executive prepaid o Executive post paid o Professional prepaid 13) How long have you been connected with Banglalink corporate lines.

14) Why did you prefer Banglalink corporate lines?

15) On average how many calls do you receive in a day? o 1-5 times o 5-10 times o More than 10 times 16) On average how many calls do you make in a day? o 1-5 times o 5-10 times o More than 10 times 17) What’s the average duration of your per receive call? 36

o 1-5 minutes o 5-10 minutes o More than 10 minutes 18) What’s average duration of your per dial call? o 1-5minutes o 5-10 minutes o More than 10 minutes 19) Banglalink one of the local mobile service provider how much it influence you in case of link with mobile phone technology? o Very much o Moderate o Not too much 20) Who is the main influencer of you to connect with a mobile operator? o o o o Friends Family members Corporate dealers Official

21) How much money per month (on an average) you spend for mobile service? o Less than 500 o 500 - 1000 o 1000 - 3000 o 3000 and over. 22) Are you satisfied with current call rate? o Yes o No 23) Do you rely fully on your mobile connection for internet browsing? o Yes o No 24) Can you really talk from any place to every where? o Yes o No o Yes, but sometimes face problems

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Acronyms
SIM - Subscriber Identification module ITU - International Telecommunication union GDP - Gross Domestic Product TMIB - Telecommunication Malaysia International Bangladesh PBTL - Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited SAARC - South Asian Association for Regional Corporation GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication BTRC - Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission BTTB - Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board. CUG - Closed User Group VAS - Value Added Service

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