...Executive summary This term paper is prepared on the telecommunication sector of Bangladesh. Telecom sector of Bangladesh is a very fast growing and dynamic sector. This sector marked its inception in 1989. In this report we have analyzed the history, the value chain activities, the competitive forces, mobile network portability, and national telecom policy etc. We have conducted the risk analysis of the industry in terms of different analysis tools that is SWOT, PESTEL etc. We have covered in and out of the industry in the part A of our report. In part B, we have analyzed the industry players. We have done TTF of our respective company that we have chosen. Then in part C, we have written the case of the respective company that the group members have chosen. Bangladesh’s mobile phone market has achieved exceptional growth since the beginning of 2004, registering a massive 100% growth in its subscriber base during 2004, and 137% during 2005. In recent year of 2012, 15% has been observed in the industry. This trend is forecast to continue over the coming years as the 3G will further boost up the pace of subscribers’ acquisition Many foreign investors are now interested to do business in telecom sector in Bangladesh which reveals that Bangladesh has become a significant hub for telecoms. It has been forecasted that the average revenue from telecoms sector will be Tk 2500 crore a year. Bangladesh is a country which is densely populated and also is a flat and easily extends able...
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...Internet Marketing: Indian Telecom Sector Coauthor Ghazali A. Akhtar Business Development Officer Tata Advinus #21&22, Phase 2, Peenya Indutrial Area, Peenya, Bangalore-58 09740399551 ghazali.akhtar@advinus.com Author Maksuddur Rahman A0101911218 D-50 09711796967 maksuddurrahman89@gmail.com 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A research is being conducted on INTERNET MARKETING in Indian Telecom Sector. The aim of this research is to carry out an in-depth analysis of the online market for mobile phone services in India. This involves application of the Internet marketing framework to two major competitors for the assessment of the contribution of Internet Marketing towards the organization’s Business effectiveness, Marketing effectiveness and Internet effectiveness. Following this a competitor analysis will be done to monitor the use of e-commerce in order to acquire and retain customers. The significance of Internet Marketing in context of the overall marketing strategy of the companies will also be assessed to understand the importance of the Internet as a marketing channel. The research will also include a global comparison of the Indian scenario with that of the UK and USA telecom sector. This research requires the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data which will be a combination of secondary data and independent research. The Deliverables of this research will be a report covering the analysis of the growth and development of the online market, general market...
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...should be done in order to receive higher and continuous gains. Equity valuation begins with analysis of the sector where a person wants to invest. If the sector looks positive than evaluation of all the companies in that sector should be done in order to decide upon the investment. The objective of this report is to analyse the credibility of an investment into Reliance Communications Limited. In order to achieve this we will focus upon the organisation’s strategic and financial information. A SWOT analysis will evaluate the potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the business and valuation analysis will tell about the profitability of the company. The methods used for the valuation analysis are: Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis. FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS: Fundamental analysis is a technique that attempts to determine a securities value by focusing on underlying factors that affect a company’s actual business and its future prospects. Fundamental analysts attempt to study everything that can affect the security's value, including macroeconomic factors (like the overall economy andindustry conditions) and company-specific factors (like financial condition andmanagement).Fundamental analysis of a business involves analyzing its financial statements and health, its management and competitive advantages, and its competitors and markets. Fundamental analysis is performed on historical and present...
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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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...FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN TELECOM SECTOR OF PAKISTAN CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT This dissertation has been agreed as confidential between the students, university and sponsoring organisation. This agreement runs for two years from (20 August 2008) STATEMENT OF AUTHENTICITY I have read the University Regulations relating to plagiarism and certify that this dissertation is all my own work and do not contain any unacknowledged work from other sources. WORD COUNT: 16,808 ABSTRACT 07000441 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN TELECOM SECTOR OF PAKISTAN Keywords: FDI, Entry Modes, Determinants, Risks, Pakistan Telecom Abstract Pakistan telecom sector has attracted large inflow of foreign direct investment in recent years. Government policy of deregulation and privatization has created an environment conducive for foreign direct investment in telecom sector of Pakistan. This paper will investigate all those factors which have contributed in attracting the foreign direct investment in telecom sector of Pakistan. However, there are some risks associated with the foreign direct investment in telecom sector due to the current political instability and terrorism in the country. This paper will examine the risks associated with the foreign direct investment in telecom sector of Pakistan. Subsequently it will explore entry strategy for foreign companies to enter in Pakistan telecom market. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN TELECOM SECTOR OF PAKISTAN Dissertation...
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...AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - BANGLADESH “An analysis of Factors Influencing the Telecommunication Industry Growth in Bangladesh” A case study of Bangladesh Author: Abdullah Md. Areef AIUB ID: 10-93465-1 Course Instructor: Dr. A. F. M. Masum Rabbani AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - BANGLADESH “An analysis of Factors Influencing the Telecommunication Industry Growth in Bangladesh” A case study of Bangladesh Author: Abdullah Md. Areef AIUB ID: 10-93465-1 Course Instructor: Dr. A. F. M. Masum Rabbani Abstract Not very long ago, mobile were only used by the professional or it was considered as the device of luxury, and user for only voice call, but the scenario has completely changed. Now it’s a necessity of the life. As Bangladesh is a small country with large number of population, it’s an attractive market for business like the mobile operators. Customers of the market do display a strange need for communication through cell phones and are often noted to spend more money on making calls than they do on food. In terms of Social factors, the market is still thriving for more. Customers are still willing to try something new and because of lack of loyalty, customers are always ready for a new operator, hoping that call rates will fall even more which is a threat. The almost exponential growth in the Telecoms sector in Bangladesh in the last 5-10 years has had the same transformative impact on Bangladesh’s economy as the growth of Ready Made Garments...
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...COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MARKET STRATEGY BETWEEN AIRTEL AND IDEA IN INDIAN TELECOM SECTOR POSTED BY Skyline Business School / July 06, 2010 / POSTED IN Dissertation • TAGS: Disseration reprt marketing Name: Hemraj Meena (2008 -2010) Title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MARKET STRATEGY BETWEEN AIRTEL AND IDEA IN INDIAN TELECOM SECTOR Executive Summary The Indian telecommunications Network with 250m telephone connections is the fifth largest in the world and is the second largest among the emerging economies of Asia. This study report based on basic principals in telecom sector that affect the company’s profit margin. In today’s scenario companies trying to reduce prices. In this competition making profit is a big issue. This study is based on the comparative analysis of two major companies AIRTEL and IDEA. In this we found that in which services companies can reduce our cost and make profit through them. This research based on primary data so I have selected 30 telecom stores. This is a primary research that conducted in Gurgaon (NCR) area. Through a questionnaire data had collected. And according to the questionnaire I have done analysis of telecom player’s services that they provided to the customer as well as retailers. Retailer is the representative of telecom companies and also has the knowledge about the customer’s preference and demand. That is the reason to choose retailer for research. Here we can found huge audience feedback. The sample collected from different...
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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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...[pic] CORPORATE STRATEGY ASSIGNMENT -1 (Industry Type : Telecom Sector) Why Telecom Sector ? [pic] Telecom Sector is a service sector. Telecom services have been recognized as a very essential means for social as well as economical expansion for a nation and hence telecom sector is treated as a key factor to achieve the social as well as economic objectives in India. Revenue for the telecommunications sector is the revenue from the provision of services such as fixed-line, mobile, and data with various value added services. Indian telecom industry is the fast growing industry and has made it a major contributor to India’s economy and progress. Telecom sector contributes approximately 3% to India’s GDP (with $39 billion annual revenue). Along with IT sector telecom sector act as a catalyst for the economic and social growth of the country across all other sectors. [pic] Direct benefits from the Telecom Industry are major contribution to GDP, Revenues for Government and increase in employment opportunity. Indirect benefits are reduction in transaction cost, improves access to social networks, provides more information about various services like educational , health care etc, reduction in business lead and response time, increases productivity of business through voice and data services (for example e-business: telecommunications networks will support the e-business operations...
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...into the production capacity of an economy, and facilitates international trade and knowledge transfer. It is a source of employment and capital which results in country's development. It improves the foreign exchange, helps transfer new technologies, increases competition, exports and tax revenues. It benefits the recipient country's business in terms of management, revenue generation by following the best practices which are of global standards. The policies related to FDI underwent major change in 1991 as a part of structural adjustment program. Since 1991, gradual liberalization of India's economy has led to more and more FDI into the country. India is gradually opening up sectors for foreign firms to enter with the recent decisions like removing investment caps in sectors like defense, telecom and insurance. There has been constant opposition to FDI on various grounds like protection of indigenous players, unemployment etc. India, one...
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...Nokia Corporation, from the relatively small country Finland, to global leader in the mobile phone market. The original Nokia Company was founded in 1865 to produce paper from wood pulp. In 1967, three companies, Nokia, Finnish Rubber Works and Finnish Cable Works in Finland merged to form the Nokia Corporation. The new company operated in many sectors and produced a wide range of products including paper, tyres, Wellington boots, cables, televisions, computers, electrical generators, and chemicals. The case study focuses on how did this company became the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones with nearly 40% of global market share. The case study also attributes this achievement on how trade and investment patterns and Finnish and global policies promoting market openness and free trade have affected the innovation process in Finland’s (mobile) telecom equipment industry. The study illustrates how regulatory, trade and investment policy choices have helped – alongside other key policies – provide the right framework conditions for innovation in this country of 5.2 million people. In addition, it examines how the private sector, and more particularly Nokia, has taken advantage of those conditions to enhance its innovation capacity. ISSUE: In the 1980s, Nordic nations cooperated to move out of an investment-driven economy into an innovation- driven one. Such was their proactive effort in response to the following emerging issues faced by their economy: a)...
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...LITERATURE REVIEW Cygnus Business Consulting & Research Pvt. Ltd. (2008), in its “Quarterly Performance Analysis of Companies (April-June 2008)” has analysed the Indian telecom industry in the awake of recent global recession and its overall impact on the Indian economy. The analysis is done in the background of wake of global recession and rising inflation. Cygnus estimates, the Indian telecom industry is expected to maintain the growth trajectory in the next quarter as well. With almost 5-6m subscribers are being added every month, and the country is witnessing wild momentum in the telecom industry. Maheshwari (July-September 2008), in her report analysed the Indian telecom industry and ascertain that Indian telecommunications has been zooming up the growth curve at an mounting pace, and India is has surpassed US to become the second largest wireless network in the world. This growing subscriber base is basically created by tapping into rural India, which is an emerging market for the industry. The estimate for the next five to ten years is that the rural market will form 40 % of the subscriber base. The study has analysed the human resource management process of the industry, and specially the latest trends of recruitment of this massively growing industry. Anderson (2008), in his single executive interview titled “Developing a route to market strategy for mobile communications in rural India An interview with Gurdeep Singh, Operations Director, Uttar Pradesh,...
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...Scope of the study: 3 Limitation: 3 Chapter 2: 4 Industry Brief 4 Chapter 3: 6 Industry Analysis 6 Current Market Size 6 Current Mobile Phone Subscribers 7 Growth Rate 8 Scope of competitive rivalry 8 Nature and pace of technological change 9 Porter five forces analysis: 9 Strategic Group Mapping 14 Forces Are at Work to Change Industry Conditions 15 Strategic Moves that Rivals Likely to Make Next 18 Key Factors for Competitive Success 19 Industry Attractiveness 21 Findings & Recommendation 23 Conclusion 24 Chapter 1 Introduction: “Watson, come here: I want you.” This was the first message ever transmitted from one place to another, through a device called telephone. American genius, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) along with his assistant Thomas Watson invented the device. It was March 10, 1876, an important day for human civilization, the first step towards developing means of communication. We’ve come a long way since then. Today, telephone is a part of our everyday life. Nowadays, the phone is not only used for making calls, among many other functions it’s used for communicating through text-messages and so called multi-media messages, as well as to connect us to the internet. The opportunities that lie in the telecom market seem endless and the growing demand for mobile telephony systems is creating a world-wide market. The telecom industry is nowadays not only by means of millions, but by means of billions. Actors in this...
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...Introduction to Telecom Industry Sector Overview Telecommunication has now become one of the prime services which an economy needs for rapid growth, development and modernization of its various sectors. Government of Pakistan awarded status of industry to telecom sector in year 2003-04. Benefits that accrue to a declared industry are now available to Telecom Sector. Over the past two decades, the institutional and regulatory framework of the telecommunications industry has changed radically. In most of the countries, public telecommunication operators (PTOs) have been fully or partially privatized and regulations concerning access to telecommunication markets, provision of services to users and pricing mechanisms have been overhauled. Basic Telephony Pakistan telecommunications market for the fixed-line services was dominated by Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL). But now PTA has been given the role of a regulatory body and is responsible for implementing the telecom deregulation policy. For a long time, Pakistan lagged behind in the region as far as telecom access is concerned. With cellular mobile revolution taking place, Pakistan 's tele-density currently stands at 10.37%, with gross subscribers base of fixed (5.05 million) as well as mobile subscribers (10.54 million) touching 15.59 million for a population of 152.53 million. The government is taking Pakistan's telecom future seriously and has deregulated the sector. As a result, scores of new private entrants...
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...Strategies for Sustainable Channel Relations in Mobile Telecom Sector The main objective of the study is to provide an accurate role for the company executive in developing channel relations. The constructs identified for developing sustainable relationships were Setting distribution objectives, Channel design, Logistics, Image Building, Inventory management, Channel management, Payment & credit, Promotional assistance, Setting targets, Coverage frequency , Motivating channel members to perform. The sample selected contained distributors from the Mobile telecom sector and company executives/channel managers of leading telecom companies. Factor analysis and Friedman’s test was applied. The findings revealed a correlation in attitude between distributors and the executives. Motivating distributors was rated as the most important strategy by the company. The distributors felt that all channel partners needed to have positive attitude towards the channel while company executives felt that aggression made channel members perform effectively. Such findings will be of use to mobile telecom companies who are new entrants to the Indian market and to existing companies who plan to expand their coverage There are 4 GSM and 2 CDMA players, 4800 distributors (Cellular Operators association of India), having 260 company executives. In case of distributors ,the total sample size 240 distributors from the Mobile telecom sector, out of which 120 were high performing( with Rupees 80-90...
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