...MODULE 6: YAK COMMUNICATIONS The telecommunications market is highly competitive and dominated in Canada by the major telecommunications players, Bell, Rogers, and Telus. In 1998 the telecommunications industry in Canada was deregulated by the CRTC, opening the door for smaller players to enter the market. In 2008 the Canadian government allowed new competitors to bid on new wireless licences which resulted in a flood of new competitors such as WIND Mobile, Mobilicity, Public Mobile, and Vidéotron Ltée. YAK Communications was founded in 1999 by Tony Lacavera as a dial-around long-distance service. Its sister company WIND Mobile is one these new wireless players and is making inroads in this complex market. YAK Communications started as a re-seller of long-distance services by purchasing bulk long-distance capacity at wholesale prices from the large carriers and selling it at discount prices to consumers – no need for contracts, customers just dialled a number before their long-distance number and the discounted rates applied. In 2006 Tony Lacavera oversaw Globalive’s purchase of YAK Communications, a private company that also owns Wind Mobile. Lacavera is Chairman of Globalive and has a 35% stake in the company. Today YAK Communications carefully segments the telecommunications market, offering discounted services to consumer and business markets. Let’s look at its offerings and how it segments the market. Yak started by buying blocks of long distance time from...
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...principal amount of 4.70% Senior Notes due in 2020. Summary- Rogers has internal strength in its brand recognition and distribution channels. Its weakness lies on increased cost of goods sold and debt. Competition is intense with current rivals and new entrants. Opportunities are bright with new and existing customers. Read more: http://www.ukessays.com/essays/marketing/the-analysis-of-rogers-communications-marketing-essay.php#ixzz438sBrV6q http://www.mbaskool.com/brandguide/telecom-service-providers/2364-roger-communications.html Roger Communications | Parent Company | Rogers Communications Inc | Category | Mobile Service Provider | Sector | Telecommunication | Tagline/ Slogan | Creating World-Leading Internet Experiences | USP | One of Canada's largest communications companies | STP | Segment | Wireless voice and data communications services, cable television services along with high-speed Internet access, telephony services, and video retailing. Also radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, magazines and trade publications, and sports entertainment. | Target Group | National provider of voice communications services, data networking, and broadband Internet connectivity to small, medium and large businesses as well as individual users. Also has media business and are cable TV providers | Positioning | Canada's largest...
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...TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.6 billion of annual revenue and 12 million customer connections including 6.7 million wireless subscribers, 3.8 million wire line network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers and 228,000 TELUS TV customers. According to the SWOT analysis of TELUS, TELUS started to diversify product and service. Therefore, customers who use mobile phone and home phone are primary target market. TV and Internet clients are secondary target market. Journal Article Summaries Telus's new generation An interview with Karen Redford, president of Telus Partner Solutions, is presented. She says that the company is on net more than 75% of Canada and 95% if wireless is included, with its partners. She mentions that the people behind Telus, including her, established themselves as the Internet protocol (IP) leader. She adds that Telus is not competing against big carriers in Canada and that it focuses only on providing business. Alan Burkitt-Gray. (2007, November). Telus's new generation: Karen Radford of Telus Partner Solutions. Global Telecoms Business,1. Retrieved October 11, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Complete. (Document ID: 1409567411). Telus goes to the washroom. The article reports that Telus Corp. is taking toilet humour to a new level in a campaign that promotes high-speed Internet service in British Columbia and Alberta. The telco is placing multimedia ads, done by DDB Vancouver, in bar and restaurant...
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...Client Issue Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian Telecommunications company operating in the fields of Wireless, Cable (Internet, Television and Phone), as well as Media services. Over the past few years, the competition in the Telecommunications industry in Canada has intensified. Not only have existing major competitors, the so called “Big Three” operators of Rogers, Bell and Telus, begun to clash more intensively, the market place is attracting many fast growing new entrants as well. To achieve its growth goals, Rogers need to determine an optimal set of corporate level strategy and business level guiding policies to maintain its market leader position in the long term. Rogers need to seek ways to leveraging its resource strength and improving upon its weaknesses to develop a long-term sustainable competitive advantage in this highly competitive industry. Evaluation Criteria With growth in mind, the strategic decision must take into account the following criteria: 1. Leads to sustainable long-term competitive advantage 2. Growth forecast (Industry and Segment conditions, Market Trends) 3. Competitive viability (Barriers to Entry, Substitutes) 4. Achieves competitive cost structure Strategic Recommendation: Integrated LTE (4G) Wireless Technology The advanced LTE network boasts higher efficiency, faster speeds, and broader bandwidth capabilities. As wireless devices continual to demand for better network performance, the upgrade to the more sophisticated...
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...303 DeVry University Julia Smith May 19th, 2012 Verizon Communications Inc. is a provider of communications services with for operating segments: Domestic Telecom, Domestic Wireless, information Services and International. Domestic Telecom is services principally represent Verizon’s telephone operations that provide local telephone services in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Domestic Wireless are products and services which include wireless voice and data services and equipment sales across the United States. The Information Services segment encompasses Verizon’s domestic and international publishing businesses, including print SuperPages and electronic SuperPages.com directories, as well as Website creation and other electronic commerce services. This segment has operations principally in North America and Latin America. The International segment has wire line and wireless communications operations and investments primarily in the Americas, as well as investments in Europe. The Company was formed on June 30, 2000; with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. Independently both companies managed its own success. GET had over 7 million wireless customers, close to 35 million land lines distributed between the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Bell Atlantic enjoyed over 40 million mobile customers; at the moment was the world’s largest directory information service provider. Verizon’s Mission Statement is as follows: ...
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...since they are financially stronger (Beaudry, 2014). Their well-established network and financial strength therefore gives them an added advantage in the marketplace. This can explain why the Big Three have nearly 90.1 percent control over the market share (Urquhart, 2012). When it comes to services such as buying a car or grocery shopping, Canadians have a variety of options. However, when it comes to picking internet providers, people are short of options. For example, in Vancouver one would be limited to three premium choices, Telus, Shaw and Novus (NewsDesk, 2014). This is very worrying for a liberal pluralist society, especially one as developed as Canada. The lack of consumer choice becomes an even greater problem as the internet encroaches the running of our day to day activities. Data from comScore shows that “Canada is ranked 3rd behind the United States and the United Kingdom in terms of the number of hours visitors spend online on average every month” (Beaudry, 2014). Online services such as YouTube and Over The Top Services like Netflix have taken over the internet by storm and have been blamed for the sharp increase in bandwidth demands and network congestion (Crawford, 2013). Internet Service Providers have therefore claimed that data caps, a part of their pricing model, are even more necessary than before. They claim that data caps help regulate network congestion and recover the new costs of bandwidth increase (Lyons, 2013). Data caps are limits on bandwidth...
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...Summary: This case is about the history of a Canadian multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile and telecommunications market. RIM provides platforms and solutions for access to information, including e-mail, voice, instant messaging, short message service (SMS), Internet and intranet-based applications and browsing. RIM’s portfolio includes the BlackBerry wireless solution, the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, software development tools and other software and hardware. History: Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) was founded in 1984 in Waterloo, Ontario, by Mike Lazardis. Lazardis, the son of Greeks who immigrated to Canada from Turkey in 1967, was 23 at the time. The company's first contract came from General Motors of Canada Ltd. for industrial automation. For several years the company survived by moving from contract to contract. By the late 1980s RIM had about $1 million in sales and about a dozen employees. RIM became interested in the long-term potential of digital wireless devices after it received a contract in 1987 from Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications, Inc. When RIM introduced its Inter@ctive pager in September 1996 at the PCS '96 trade show in San Francisco, the pager was able to use both the Ardis and RAM wireless networks. Released commercially in 1997, the Inter@ctive pager quickly became RIM's best-known product. RIM introduced...
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...Wireless!Communication!Industry!in!Canada! Meizhang!Xing!(1000583889)! ! Executive!Summary! Hello!Mr.!Liu,! I!am!honered!that!you!trust!my!ability!enough!to!give!me!this!opportunity.!After!my!detailed!research!and!analysis,!I!do!feel!that!it!is! indeed!worthwhile!to!learn!about!the!wireless!communication!industry!as!well!as!WIND!Mobile.!I!will!presnet!you!with!my!findings! from!the!following!three!aspects!:!! 1. 2. 3. Current!industry!environment!:!rapid!growth!;!oligopolistic!structure! Wireless!communication!industry’s!strong!profit!generation!ability!:!revenue!growth!;!EBITDA!margin!growth! WIND!Mobile’s!development!and!potentiality:!stable!corporate!structure;!competitiveness! ! ! In!my!opinion,!the!above!three!question!needs!to!be!answered!to!make!an!informed!decision!about!the!investment.!I!do!hope!my! research!can!help!you!convince!your!partners!to!investigate!in!the!Canadian!wireless!industry!and!WIND,!and!eventually!decide!on! whether!or!not!to!invest!in!WIND.! 1.!Current!Industry!Enviroment! a.!Rapid!development:!! !! ! ! ! Cell!phone!penetraeon:! In!2013,!83%!of!Canadian! households!had!an!aceve!cell!phone,! up!from!78%!in!2010.! In!2013,!21%!of!households!reported! using!a!cell!phone!exclusively,!up! from!13%!in!2010.! Data!traffic:!! Mobile!data!traffic!will!grow!900%! from!2013!to!2018,!a!compounded! annumal!growth!rate!of!54%.! Employment:!! Telecommunicaeon!field! employment!would!grow!from! 64,100!people!today!to!110,000!by! 2019!ability.!! (http://cwta...
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...diversified Canadian communications and media company engaged in the telecom and media businesses. Rogers Communications Inc. is engaged in four primary lines of business through its four principal operating segments: Rogers Wireless, Rogers Cable, Rogers Business Solutions and Rogers Media. Rogers Wireless is Canada’s largest wireless voice and data communications services provider and the country’s only national carrier operating on the combined world standard GSM/HSPA+/LTE technology platforms. Rogers Cable is a leading Canadian cable services provider, offering cable television, high-speed Internet access, and telephony products, and together with Rogers Business Solutions, provides business telecom, data networking and IP solutions to small, medium and large enterprise, government and carrier customers. Rogers Media is Canada’s premier group of category-leading broadcast, specialty, print and online media assets, with businesses in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, sports entertainment, magazine and trade journal publishing and digital media. We are publicly traded on both the TSX and NYSE stock exchanges and are included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index of the largest publicly traded companies in Canada. Canada Telecommunications Mobile SWOT Analysis Strengths * Locally owned mobile operators have invested heavily in the market. * Low penetration rate means ample scope for continued growth. * New operator launches to bring some dynamism...
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...Introduction Telecommunication: the transmission of information over long distances. It is a field that has evolved over millennia, from smoke signals and drum beats, to wireless technologies and the Internet. However, over the last two centuries, this evolution has become exponential; the nineteenth century brought forth the semaphore, then the telegraph and culminated with the 1976 invention of the telephone, by Alexander Graham Bell(1). In 1885, the Bell Telephone Company commenced operations in Alberta, Canada. A century later, in 1990, the Telus Corporation is established, via the largest IPO in Canadian history up to this time, raising $896 million (2). Telus is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada providing a wide range of communications tools for individuals and businesses (3). It is governed by the CRTC regulations and in direct competition with Bell Canada Enterprises and Rogers Communications Inc. These three companies represent 95% of the Canadian telecommunications market (4), with BCE leading at 44%, RCI at 28% and Telus a close third, with 23% market share. The company is focused on growing through innovation and efficient utilization of their intellectual capital, their core values, and establishing itself as the Canadian market leader. Bibliography 1. Matthews, Tom L. Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1999. ISBN 0-7922-7391-5. 2. Telus Website (history) http://about...
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...Statements 4 Analysis of Cash Flow Statements 5 Analysis of Balance Statements 6 Analysis of Ratios 8 Conclusion and Recommendations 16 References 19 Appendix A 20 Appendix B 22 Appendix C 26 Appendix D 28 Introduction Telecommunications Industry Canada’s telecommunication industry encompasses a broad range of services: cable, telephone (wireless and landlines) and internet service. These services are an integral part of Canadians' day to day lives and of Canada's economy. The wireless industry alone was responsible for contributing 22.4 billion to Canada’s Gross Domestic Product in 2013. (2) Despite the importance of the telecommunication industry to Canada’s economy, this market is dominated by only three key players: Rogers (34%), TELUS (28%), and Bell Canada (28%). (3) Canada’s stringent foreign ownership rules have limited entry form outside competition for these three giants and thus have allowed them to extract maximum profits from the market. However, the industry is highly regulated and all services providers are subject to high regulatory fees—each wireless service provider pays over $175 million in license fees each year. (2) In an attempt to garner more competition, in 2012 the government amended the Telecommunication Act to exempt foreign investment restrictions to companies that hold less than a 10% share of the total Canadian...
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...A * A&W (Canada) * Abilis Solutions (software development, consulting) * AbitibiBowater * Ache Records * Addition Elle (women's clothing) * Advance Gold (mining) * Access Communications * Advanced Cyclotron Systems (medical cyclotrons) * Affinity Credit Union (banking) * Areva Resources Canada (uranium) * Air Canada (airline) * AldrichPears Associates * ALDO Group * Algonquin Power * Allied Shipbuilders * Alta Newspaper Group * Alterra Power * Angoss Software Corporation (software) * Appnovation * Arc'teryx (outdoor apparel/equipment) * Atimi Software Inc * Aritzia (clothing) * Army & Navy Stores (Canada) * Arsenal Pulp Press (publisher) * ATI technologies (semiconductors) * Atmosphere Visual Effects (movie special effects) * AVI Sound International (audio/visual equipment manufacture) B * Ballard Power Systems * Banff Lodging Co * Bank of Montreal * Bank West * Barrick Gold * Bard Ventures Company * BBC Kids (television) * BC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd. * BC Hydro * BC Research Inc * Becancour Silicon (silicon manufacture) * Bell Canada * Bennett Environmental * Becker's * Ben Moss Jewellers * Big Blue Bubble (software firm) * BigPark (software firm) * Biovail * BioWare (video games) * Bison Transport Inc. (Transportation) * Black Diamond Cheese Limited * Black Hen Music (record...
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...Issues This Update explores the emerging field of mobile commerce, generally defined as business-to-consumer commercial activities conducted via a mobile device. Technological developments within the wireless industry are giving rise to healthy growth forecasts for the mobile sub-set of electronic commerce. This paper describes the main types of mobile commerce applications available to Canadian consumers. Consumer protection issues and a number of policy initiatives are also discussed, in light of experiences of earlyadopting countries. Monitoring the consumer issues raised by mobile commerce will assuredly be required as technological developments and consumer uptake further evolve. Mobile Commerce: Winter 2010 The Consumer Trends Update is published by the Office of Consumer Affairs, Industry Canada. It provides brief reports on research or policy developments related to themes explored in the 2005 Consumer Trends Report, which is available at: www.consumer.ic.gc.ca/trends. The recent boom in mobile devices, in terms of both the scope and nature of usage, is heightening the potential for mobile commerce. A majority of Canadians today have access to a mobile phone 1; in fact, some have access to more than one, and a growing number even rely exclusively on wireless The pace of technological adoption: telephony. 2 Recent models integrate voice the U.S. payments example communications with various non-voice functions, such as reading e-mail, viewing It took: videos...
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...Telecommunication has been my preferred domain since I completed Bachelors from Mumbai University. The transformation of computers to iPad, and telephones to small palm sized mobile phones, without wires, inspired me to gain an insight into the factors responsible for wireless communication. The extraordinary developments in this field, both in Wide and Local Area Networks, especially in the Network Management and Security Systems further stimulated my interest and have encouraged me to opt for post-graduation in Computer and Network System Security. After completing my high school, I enrolled myself for the graduate program in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. The well organized syllabus has given me a comprehensive exposure to the core areas of Digital Communication and Wireless Systems. I have developed a keen interest in these subjects mainly due to their highly mathematical approach. And because of my diligence and hard work I was able to score 62% in B.E. To acquire more practical knowledge of Networking Systems, I joined a firm, XXXX Enterprises as a Network Engineer in May 2010. While working with them I gained immense of experience. I completed my training and worked on many different Projects as a Network Engineer with them such as designing, setting up and managing the Network. The projects gave me hands-on experience in Linux administration, shell scripting, public private key cryptography and digital signatures. I thoroughly enjoyed researching and...
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...Analysis Executive Summary TELUS is one of Canada’s leading telecommunications companies. The revenue of the company is generated mostly through residential and corporate phone service. The company has been able to stay ahead of the competition by innovating and providing the best solution to Canadians at home, in the workplace, and on the move. For them to continue to strive, they need accurate financial reporting and up-to-date accounting policies in today’s competitive environment. Introduction The telecom industry can be visualized as the largest operational network in the world. A global network that binds us all together; allowing us to connect with eachother regardless of geographical location. Although this industry was originally dominated by government owned monopolies, the industry has now turned to rapid deregulation which has resulted in a massive pool of new competitors. MARKET & STRATEGY Basic telephone calls were the first revenue generator in the industry; but now texting and high speed internet is pushing the market to new frontiers. Residential and small business markets are the toughest, with literally hundreds of players in the market relying heavily on price and brand name strength (Porter). The corporate market on the otherhand is more concerned with quality, reliability, and data delivery – while being less price sensititive than other customers (Porter). Although the telecommunications industry has been very competitive as new key players enter the...
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