Project:-: Analysis of Telecom Sector Players According To Their Marketing Strategies
Project:-: Analysis of Telecom Sector Players According To Their Marketing Strategies
• India is the fourth largest telecom market in Asia after China, Japan and South
Korea.
• The Indian telecom network is the eighth largest in the world and the second
largest among emerging economies.
• The Indian telecom market size of over US $ 8 billion is expected to increase three
fold by 2012.
• NTP 1994 was the first attempt to give a comprehensive roadmap for the
Indian telecommunications sector.
Availability of telephones on demand (targeted by 1997) .
Universal service covering all villages and one pco per 500 persons in urban
areas at the earliest (targeted to be achieved by 1997) .
Telecom services at affordable and reasonable prices .
Indian Telecom sector, like any other industrial Sector in the country, has
gone through many phases of growth and
diversification. Starting from telegraphic and
telephonic systems in the 19th century, the field
of telephonic communication has now expanded
to make use of advanced technologies like
GSM, CDMA, and WLL to the great 3G
Technology in mobile phones. Day by day,
both the Public Players and the Private Players
are putting in their resources and efforts to improve the telecommunication
technology so as to give the maximum to their customers.
The Indian telecom sector can be broadly classified into Fixed Line Telephony
and mobile telephony. The major players of the telecom sector are experiencing a
fierce competition in both the segments.
The major players like BSNL, MTNL, VSNL in the fixed line and Airtel,
Vodafone (Hutch), Idea, Tata, Reliance in the mobile segment are coming up with
new tariffs and discount schemes to gain the competitive advantage.
The Public Players and the Private Players share the fixed line and the mobile
segments. Currently the Public Players have more than 60% of the market share.
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERS :
According to the Vision 2020 document of the Planning Commission of India, the
country will witness continued urbanization. The urban population is expected to
rise from 28 per cent to 40 per cent of total population by 2020.
Future growth is likely to be concentrated in and around 60 to 70 large cities
having a population of one million or more. This profile of concentrated
urban population will facilitate customized telecom offerings from operators.
Both fixed line and mobile segments serve the basic needs of local calls, long
distance calls and the international calls, with the provision of broadband services
in the fixed line segment and GPRS in the mobile arena. Traditional telephones
have been replaced by the codeless and the wireless instruments.
Mobile phone providers have also come up with GPRS - enabled
multimedia messaging, Internet surfing, and mobile- commerce.
The much-awaited 3G mobile technology has entered in The Indian
telecom market.
The GSM, CDMA, WLL service providers are all upgrading them to
provide 3G mobile services.
Radio services have also been incorporated in the mobile handsets,
along with other applications like high storage memory, multimedia
applications, multimedia games, MP3 Players, video generators, Camera's,
etc. The value added services provided by the mobile service operators
contribute more than 10% of the total revenue.
The 2009 budget has brought further relief to the customers with the
reduction in the tariffs, both local and long distance, and with slashing down
the roaming rentals. This is likely to lead to even more people going for
cellular services and more and more use of the value added services.
However, landline telephony is likely to remain popular, too, in the
foreseeable future. MTNL, the largest landline service provider, has
recently taken some bold initiatives to retain its market share and, if
possible, expand it
PLAYERS ARE:-
o AIRTEL
o VODAPHONE
o RELAINCE
o BSNL
o IDEA
o AIRCEL
o TATA
OPPORTUNITIES:-
India offers an unprecedented opportunity for telecom service operators,
infrastructure vendors, manufacturers and associated services companies. A host of
factors are contributing to enlarged opportunities for growth and investment in
telecom:
an expanding Indian economy with increased focus on the services
sector
population mix moving favorably towards a wenger age profile
urbanization with increasing incomes
Investors can look to capture the gains of the Indian telecom boom and diversify
their operations outside developed economies that are marked by saturated telecom
markets and lower GDP growth rates.
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE:-
1) Situation analysis
2) Self analysis
3) Competitor analysis
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS
Some businesses think it is best to get on with their own plans and ignore
the competition. Others become obsessed with tracking the actions of
competitors (often using underhand or illegal methods).
Many businesses are happy simply to track the competition, copying their
moves and reacting to changes.
ILLUSTRATIONS:-
ILLUSTRATIONS:-
1) Reliance is providing the better quality in the lowest cost in the market. The
study clearly shows that reliance has the approx 18% of the total consumer
base while enjoys only 10% of the total telecom market revenue. So this
study clearly indicates that reliance is meant to provide the better quality at
the lowest possible price.
3) Besides that the GSM launch of the reliance creates a history that with
in 6 months it takes 7.2% of the GSM mobile segment in India due to the
low price. In that plan reliance give 900/- free talk time in just 25/-.
Cost leadership strategy is not the most desirable strategy in this event, as
competitors may put intense price pressures, such that all companies would end up
reducing their prices drastically.
Differentiation would be a viable strategy in this case as there is a
likelihood that the loyal customers would stay with the company. It would also be
hard for competitors to cope with the specialized needs of customers who are part
of a niche segment in the market.
High customer loyalty towards a company's brands, which is true for the
differentiation strategy, can play a vital role in discouraging potential entrants.
Threat of substitutes is reduced in case of the differentiation strategy due to
customer loyalty to the unique aspects of a particular product or service, which no
substitute product can offer in the customer's mind.
Buyers in case of differentiation strategy would have less power as there are
few alternatives available to them.
Illustration: - What’s good strategy for the leader is bad strategy for #2,
and vice versa.
For Example:-
Airtel concentrates for the value added services which are of
premium use so here what Vodafone did: Vodafone concentrated
more on the different kind of value added services i.e. “cricket
commentary suniye”, fashion tips, voice sms, beauty tips, caller
tunes, ringtones download rather than Airtel is more concerned about
the services that really be much more useful i.e. car insurance,
electricity & mobile bill payment, reservation. So we can say that
market leader is involving in premium use service to attract the elite
people whereas the Vodafone adopted to provide the entertainment
services to attract the weth.
Airtel ,being a market leader, is following the differentiation strategy
so reliance creates a big difference by providing the service as
compare to the very low price.
Airtel is market leader in the GSM sector; here reliance came with
CDMA technology and cover the large chunk of market.
SUBPRINCIPLE: 2:--THE FIND A WEAKNESS IN THE LEADER’S
STRENGTH AND ATTACK AT THAT POINT
For Example:-
Idea concentrates to upgrade the position by launching the new
schemes time to time to maintain its flanking move.
Virgin Is The New Market Entrant In The Mobile Service Provider Which
Captures Huge Market In A Very Short Time.
SUBPRINCIPLE: 2 No matter how successful you become, never act like the
leader.
Illustration: -- Try to pick a segment small enough so that you can become
the leader – but never act like the leader.
For example:-
Virgin got a huge youth response and the figure stated clearly says
the success story of virgin as its shown in their advertisements also
which all were targeting youth only.
6. PROMOTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS:
Brands stray when they try to be different for the sake of being different.
The desire to be different is pretty common in advertising.
In 2002, Airtel signed on music composer A.R.Rehman and changed its
tune to "live every moment": rah man’s signature tune for Airtel is the
most downloaded ringbone in India. But that was just part of the ongoing
communication.
The following year Airtel adopted the "express yourself" positioning, which
is also its current tagline.
Youth icons like Shahrukh khan and Sachin Tendulakar were brought in
as brand ambassadors to attract youngsters
Add campaign with an eye on the rural market.
System coverage
Call blockage
Voice quality
Dropped call rate
Black berry
Start or stop service at any time
Facilities provided
News services
Car insurance
Fund transfer
Bill payment system
Payment for ticket
Payment of electricity bills
Bharti Airtel Launched , Special Five, to Empower Its Customers
The analysis of the given strategy clearly shows that Airtel is trying to achieve their marketing
goals by expanding their market by two ways:--
Grow Sales with Existing Products Grow Sales with New and innovative
services
Marketers are trying to provide on the existing Airtel is trying to increase their market by
services to increase their sales. This strategy is providing regularly updated versions or
majority adopted by organization because they refinements to existing plans or services and
are very keen to make a better performance of by introducing new plan or service. The
their existing plan or service. Examples:-- example given in product variants category is
Various kinds of sales promotion techniques fall under this category also. Examples:--
are given by the organization on their existing Black berry Start or stop service at any time
plan or service to enhance the market of that Facilities provided News services Car
one. insurance Fund transfer Bill payment system
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