1.0 Introduction
Singapore Telecommunication Limited (Singtel) group is the largest leading telecommunication group in Asia, providing diverse range of state-of-the-art telecommunications services including fixed and 2G to 3G mobile network, tv, high speed data and internet services on wireless platform, infocomms technology (ICT) including digital solutions, and also being the first leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) to launch comprehensive suite of broadband services to both corporate and residential customers nationwide (Singtel, n.d.).
With more than 130 years of operating experiences, Singtel continue to lead and shape local digital consumer and enterprise market, making Singapore a major communication hub internationally. Singtel
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Through close working relationships with leading innovators, developers, government agencies, R&D and capital providers, Singtel Innov8 helps bring in cutting-edge technologies and solutions to various markets in the region, bringing the scale and demographics of Singtel Group to more than 473 million mobile customers across Asia Pacific and Africa (Singtel Innov8, n.d.). The highly competitive world calls for latest technologies which can access the markets and can lead to quantum changes in network capabilities, and commercialisation of these products and services are crucial to the survival, eventually leading to success of new ventures.
3. Porter Five Forces Analysis
Applying Porter five Forces framework helps Singtel determining the competitive intensity, analysing and evaluating business strategy problems. Understanding these analysis will therefore enable Singtel to re-evaluate the key factors necessary in coping with the company’s success.
3.1 Threat of New Entrance (Low)
Given the country’s small geographical landscape and population size, Singapore’s mobile market and global market developments are not able to sustain more than four infrastructure players in this
Founded in 1966 and based in Calgary, Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, Internet and television services as well as mass media related services. The Company operated through three principal business segments such as Cable, consisted of cable television, Internet, Digital Phone and Shaw Business operations. Satellite, consisted of direct-to-home (DTH) and Satellite Services. Lastly media consisted of television broadcasting. Shaw Media operates as conventional television networks in Canada, Global Television, and numerous specialty networks. It provides customers with entertainment, information and communications services, utilizing a variety of distribution
Every company has internal and external forces that effect how they operate within the community in which they are located and also within their own walls. These internal and external forces play a strong impact on the company’s profitability and success. These forces have an effect on what consumers they attract or ignore and how they are perceived by those who have the buying power. A mistake any analyzing and implementing measures to assist with these factors could greatly affects a company’s bottom line and success. This is why any company wanting to grow and be successful will need to take all of these forces; sociocultural, technological, economic, environmental and political-legal into consideration in creating their strategic plan.
Singtel (2011) Management discussion and analysis of Financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 march 2011, Singapore Telecommunications Limited and Subsidiary Companies.
In conclusion, current trends and significant events concerning T-Mobile were examined. A hard look was given to the economy, demographics, technology, political and legal issues, and social characteristics. T-Mobile is strong across the board, with surprising statistics backing up a variety of topics. The economy is strong, the demographics are not far-fetched, technology is improving, there’s no huge political or legal scandal, and T-Mobile is socially strong.
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Years later, the Telecommunication Act of 1996 triggered dramatic changes in the competitive landscape. SBC Communications Inc. established itself as a global communications provider by acquiring Pacific Telesis Group and becoming the new AT&T. The merger of AT& T and BellSouth, along with the ownership consolidation of Cingular Wireless and YELLOWPAGES.COM, will speed convergence, competition and continued innovation in the communications and entertainment industry, creating new solutions for consumers and businesses and positioned to lead the industry in one of its most signifi...
The world is experiencing a communications revolution. The Internet, e-Commerce and other developments (including the convergence of communication technologies) are profoundly reshaping economic and social life. AT&T must position itself to meet the challenge of this revolution. The strategic development of information-based industries is a key to the future social and economic development of the world.
Background One. Tel was launched by Jodee Rich and Brad Keeling in 1995 (Cook, 2001). At first, it looked to get the advantages from deregulation of the telecommunication industry by reselling other network’s capacity and making money through stock market speculation. Rich and Keeling tried to increase the company’s shares rather than profit the company (Cook, 2001). Initially, One.
Telecommunications gained mainstream attention in the early 90’s; however the initial key market was business men and women, who used their phones whilst being on the move and so allowing them to communicate with their companies with ease. Though in the modern era, telecommunication went through segmentation in the market trends, and now in this day and age it would be difficult to find someone who does not own some form of mobile technology. Many phone providers battle to provide the best service for their customers (Figure 1).
For assessing the industry profitability, Porter 5 Forces analysis tools were used to analyze one organization evaluation. In this case, the technique were used to analyze 7-Eleven Convenience Store specifically in Malaysia. Porter 5 Forces consists of 5 important area which is Threat of New Entrants, Bargaining Power of customers, Threat of substitute Products and services, Bargaining Power of suppliers, and competitive rivalry within the industry. Theoretically, the more powerful these forces in an industry, the lower its profit potential. The strength of each force differs by industry and changes over time. The competitive advantage that 7-Eleven has using these five forces is it has raised the barrier of entry for other competitors to enter the convenience store market as new competitors will require a huge capital investment in order to implement the information technology in their business in order to be competitive. Also, hypothetically being the first in the market, 7-Eleven could have made contracts with the Malaysia government to not allow other 24-hour convenience stores in the market for a certain time period, such as Astro had done, thus having a monopoly market in the beginning of their operations which will allow them to target a bigger market share.
Because the subject matter of strategic management is so inherently complex and because each one of us brings his own personal biases to the analysis, it was suggested early on that virtually all case material in the field be analyzed from the perspective of more than one methodology. Profit theory and industrial chains were selected as the first of a number of viable approaches to the analytical process. It would have been equally correct to select the Five Competitive Forces analysis refined by Michael Porter, one of the major figures in the field of strategic management. This methodology addresses the same issues but differs only in the language that they use to describe corporate behavior. The five forces are:
Mobilink’s tagline catchphrase “Mobilink… Reshaping Lives” tells us about how they want to position the brand in the minds of their target customers. The message they want to communicate to the consumer market is that Mobilink is the best solution for telecommunication and can be trusted to provide communication facilities all across the globe where no other service is available. The company tries to position itself as one that provides a greater edge over its competitors and that its innovative and creative services are such that will actually ‘reshape’ lives. This image that Mobilink tries to is create created in the minds of consumers gives Mobilink an unparalleled advantage. Mobilink now wants to come up with 3G technology which will offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment.3G position itself for all those people who are looking for superior performance based technologies. 3G are for those all people who are striving and challenging.
We intend to exploit our leadership role by continuing to target and enter segments of the communications market that we believe will experience rapid growth or grow faster than the industry as a whole....
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The growth of services sector in our economy is a step forward in the development of Indian economy. In day to day life of an individual the use of mobile phones acts as necessity in getting connected with people for one or the other purpose. India has a largest variety of smartphones available for the users. Because of the fast technologies in smartphones & in market, the networks and services providers of telecom must be updated so as to meet the requirements of people. Indian telecommunication industry is considered to be one of the fastest growing telecom industries in the world. The mounting up of the subscribers reaches to an approximate 800 billion plus users in telecom sector. The industry is growing at as pace in such a way that it will reach a level beyond the telecom markets of USA &