INDUSTRY STRUCTURE
STANDALONE OR CONGLOMERATE
Bharti Airtel Limited (conglomerate)
Ownership: Privately-held by Sunil Bharti Mittal
Date of Establishment: 7th July 1995
Market Share: 21.35%
Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. (BTVL), the country’s leading telecom conglomerate is one of India’s leading private sector provider of Tele-communications services. The other companies under this group are:-
• Bharti Infratel
• Bharti Retail
• Bharti TeleTech
• Field Fresh Foods( joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and DMPL India Ltd.-a subsidiary of Del Monte Pacific Ltd.)..
• Bharti AXA General Insurance and Life Insurance (joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and AXA, world leader in financial protection and wealth management.)
• Centum Learning (formerly Bharti Learning Systems Limited)
• Bharti Foundation
• Bharti Realty
Bharti Airtel Ltd. has been structured into three individual strategic business units (SBU’s) Mobile Services, Airtel Telemedia Services & Enterprise Services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 22 telecom circles while the Airtel Telemedia Services business offers broadband & telephone services in 95 cities and has recently launched a Direct-to-Home (DTH) service, Airtel digital TV. The company provides end-to-end data and enterprise services to the corporate customers through its nationwide fibre optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles, VSATs, ISP and international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing station
Globally, Bharti Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom and with 139 million subscribers it is the largest mobile operator in the country. ...
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...ompetition it faced from other major telecom service providers has seen its market share being reduced to minimal decimals.
Videocon (conglomerate)
Ownership: Privately held by Videocon Group
Date of Establishment: 7th April 2010
Market Share: 0.26%
Videocon group, an Indian Multinational company, is a global business conglomerate. Its roots are spread in diverse markets and generates revenues worth $5 billion annually. Videocon Telecommunications Limited is headquartered in Gurgaon (NCR Delhi). It provides GSM services in almost all parts of India (Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana, Mumbai, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh). The. The group has several manufacturing facilities and R&D departments spread all across the globe including American, Europe and Australia. The group also manufactures mobile handsets under the same brand name.
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In 1990s, ground-based wireless phone service grew rapidly around the world. A key factor in the growth of wireless phones was the adoption of a single standard, known as GSM, in Europe and parts of Asia. There were 480 million cellular subscribers worldwide by January 2000 and it reached more than billions before 2005. The economy of scale that introduced will provide the extent of competitive pressure in the business environment. It helps to stimulate Iridium to consider price-performance tradeoff that offered by the substitutes and the need of product differentiation alternatives in advance.
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Verizon Communications formed by the merger of two big and successful companies, Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., is the largest telecommunication company. The company serves large part of the market in United States. However the company faces certain strengths and weaknesses which affect the way company formulate its strategies.
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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...
China Mobile is located in China while Verizon Communications and AT&T are located in the United States, which are regions with a high population. The general income levels for residents in these countries are significantly high. Consequently, the buyers have immense buying power. China has a host of other major players like China telecom that provides a stiff challenge to China Mobile. Similarly, Verizon Communications is located in the same region as AT&T (Rajasekar & Al Raee, 2013). Subsequently, buyers have the power to determine the telecommunication service provider to adopt. Major industrial players are aware of the buyer’s bargaining power, and they do everything possible to lower their prices and improve the quality of their
Effective competition is widely seen as a key to the development of telecommunications services. The ability of new telecommunications networks to interconnect fairly and efficiently with existing networks is critical to the development of competition. AT&T has undergone numerous changes since its inception in the late 19th century. The McKinsey 7 S framework as applied by Pascale is recommended to manage the changes they are facing to adopt a greater competitive presence in the global economy. In conjunction with this framework, numerous other models were applied to analyse the global competitive position of AT&T. Recommendations for a revised strategy and direction for AT&T have been made throughout this document including two scenarios of how the telecommunications industry might develop towards 2000, while outlining the impact on AT&T.
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.
Zara is a fashion clothing store owned by Spanish fashion group Inditex. The first Zara store opened in La Coruna by Amancio Ortega in 1975. Major consumers included young, fashion forward people who resided in the city whose trends and demands were hard to forecast. Being in the apparel industry, he believed that retailing and manufacturing needs to be closely linked to meet consumer demands. What differentiates zara from competitors is the rapid turnover time and using the physical store as a source of information. The company was a huge success and the Zara chain opened an average of one store per day across the world since 2003 and currently having about 550 stores.
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).
Industry analysis is a study in which helps us to understand business and its environment like trade and services, manufacturing, etc. Industry analysis gives assistance in investment business decisions, future opportunities by forecasting.
Aditya Birla Group is one of the first multinational corporations in India. Its headquarter is located in Mumbai with many others operations in different parts of the world such as in Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, China…), Europe (UK, Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland…), America (US, Brazil…). Throughout their growing, Aditya Birla have become well known in many sectors that they get involved in not only in India but also around the world. Back to the earlier day of the corporation, when it first founded, the group has focused on critical sector such as textiles and fibre, aluminum… and become one of the largest participant in those areas. Later on, in the 1960s, the company had expanded their business into cement and chemicals. Also, they expanded their business across the border of India into many other countries. This “revolution” has brought the name of the group into the international business map and become bigger than ever (Aditya Birla Group 2007). Today, ABG is a corporation with the consolidate revenue of 30bil with the affiliates in 45 countries and 60% of their revenue come from internationally and become one of the largest private company in the world (Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited, 2011).
The SWOT analysis is a useful tool for identifying our personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to our plans and goals. According to a “Fuel My Motivation” article (2010), this analysis considers internal influences that can positively or negatively affect our ability to achieve our goals. The internal factors are our strengths and weaknesses. Also considered are opportunities and threats, which are external influences that can have a positive or negative impact on the ability to achieve our goals. I will share how the self-assessment instruments and self-exercises in this course have contributed to assessing and understanding my strengths and weaknesses. I will also discuss techniques I will use to leverage my strengths and understand my weaknesses. In addition, I will consider opportunities that I can take advantage of and the threats that can possibly impede my progress.