“COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TELECOM INDUSTRYU WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO RELIANCE IMFOCOMM”

Submitted by:

ANURAG PARIDA

REGD. NO.0941333210

Session 2009-11

Project Report submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of

Master of Business Administration

Under the guidance of

Name of External Guide: Name of the internal guide:

Mr.Kiran behera Mr. Sujit kumar patra

Designation: Store manager Designation: lecturer

Name of the Organization:

Reliance Infocomm Institute of Business & Computer Studies,

SOA University

Institute of Business & Computer Studies

Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University

Internal Guide Certificate

Mr. Sujit kumar Patra

Lecturer

IBCS, SOA University

C e r t i f i c a t e C e r t i f i c a t e

This is to certify that Mr. / Ms. Anurag parida, having regd No

0941333210 has done this research project work on “competitors

analysis of reliance communication” and submitted the report in partial

fulfilment for the degree of Master of Business Administration to IBCS,

SOA University, Bhubaneswar under my supervision and guidance.

His / her report is the record of original work done by him / her. To

the best of my knowledge, no part of the content of this report has been

submitted for any degree by him / her or any body else to any other

University or Institution.

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that this report entitles “Comparative analysis of telecom industry with special reference to Reliance Infocomm” is a record of independent work, carried out by me under the supervision and guidance of Mr. Kiran Kumar Behera (Store Manager, Fortune Tower, Reliance Web world, Orissa). This report is being submitted as per the partial requirements of MBA at IBCS, Bhubaneswar.

Place: Bhubaneswar Anurag Parida

Date: ......................... Regd. No. – 0941333210

AKNOWLEDGEMENT

There are few thing that come in the life of a person, may be for short span of time, but leaves on ever shining impression in to the mind. My summer training is one of the events which will be ever green in my life.

The SIP in the reliance company has been successful with the help of guidance, suggestion and advice of a number of guides, well-wishers and friends. It is my sincere duty to acknowledge all of them.

I also express my deep sense of gratitude and thanks to my revered company guide Mr. Kiran Behera, the store manager, Reliance Web World, fortune tower, for his valuable guidance and supervision. He has been a constant source of inspiration and help during the training period.

I deeply offer my sincere gratitude to all of my faculty members of IBCS, BBSR for her great support for doing SIP.

I also thank God, my parents, friends and all my well wishers who have co-operated me directly or indirectly.

Anurag Parida

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Reliance infocomm provides a range of telecom services, which include cellure, basic ,internet and recently introduced national long distance. With a foot print of 22 telecom circles in india covering the four metros and more than 127.49 million satisfied customers.

The project is based on the study of competitors analysis, their behavior, preference, level of competition and market size of Reliance Infocomm . The study was conducted in Bhubaneswar with sample size of 50 and sample units were suppliers and customers.

Table of Contents

Subject Items Page No.

Chapter-I (Introduction)

Objectives of the project Research methodology

o Research Designo Methods of Data Collectiono Sources of datao Questionnaire design

Scope and limitations of the study

Chapter-II (Literature Review / Theoretical Background)

Competitor analysis and its importance Michele porter’s 5 forces Process of competitors analysis Major players in Inian telecom industry Value added services of Major players Market share analysis Revenue analysis

Chapter-III (Company / Product Profile)

Concerned Industry Scenario Current Profile of the Company / (Company Name): An Overview

Chapter-IV (Data Analysis and Interpretation)

Chapter-V (Summary and Conclusion)

Major Findings Suggestions Conclusion

Annexure

Bibliography Sample copy of Questionnaire

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

This project titled , competitors analysis of Reliance Infocomm”

is prepared with the objectives of finding out the various

competitors who are competing with Reliance communication in

the Bhubaneswar market.

The main objective of this project is to analyze the

emerging trends in the Telecom sector in India.

This project was also carried out to understand the

future Outlook of the Telecom market in India.

Another motive includes finding their performance, growth

potential and also the opportunities that exist for the Indian

Telecom market., so that the company would have the competitive

advantages over its competitors .

This project is also prepared with the objectives to prepare the

marketing strategy so that it can compete with its competitors.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

RESEARCH DESIGN The type of research design used by me to gather information or data for this project can be termed as Descriptive research. Descriptive research includes surveys and facts findings enquire of different kinds. The major purpose of Descriptive is to describe the competitors of Reliance communication. Therefore I have adopted the questionnaire method and surveyed more of dealers and also the common user.

DATA COLLECTION METHOD:

1. Interviewing the customer.

2. Distribution of questionnaire.

3. Investing the records maintained at reliance world.

SOURCE OF DATA: -

1. PRIMARY DATA: -

Data has been collected from primary source by interviewing the staff members reliance world some of the personal of Reliance Infocom corporate office. The primary data of evaluating the customer’s opinion about the sales promotion schemes of Reliance Infocom has been collected through a questionnaire are used by evaluation purpose.

2. SECONDARY SOURCES

Secondary data has been collected from the company’s manual, from the records maintained at reliance world and from internet.

SAMPLE DESIGN:

The sample size has been taken as 30. Thirty customer were asked to fill up a questionnaire. These customers were selected by applying random sampling method.

QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN

There are 2 way of preparing a questionnaire either it should be a close ended questionnaire or open ended questionnaire. In case, of open ended questionnaire, the questions are structured but the responses are unstructured. Here, the respondent is expected to reply with whatever words are considered to be relevant. According to my research I used both open ended and closedended questionnaire as the respondent has been given the opportunity to express their views.

SAMPLING- I have used stratified random sampling. I have chosen the samples randomly from different places and from reliance communication and collects their response.

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

1. The findings of the study help the telecom sector to develop their strategy.

2. The study also help new telecom provider who newly came to the markets.

3. The findings also help to Orissa telecom sector to understand the market potentiality of telecom subscriber.

4. This study also helps to understand the marketer’s behavior of telecom companies with in a competitive market.

LIMITATION

The Topic is a voluminous one for which the time allotted was

insufficient.

Getting primary data from the company is very difficult. For being

a private company the employees of the company are reluctant to

give any information, which is specific to that company.

The most significant weakness of this study can be attributed to the

chosen case study research methodology. These include the lack of

generalization, perceived lack of rigor, subjectivity, and

voluminous documents. This study is an exploratory case study

with a voluminous sample size. Therefore, the findings cannot be

generalized beyond the context of this study.

Chapter-II (Literature Review / Theoretical Background)

Competitor analysis and its importance Michele porter’s 5 forces Process of competitors analysis Major players in Inian telecom industry Value added services of Major players Market share analysis Revenue analysis

WHAT IS COMPETITORS ANALYSIS

Competitor analysis in marketing and strategic management is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context through which to identify opportunities and threats. Competitor profiling coalesces all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework in the support of efficient and effective strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring and adjustment.

Given that competitor analysis is an essential component of corporate strategy, it is argued that most firms do not conduct this type of analysis systematically enough. Instead, many enterprises operate on what is called “informal impressions, conjectures, and intuition gained through the tidbits of information about competitors every manager continually receives.” As a result, traditional environmental scanning places many firms at risk of dangerous competitive blind spots due to a lack of robust competitor analysis.

NEED FOR COMPETITORS ANALYSIS

To become the best does not mean copying what competitors are doing today, or did yesterday. It requires creativity and innovation - anticipating tomorrow's trends before they become today's normality - keeping several steps ahead of competitors.

To outwit your competitors you need to know what they are doing To outmaneuver them, you need to know in which direction they are

going To outflank them, you need to be faster, and better so that you can

overtake them, keep in front of them, and be the best. By analyzing your competitors you can know the strengths and

weaknesses of them. You can guard yourself from the threats of your competitors and can

grasp the opportunities.

Competitors analysis is very important to gain competitive advantages.

MICHELE PORTER’S FIVE FORCES

Michael Eugene Porter (born 1947) is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a leading authority on company strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions. Michael Porter’s work is recognized in many governments, corporations and academic circles globally. He chairs Harvard Business School's program dedicated for newly appointed CEOs of very large corporations.

Three of Porter's five forces refer to competition from external sources. The remainder are internal threats. It is useful to use Porter's five forces in conjunction with SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats).

Porter referred to these forces as the micro environment, to contrast it with the more general term macro environment. They consist of those forces close to a company that affect its ability to serve its customers and make a profit. A change in any of the forces normally, requires a business unit to re-assess the marketplace given the overall change in industry information. The overall industry attractiveness does not imply that every firm in the industry will return the same profitability. Firms are able to apply their core competencies, business model or network to achieve a profit above the industry average. A clear example of this is the airline industry. As an industry, profitability is low and yet individual companies, by applying unique business models, have been able to make a return in excess of the industry average.

The five Forces :

o The threats of entrant of new competitors

o The intensity of competitive rivalry

o The threats of substitute products and services

o The bargaining power of customers

o The bargaining power of suppliers

( Five forces of competition )

1. The threat of the entry of new competitors

Profitable markets that yield high returns will attract new firms. This results in many new entrants, which eventually will decrease profitability for all firms in the industry. Unless the entry of new firms can be blocked by incumbents, the profit rate will fall towards zero (perfect competition).

• The existence of barriers to entry .The most attractive segment is one in which entry barriers are high and exit barriers are low. Few new firms can enter and non-performing firms can exit easily.

• Economies of product differences

• Brand equity

• Switching costs or sunk costs

• Capital requirements

• Access to distribution

• Customer loyalty to established brands

• Absolute cost advantages

2. The intensity of competitive rivalry

For most industries, the intensity of competitive rivalry is the major determinant of the competitiveness of the industry.

• Sustainable competitive advantage through innovation

• Competition between online and offline companies.

• Level of advertising expense.

• Powerful competitive strategy.

• Competitive rivalry is likely to be based on dimensions such as price, quality, and innovation. Technological advances protect companies from competition. This applies to products and services. Companies that are successful with introducing new technology, are able to charge higher prices and achieve higher profits, until competitors imitate them. Examples of recent technology advantage in have been mp3 players and mobile telephones. Vertical integration is a strategy to reduce a business' own cost and thereby intensify pressure on its rival.

3. The threat of substitute products or services

The existence of products outside of the realm of the common product boundaries increases the propensity of customers to switch to alternatives:

Buyer propensity to substitute Relative price performance of substitute Buyer switching costs Perceived level of product differentiation Substandard product Quality depreciation

4. The bargaining power of customers (buyers)

The bargaining power of customers is also described as the market of outputs: the ability of customers to put the firm under pressure, which also affects the customer's sensitivity to price changes.

Buyer concentration to firm concentration ratio Degree of dependency upon existing channels of distribution Bargaining leverage, particularly in industries with high fixed

costs Buyer volume Buyer switching costs relative to firm switching costs Buyer information availability Ability to backward integrate Availability of existing substitute products Buyer price sensitivity Differential advantage (uniqueness) of industry products

5. The bargaining power of suppliers

The bargaining power of suppliers is also described as the market of inputs. Suppliers of raw materials, components, labor, and services (such as expertise) to the firm can be a source of power over the firm,

when there are few substitutes. Suppliers may refuse to work with the firm, or, e.g., charge excessively high prices for unique resources.

Supplier switching costs relative to firm switching costs Degree of differentiation of inputs Impact of inputs on cost or differentiation Presence of substitute inputs Supplier concentration to firm concentration ratio Employee solidarity (e.g. labor unions) Supplier competition - ability to forward vertically integrate and cut

out the buyer

ANALYZING COMPETITORS

Once a company identifies its primary competitors, it must ascertain their strategies, objectives, strengths and weaknesses.

o Strategies

A group of firms following the same strategy in a given target market is called a strategic group. The strategic groups are based on product quality and level of vertical integration. The height of entry barrier is differs for each group. If the company enters a group then the members of that group become its key competitors.

o Objectives

After identified the competitors, the company have to find out what is each competitor seeking in the market place? To gain competitive advantages the company has to first analyze the objectives of its competitors.

o Strength and Weaknesses

A company needs to gather information about each competitor’s strengths and weaknesses. By analyzing weaknesses the company can attack the weak points of his competitors and it can also defend itself from its competitors. To improve market share, many companies benchmark their most successful competitors, as well as other world-class performers.

o Selecting Competitors

After the company has conducted customer value analysis and examined its competitors carefully, it can focus its attack on one of the following classes of the competitors: strong versus weak, close versus distant and good versus bad.

Strong versus weak:

Most companies aim their shots at weak competitors, because this requires fewer resources per share.

Close versus Distant:

Most companies compete with the competitors that resemble them the most. In telecom sector reliance compete with BSNL.

Good versus Bad

Every industry has good and bad competitor. Good competitors is

play by the industry’s rules; they set prices in reasonable

relationship to cost; and they favor a healthy industry. Bad

Competitors take larger risk; invest in over capacity and they upset

industrial equilibrium.

o Selecting competitors

Firm must evaluate its customer base and think about which customers its willing to lose and which it wants to retain. One way to divide up the customer base is in terms of whether a customer is valuable or vulnerable.BSNL, a public-sector telecom company in India, in one of its circles decided to protect its valuable/vulnerable institutional customers by specifically analyzing their past usage pattern and suggesting approximate tariff plan to them.

MAJOR PLAYERS IN TELECOM INDUSTRIES

There are three types of player in telecom sector in India. They are,

o State owned companies(BSNL and MTNL)o Private Indian own companies(Reliance infocomm and Tata tele

services)o Foreign invested companies (Vodafone, Bharti tele-venture, Idea

cellular, BPL mobile and Spice communication)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSnl)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. formed in October, 2000, is World's 7th largest and Indias largest Telecommunications Company providing

comprehensive range of telecom services in India: Wire line, CDMA mobile, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, IN Services etc. Presently it is one of the largest & leading public sector unit in India. BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to bridge the Rural-Urban Digital Divide ICT sector. In fact there is no telecom operator in the country to beat its reach with its wide network giving services in every nook & corner of country and operates across India except Delhi & Mumbai. The company offers vide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suite every customer. BSNL has set up a world class multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like voice, data and video through the same Backbone and Broadband Access Network. The turnover, nationwide coverage, reach, comprehensive range of telecom services and the desire to excel has made BSNL the No. 1 Telecom Company of India. Owner : Government of India

BSNL Registered Office: Bharat Sanchar Bhavan Harish Chandra Mathur Lane Janpath, New Delhi-110 001 BSNL

Corporate Office: Bharat Sanchar Bhavan Harish Chandra Mathur Lane Janpath, New Delhi-110 001

Bharti airtelAirtel comes to you from Bharti Airtel Limited, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom services providers with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa. Bharti Airtel, formerly known as Bharti Tele- Ventures LTD (BTVL) is India's largest cellular service provider. It is the first mobile service in Delhi, first private basic telephone service provider in the country, first Indian company to provide comprehensive telecom services outside India in Seychelles and first private sector service provider to launch National Long Distance Services in India.Bharti Airtel since its inception has been at the forefront of technology and has pioneered several innovations in the telecom sector.

The company is structured into four strategic business units - Mobile, Telemedia, Enterprise and Digital TV. The mobile business offers services in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 89 Indian cities. The Digital TV business provides Direct-to-Home TV services across India. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to telcos.

Vision :

o By 2010 Airtel will be the most admired brand in India:o Loved by more customerso Targeted by top talento Benchmarked by more businesses

Mission :

o We will meet the mobile communication needs of our customer through error free service delivery

o Innovative product and services

o Cost efficiency o Unified message solution

Corporate office: C-17, Commercial Complex, Green Park, Delhi, 110016

Reliance communication

[ reliance infocomm ]

It is commercially launched its services in May 2003. It has license to offer telecom services in 20 circles user unified access license. Reliance Communications (formerly Reliance Infocomm), along with Reliance Telecom and Flag Telecom, is part of Reliance Communications Ventures (RCoVL). It is also an integrated telecom service provider with licenses for mobile, fixed, domestic long distance and international services. Reliance Infocomm offers a complete range of telecom services, covering mobile and fixed line telephony including broadband, national and international long distance services, data services and a wide range of value added services and applications. Reliance IndiaMobile, the first of Infocomm's initiatives was launched on December 28, 2002. This marked the beginning of Reliance's vision of ushering in a digital revolution in India by becoming a major catalyst in improving.

Registered office : H-BLock, Ht Floor,Dhirubhai

Ambani Knowledge City Navi Mumbai-4

AIRCEL

Aircel was founded by NRI businessman C Sivasankaran.The Aircel group is a joint venture between Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia and Sindya Securities & Investments Private Limited, whose current shareholders are the Reddy family of Apollo Hospitals Group of India, with Maxis Communications holding a majority stake of 74%. Aircel commenced operations in 1999 and became the leading mobile operator in Tamil Nadu within 18 months. In December 2003, it launched commercially in Chennai and quickly established itself as a market leader – a position it has held since.

Aircel has won many awards and recognitions. Voice and Data gave Aircel the highest rating for overall customer satisfaction and network quality in 2006. Aircel emerged as the top mid-size utility company in Businessworld’s ‘List of Best Mid-Size Companies’ in 2007. Additionally, Tele.net recognised Aircel as the best regional operator in 2008.

Vision: o Become the Service Provider of Choice for the Enterprise

Segment.Mission:o Enter in to top 1000 corporate as the most agile service Provider. o Create well differentiated value offerings of ready adaption by

Large, medium and small enterprises.

o Own service offerings, platform and delivery mechanism that keeps ahead of competition now and during technology shift

VodafoneVodafone Group Plc (Vodafone) is a mobile communications company operating across the globe providing a range of communications services. It offers a range of products and services, including voice, messaging, data and fixed-line solutions and devices to assist customers in meeting their total communications needs. Vodafone has a significant global presence, with equity interests in over 30 countries and over 40 partner markets worldwide. It operates in three geographic regions: Europe, Africa and Central Europe; Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and has an investment in Verizon Wireless in the United States.

Vision: To be the worlds communication leader enrich customers’ leave And helping individuals, business and communities. Be more Connected with mobile world.Mission: Driving in wireless world. Vodafone is primarily a user of technology rather than a developer of it. Corporate office: Vodafone Essar LTD, Peninsula Corporate Park Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai - 400013

Idea cellularIdea Cellular is a wireless telephony company operating in various states in India. It initially started in 1995 as a joint venture among the Tatas, Aditya Birla Group and AT&T by merging "'Wings Cellular'" operating in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (UP) West, Rajasthan and Tata Cellular as well as Birla AT&T Communications. Idea Cellular won the GSM Association Award for "Best Billing and Customer Care Solution" for 2 consecutive years. IDEA Cellular offers basic voice and short message service (SMS) services to high-end value added and general packet radio service (GPRS) services, such as Blackberry, Datacard, Mobile TV and Games.

Vision: To delight the customers while meeting their communication need.

Mission:o The India footprint idea

Anywhere connectivity –bringing India closer.o The technology advantage idea

Tomorrow’s technology enrich today.o The customer focus idea

Make a single interaction a listing relationship.o The employee focus idea

Nurture the roots that nurtures our idea

Corporate office: Kailash building , 1st floor, kasturba Gandhi marg, Delhi – 11ooo1

Tata teleservices

Tata Teleservices (TTSL) spearheads the Tata group’s presence in the telecom sector. Incorporated in 1996, the company was the first to launch CDMA mobile services in India with the Andhra Pradesh circle.

Today, TTSL along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) serves over 36 million customers in over 3,20,000 towns and villages. With an ambitious rollout plan, both in existing circles and across new circles, the company stands for world-class technology and user-friendly services in 22 circles.

Tata Teleservices’ bouquet of telephony services includes mobile services, wireless desktop phones, public booth telephony and wire line services. Other services include value-added services such as voice portal, roaming, post-paid internet services, 3-way conferencing, group calling, Wi-Fi internet, USB Modem, data cards, calling card services and enterprise services.

Vision: Deliver a new world of communication to advance the reach

and leadership of our customer.Mission: Invest in building long lasting relationship with customers

Corporate office: Voltas premises, TB Kadam Marg Chinchpokli, Mumbai 400 033

Tata docomoTata DOCOMO is Tata Teleservices Limited's (TTSL) telecom service on the GSM platform-arising out of the Tata Group's strategic alliance with Japanese telecom major NTT DOCOMO in November 2008. Tata Teleservices has received a pan-India license to operate GSM telecom services, under the brand Tata DOCOMO and has also been allotted spectrum in 18 telecom Circles. the day of the launch, the reach and coverage of the Tata DOCOMO network is greater in Tamil Nadu than that of any other operator at the launch stage. The launch of pay-per-use, per-second concept offered by Tata DOCOMO will create a paradigm shift in the overall telecom experience for the customer and provide a service that is refreshingly different.”

Corporate Office: 2A, Old Ishwar Nagar,

Main Mathura Road, New Delhi 110065

DIFFERENTIATION IN SERVICES

MOBILE VALUE ADDED SERVICE IN ORISSA:

Value added services [VAS] are unlike core services. They have unique characteristic and they relate to other services in completely different way. They also provide benefit that core service cannot.

VALUEADDED SERVICES OF RELIANCE

Value added services stands alone as the source of development and implementation of tangible, value added solutions designed to maximize value to the consumer and revenue to the retailer.

Reliance brings you a wide range of service that will change the way you communicate. Try them and discover a whole new world of fun and excitement.

CALL MANAGEMENT SERVICESCall waiting, call hold, call divert and caller line identification presentation, help you do more with reliance communication.

CONFERENCE CALLYou can hold a tale conference with more than one people simultaneously with call conferencing service from reliance communication. In fact you can set up a conference even when the other five are using a land line phone.

MISSED CALL ALERTA missed call alert is a SMS that you will receive for all the calls that you missed, the SMS will detail the CLI and the time when the call was made.

VOICE MAILWhen your handset is switched off, or you are too busy to answer the phone, RIM voice mail will answer your calls and record a message. The best part is that there is no extra monthly cost for setting up voice mail-you just pay for the phone call when you use the service

SMS [SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE]Send message quickly and easily, using text , if it is too noisy to talk or you don’t have much time, It is the way to share those one liners, important reminders and rib-tickling jokes, with anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world.

SUBSCRIPTION ALERTSGet regular alerts on news, jokes ,business, health and films on your reliance mobile-phones with subscription services.

MMS [MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE]Jazz up your message with pictures, images, and video clippings with mms from reliance communication.

R-WORLDMake your mobile the most happening entertainment destination with R-world brings you the latest in entertainment and information services, right join your phone download the latest ringtones, games, wallpapers, videos and much-more. we can also get news clips ,watch live TVs and downloads full songs on your phone.

VOICE MAIL SERVICE:A 24- hour personal call answering service.

CALL HOLDAllow you to put on ongoing call on hold while make a second call.

CALL DIVERTAllows you to divert calls within your short-distance calling area (SDCA).

LIPS (CALLER LINE IDENTIFICATION PRESENTATION)It enables you to see the number of the caller when you receive call.

BSNL VALUE ADDED SERVICES

BSNL TUNETo subscribe this value added services a customer have to call to 56700for the latest songs.

VOICE BASE 12555Voice base is a service by which a customer can get latest movie songs , cricket scores, horoscope ,actors, funny jokes and daily news by dialing 12555 from mobile and from land line as well. From mobile the tariff per minute is Rs5 and from landline it is Rs2 per minute.

MOBILE TVOne can get TV channel on his/her mobile. For this one has to activate his GPRS by BSNL portal and can get this application by messaging MY TV to 55447.

LANGUAGE MESSAGING SERVICESBSNL provides this those who want to message in local languages.

LOCATION BASE APPLICATIONSBy this application and employer can make contact with their employees, their details and all. Mobile can find another mobile location by these services.

CORPORATE BMPFree calls with the corporate by using 525,325,225,140 plans. Friends and family free calls by using plans with in the family and friends.

AIRTEL VALLUE ADDED SERVICES

SUBSCRIPTION SERVICESSubscribe for cool alerts at the click of a button. What is better is that you receive updates automatically on your Airtel phone.

CALL MANAGEMENT SERVICESAvail of special services like call-waiting, call hold, call divert and voice mail to manage all your accessibility needs with Airtel.

MAIL, MESSAGING AND MORE Let your phone do the talking with your mail and massaging service, make arrangements, share moments or just say hello….

OPERATOR SERVICESMore services for convenient use of your mobile from Airtel network

MOBILE BACKUP SERVICES: Airtel mobile phone backup is a service that’s safeguards all data of your mobile phone including contacts, calendar, SMS, photos, videos and music.The Airtel mobile phone backup service copies your phones data in a secure manner to Airtel secure mobile phone backup system, and also enables you to restore the saves data on your phone when ever you change your phone or in case you lose the data accidentally.

AIRCEL VALLUE ADDED SERVICES

MOBILE LEARNING Aircel introduces mobile learning. get instant access to extensive learning context at your figure tips.

COLOUR SMSAircel introduces SMS in color get rid of boring black and white SMS and send SMS in color.

COLOUR RING BACK TUNES(CRBT)Get rid of boring “ring tring” and make your callers listened to latest tunes.

AIRCEL55555 SERVICESDial 55555 to download latest ring tones, listen to latest news and dedicate songs and your daily horoscopes.

AIRCEL SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE

Get the latest news, cricket updates, jokes and much more on your Aircel mobile.

AIRCEL HEALTH SERVICESAssure drug-free, side effects-free cure for your family with Aircel mobile health.

AIRCEL RAILWAY SERVICESRight from the timing of your train to the availability of seats , Aircel will keep you informed bout all train services at all times.

AIRCEL PLAY SCRABBLEHave fun and improve your vocabulary too! Play scrabble on your mobile phone.

AIRCEL SMS CHART/CRUSHFind like-minded people and have a good time charting with them.

AIRCEL SEARCH YOUR FAVORITE RINGTONEFinding your favorite ring tone has never been easy.

AIRCEL VOICE MAIL BOXAt times when you are really busy, you may not want to answer to your phone.

ITS CRICKET TIMETo keep Aircel customers upbeat and updated about the cricket around the world.

AIRCEL SAVE YOUR CONTACTSNow never lose touch with your best friends.

AIRCEL HEALTHY LIVING TIPSNow stay healthy with healthy living tips from Aircel.

AIRCEL DICTIONARYDo not know the meaning of a word? Don’t worry! Now Aircel will provide you with meanings for all your works.

AIRCL JOKESLaugh away the whole day with these rib- ticklers from Aircel.

Idea value added services

Voice call services

Say Idea – 55456

This portal provides subscribers an ease of use, as they would require just dialing a particular short code 55456 and getting into the voice portal. The subscriber has to just "Speak Out' the service, and will get connected to the service.A subscriber can access a wide range of services including:

Idea Music Zone 53030

Get more masti & more Music through new Voice Portal 53030 Not only this, you can now book movie tickets, airline tickets & also get

flowers delivered for your loved ones thru Idea M-commerce application on voice "530305"

Love zone

Just Dial 530305 & you will be able to get flowers delivered to your loved ones, Book movie tickets or book airline tickets. Dial 530305 at Rs6.99/min & get the following servicesVoice chat- 55694

With the help of voice chat, now you can find people of your choice and be friend with them.

Live astrology 55315

Just call 55315 from your Idea Mobile and CHAT with LIVE astrologer @ Rs. 9.00/- per min.

Dialer Toner – 554561

Dialer tones enable subscribers to make their callers listen to their favorite song every time they call. To subscribe to the service, a subscriber can call our Dialler Tone portal 554561 and select the song/tone of their choice.

My Friend Idea– 55365

My Friend Idea' is a service available to customers when they need to discuss their thoughts, problems and queries with trained counselors who are available only a phone call away.

Cricket Scores

This service is predominantly for Cricket fans who wants to stay connected to CRICKET UPDATES -ALWAYS!

Missed Call Information

Missed Call Alert. This service keeps you informed about the incoming calls you have missed when your phone was switched off or your phone was not reachable as you were out of coverage area.

Global SMS

The product will facilitate sending and receiving SMS to 500+ from GSM/TDMA/CDMA networks across the world via a superior technological single connectivity.

GPRS

Idea's 3G compatible networks support General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), which allows you to access Internet websites and information portals on your mobile.

Vodafone value-added services

Voice SMS :

Any Vodafone customer can send a Voice SMS message to a mobile subscriber, anywhere in India, for a fixed price of 75 paisa per minute. The Voice SMS service is available to both prepaid and postpaid subscribers.

123 IVR (Interactive Voice Response)

Vodafone customers can dial 123 and listen to information on various value added services offered by Vodafone such as Caller Tunes, Astro Pack, Beauty Alerts, Home Remedies, Phonebook Back-Up and Missed call update.

Mobile Box Office:

You can call 56700 on your Vodafone mobile phone and listen to dialogues or the synopsis of the movie, songs and trivia Rs 10/movie (Ticket validity - 24 hrs).

Football updates: For general football updates simply SMS FOOTBALL to 111.

Vodafone mobile recharge:Now you don’t have to go to the shop. You can recharge your prepaid phone online.

Buy movie tickets:

Call 53333 (toll free) and confirm your location, Choose the movie, the multiplex, ticket class and number of tickets.

Flight booking:

Vodafone in association with Flight raja introduces flight bookings with the best deals on airfares. So you can book your next flight directly by SMS and forget the hassle of chasing travel agents and flight schedules forever.

Business and economy alerts: Dial *123*10# and catch the latest in the world of finance on your Vodafone Mobile phone. Whether it’s statistics or trivia our range of Business and economy alerts will be the first to inform you.

Devotional alerts :

SMS Get shlokas in Hindi and their translations delivered straight to your inbox on your Vodafone mobile phone everyday. To subscribe to Gita Alerts just SMS ACT GITA HIN to 55677 (toll free).

Tata docomo value-added services

Call me tunes:

Call me tunes service that lets you play music for people who call you. To choose your Call me tune Dial 543215, Just Say the name of the song or movie you want to set your Call me tune.

Live cricket commentary:

To avail live cricket commentary you have to dial 54321103.

BlackBerry Internet Service:

BlackBerry Internet Service offers access to e-mail and instant messaging, as well as social networking sites and Internet browsing.

Live Chat Service:

The service will take care of all postpaid & prepaid queries/ requests &

complaints through live Chat option 24x7. Further more, the customers post chatting with the company representative, can also fill in a feedback form to help Tata DOCOMO consistently evolve the service.

24 Hr music: Keep your music addicted brain satisfied by dialing 543213 @2paise/sec.

News updates:

54321211: if you don’t have the time to read the newspapers then it will read the newspapers. all you have to do is to listen.

Jokes:

Now get newer and funnier jokes y6 dialing 54321214 @2paise/second.

Astrology:

You can know about your future by dialing 54321217 @2 paise/second.

Ringtone club:

Browse through the list of ring tones and preview them before downloading by downloading 54321216.

Vu clip:

Now you can watch, recommend and share your favorite video clips in your video enabled phone.

Social networking:

You can access Facebook and Ibibo and update your account, make new friends, send scraps, write on walls/post messages.

Market share of Indian major telecom companies

The Indian telecom sector is characterized by stiff competition among

10 national level players and two government owned firms. In spite of a

difficult pricing environment, Indian telecom sector is attractive. The

key reason is vast population of India of over 1 Billion which makes it as

one of the biggest telecom market in the world. After USA and China,

India is third biggest telecom market in the world.

The year 2009, saw the Indian telecom sector add 170 million

phone connections to take the total subscriber base to 550 million. The

Indian telecom industry continued to grow even when most other

sectors grappled with a demand slowdown. Studies have shown that in

India, the telecom sector has been a major enabler of economic

growth. The year 2009 saw telecom players shift from per minute

billing to per second billing.

The mobile telecom market is forecast to grow at a compound annual

growth rate of around 15 per cent between 2009-10 and 2013-14. The

report also indicates that the advance of services such as Internet

Protocol television (IPTV) and 3G are fuelling the growth of the Indian

telecom sector. Additionally, with 3G auctions held on February 13,

2010 is expected to set in motion the quick adoption of 3G-enabled

handsets.

Operator No of subscriber(mn) Market share Airtel 161.04mn 24%Vodafone 120.78mn 18%Reliance 127.49mn 19%Idea 73.81mn 11%BSNL 87.23mn 13%Tata 60.39mn 9%Aircel 33.55mn 5%Others 6.71mn 1%

As on March 31, 2010

Market share of CDMA service providers

CDMA service provider

Market share in %

Reliance 55.15

Tata Tele service 35.89

BSNL 7.95

MTNL 0.45

HFCL 0.34

Shyam Tele link 0.22

55.1535.89

7.950.45

0.340000000000001 0.22

MARKET SHARE OF CDMA SERVICE PROVIDER

RELIANCETATA TELE SERVICEBSNLMTNLHFCLSHYAM TELE LINK

From the above table we can infer that airtel is the market leader as it has 24% of market share. Reliance infocomm is the market challenger as it has second highest market share i.e 19%. Vodafone is the market follower as it has third highest number of market share i.e 18%.BSNL is standing 4th having customer base of 87.23 mn and IDEA stands 5th having the customer base of 73.81 mn.

Revenue Analysis

Due to stiff competition and in a bid to retain existing customers,

Telecom player has slashed down tariff significantly. Now most of the

firms are offering “per second billing “which will further put pressure

on margins. There is good growth in subscriber base (around 10.5%)

but overall revenue per subscriber is falling. In spite of modest increase

in subscriber base, tariffs is going down in a bid to match prices offered

by GSM players for various services. Over all there is a positive growth

in SMS segment but it is because most of the key CDMA players are

offering free SMS services to their customers.

Revenue of telecom companies

Company Sales Net profitAirtel 32791.86 9426.15Vodafone 41719 1435.50Reliance 35609.66 2586.45Idea 11850.24 1053.66Bsnl 32966 575Tata tele services 3749.43 1941.68Aircel 612.23 257.95

Chapter-III (Company / Product Profile)

Concerned Industry Scenario Current Profile of the Company / (Company Name): An

Overview

INDIAN TELECOM SECTOR

The first wind of reforms in telecommunications sector began to flow in

1980s when the private sector was allowed in telecommunications

equipment manufacturing. In 1985, Department of

Telecommunications (DOT) was established. It was an exclusive

provider of domestic and long-distance service that would be its own

regulator (separate from the postal system). In 1986, two wholly

government-owned companies were created: the Videsh Sanchar

Nigam Limited (VSNL) for international telecommunications and

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) for service in

metropolitan areas.

Telecommunication sector in India can be divided into two

segments: Fixed Service Provider (FSPs), and Cellular Services. Fixed line

services consist of basic services, national or domestic long distance

and international long distance services. The state operators (BSNL and

MTNL), account for almost 90 per cent of revenues from basic services.

Cellular services can be further divided into two categories: Global

System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Code Division Multiple

Access (CDMA). The GSM sector is dominated by Airtel, Vodafone, and

Idea Cellular, while the CDMA sector is dominated by Reliance and Tata

Indicom.

ABOUT THE GROUP

Reliance- Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group, an offshoot of the Reliance Group founded by Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002), is among India’s top three private sector business houses on all major financial

parameters, with a market capitalization of Rs. 325,000 crores (US$ 81 billion), and net worth to the tune of Rs. 55,000 crores(US$ 14 billion).

Across different companies, the group has a customer base of over 100 million, the largest in India, and a shareholder base of over 12 million, among the largest in the world.

Through its product and services, the reliance – ADA Group touches the life of 1 in 10 Indians every single day. It has a business presence that extends to over 20000 towns and 4.5 lakhs villages in India, and 5 continents across world.

The interest of the Group range from communications(Reliance Communication) and financial services (Reliance Capital Ltd.), to generation, transmission and distribution of power (Reliance Energy), infrastructure and entertainment.

CONCEPT OF RELIANCE COMMUNICATION

Anil Ambani: Telecom person of the year 2007 His marketing strategy has made millions of Indians happy, they got the best mobile tariffs in the world

NEW DELHI, INDIA: When the VOICE&DATA jury, comprising eminent professionals from the telecom field, met in Delhi in June to choose the Telecom Person of the Year 2007, the five-hour selection process was steamy.

The reason was obvious: The telecom sector is growing faster than any other segment and naturally their CEOs have a lot to crow about. The jury had to select one from three CEOs, who had made it to the final list through nominations from the industry and the initial scrutiny. Among

the three, one of the main contenders was a young CEO. The jury decided that he should come back next year to try and win the coveted award. The list now had two names-both CEOs of two well-known companies. The pivotal difference between the two: one is an entrepreneur and the other is not so popular, as his credit is shared among a number of his big daddies.

Following a five-hour closely held, hotly debated discussion, the name was announced: Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, chairman of Reliance Communications. Anil Ambani joined Reliance Industries (currently promoted by his brother Mukesh Ambani, following their split) in 1983 as co-chief executive officer. Forbes ranked him number 104 among the World's Richest People in 2006. The Ambani family faced criticism when it announced its ambitious plans to build a countrywide telecom network, as its prior expertise lay in commodities-textiles and petrochemicals-business only. Apart from that telecom needs a service-oriented mindset, critics felt. What they did not remember was how the family had served its millions of shareholders.

Policies in India are made in line with Ambani's vision, says an industry expert. His business acumen and closeness to politicians assisted him in making it to the Rajya Sabha in June 2004, as an independent member. Ambani chose to resign voluntarily on March 25, 2006.

The same association with politicos gave him negative returns too when the Mayawati Government in Uttar Pradesh put a spanner on his ambitious plans to build a 1,200-acre SEZ.

Media sees his aggression when he announces financial results for the Reliance ADA group of companies, and when he attends the annual general meetings and faces questions from shareholders. When he meets the press, he has answers to all their questions. He also remembers to call select journalists by name.

To merchant bankers he, who has already contributed immensely to the financial reforms of the country, is one of the financial wizards of the

world. May be because of his expertise, he gave up in the race to grab Hutchison Essar stake, after indirectly jacking up the valuation. His negotiations with the Qualcomm chief are also a folk theory now.

How did Ambani become the VOICE&DATA Telecom Person of the Year 2007? What are his personal and organizational achievements in the recent past?

His path-breaking marketing strategy that was put in by the strongest team of telecom professionals the country has ever seen has made millions of Indians happy as they got the best mobile tariffs in the world. The aggression resulted to adding to his already swollen kitty. Every hour India will be adding around 20,000 new mobile customers and Reliance Communications over 4,000. When mobile telephony first began in India, a local call cost Rs 16 per minute; an STD Rs 50; and a call to the US Rs 100 per minute. With Reliance Communication’s pioneering price initiative, a local call now costs a mere 15 paise per minute, STD 40 paise, and a call to the US costs less than Rs 2 per minute. The presence of Reliance Communications is making the competition in India panicky. Global telecom forces will also shortly start feeling the heat. Ambani has also recently announced his Rs 1,200 crore buyout of Yipes Holdings.

Achiever's Pride Undertook financial restructuring of Reliance communications

To spend Rs 16,000 crore to expand and strengthen network coverage

After expansion, Reliance Communications will have the single

largest wireless network in the world

Launched the lowest-cost classic brand handset at Rs 777

Subscriber base grew to over 28 mn during last fiscal, registering 60% growth

Total Revenue shot up to Rs 14,468 crore, an increase of 34%

Net Profit rises to Rs 3,163 crore, an increase of over 600%

Revenues of the wireless business increased by 46% to Rs 10,728 crore .

Broadband achieved revenue growth of 123% to Rs 1,144 crore .

Market capitalization crossed Rs 100,000 crore .

Will add 23,000 more towers

Telecom services will be available in over 23,000 towns and 600,000 villages

Next generation DTH network has been launched end of the year .

COMPANY PROFILE

About Sh. Dhirubhai heerachand Ambani

[The founder of the company]

The second son of a school teacher, Dhirubhai was born in 1932 in the village of Chorwad in Gujarat in circumstances that can best be described as modest. Driven by hardship and want, he had to drop out of school early.

In 1949, at the age of 17, he went to Aden (now Yemen) in search of opportunity, and worked as a dispatch clerk for A. Besse & Co. A couple of years later, the company became a distributor for Shell products and Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the company’s oil-filling station at the port of Aden. It was here that he dreamed of setting up and owning a refinery, which he later realized with his petrochemicals venture.

He returned to India in 1958 to launch his first business venture, a spice trading company named Reliance Commercial Corporation.

In 1962, Dhirubhai identified an emerging opportunity in yarn trading and shifted to the new business. Three years later, he changed the name of his company to Reliance Textile Industries Limited.

In 1966, he purchased land in Naroda, Gujarat, to set up a textile mill. In 1975, a technical team from the World Bank recognised the Naroda mill as one of the best composite textile mills in India and certified it as ‘excellent even by developed country standards’.In 1977, the company went public.

At the time of the Reliance Textiles IPO, participation in the Indian capital markets was largely limited to a small but influential elite which dabbled in a handful of stocks. The great majority of India’s middle class chose to stay away. Dhirubhai’s decision to prefer the capital markets overbanks as the primary source of funding for his ambitious expansion plans, was as daring as it was unprecedented.

In the event, The Reliance IPO was an unlikely success. Against all odds, Dhirubhai managed to convince a sufficiently large number of skeptical

middle class investors to put their money, and faith, in what was then a small, relatively unknown company.

The subsequent growth and success of Reliance and its philosophy of generously rewarding shareholders rapidly gave Dhirubhai an iconic status in the Indian financial markets.

Under Dhirubhai’s charismatic leadership, the Annual General Meetings (AGM) of Reliance took on the character of large public spectacles. Typically held in large public arenas, and attended by thousands of adoring shareholders, the Reliance AGM became a day to remember in the annual corporate calendar of India .

In 1986, the Reliance AGM held in Cross Maidan, Mumbai, was attended by as many as 30,000 stockholders—a record in India’s corporate history.

By the mid-80s, Dhirubhai had become something of a living legend, widely hailed by peers and critics alike as one of the greatest corporate visionaries in the history of post-Independent India.

But Dhirubhai was never one to rest on his laurels. In the early 80s, he had taken the first important step in strategic backward integration for Reliance with the commissioning of the Patalganga plant which initially manufactured polyester filament yarn and polyester staple fiber.

In 1991, he set up Reliance Hazira, for the manufacture of petrochemicals—the next link in the backward integration chain. At the time, Reliance Hazira represented the single largest investment made by a private sector group in India at a single location.

Meanwhile, Dhirubhai had firmed up plans of setting up a massive grassroots refinery—the next big leap in his overall strategic roadmap for Reliance.

Conceived as the world’s largest grassroots refinery at the time, Jamnagar in Gujarat was to have an annual capacity of 27 million tones.

In the face of formidable challenges, including a massive cyclone that flattened the project site mid-way through construction, Reliance commissioned the Jamnagar facility in 1999. It was a fully integrated refinery, complete with a dedicated port and a captive supply of power.

The refinery was not only commissioned ahead of schedule, but also set up at a cost that was significantly lower than the prevailing global benchmark for a project of such magnitude.

It was one of Dhirubhai’s great dreams in life to see ordinary Indians enjoy the enormous economic benefits of being able to access affordable yet world class telecommunications infrastructure. He wanted Reliance to spearhead a communications revolution that would dramatically cut down the cost of connectivity, and propel India into the digital age. His ultimate ambition: To make the cost of a phone call cheaper than that of a post card. It was therefore entirely logical for Reliance to enter the telecommunications space when the sector was opened up for private participation in the 1990s.Today, Reliance Communications is India’s largest information and communications services provider with over 20 million subscribers, and offers the full range of integrated telecom services— at prices that are, by far, the lowest anywhere in the world.Dhirubhai left for his heavenly abode on July 6, 2002 CHAIRMAN PROFILE

Regarded as one of the foremost corporate leader in the contemporary India, Sri Anil D Ambani, 48, is the chairman of all listed companies of the reliance ADA Group, namely Reliance communication, Reliance Capital, Reliance Energy and Reliance Natural Resources.

He is also the chairman of the board of govemors of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication technology, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat.

Till recently he also held the post of vice chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited [RIL] India’s largest private sector enterprise.

Anil D Ambani joined reliance in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Offer, and was centrally involved in every aspect of the company’s management over the next 22 years.

He is credited with having pioneered a number of path-breaking financial innovations in the Indian. Capital markets. He spearheaded the country’s first forays into the overseas capital markets with international public offerings of global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. Starting in 1991.He directed Reliance Industries in its efforts to raise over US$ 2 billion. He also steered the 100-year Yankee bond issue for the company in January 1997.

He is a member of:

• Wharton Board of Overseers, the Wharton School, USA• Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad

• Board of Governors Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in June 2004, he was elected for a six-year term as an independent member of the Rajya Sabha, Upper House of India’s Parliament a position he chose to resign voluntarily on March 25, 2006. Awards and Achievements:

• Conferred the ‘CEO of the Year 2004’ in the Platts Global Energy awards rated as one of ‘India’s Most Admired CEOs’ for the sixth consecutive year in the Business Barons – TNS Mode opinion poll, 2004

• Conferred ‘The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award’ by the Bombay Management Association, October 2002

• Awarded the First Wharton Indian Alumni Award by the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) in recognition of his contribution to the establishment of Reliance as a global leader in many of its business areas, December 2001

• Selected by Asia week magazine for its list of ‘Leaders of the Millennium in Business and Finance’ and was introduced as the only ‘new hero’ in Business and Finance from India, June1999.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

o SHRI ANIL D. AMBANI - CHAIRMAN

o PROF. J RAMACHANDRAN

o SHRI S.P. TALWAR

o SHRI DEEPAK SHOURIE

o SHRI A.K.PURWAR

Chapter-IV

(Data Analysis and Interpretation)

Data analysis and Interpretation

1. In the questionnaire the respondents are asked to mark the gender to which they belong.

MALE FEMALE31 19

31, 62%19, 38%

Gender

malefemale

INTERPRETATION

According to this survey I found that out of 50 respondents , 38% are female and 62% are male .

2. Please indicate to which age group you belong?

AGE GROUP RESPONDENT 15-20 10

20-25 1825-30 143O < 8

15-20 20-25 25-30 30 <0

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Series 3Column1Series 1

According to this survey I found that out of 50 respondents, 10 users are between 15-20 , 18 are between 20-25 ,14 in between 25-30, and 8 users are above 30 years old.

3. Occupation of the respondent.

OCCUPATION NO OF RESPONDENTStudent 16Government servant 8Private sector 12Business man 9unemployed 5

Student Government servant

Private sector Business man Unemployed02468

1012141618

NO OFRESPONDENT

NO OFRESPONDENT

According to this survey I found that out of 50 respondent 16 are student, 8 are government servant, 12 from private sector , 9 from business man and 5 are unemployed who are the user of different telecom company.

4. How much you generally pay for a month.

MONTHLY PAYMENT NO OF RESPONDENT100 - 250 19250 - 400 13400 - 550 10550 < 8

19

13

10

5

no of respondent

100-250250-400400-550550 <

According to this survey I found that the monthly telephone expenditure of 19 respondents came under Rs 100-250,13 respondents came under Rs 250-400, 10 have 400-550 and lastly 5 respondents have the mobile expenditure more than 550.

5. Which mobile service do you have?

GSM CDMA38 12

38; 76%

12; 24%

Sales

GSMCDMA

According to the survey out of 50 respondent 76% are the user of GSM and 24% are the CDMA user.

6. Which type of user are you?

PREPAID POSTPAID39 11

Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 40

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Series 3Series 2Series 1

From the above table we can interpret that 39 respondents are the prepaid user and 11respondent are the postpaid user.

7. Which service provider do you use?

Company name Respondents Airtel 11Vodafone 7Reliance 9Idea 6Bsnl 9Tattele services 3Aircel 5

airtel vodafone reliance idea bsnl tata tele services

aircel0

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Series 1Column1Column2

From the above graph we can interpret that 11 are the user of Airtel,7 are ofvodafone, 9 are of reliance,6 are of idea,9 are of Bsnl, 3 are of Tata tele service and 5 are of aircel. Here airtel is used by highest number of respondent.

8 . what made you to go for this mobile service provider?

Source of influence Number of respondentadvertisement 12Family nad friends 5Dealer 11Feel good 7Offer 15

advertisement family nad friends

dealers feel good offer0

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Column3Column1Column2

From the above graph it can is interpreted that 12 are attracted by advertisements, 5 are attracted by family me,mbers and friends, 11 are attracted by dealers, 7 thought that the company is good and 15 are attracted by the offers given by the companies.

9 . Customer satisfaction with the current telecom service which he/she have taken?

Customer satisfaction level Number of respondentHghly satisfied 5Satisfied 13Average 18Dissatisfied 9Highly dis-satisfied 5

5

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18

9

5

Sales

highly satisfiedsatisfiedaveragedissatisfiedhighly dissatisfied

From the above graph it can be interpreted that out of 50 respondents 5 are highly satisfied,13 respondents are satisfied, 18 people are neither satisfied nor dis-satisfied, 9 users are dis-satisfied and 5 people are highly dis-satisfied with the service provided by the company.

10 . Reason for dissatisfaction .

Reasons for dis-satisfaction Number of respondentPoor customer service 2High tarrif plan 4Over billing 2Poor network 6

poor customer

servicehigh tarrif plan over billing poor network

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From the above graph it can be interpreted that 2 respondents are dis-satisfied with poor –customer service,4 are dissatisfied with high tariff plan,2 are dissatisfied with over billing and 6 are dissatisfied with poor network.

11.Are you interested to accept any other service.

Willingness to accept other service Number of respondentyes 35no 15

35

15

Series 1

yesno

From the above chart it is interpreted that 35 respondents are not willing to accept any other service provider’s product but 15 are willing to accept the service of other company.

12 . Which company connection you will prefer at next time?

Preference at next time Respondents Airtel 13Vodafone 6Reliance 7Idea 5Bsnl 12Tata indicom 3Aircel 4

13

6

75

12

3

4

Series 1

airtelvodafonerelianceideabsnl tataindicomaircel

From the above chart it can be interpreted that13 are willing to switch to airtel,6 are willing to Vodafone, 7 are willing to reliance, 5 are willing to idea, 12 are willing to Bsnl.3 are willing to Tataindicom and 4 are willing to switch to Aircel.

13. How do you rate Reliance with competitors?

Feed back of reliance RespondentsVery good 9Good 16Average 12Bad 10Very bad 3

very good good average bad very bad0

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Here it can be interpreted that 9 respondents rate reliance infocomm as very good, 16 rate good , 12 rate average, 10 rate bad and 3 rate as very bad.

14. Rate the following Service Provider as per your preference.

Name of the service provider Respondent Airtel 11Vodafone 7Reliance 9Idea 6Bsnl 10Tata indicom 3Aircel 4

airtel vodafone reliance idea BSNL tata indicom aircel0

2

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6

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10

12

Column2Column1respondent

According to the survey it can be interpreted that 11 respondents voted for airtel, 7 voted for Vodafone, 9 voted for reliance, 6 voted for idea,10 voted for Bsnl ,3 vote for Tata indicom and 4 voted for Aircel.

Chapter-V

(Summary and Conclusion)

Major Findings Suggestions Conclusion

Major findings

The telecom industry is growing at a faster rate. The customers has

increased from 427 mn to 671 mn and it is forecasted that it will

increase to 900 mn in the year 2012.

There are 10 major players in Indian telecom industry. Due to huge

competition the customer is now getting more value added services

than before.

In spite of a difficult pricing environment, Indian telecom sector is

attractive. The key reason is vast population of India of over 1 Billion

which makes it as one of the biggest telecom market in the world.

After USA and China, India is third biggest telecom market in the

world.

Studies have shown that in India, the telecom sector has been a

major enabler of economic growth. The year 2009 saw telecom

players shift from per minute billing to per second billing.

From the major players Bharti airtel is the market leader having 24%

of market share and the customer base of 160.04mn.Reliance is the

market challenger having the market share of 19% and customer

base of 127.49mn and Vodafone is the market challenger having the

market share of 18% and customer base of 120.28mn.

In the case of CDMA service provider Reliance is the market leader

having a market share of 55.15 mn and Tata tele services is the

market challenger having the market share of 38.59mn.

Airtel has highest profit margin of 9426.15 crores and Reliance

Infocomm has second highest profit margin of 2586.45 crores.

It was found that Reliance Infocomm has longest network amongst

all the telecom service provider.

SUGGESTION

o Reliance communication has to provide better customer service and more value to the customer so that it can gain competitive advantage over its competitors.

o To increase its market share it has to target the rural customers as they are not targeted by most of of the telecom companies.

o It has to adapt new technologies and come of with new and innovative product and services so that it can attract the attention of the customer.

o Proper objectives of the sales promotion program should be established like whether the promotional schemes are launched to created a trail among the non-user or attract new customers.

o Sales force should be motivated to be whole-hearted involved implementing the schemes .

o Regular feedback of the sales promotion schemes launched should be taken seriously by management.

o It should make its all schemes known to the customers.o Equal attention should be given on customer and trade promotion

programmers.o The sales promotion schemes should be regularly updated keeping in

tune with the present trend.

o Comparative sales promotion schemes should be maintained keeping in view other competitors.

Conclusion

o I believe telecom market will enjoy good growth rate

owing to lower teledensity, stiff competition and lower

tariffs. So far subscriber growth has been impressive

and stood at 671M in April 2010 quarter. I believe that

it will cross 900M by 2012 and thus represents a huge

revenue potential for existing players. In spite of good

growth, there are not much differentiator exists among

current players, additionally; switching cost for a

consumer is almost zero (by virtue of MNP). Lower tariff

has already impacted profit growth of key telecom

firms and resulted in negative growth in Arpu. I believe

that soon Indian telecom industry will enter in to

consolidation phase which should result in lower

number of players in the market. But before that

happens, Indian consumer will continue using its

buying power to choose service provider and enjoy

excellent services at lowest possible tariff plan.

Annexure

Bibliography Sample copy of Questionnaire

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QUESTIONNAIRE

Questionnaire on sales and promotional activities

Sir/ Madam

I, Anurag Parida, undergoing the summer training project on the topic “comparative analysis of telecom industry with special reference to Reliance infocomm” in reliance world, FORTUNE TOWER, BBSR. This is a part of our course curriculum, designed by AICTE. I, therefore, needs your kind operation.

Direction: - please give your honest opinion on the following question.

1. Please indicate whether you are:

o Male o Female

2. Please indicate to which age group you belong?o 15 - 20o 20 - 25o 25 - 30o 30 <

3. Occupation of the respondent.o Studento Govt. Servanto private sectoro Business man o Unemployed

4. How much you generally pay for a month.o 100 - 250o 250 - 400o 400 - 550o 550 <

5. Which mobile service do you have?

o GSMo CDMA

6. Which type of user are you?

o Prepaido Postpaid

7 . Which service provider do you use?

o BSNLo AIRTELo RELIANCEo AIRCELo VODAFONEo IDEAo TATA INDICOM

8 . what made you to go for this mobile service provider?

o Advertisemento Family and friendso Dealero Feel goodo Offer

9 . Are you satisfied with the current telecom service which you have taken?

o highly satisfiedo Satisfiedo Average o Dissatisfiedo Highly dissatisfied

10 . Reason for dissatisfaction.

o poor customer serviceo High tariff plano Over billingo Poor network

11 . Would you subscribe to services of other providers in case you get better services?

o Yes o No

12 . Which company connection you will prefer at next time?

o BSNLo Airtelo Reliance Infocommo Aircelo Vodafoneo Idea o Tata Tele services

13. How do you rate us with competitors?o Very goodo Good o Averageo Bad o Very bad

14. Rate the following Service Provider as per your preference:

o BSNLo Airtelo Reliance Infocommo Aircelo Vodafoneo Idea o Tata Tele services

15. Advice to reliance communication.

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Signature of customer

Thank you