Project Report On BSNL VS Vodafone
Project Report On BSNL VS Vodafone
Project Report On BSNL VS Vodafone
BSNL Mobile
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GSM Mobile subscribers. BSNL's earnings for the
Financial Year ending March 31, 2009 stood at INR
397.15b (US$7.03 billion) with net profit of INR 78.06b
(US$ 1.90 billion). BSNL has an estimated market value of
$ 100 Billion. The company is planning an IPO with in 6
months to offload 10% to public in the Rs 300-400 range
valuing the company at over $100 billion.
Services
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As of Sep 30, 2009 BSNL has 12.45% share of mobile
telephony in the country[5].
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• FTTH:Fibre To The Home facility that offers a higher
bandwidth for data transfer.This idea was proposed on
post-December 2009.
Administrative units
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Maintenance Regions Jharkhand Telecom Circle Eastern
Telecom Maintenance Region Karnataka Telecom Circle
Western Telecom Maintenance Region Kerala Telecom
Circle Northern Telecom Maintenance Region Madhya
Pradesh Telecom Circle Southern Telecom Maintenance
Region Maharashtra Telecom Circle Specialized Telecom
Units North East-I Telecom Circle Data Networks North
East-II Telecom Circle National Centre For Electronic
Switching Orissa Telecom Circle Technical &
Development Circle Punjab Telecom Circle Quality
Assurance Rajasthan Telecom Circle
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Regional Telecom Training Centres Circle Telecom
Training Centres District Telecom Training Centres
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(then DoT), however, failed miserably to achieve this and
India languished among the most poorly connected
countries in the world. BSNL was born in 2000 after the
corporatisation of DoT. The efficiency of the company has
since improved. However, the performance level is
nowhere near the private players. The corporation remains
heavily unionised and is comparatively slow in decision
making and implementation. Though it offers services at
lowest tariffs, the private players continue to notch up
better numbers in all areas, years after year. BSNL has been
providing connections in both urban and rural areas. Pre-
activated Mobile connections are available at many places
across India. BSNL has also unveiled cost-effective
broadband internet access plans (DataOne) targeted at
homes and small businesses. At present BSNL enjoy's
around 60% of market share of ISP services.[6]
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upgraded existing Dataone (Broadband) connections for a
speed of up to 2 Mbit/s without any extra cost. This 2
Mbit/s broadband service is being provided by BSNL at a
cost of just US$ 11.7 per month (as of 21/07/2008 and at a
limit of 2.5GB monthly limit with 0200-0800 hrs as no
charge period). Further, BSNL is rolling out new
broadband services such as triple play.
BSNL is planning to increase its customer base to 108
million customers by 2010. With the frantic activity in the
communication sector in India, the target appears
achievable.
BSNL is a pioneer of rural telephony in India. BSNL has
recently bagged 80% of US$ 580 m (INR 2,500 crores)
Rural Telephony project of Government of India.[7]
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is still in the process of auctioning the 3G spectrum to
private players.
Challenges
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One India plan, however, the success of the scheme is not
known. However, BSNL faces bleak fiscal 2006-2007 as
users flee, which has been accepted by the CMD BSNL.[8]
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Vodafone
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due to brisk change in administration. It has slipped from
first to third largest telecom operator generating a revenue
of 4.9 billion from its 18.7 million customers in 2008-09.[5]
As of March 31, 2009, the company employs more than
79,000 people worldwide.
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Vodafone Group
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1996, in a defensive move, Vodafone purchased Peoples
Phone for 77 million, a 181 store chain whose customers
were overwhelmingly using Vodafone's network. In a
similar move the company acquired the 80% of Astec
Communications that it did not own, a service provider
with 21 stores.
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Verizon Wireless. The merger was completed on 4 April
2000.
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Vodafone in Iasi, Romania
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services would be marketed under the dual-brand scheme,
where the Vodafone brand is added at the end of the local
brand. (i.e., TDC Mobil-Vodafone etc.)
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Vodafone's marketing employees are relocated to London,
Global Enterprise' team will remain in Newbury.
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Aircel
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plans to become a pan-India operator by 2010.
Additionally, Aircel has also obtained permission from
Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide
International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long
Distance (NLD) telephony services. It is also a category A
ISP. It is also having the largest service in Tamilnadu.
Aircel has won many awards for its services. Aircel was
honored at the World Brand Congress 2009 with three
awards, Brand Leadership in Telecom, Marketing
Campaign & Marketing Professional of the Year. Aircel
was honored by CMAI INFOCOM National Telecom
Award 2009 for, ‘Excellence in Marketing of New
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Telecom Service’. Aircel had been selected as the best
regional operator in 2008 by Tele.net. Aircel was rated as
the top mid-size utility company in Business World’s ‘List
of Best Mid-Size Companies’ in 2007. Aircel got the
highest rating for overall customer satisfaction and network
quality in 2006 by Voice and Data.
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safely transported. What Aircel calls “Corporate Social
Responsibility – A Solution”. The company was able to
generate positive publicity and show consumers that they
care.
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Bharti Airtel
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Services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed
wireless services using GSM technology across 23 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. Shahrukh Khan is the brand embassador of the
mobile company and Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan
are the brand embassadors of the DTH company. The
company provides end-to-end data and enterprise services
to the corporate customers through its nationwide fiber
optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed-line and
mobile circles, VSATs, ISP and international bandwidth
access through the gateways and landing station.[3]
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Officer of Indian and South Asian operations, will become
the Chief Executive Officer of the International Business
Group from 1st April 2010. He will be overseeing Bharti's
overseas business. Current Dy. CEO, Sanjay Kapoor, will
replace Manoj Kohli and will be the CEO with effective
from 1st April, 2010.
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Airtel
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Telecommunications. SingTel is a major player in the 3G
space in Asia. It operates third generation networks in
several markets across Asia.
Airtel in Bangladesh
Touchtel
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brand. Bharti now provides all telecom services including
fixed-line services under a common brand "Airtel".
BlackBerry
Digital TV
Main article: Airtel Digital Tv
iPhone 3G
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Merger talks
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pleased to announce that it has renewed its effort for a
significant partnership with MTN Group".
Sponsorship
Airtel 3G
Asia-Pacific
Networks in Asia-Pacific
Majority- Minority- No Ownership
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owned owned
China
Australia Afghanistan Armenia
mainland
India Fiji Azerbaijan Hong Kong
New Zealand India Japan Malaysia
Samoa Singapore
Sri Lanka Taiwan
Thailand Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
In July 1993, BellSouth New Zealand's network went live,
and October 1993 Vodafone Australia's network also went
live. This was followed in July 1994 by Vodafone Fiji's
network going live.
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In December 2004, Vodafone Australia agreed to deploy
high-speed MPLS backbone network built by Lucent
Worldwide Services using Juniper hardware.
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billion, of which £6.8 billion will be received in cash on
closing of deal. Vodafone Japan later changed its name to
SoftBank Mobile. On 9 October 2006, Vodafone New
Zealand bought New Zealand's 3rd largest internet service
provider, iHug, and on 1 November 2006, Vodafone
Australia signed the Australian Football League (AFL)'s
biggest individual club sponsorship deal with the Brisbane
Lions for seasons 2007, 2008 and 2009.
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result to the offering of new roaming capabilities. The two
groups will also become preferred roaming partners of each
other. Along with Digicel's markets, the Vodafone brand is
now present in 81 countries, regions, and territories. What
is interesting to note, is that as well as being partners,
Digicel and Vodafone are also rival operators in Fiji, where
Digicel Fiji recently launched, and Vodafone owns a
minority (49%) stake in Vodafone Fiji.
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in Thailand is signed as a partner network of the Group on
25 March 2009.
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Africa1
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Majority stakes held through majority-owned Vodacom
Group
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Effective ownership is not majority, but full control
exercised by the group.
Egypt
Kuwait
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another Partner Network Agreement with Kuwait's MTC
group. The second agreement involved co-operation in
Bahrain and the branding of the network as MTC-
Vodafone.
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Telkom. The finalised details of the agreement were
announced on 6 November 2008. The agreement called for
Telkom to sell 15 per cent of its 50 per cent stake in
Vodacom to the group, and demerge the other 35 per cent
to its shareholder. Meanwhile, Vodafone has agreed to
make Vodacom its exclusive sub-Saharan Africa
investment vehicle, as well as continuing to maintain the
visibility of the Vodacom brand. The transaction is closed
in May/June 2009.
Ghana
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consortium won the second fixed-line licence in Qatar on
15 September 2008.
U.A.E.
The Americas
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2 2
St. Kitts &
Jamaica Panama St. Lucia2
Nevis2
St. Vincent & Trinidad & Turk &
the Grenadines2 Tobago2 Caicos2
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– Verizon Wireless
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– Digicel (Partner)
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–?
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– Entel PCS (Partner)
For more information, see Verizon Wireless.
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billion joint venture with Bell Atlantic Corp. Verizon
Wireless was composed of Bell Atlantic's and Vodafone
AirTouch's U.S. wireless assets, and began operations on 4
April 2000. However, Verizon Communications - the
company formed when Bell Atlantic and GTE merged on
30 June 2000 - owns a majority of Verizon Wireless, and
Vodafone's branding is not used, nor is the CDMA network
compatible with GSM phones. This relationship has been
quite profitable for Vodafone, but there have historically
been three problems with it. The first is the above-
mentioned incompatibility with the GSM 900/1800 MHz
standard used by Vodafone's other networks, and the
consequent difficulty of offering roaming between
Vodafone's U.S. and other networks. The other two stem
from the fact that Vodafone does not have management
control over Verizon Wireless. Vodafone is thus unable to
use the Vodafone brand for its U.S. operations, and
(perhaps more importantly) has no control of dividend
policy at Verizon Wireless, and is therefore entirely at the
mercy of Verizon management with respect to cash flow
from Verizon Wireless.
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Perhaps as a consequence of these reasons, Vodafone made
a bid for the entirety of AT&T Wireless when that
company was for sale in 2004. Had this bid been
successful, Vodafone would presumably have sold its stake
in Verizon Wireless, and then rebranded the resultant
business as Vodafone. However, Cingular Wireless, at the
time a joint venture of SBC Communications and
BellSouth (both now part of AT&T), ultimately outbid
Vodafone and took control of AT&T Wireless (the
combined wireless carrier is now AT&T Mobility), and
Vodafone's relationship with Verizon has continued.
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On 11 May 2008, Vodafone sealed a trade agreement with
the Chilean Entel PCS Chile, in which Entel PCS has
access to the equipment and international services of
Vodafone, and Vodafone will be one of the trademarks of
Entel for the wireless business. This step will give the
Vodafone brand access to a market of over 15 million
people, currently divided among three companies:
Telefonica Movistar, Claro, and Entel PCS.
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By February 2008, the M-PESA money transfer system in
Kenya had gained 1.6 million customers[36] and Vodafone
announced that it was to extend the service to Afghanistan.
The service here was launched on the Roshan network
under the brand M-Paisa with a different focus to the
Kenyan service. M-Paisa was targeted as a vehicle for
microfinance institutions' (MFI) loan disbursements and
repayments, alongside business to business applications
such as salary disbursement.
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might be used to screen all of Vodafone's 300 million
customers globally.
Chief Executives
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was responsible for transforming Vodafone from a small
UK operator into the global behemoth that it is today,
through the merger with the American AirTouch and the
takeover of Germany's Mannesmann.
Financial results
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Vodafone has some large minority stakes, which are not
included in its consolidated turnover. In order to provide
additional information on the overall scale and growth
trends of its business, it publishes "proportionate turnover"
figures, and these are included in the tables below. For
example, if a business in which it owns a 45% stake has
turnover of £10 billion, that equals £4.5 billion of
proportionate turnover for Vodafone. Proportionate
turnover is not an official accounting measure, and
Vodafone's proportionate turnover should be compared
with other companies' statutory turnover.
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Year Profit Profit for Basic
Turnover Proportionate
ended 31 before the year eps
£m customers (m)
March tax £m £m (pence)
2008 35,478 9,001 6,756 12.56 260
2007 31,104 (2,383) (5,297) (8.94) 206.4
2006* 29,350 (14,835) (21,821) (35.01) 170.6
2005 34,073 7,951 6,518 9.68 154.8
2004 36,492 9,013 6,112 8.70 133.4
*Losses for year to 31 March 2006 reflect write downs of
assets, principally in relation to the Mannesmann
acquisition. Proportionate turnover includes £7,100 million
from discontinued operations.
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the company's Indian purchase of Hutchison Essar
continuing to generate returns. Meanwhile, its joint venture
with Verizon in the US had strengthened further, with
Vodafone's overall customer base now standing at 315
million - 8 million having been added during the first
quarter. In addition, management noted that its cost
reduction programme, targeted to save £1bn in operating
costs by the end of the 2011 financial year, would reach
65pc of its target by the end of the current financial year.
Products
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710 and Amobee Media Systems. Between June and
August 2009, Vodafone suspended roaming charges within
35 different countries, allowing their customers to take
their standard UK price plan abroad.
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!dea
In the most narrow sense, an idea is just whatever is before
the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed
as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In
other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although
abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images.[1]
Many philosophers consider ideas to be a fundamental
ontological category of being.
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example, when we talk about the idea of a person or a
place.
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their behavioral traits from nurture (life experiences) is
known as tabula rasa ("blank slate"). Most of the
confusions in the way of ideas arise at least in part from the
use of the term "idea" to cover both the representation
percept and the object of conceptual thought. This can be
illustrated in terms of the doctrines of innate ideas,
"concrete ideas versus abstract ideas", as well as "simple
ideas versus complex ideas". [3]
Philosophy
Plato
Main article: Theory of Forms
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the principal reality (see also idealism). In contrast to the
individual objects of sense experience, which undergo
constant change and flux, Plato held that ideas are perfect,
eternal, and immutable. Consequently, Plato considered
that knowledge of material things is not really knowledge;
real knowledge can only be had of unchanging ideas.
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