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various strategies that keep it ahead of all other competitors like Vodaphone, Idea, eliance
etc.. This study is undergone through various steps of research project. The method used for
the research project are- Group Discussion, internet browsing, different graphs & chart study
etc. From this analysis we found that ‡harti Airtel has the largest market share due to its
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presence in all the 23 licensed jurisdictions (also known as Telecom Circles). Airtel served an
aggregate of 88,270,194 customers as of December 31, 2008; of who 85,650,733 subscribe to
its GSM services and 2,619,461 use its Telemedia Services either for voice and/or broadband
access delivered through DSL. Airtel is the largest wireless service provider in the country,
based on the number of subscribers as of December 31, 2008. Airtel also offer an integrated
suite of telecom solutions to its enterprise customers, in addition to providing long distance
connectivity both nationally and internationally. Airtel had recently forayed into media by
launching DTH and IÒTV Services. All these services are rendered under a unified brand
³Airtel´. The company also deploys, owns and manages passive infrastructure pertaining to
telecom operations under its subsidiary ‡harti Infratel Limited. ‡harti Infratel owns 42% of
Indus Towers Limited. ‡harti Infratel and Indus Towers are the two top providers of passive
infrastructure services in India.

Successful businesses have extensive knowledge about their customers and competitors.
Getting accurate and specific information about your customers and competitors is a critical
first step in market investigation and development of a marketing plan. Accurate market
assessment and development of an effective plan is critical to the success of both new and
existing businesses. The market impacts and directs all aspects of the company's activities
and ultimately will lead to success or failure of the business.

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or state level, but also its involvement in an individual's life. She found out that the less
number of users are aware of all the VAS provided by the service providers and thus the
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services provided by the Telecom circle in macro environment. The findings of the study
reveal that the expectations of the telecom users are high among the subscribers of recent
times because of their sense of time vs. money value and awareness of their rights. The basic
motto of the telecom department is to provide excellent services to its customers against the
present competition from the private sector. In this direction, it is doing its best to acquire and
retain its new and old customers.

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delivery of customer service. Yet in all my experience as a professional in this arena, I have
never come across a customer services director who could articulate the Financial value of
customer satisfaction to their business. Conversely, I have Never met a customer service
Director Who wasn¶t measured on it. How ‡izarre. ‡ig business is happy to measure it but
doesn¶t know what its worth. One of the reasons for the difficulty in making the connections,
is the Intangibility of customer churn. That is to say, how dissatisfied does a Customers have
to be before they leave and sign with the competition? What Might be an intolerable
experience for one customer may well exceed all Expectations of another. Then there¶s
competition. What if there isn¶t any? ‡efore deregulation how concerned were the large
utility companies with Customer satisfaction or ‡ritish Telecom comes to that. Interesting
therefore That the telecoms sector is where war is being waged on customer Satisfaction
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price adjustments marketers make before settling on a final selling price, payment options,
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testing is needed. Like all other marketing decisions, market research is critical to
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example what is the lifetime value of our customers? Òaying commission of s 100-200 to
franchisee is not a cost considering the future flow of revenue from the customer. How many
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have such as calling pattern, payment habits, usage profile etc? How many surveys we do,
how much customer research we carry out? Net growth in mobile is high but what about
churn? Can¶t we analyze & reduce it? Acquisition cost is usually said to be 5-8 times the
retention cost. It is high time we learn fast, groom ourselves, improve our mindset and act
fast. ‡usiness perspective is equally important as excellence in Telecom operations,
maintenance, and installations & planning. Our core competence should be telecom business
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and its impact on their own subscriber base, one advertising professional working with a rival
service provider opines that the tune is ³transient´ and not likely to have any long term
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îc Voucher card can provide all the retail shops on time for customer convenience.

îc Sales promotion can be more intense, like television ad showing the price, quality,
and other product related details.
îc Even though the company has some offers or other value added services, it can be
well known by the sales people. So it is better to provide adequate training to the
sales people.
îc Òrovide the tower to all centres for avoiding the network problem.
îc To ensure better customer satisfaction & maintain higher level of Customer
relationship management, the billing department has to be more effective & efficient.
îc User manuals and the plan¶s pamphlets should be given to the staff for clearing the
doubts of the customers.
îc The cancellation mainly occurs in landline connection. So the company can take care
of the following services.

‡illing activities
After sales service
On time delivery of the product after complaint has to be recovered.

îc The employees can call back to customers at least once in a month for getting the
feedback of the services offered.
îc Customers are demanding for affordable price for product and gifts with purchasing.
îc Majority of the customers are not satisfied with the recharge coupons offering by the
company. So the company can increase the talk time to all recharge coupons.
îc Customer relationship managers can keep the records of update details regarding the
customer¶s address change for sending the postpaid billing charges to avoid delay of
payment.
îc All the AI TEL retail hubs can have the complaint grievance box for customers.
îc Employees can inform customer complaint on time to the head of the department.
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standards and is not becoming of a country aspiring to be major player in the global economy
of the 21st century. This means that opportunities for investment in this sector are immense.
‡asic voice service is the biggest market. Installation of around 25 million direct lines by the
year 2001 will require an investment of US$ 22 billion.

Due to the growing need for mobile phones, it¶s no wonder that service providers are going
all out to capture, as much market space as they can. As the number of mobile phone users
are estimated to rise to about 120 million by 2008,it¶s not surprising that most of the leading
service providers in India have started branding and marketing their services more
aggressively.
Airtel has proved to be the leading Telecom giant in India and is focussing on bigger market
share by providing good services to its customers. In this project I had tried my best efforts to
analyse the marketing plans of Airtel and how they satisfy their customers¶ needs.

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