Introduction
Vodafone one of the world's largest mobile communication service providers, business is expanded to 30 countries and in collaboration with local companies in over 40 more. Over the world, Vodafone have almost 360 million customers in other countries and around 19 million in the United Kingdom. Vodafone have over 8000 employees, Vodafone made its first call on 1 January 1985. (Vodafone, 2014)
Vodafone provides communication services, including calls, SMS text messaging, video messaging, MMS picture, internet access and other data services. Vodafone organisation operates in a competitive and complex environment where demands are consistently changing
Vodafone Company Vision Vodafone Company Mission/ values
Considering how far things have change in over 20 years. Future prediction is not as easy in our business. As nice as a crystal ball would be, we are happy with everyone sharing our ambition. That way we're far more likely to achieve it.
We see our future in outstanding data services and products, backed up by the best customer experience in the business. And our targets are big – which means millions of customers using our data services every day.
We’re obsessed with giving exceptional customer service. We’re hands-on, positive and always looking for fresh ways to deliver. The essence of who we are underpins our values. And by listening to our people, we've found that three things sum up what we're all about:
• Speed – we’re focused on bringing innovative new products and services onto the market quickly
• Simplicity – we make things easy for our customers, partners and colleagues
• Trust – we’re reliable and transparent to deal with
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...according to their desires. In order to understand the variation in workers' job satisfactions, it is necessary to consider not only the values that individuals have toward work but the types of rewards that are available as well.
Conclusion
This study analysed the influence of employee rewards system, performance management and job satisfaction in Vodafone’s employees. It shows that in order for Vodafone to do better work and retaining their employees. They must motive employees by giving the rewards on their contribution in achieving company’s goals. Performance get affected if the rewards are no given on the extra effort of employee and they might leave their job due to less satisfaction, new employees are costly for company because of their training, hiring and the coaching so organisation must keep their valuable employees happy and satisfied from their jobs
Verizon Wireless cellular service is inelastic because the products and services it offers makes them the dominant leader in the wireless industry; therefore, a 10% change in calling plan prices (monthly access fees) would not affect the quantity demanded. Verizon Wireless can depend on this inelasticity in their pricing model because of the strength of its brand and the wealth of products and services it offers. Verizon Wireless' competitive advantage comes from its ultra-low churn rate (the percentage of customers who disconnect their service is less than one percent of its 60 million customer base). This indicator suggests that customers are satisfied with the service Verizon Wireless offers and a slight price increase probably would not drive its customers to the competition. This data also suggests that customers probably stay with Verizon Wireless because of its continued expansion of new technologies and services such as its all-digital nationwide CDMA network, EVDO' or its advanced data network (used to wireless send and receive email and other data almost anywhere in the US), and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) that they use for their Push to Talk products. Verizon Wireless markets to a nearly all demographics nationwide and most of its services are offered in the smaller rural markets as a direct result of the one billion dollars per quarter it spends on improving its network as well as acquiring smaller wireless networks to make their nationwide network stronger and larger.
The mission that Verizon Wireless pursues is as a leader in communications, Verizon's mission is to enable people and businesses to communicate with each other. We are also committed to providing full and open communication with our customers, employees and investors. That’s just the beginning on their home page. Verizon has other values like customers first because they are ultimately the people that make them. Integrity always at the heart of everything they do. Respect is the critical component at every level of business. Performance Excellent Verizon holds itself to high standard of performance. Accountability holds each other responsible. “Great Companies are judged by what they do, not by what they say” Verizon Wireless
Strengths: low price, strong brand name, excellent merchandise, exceptional employees, huge membership base, economies of scale, efficient distribution and operation.
Our commitment to steady, long-term improvement in our products and processes is the cornerstone of our business strategy. To achieve this objective, we must work to continuously improve the overall quality of our design, manufacturing, administrative, and support organizations.
In this following report I will discuss the phone industry and analysed it in great detail. I will analysis the market structure and try and understand why the mobile industry falls to heavily oligopoly structure. I will highlight all the structures, however I will discuss in detail how, for example Vodafone can be incorporated in the porter’s five forces method to show how the mobile industry has devolved over the years and to understand if consumers are driven by the actual technology of the phone but if it driven more by style.
Cellular phones carry a diverse group of users. In June 1985, there were about 203,000 cellular phone service subscribers. By June 1989, the number had exploded to 2.7 million subscribers, and by June 1995 there were mire than 26 million subscribers. When cell phones were first introduce, only people with a lot of money had them and the service was very expensive. It was a lot cheaper to stop and use the pay phone than it was to use a cell phone. Now, it is almost as cheap to use a cell phone to make a long distance call as it is to make a long distance call using AT&T.
Vodafone are a multinational cooperation who retail in telecommunication services. They were originally set up in the United Kingdom in 1984, and since then they have expanded globally and have been recognised as ‘the second largest telecommunications company in the world’ with revenue spanning over $46 billion (as of 2012).
Thirdly, the company is committed to delivering superior quality of products and services. It earned a reputation of a convenient and reliable brand that offers the lowest prices, one of the fastest and lowest shipping, widest selection of goods, and many additional features with its services.
This service will soon be further enhanced by picture messaging libraries, video clips and video telephony (seeing the person you're calling) and improving download speeds. Another service is the Vodafone Mobile Connect Card, which enables customers to access their normal business applications on a laptop when out of the office. Such services add value to the product, and high profile effective promotion will help sell these services to existing and new customers.
Covering sixty-three nations, the vital union will see Vodafone Global Enterprise supply about 50,000 Unilever workers with gadgets, network and Managed Mobile Services, which will enhance the conventional path and direction of Unilever's portable interchanges spend, upgrading cost efficiency and effectiveness in relation to the delivering of products and services. Vodafone Global Enterprise deals with the correspondence demands and needs of its clients in relation to the agreement, Vodafone will likewise supply services to Unilever with important information on the most proficient method to increase more prominent upper hand through conveying inventive versatile arrangements. Likewise, Vodafone will give key guidance on new patterns, for example, the successful administration of purchaser gadgets and applications in the working environment. Vodafone and Unilever will work a graduate learner trade project to empower further versatile development in the work environment. To rearrange the administration of Unilever's versatile interchanges, Vodafone will send a variety of arrangements including Vodafone Telecoms Management, a completely facilitated and oversaw administration intended to eliminate various operational issues. Supported by Vodafone's worldwide backing and administration level understandings, Vodafone Telecoms Management will give Unilever more prominent perceivability and administration control over its telecoms consumption, and additionally enhance the nature of administration conveyed to representatives. (Technology Marketing Corporation,
We understand the importance of our missions and the trust our customers place in us. With this in mind, we strive to excel in every aspect of our business and approach every challenge with a determination to succeed.
Today, Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. The company generates sales of more than $27 billion in a total of 130 countries and employs more than 60,000 people. Its simple mission: to "connect people."
frequency carrier while the user is moving within a telephone service area. In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones support a variety of other services, such as text messaging, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications, business applications, gaming, and photography. Cell Phones which offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. Cell Phones are now a way of life in the generation we live in and call home today, and cell phones have changed and benefited our world. By means of texting , making calls, gaming applications, saving people’s lives , helping people while
My mobile phone network coverage allows me to make a call wherever I want, and the call is never cut off by the network. Independent surveys show that it has the best signal quality with excellent call clarity. The network covers 99 percent of the population, and it has installed more transmitters than any other digital network company. They guarantee that they work the best; in fact, they will even add a free minute of talk time if the call is ever lost. International and off-peak calls are the cheapest in the area. The company has been voted number 1 in customer satisfaction for 5 years in a row.
The growth of services sector in our economy is a step forward in the development of Indian economy. In day to day life of an individual the use of mobile phones acts as necessity in getting connected with people for one or the other purpose. India has a largest variety of smartphones available for the users. Because of the fast technologies in smartphones & in market, the networks and services providers of telecom must be updated so as to meet the requirements of people. Indian telecommunication industry is considered to be one of the fastest growing telecom industries in the world. The mounting up of the subscribers reaches to an approximate 800 billion plus users in telecom sector. The industry is growing at as pace in such a way that it will reach a level beyond the telecom markets of USA &