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Riya Airtel
Riya Airtel
( Professor R.Vinayek )
Director
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2 COMPANY PROFILE:
Profile of Company
PRODUCT AND SPECIFICATION
4 Conclusion:
Conclusion
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion
and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchanges that satisfy
individual and organizational objectives. Therefore, In order to run the business
successfully, One has to keep in mind both the factors i.e., controllable as well as
uncontrollable.
Product -The product management aspect of marketing deals with the specifications
of the actual good or service, and how it relates to the end-user's needs and wants.
Pricing -This refers to the process of setting a price for a product, including
discounts.
Brand Equity-The value both tangible and intangible that a brand adds to a
product/service.
Brand Expansion
The exposure of a brand to a broader target customer market, geographic market, or
distribution channel.
Brand Extension
The application of a brandbeyondits initial range of products, or outside of its
category. This becomes possible when the brand image and attributes have
contributed to a perception with the consumer/user where the brand and not the
product is the decision driver.
Brand Identify
A unique set of association that the brand strategist aspires to create or maintain.
These associations represent what the brand should stand for and imply a potential
promise to customers. It is important to note that a brand identity refers to the
strategic goal for a brand, while brand image is what currently resides in the minds of
consumers.
Brand Image
A unique set of associations within the minds of target customers which represent
what the brand currently stands for and implies the current promise to customers.
(Note that brand image is what is currently in the minds of consumers, whereas brand
identify is inspirational).
What is a Brand?
Perhaps the most distinctive skill of professional marketers is their ability to create,
maintain, protect and enhance brands. Marketers say that "branding is the art and
cornerstone of marketing.
In essence, a brand identifies the seller or maker. It can be a name, trademark, logo,
or other symbol. Under trademark law, the seller is granted exclusive rights to the use
of the brand name in perpetuinity. Brands differ from other assets such as patents and
copyrights, which have expiration dates.
2. Benefits: Attributes must be translated into functional and emotional benefits. The
attribute "durable" could translate into functional benefit "I won't have to buy another
car for several years". The attribute "expensive" translates into the emotional benefit
“the car makes me feel important and admires.'
3. Values: The brand also says something about the producer's values Mercedes
stands for high performance, safety and prestige.
5. Personality: The brand can project a certain personality. Mercedes may suggest a
no-nonsense boss (person), a reigning lion (animal), or an austere place (object).
6. User: The brand suggests the kind of consumer who buys or uses the product. We
would expect to see a 55-year-old top executive behind the wheel of a Mercedes, not a
20-year-old secretary.
If a company treats a brand only as a name, it misses the point. The branding
challenge is to develop a deep set of positive associations for the brand. Marketers
must decide at which level(s) to anchor the brand's identity. One mistake would be to
promote only attributes. First, the buyer is not as interested in attributes as in benefits.
Second, competitors can easily copy attributes. Third, the current attributes may be
come less desirable later.
Promoting the brand only on one benefit can also be risky. Suppose Mercedes touts its
main benefit as "high performance". Then several competitive brands emerge with
high performance as compared to other benefits. Mercedes needs the freedom to
maneuver into a new benefit positioning.
The most enduring meanings of a brand are its values, culture, and personality. They
define the brand's essence, The Mercedes stands for high technology, performance
and success. Mercedes must project this in. its brand strategy. Mercedes must resist
marketing an inexpensive car bearing the name; doing so would dilute the value and
personality. Mercedes has built up over the years.
1.2. BRAND AWARENESS
Brand, the hip, catches all word of the New Economy. It suggested all a company
needed succeed was awareness. Image, as they say, was everything. Pat Harpell saw it
up close as the CEO of Harpell Inc., an integrated marketing firm in Maynard,
Massachusetts. Over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have called on her to
create branding programs, and she could see that old-fashioned branding strategies
had gone astray. “That’s not a branding program; that's a logo." she says. "Basic
business principles fell apart."'
Branding turned into a game of being seen for the sake of being seen, without
giving consumers a reason to buy.
What ultimately fell apart was the connection between companies and consumers.
Branding turned into a game of being seen for the sake of being seen, without giving
consumers reason to buy. "There's been a tremendous abuse of branding," says Jeff
Dufresne, managing director of Brand Storm, a brand-consulting group in Cincinnati.
"I think people got confused and thought branding was just throwing some ill-
conceived advertising out there to gain awareness."
With the dotcom fallout, companies are relearning the basic lessons of what makes a
successful brand-mainly that you can't live on image only.Eyeballs don't equal sales,
and logos don't create loyalty. Consumers want to know what you arc all about and
why they should trust you enough to purchase your product. This will never change,
no matter how much technology alters our lives.
It’s that dialogue that's beer, missing lately, Koehn says, and it's essential to any
branding strategy. Branding has become a monologue instead of a dialogue.
Entrepreneurs need to leave their ivory office towers and talk to people. They need to
be responsive to their customers. They have to make sure their branding messages are
understood by everyone inside the company. “Over the last few years. People didn't
realize how hard branding really is.” Koehn says. But its rewards are equal to is-s
difficulty.
Harpell recently studied a group of new companies to see how ingrained their
branding messages were inside those companies. She found that many employees
weren't aware of their companies' branding messages at all. “There were no brand
connection, no teaching of employees and no communicating with consumers,”
Harpell says.
The web's problems, too. When management and technology consulting firm
Accenture and technology research company Online Insight surveyed 2000 online
consumers last year, they found that a lot of the givens about the web that marketers
operate under are false. While most of the marketing is aimed at youth, the average
online shopper is 35 to 44. Entrepreneurs also assumed that advertisements drew
consumers to their sites while customer’s survey veiled on search engines. And the
low prices companies touted weren't what customers were looking for; they wanted
satisfying customer encounter that was Fast and convenient.
"Branding is about more than the sock puppet. It's about the total customer
experience," says Kelly Dixon, co-author of the study and director of e-branding at
Accenture in Chicago. "Companies haven't focused on the entire package."
DEFINITION:
The act of creating public awareness of a specific brand in order to maximize its
recognition, successful brand awareness strategies should define a company's
uniqueness and set it apart from competitors". Quite simply, if potential customers do
not know about a company, they will not purchase from it. Therefore, one of the
preeminent goals of any business should be to build brand awareness, albeit, in cost-
effective manner as possible.
Online brand awareness strategies are used frequently, albeit with differing levels of
success. These online brand awareness strategies can include the use of advertising
including banners, sponsorships, and email/newsletter advertising, online PR, affiliate
marketing, etc.
So you want to know how to increase brand awareness? Well you’re in the
right place, especially if you’re working with a limited budget, but need to cut
through the noise and stand above your competitors.
Besides traditional advertising, what can you do to help put your brand name
on everybody’s lips? We’ve compiled ten ideas to get people talking…
1. Take to social media
Finding the time to feed your profiles and blog can be a challenge but if you’re
going to do it you need to be active, which means posting and interacting
several times a day. But what to say? Expertise in a particular area can make
for a large following. Stay relevant and on-topic and you will garner a
valuable and engaged audience.
Don’t forget you need to talk to others to grow your following, which means
responding to comments on your social media pages in a timely manner and
engaging followers in conversation. No time at all? Check out these 10 tools
for automating your social media.
2. Hold an event
Whatever type of business you’re in, holding a live event is a great way to get
the attention of clients and prospects. This could be a purely social summer
barbecue or Christmas party, or structured around business development such
as the launch of a new product or promotion. You could even run a
workshop to share your professional expertise.
Holding a live event gives you valuable ‘face time’ with potential customers
and offers the opportunity for them to experience the look, feel and personality
of your brand. You can always adopt a theme to add interest, such as a 1920s
cocktail evening or a vintage tea party. Consider raising funds for charity at
your event – it’s the perfect way to give back as you get.
3. Launch a PR campaign
Gaining press coverage is essentially like getting free advertising . But it’s
actually better than that, because editorial has more credibility and is more
likely to convince potential new customers to check you out. The hard part is
coming up with a newsworthy angle, and this will depend on whether you’re
targeting local or national media, print, TV or radio.
Perhaps you have a great personal story to tell about why you started your
business, maybe you’ve launched a unique new product or have identified an
interesting sales trend? Conducting surveys in your specialist fi eld and
publishing the results can offer a credible line for journalists or why not try a
spot of responsive PR, looking out for relevant journalist requests you can
respond to? Another top tip is to search Twitter for opportunities using the
following hashtags: #pressrequest or #journorequest.
4. Exhibit yourself
There’s power in numbers – if you can identify other businesses targeting the
same kind of customer as you, but not directly competing there’s an
opportunity to join forces for mutual benefit.
For example if you’re a florist you can offer an exclusive discount for
customers of the local bridal shop. For you, it’s a great way to attract new
customers. For the established business it’s a way to reward their customers at
no expense and with virtually no effort.
6. Sponsor something
But choose wisely – what you choose to sponsor should be relevant to your
target market and ‘on message’. Be sure to steer clear of any PR disasters –
Nestlé’s sponsorship of a health conference in 2014 led to the event bein g
cancelled after senior NHS figures urged a boycott over the food and beverage
company’s promotion of infant formula in the developing world.
To help you make the right sponsorship choice visit Sponsormonster, a free to
use service which matches potential corporate sponsors with sponsorship
opportunities that meet their marketing criteria.
Experiential campaigns can work for both B2B and B2C companies too.
Small corporate gifts are a great way to thank customers for their business and
reinforce your brand at the same time. You can provide branded pens for
pennies and it will put your company name and contact details at your
customers’ fingertips for months to come.
But don’t scrimp too much, cheap and cheerful can be a false economy.
There’s no point giving a really cheap pen which is going to run out of ink
really quickly – not only will your brand exposure be short-lived, giving low
quality items reflects badly on your company.
The more creative you can be with your gifts the better. Something unusual or
personalised will delight the recipient and may lead to them posting about the
gift on social media, earning your brand extra glory.
REVIEW OF LITRATURE
Brand awareness remains fundamental to consumer life as the interaction initiation
point to the brands. This paper put forwards the relationship of brand awareness on
consumer/brand loyalty in the packaged milk brands in the urban Pakistan. There is
evidence of brand awareness and consumer/brand loyalty on brand equity. The
approach takes into account sources of brand equity—brand awareness,
consumer/brand loyalty, and image (perceptions / associations) on the sample of
consumer households.This paper suggests that in Pakistan among the packaged milk
brands there is no relationship between brand awareness and consumer/brand loyalty.
In addition, testing relationship by setting perceptions as the mediating variable
between brand awareness and consumer/brand loyalty results the same. For practicing
managers and marketers it is important to note that there is a need to update their
understanding of the nature and role of brand awareness on convenience products
which has random switch purchase behavior and low-involvement. In the current era,
marketers must develop branding strategies for commodity-products such as milk
packaged brands by investing and strengthening its supply chain system, to create and
increase brand awareness for the milk brands in-turn to build consumer/brand loyalty
than trying to directly build consumer/brand loyalty by heavy spending on
promotional tools.
The area of research for this paper focuses on empirically studying the relationship of
brand awareness on brand/consumer loyalty, which constitutes the success of a brand.
This relationship between brand awareness and consumer/brand loyalty has been
studied in Pakistan focusing on the geographical region of Karachi in the context of
fast moving consumer products such as packaged milk brands.
Brand Equity and its interrelationships with brand awareness has been an important
area of study in extant literature ( e.g. Keller, 1990, 2003, 2006; Aaker,1991,2002;
Kapferer,1998; Biel,1993; Yoo,2000; Donthu,2001; Moore,2002; Srivastava &
Shocker,1991;Ailawadi, 2003;Lehmann,2006; Neslin 2003; Srinvasan, Park & Chang,
2005; Slotegraaf & Pauwels, 2008). Brand Equity, as the focus of this study is defined
as comprehensive set of values attached by the consumers creating differential effects
to the brand which creates revenue in the competitive market (Aaker, 1991). In this
connection ‘Brand Awareness’ is the primary dimension of brand equity and is vital
for the purpose. Brand equity is initially built by laying a foundation of brand
awareness — eventually forming positive brand images — and is ultimately
maximized by high levels of brand loyalty (Strategic Marketing and Research
Techniques, 2008).
In other words, by understanding the locus of brand loyalty the practicing managers
can redirect their efforts towards factors that contribute to brand loyalty. The present
research, uses packaged milkbrands because, firstly milk is an everyday commodity
and secondly, it is heavily advertised by packagers of milk.
Also to substantiate the low involvement decision settings helping creating the level
of brand awareness for the particular product choice, even in the absence of a well-
formed attitude (Betteman & Park 1980; Hoyer & Brown 1990; Park & Lessig, 1981).
It is, therefore, pertinent to address the issue of consumer/brand loyalty in packaged
milk industry and thus develop an informed opinion of the heavy advertising
expenditures witnessed in the industry. Therefore, this paper aims to study “The
association between Brand Awareness and consumer/brand loyalty: A Study of
Packaged Milk Brands”.
The study was also done to estimate the performance of the Airtel mobiles with the
other cellular service providers, and to whether the customers know about different
services provided by the Airtel mobiles.
Coverage
Call centers
Billing
3. To know how many cellular users know about the services provided by Airtel.
4. To find out the reasons for the retention of the Airtel customers.
8. To study the basic need of the customer for switching from one Cell Company
to another.
1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research always starts with a question or a problem. Its purpose is to question
through the application of the scientific method. It is a systematic and intensive study
directed towards a more complete knowledge of the subject studied.
Marketing research (MR) is the function which links the consumer, customer and
public to the marketer through information- information used to identify and define
marketing opportunities and problems generate, refine, and evaluate marketing
actions, monitor marketing actions, monitor marketing performance and improve
understanding of market as a process. Marketing research specifies the information
required to address these issues, designs, and the method for collecting information,
manage and implemented the data collection process,Analyses the results and
communicate the findings and their implication.
SOURCES OF DATA
Methodology is usually a guideline system for solving a problem, with specific
components such as phases, tasks, methods, techniques and tools. It can be
defined also as follows:
• "The analysis of the principles of methods, rules, and postulates employed by
a discipline".
• "The systematic study of methods that are, can be, or have been applied
within a discipline".
• "The study or description of methods".
RESEARCH PROBLEM
1. The study is only for the Airtel confined to a particular location and a very small
sample of respondents. Hence the findings cannot be treated as representative of the
entire retail industry.
2. Respondents may give biased answers for the required data. Some of the
respondents did not like to respond.
3. Respondents try to escape some statements by simply answering “neither agree nor
disagree” to most of the statements.
The study was conducted to know the brand awareness regarding Airtel cellular
providers from the customers of different cellular service providers. The study totally
revolves around the opinions and feedbackfrom the users. An opinion survey with the
help of questionnaire wasconducted to know the users' view on the services provided
by Airtel with special emphasis on the other cellular users.
The study was also done to estimate the performance of the Airtel mobiles with the
other cellular service providers, and to whether the customers know about different
services provided by the Airtel mobiles.
Primary Data:
The primary data was collected by a market survey in Delhi. Questionnaire was
Therefore, Those data and the answers which we have got from the sample is
Secondary Data:
Secondary data is the data in which the information is collected by some source. The
source can be internet or by any individual or by any reffered book.
The secondary data comprises of various Books and Websites are included in the
study. Data was also collected from the company's records and from the websites
"www.Airtel.co.in"'.
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research Design specifies the methods and procedures for conducting a particular
study. A Research Design is the arrangement of conditions for collection and analysis
of the data in a manner that aims to combine relevance to the research purpose with
economy in procedure. Research Design is broadly classified into three types as:
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE
SAMPLING
Simple random sampling: This type of sampling also known as chance sampling or
probability sampling. Where each and every item in population has an equal chance of
inclusion in this sample and each one of the possible sample, in case of finite
universe, has the sample probability of being selected.
Stratified sampling: If the population from which a sample is to be drawn does not
constitute a homogeneous group than a stratified sampling techniques applied so as to
obtain representative sample.
Quota sampling: In stratified sampling the cost of talking random samples from
individual strata is often so expensive that interviewers are simply given quota to be
filled from different strata, the actual selection of items for sample being left to the
interviewer’s judgment.
Cluster and area wise sampling: Cluster sampling involves grouping the population
and then selecting the groups or the clusters rather than individual elements inclusion
in the sample.
SAMPLE DESIGN
A Sample Design is a definite plan for obtaining a sample from a
g i v e n population. It refers to the technique to the procedure adopted in selecting
items for the sampling designs are as below:
SAMPLE SIZE
The substantial portions of the target customer that are sampled to achieve
reliable result are 100 respondents.
SAMPLE AREA
Shahadra and
Karkardooma
SAMPLING PROCEDURE
market.
QUESTIONNARE
It is a well known fact that, In order to make the sales rate higher. One has to keep
in mind the attributes of Promotional and marketing strategies. So, A Company
should not become lazy when it comes to promotion. It should properly take the
necessary actions for advertisement, Sales promotions, Public relation etc.
CHAPTER 2
COMPANY PROFILE
COMPANY PROFILE
All of us communicate all the time and AIRTEL believes that's the way it should be.
All of us communicate whether it's midday or mid night: Whether it's someone at the
other end of the world, or the other end of the room . Technology shouldn't control
when and with whom you can communicate.
About Airtel
Airtel comes to you from BhartiAirtel Limited, India’s largest integrated and the first
private telecom services provider with a footprint in all the 23 telecom circles.
BhartiAirtel since its inception has been at the forefront of technology and has steered
the course of the telecom sector in the country with its world class products and
services. The businesses at BhartiAirtel have been structured into three individual
strategic business units (SBU’s) - Mobile Services, AirtelTelemedia Services &
Enterprise Services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services
using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles while the AirtelTelemedia Services
business offers broadband & telephone services in 95 cities. The Enterprise services
provide end-to-end tetelecom solutions to corporate customers and national &
international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under
the Airtel brand
OUR BRAND
Airtel was born free, a force unleashed into the market with a relentless and
unwavering determination to succeed. A spirit charged with energy, creativity and a
team driven “to seize the day” with an ambition to become the most globally
admired telecom service. Airtel, in just ten years of operations, rose to the pinnacle of
achievement.
As India's leading telecommunications company Airtel brand has played the role as a
major catalyst in India's reforms, contributing to its economic resurgence.
Today we touch people lives with our Mobile services, Telemedia services, to
connecting India's leading 1000+ corporates. We also connect Indians living in USA,
UK and Canada with our call home service.
“We at Airtel always think in fresh and innovative ways about the needs of our
customers and how we want them to feel. We deliver what we promise and go out of
our way to delight the customer with a little bit more”
BUSINESS DIVISIONS
BhartiAirtel offers GSM mobile services in all the 23-telecom circles of India and is
the largest mobile service provider in the country, based on the number of customers.
The group offers high speed broadband internet with a best in class network. With
Landline services in 94 cities we help you stay in touch with your friends & family
and the world.
The Company compliments its mobile and broadband & telephone services with
national and international long distance services. It has over 35,016 route kilometers
of optic fibre on its national long distance network. For international connectivity to
east, it has a submarine cable landing station at. For international connectivity to the
west, the Company is a member of the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe
– 4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) consortium along with 15 other global telecom operators.
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to make STD/ISD call.
This feature on your AIRTEL Prepaid facilitates the display of thecalling party's
number. This facility comes at no extra charge and allows you to recognize the caller.
Fun till the end! You don’t have to bother about a minimum balance required to make
any calls.
Prepaid National Roaming
AirtelPrepaid is the first prepaid mobile card in the country to provide "All India
Roaming", that comes preactivated with your connection. So that you can make
outgoing calls in Delhi, UP(west), Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttaranchal,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat. MadhyaPradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Chennai, Kerala, Kolkata. While roaminginthe rest of India like West Bengal and
Bihar, where Airtel is not present, you get the facility of receiving calls and sending
SMS. You can also now make and receive calls, send and receive SMS while roaming
on.
Idea, BPL networks in India. You can also send SMS while roaming in Delhi,
Punjab, Haryana, UP (west) and Uttaranchal(northern region only).
International Roaming
Airtel prepaid makes sure you to stay connected while you trot across the globe,
letting you receive incoming calls and send SMS while roaming in more than 100
countries with 150 plus networks.
Share those interesting one-liners, important reminders and rib-tickling jokes, with
anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world.
ROAMING:
Now one can always stay connected, no matter where they are, with the Airtel
Roaming facility, one can use their Airtel phone in over 100 countries worldwide
and over 530 cities across India. Airtel Roaming makes life easy and convenient
for its subscribers.
So whenever you are always just a local phone call away from those who need
you because you pay for the long distance part of any incoming call.
And to make life much simple.-:, you will get only one bill that will include all
your expenses.
Roaming is the best way to say in touch, wherever you go in India or around the
world. Airte! brings roaming along with its roaming partners. With roaming you will
have just one phone number wherever you travel across the world.
FINDINGS
Many of the respondents who are using cell phones of various service providers
other than Airtel arc aware of Airtel Brand; its features and the various other
services of Airtel.
Some of the respondents who are dissatisfied with their current cell service
provider wanted to shift to Airtel if they provide low call charges and better
customer care.
Airtel brand has attained a good awareness mainly due to its advertisements,
which clearly explains about the offers they are providing.
In many rural areas also Airtel has its network coverage and due to this aspect it
gained lot of importance as well.
The company has many parts in the same city or in the same region having low
frequency of signals due to which the customer are facing problem.
We have to considered the new Network in the market i.e., Jio Because We have
still not attained the Goals of becoming the biggest network provider in the
market. And the Jio network are considered to be 1 of the biggest competitor these
days as Jio is even new to the market and It is found to competing on the rate at
which Networks like Vodafone and Idea are competing. In other words, We can
say that Jio is found to be achieving Leadership in the market
Airtel brand is found to be the good competitor of Networks like Vodafone, Idea
etc.
People are very much satisfied from our customer service agents. But we still have
to do some work on Customer service agent i.e., Our agents should try to help the
customer at their best level and even they should be having a goal of saving
customer time in complaining.
CHAPTER 4
CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION
CONCLUSION
Total number of samples collected is 100.
Out of the 100 samples chosen, maximum number of respondents were male (90)
and minimum respondents were female (10).
Out of the 100 samples chosen, maximum people were using Pre~ Paid service
and minimum number of people were using the Post-Paid service.
Out of the 100 respondents 70% were using Pre-Paid Service and 30% of them
were using the Post-Paid service.
Out of the 100 respondents 5 are public Sector Employees, 30 are Private Sector
Employees, 20 respondents are Businessmen. 40 respondents are students and 5
respondents are others like employees, Auto drivers.
Out of the 100 respondents, 30 respondents consider the Brand image, services,
call charges, availability while choosing a cell connection. 30 respondents
consider only call charges, 25 respondents consider only the services, ID
respondents considers the availability of the services and only 5 respondents
considered the Brand image of the cell service provider.
Out of the 100 respondents, 44 are satisfied with their current cell service
provider. 25 respondents are not satisfied with their current service provider. 20
respondents have said that the services of the current service provider are good.
Only 11 respondents have responded that the services provided by their current
cell service provider are excellent.
Out of the 100 respondents, 40 of them have said that they are aware of various
cell service providers through friends. 36 respondents are aware of the services
through the advertisements. 20 of the respondents are aware through the
newspapers. Only 4 respondents are aware through hoardings.
Out of the 100 respondents, 60% of the respondents are aware of the Airtel
services, only 40% of the respondents are not aware of the Airtel services.
Out of the 100 respondents only 28 respondents have used Airtel before, and 12 of
the respondents have not used Airtel connection before.
Out of the 100 respondents 64 of them are interested in using Airtel in the future,
36 respondents are not interested in using Airtel in the future.
Out of the 60 respondents who are aware of the Airtel services, 40 people have
stated that the network coverage is excellent, 15 of them have said that the
coverage is good, 5 of them have said that the network coverage is satisfied.
Out of 60 respondents who are aware of the Airtel services, 10 of them have said
that the customer care in Airtel is excellent, 35 of them have said that the
customer care is good,. 10 were satisfied and 5 of them were dissatisfied with the
customer care in Airtel.
Out of the 60 respondents who are aware of Airtel, only one have said that the call
charges in Airtel are excellent, 24 of them have said that they are good, 30 of them
were satisfied and 5 of them were dissatisfied with the call charges in Airtel.
Out of the 100 respondents 54% have given first place for Airtel, 30% for
Vodafone, 8% (or Idea, 5% for BSNL, 3% for reliance and none of them gave first
place for Tata indicom.
SUGGESTIONS TO THE COMPANY
From the Survey reports the suggestions that can be made are:
Consumer Retention:
1. Extra talktimes should be given to the potential customers who are there for more
than 2 years in the subscriptions.
3. If more messages and extra talk time benefits are giventhen it can help for the
retain for the potential customers.
4. Airtel has to increase the customer care centers in order to concentrate more on the
customer’s queries and their problems.
6. The reduction in the call charges can still attract more number of customers who
are willing to shift to Airtel from other service providers.
5)Kasarjian H.H. and Robertson T.S Perspectives in Consumer preferences and Brand
awareness, SCOH Forman And Company, Illinois, 2001.
6)Malhotra,NareshK.,Dash Satyabhushan,2009,Marketing Research-and applied
orientation.
7) Web Sites:
http://www.Airtel.co.in
www.google.co.in
www.scribd.com
CHAPTER 3
ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION
OF DATA
DATA ANALYSIS
The major purpose of descriptive data analysis is description of the state of affairs as
it exits at present[35-39].
2.3 Methods of data collection
Collection of primary data
Phone users
Govt. and Pvt. Offices
Collection of secondary data
Company booklet
Magazines
WWW.bharti.com
Leaflets
2.4 SAMPLE DESIGN
Sample unit
Phone users
Govt. and Pvt. Offices Source List
As designed on the next page containing these entry. S. No., Name of establishment,
Address, Segment, Total Dells, Computer, Internet uses, Contact No., Contact person,
uses, ARPA, interested, pain areas[25-28].
Size of Sample:
This refers to the number of items to be selected from universe to constitute the
sample. The size of sample should be optimum. In this case the sample size is 500
which fulfil the requirement of efficiency, representatives, reliability and
flexibility[40-43].
Sample type:
Simple random sampling is applied in this research.
Scaling technique:
Scaling describes the procedure of assigning number to various degrees of opinion,
attitudes and other concepts.
Likert’s -type scaling technique is applied in this research which consist of a number
of statement express either favourable or unfavourable attitude towards the given
object to which the respondent is asked to react[44-45].
The Airtel subscriber base according to COAI - Cellular Operator Association of
India as of May 2008 was:
Chennai - 4,055,704
Delhi - 2,468,016
Mumbai - 1,823,532
Kolkata - 1,852,838
Maharashtra & Goa - 4,345,945
Gujarat - 3,004,824
Andhra Pradesh - 6,516,332
Karnataka - 7,316,500
Tamil Nadu - 4,218,705
Kerala - 1,703,298
Haryana - 1,067,990
Uttar Pradesh (West) - 1,624,001
Uttar Pradesh (East) - 3,897,278
Rajasthan - 4,242,006
Madhya Pradesh - 3,084,776
West Bengal & Andaman and Nicobar - 2,106,163
Himachal Pradesh - 809,829
Bihar - 4,912,900
Orissa - 1,911,070
Assam - 939,746
North Eastern States - 585,213
Jammu & Kashmir - 1,100,069
The total is 67,425,935 or 32.81% of the total 205,460,762 GSM mobile connections
in India till May 2008.
How many User’s of Tele services
Sample Size=500
Land Line 30%
Mobile 55%
Internet 15%
Satisfied Vs Unsatisfied Customer
Unsatisfied 30%
Satisfied 70%
Reason of Unsatisfaction
Billing
5% Technical
5% Service
10% Other 10%
2 CALL RATES
3 SMS RATES
4 NEW OFFERS
5 CUSTOMER CARE
6 RECHARGE
OUTLETS
7 VALUE ADDED
SERVICES
8 LEVEL OF
SATISFACTION
WITH AIRTEL