STUDENT: | Louis-Claude ROUX | PROFESSOR: | Philippe René Gillet | CASE: Virgin Mobile USA “Pricing for the first time” | DATE: 20/02/2012CLASS: MBS-Entrepreneuriat | PART I) ANSWERS BASED ON MY “GUT FEELINGS” Virgin Mobile targets the 14 to 24-year-olds market. The case lays out three pricing options. Which option would you choose and why? I would go for option number two for several reasons. The first one is that I think offer number one is not sufficiently different from the rest
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on extra usage users penalized heavily 4. Charged less for off-peak than on-peak minutes‚ but the off-peak period had shrunk 5. An additional fee was added to monthly bill‚ including taxes and services charges. From Company’s Standpoint Virgin Mobile USA had to fix all these problems prevalent in the industry while taking a pricing decision. The main limitation it faced was that the prices should be competitive and portable without triggering of competitive reactions. There are three options
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Political factors The political changes in the UK really do impact negatively on the software industry ‚ although of late ‚ there has been a concerted effort to enact legislation to curb software piracy which has been termed as one of the greatest threats to the industry . Currently the anti-piracy law of UK prohibits and sets forth legal measures against perpetrators of the crime and it is anticipated that this will stamp out the vice that is so rife in the UK . From a global perspective ‚ different political
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Introduction: Virgin Mobile is a successful company based in the U.K. The company is well known for its brand extension and was the first company to introduce the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in the U.K.‚ where they leased network space form another firm instead of running a network in-house and as a result avoiding infrastructure and large fixed cost. The company was well known for its hip and trendy position in the U.K.‚ and catered to the youth market. Although they have had a couple
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Virgin mobile Failure in Indian Market Introduction Virgin‚ a leading branded venture capital organization‚ is one of the world’s most recognized and respected brands. Conceived in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson‚ the virgin group has gone on to grow very successful businesses in sectors ranging from mobile telephony‚ to transportation ‚travel‚financial services‚leisure‚music‚holidays‚publishing and retailing. Virgin has created more than 200 branded companies worldwide employing approximately 50000
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Pestel Analysis of Mobile Phone Industry Political Mobile phones have now become a tool with which political parties can directly target voters. People with smartphones can now receive video advertisements and messages via the internet. According to the Economic Intelligence Unit (2012)‚ 83% of Americans who own a smartphone or tablet are registered to vote. This new gimmick is called “m-campaigning” and is currently most common in America. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both using this as
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University of Nottingham Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mobile Communications Project (H64MOC‚ 10 credits) Design of a CDMA based mobile communications system Your report should be around 3000-4000 words and include diagrams and other appropriate data. Your report should be submitted on or before Tues 3rd May 2011. You are reminded that late submission of coursework will result in marks being deducted. Orange Island is a remote island with one major city‚ Voda‚ in the
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3. PESTEL Analysis PESTEL Analyses tool will help to analyze the indefinite and rapidly changing environment of Tesco. Various forces that are significantly impacting on the performance of the company will be identified for understanding the external environment. Political factor After China and its market expand to World Trade Organization‚ foreign trade began to develop in the country as most of the barriers of foreign trade and investments were removed. This was a huge encouragement for big
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Pestel P2: The pestel framework: The PESTEL framework categorises environmental influences into six main types: political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal. Why you are using it: Thus it provides a clear list of influences on the possible success or failure of particular strategies apple uses or will use. Analyse how the pestel factors that may affect company: Political factors look at government policies‚ taxation changes‚ foreign trade regulations‚ political risk
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Geert Hofstede defined that culture is "collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012a) Human culture derives from people’s background‚ education‚ gender and so on. Therefore‚ different people have various cultures. Culture can influence employees’ relationship in workplaces. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Geert Hofstede studied this question for more than six years‚ and found six groups of national cultural dimensions. The first
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