Strategy and management consulting in Telecom and Media

Mobile Operator

Strategic planning

Context and client expectations

  • In an increasingly complex environment, our client, the CEO of a major European mobile operator, aimed at identifying its 5-year strategic plan.
     
  • Greenwich Consulting helped the strategic manager to examine possible developments in the environment, and to define strategic responses to adopt, and the impacts on the marketing mix and P&L :
     
    • Context:
      • External pressure: national economic indicators, telco market
      • Internal pressure: mobile market, competition, regulation
    • Strategic responses and impacts on the marketing mix :
      • Strategic responses: unlimited offerings, mobile data, wholesale, etc.
      • Marketing mix: distribution, customer relations, brand, network
    • KPIs and the financial forecast :
      • Mobile market share (customer base, net-adds, churn, gross adds, penetration of broadband, mix offers, SAC/SRC)
      • Impacts of regulation (termination rate, roaming)
      • Revenues (outgoing/income, voice/data)

Greenwich insight/Greenwich Solution

  • Participated in the market modelling (e.g., VoIP, MVNO).
     
  • Simulated the internal resources to synthesise their views.
     
  • Coordinated a bi-monthly strategic workforce to review the strategic plan material.

Client benefits

  • A clear and shared vision of environment and strategic responses.
     
  • A detailed explanation of the development of P&L.
Glossary

MVNO :
A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a company that does not own a licensed frequency spectrum, but resells wireless services under their own brand name, using the network of another mobile phone operator.

VOIP :
Voice over Internet Protocol, (VoIP) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.