ABSTRACT
Since the reorganization of Telecommunication Group in 2002, along with the
establishment of China Telecom and CNC, Chinese telecommunication industry
formally shaped into the co-existing market structure with six operators China Telecom,
CNC, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Satcom and China Railcom. China Telecom
service industry gradually formed into a new competing pattern, from originally unique
operator monopolizing to several big operators guiding, many small operators
anticipating and new operators continuously entering. Competition among different
operators appeared, especially in fixed network field. China Telecom heavily competed
with CNC, meanwhile China Unicom and China Railcom entered into the market
together, and at the same time, two big fixed network operators will also begin the
contest, by taking the measure of penetrating into their rivals’ field.
Change in the structure resulted into the reshuffle of telecommunication market
that China Mobile moved up to be China’s biggest telecommunication operator and
China Telecom receded to be on the second position. On one hand, because of the low
market share that each industry company owned at the rate of 40%, no company
performed pretty better than others. On the other hand, several global telecom
companies also infiltrated Chinese telecommunication field by taking multiple measures.
As a result, domestic telecom operators are facing with a newly competition
environment and it can be foreseen that competition will be counterbalanced and more
fierce in future telecommunication market. Among the businesses that China Telecom
aimed to develop, voice wireless and fixed network broad band were the main tendency,
which could not be hampered by China Mobile, and this trend was inevitable in
telecommunication service market. China Mobile was also confronted with the drastic
drop after “price war”, with the situation that its additional service only increased sales
instead of profit.
In order to strengthen the competitive advantage, it is significantly important for
China Telecom to analyze customers, especially big customers, and find out customers’
current and future needs. Therefore, service marketing, especially on business hall, is
the indispensable resort to strengthen telecom operator. In allusion to current business
running in a certain branch company of China Telecom, and under the circumstance that