VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TRAN THI THANH NGA MOBILE MONEY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AT VIETNAM MOBILE SERVICE (VMS- MobiFone) MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION THESIS Hanoi – 2011 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS TRAN THI THANH NGA MOBILE MONEY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AT VIETNAM MOBILE SERVICE (VMS- MobiFone) Major: Business Administration Code: 60 34 05 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION THESIS Supervisor: Dr. Tran Doan Kim MBA. Ha Nguyen January, 2011 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i List of Figures.
ix List of Tables. xi List of Abbreviations. Objective and aim of thesis. Scope of work.
Significance of thesis. Structure of thesis. 5 Chapter 1: Mobile money theoretical overview. The convergence of Mobile service and financial service.
What is Mobile money service?. Opportunities for Mobile money services. Benefit of Mobile money services. To Mobile operators.
Models for Mobile money business. Payment Company centric. Key success factors for mobile money business. 24 vi TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.
Distribution channel management. 28 Chapter 2: International MNOs. 30 mobile money business deployment. Entry mobile money strategy for MNOs.
Technical and IS analysis. The important of agent networks. How big should an agent network be?. Characteristics of a good agent network.
Mobile money agent network model. Main obligations are contractually imposed on agents. Incentivizing mobile money agents. Mobile money case study – M PESA (Kenya).
M-PESA Mobile money business. M-PESA key successful factors. 68 Chapter 3: The case of Vietnam mobile service company. Introduction of Vietnam Mobile Service Company.
Overview about Mobile Market 2010. About Vietnam Mobile Service Company (VMS). Foundation and Development of VMS. Mobile money – Opportunities for VMS?.
Opportunities of mobile money services to bank the unbanked. How should Mobile money in Vietnam be?. How to pricing the unbanked?. 78 vii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.
Technical and IS. VMS current technical and Information system. Technical applied for mobile money. VMS Distribution channel.
Develop mobile money distribution channel. Distribution channel interest and commission. Products offering and pricing. 105 Chapter 4: Mobile money services business development proposal for VMS107 4.
Mobile money business development proposal for VMS. Service pricing and agent commission. Business organizational structure. Risks & challenges for VMS when deploy mobile money services.
Recommendations for Theory. Recommendations for Further Research. 135 viii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Mobile Money services.
Top recipients of remittances. Mobile money revenues forecast. Value drivers of mobile money to MNOs. Example MPESA Cost of non-bank domestic transactions.
Compelling reasons for key stakeholders to invest in Mobile money. Operator Centric Model. Strength and challenges to MNOs in Mobile money. Bank Centric Model.
Strength and challenges to banks in Mobile money. Payment network Centric Model. Relative value of MNO in mobile money services. Potential Service Roadmap for Mobile Money and Payment Services.
The use of mobile Money in Philippines. The use of mobile Money in Kenya. Main mobile money services& fee structure of some current providers. Branchless banking provider cheaper than the cheapest informal option for money transfer.
Money transfer pricing models. Money transfer entry level pricing in selected markets. M Pesa domestic money transfer pricing vs. The Operator’s Role in the Value Chain.
Value for MNOs and Banks. Agent model for MNOs. Kenya economic situation. Kenya Financial Access.
Sanfaricom market share. How people in Kenya sent money before M-PESA. How people in Kenya sent money after the introduction of M-PESA. Posted customer tariffs for M-PESA.
M-PESA Agents Model. Mobile market development. Mobile market APRU. Mobile market share (2009).
VMS Organization Structure .74 ix TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Price of banking services vs branchless banking. Price of mobile money transfer via informal options vs branchless banking. Number of Providers that charge specified method of pricing.
Transaction pricing of main mobile money services. Vietnam money transfer pricing. Vietnam money transfer pricing for unbanked. Technical system connection.
SIM Menu image. VMS distribution channel. MobiFone shops images. Authorized agents images.
Point of sales images. Research samples by gender and habits. Research samples by regions and income. Consumer habit of send/receive money.
Customers behavior and attitude to bank account services. Consumers demand on bank account services. Consumers interests in mobile money services. Consumers interests in M wallet services by MobiFone.
Mobile money services interested rate. Factors’ importance when deciding to use mobile money. Current money transfer services transaction/ fee. Expected mobile money transfer services transaction/ fee.
Expected mobile money fee break down. Current revenue of retailers and their attitude toward join mobile money services. Expected gross revenue of retailers when provide mobile money services. Some main VMS mobile money product describe.
Mobi-cash organizational structure models .121 x TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF TABLES Table 3. VMS & MPESA calculation on retailers’ gross revenue. VMS mobile money product development progress. VMS mobile money price and commission.
VMS price and commission analysis for round trip transaction. Mobi-cash retailer revenue analysis .117 xi TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.service LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 2G: Second Generation 3G: Third Generation AML: Anti-money laundering ARPU: Average Revenue per User CFT: combating the financing of terrorism GPRS: General Packet Radio Service GSM: Global System for Mobile communications GSMA: The GSM Association KYC: Know your customer ICT: Information and Communication Technology IP: Internet Protocol MNO: Mobile Network Operator MVNO: Mobile Virtual Network Operator NFC: Near Field Communication PC: Personal Computer SBV: State bank of Vietnam SMS: Short Message Service VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol xii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Research Problems Mobile phones have transformed telephony far exceed its needs during the past fifteen years. The mobile phone device have for a long time been equipped with many functionalities which have inspired the development of value added mobile services, the use of mobile phones as access devices, and mobile commerce in general.
These developments lead to a great numbers of lucrative opportunities to mobile phone device merchants and service providers. In fact, there are more mobile phones than any other device that can be used to market, sell and provide products and services now. The growth and penetration of mobile services across the world has been a phenomenon. In 2006 the ITU estimated 79% of the world’s population had the potential to access mobile services and by the end of 2009 figures indicate over 4.6 billion cellular subscriptions are in use giving the mobile phone penetration rate of the world to 68,2%.
Penetration in developed markets is about 100% of the population and is rapidly increasing in the developing markets. Penetration in the developing economies can reach the bottom of the economic pyramid. In Vietnam now, according to General Statistics, by the end of Aug 2010, all operators own 142,2 billions subscribers which equal to about 165% the population. Vietnam is a really rapidly increasing mobile market.
Because of the commonplace of such phones now, a new opportunity appears: mobile money, which allows cash to travel as rapidly as a text message. All over the developing world, people always purchase vouchers to top up their calling credit at corner shops. The small retailers act rather 1 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.service like bank branches after the starting of mobile money services allows. They can take your cash, and (by sending a special kind of text message) credit it to your mobile-money account.
Then money (again, via text message) can be transferred to not only other registered users, who can withdraw it by visiting their own local corner shops but also to people who are not registered users; they receive a text message with a code that can be redeemed for cash. The Mobile money issues then become an interesting topic recently. Juniper Research predicts that consumer demand for mobile money transfer services will see users exceed 500 million globally by 2014. The world has recently experienced a number of mobile money transfer services launches in multiple markets with a variety of new payment solutions.
These implements bring many new benefits to consumers and operators and banks who involve. For this reason, In Vietnam market, mobile money is a new business opportunity for all parties includes operators, financial institutions, and payment companies. And MobiFone can take this opportunity as well. With this study, I want to get a well understanding and analyst the opportunity of Mobile money business on VMS-MobiFone.
Objective and aim of thesis This research is implemented to obtain the two purposes: • Study about the Mobile money - the opportunities and benefits of it in Vietnam mobile market in general and for VMS-MobiFone in particular. Learn from successful cases and have a small initial research on these services. 2 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.service • Develop business proposal for VMS-MobiFone: find the suitable models with current situation of VMS and develop a business proposal recommendation. With these above objectives, this thesis aims at giving a basic theoretical foundation of Mobile money implementation in general and how to apply to VMS-MobiFone in particular.
Research questions The researcher will go to find the answer for questions below: • What is Mobile Money? Is it a good opportunity? • What are the models of Mobile money implementation? • What are the key success factors? • Is Mobile money an opportunity in Vietnam for the mobile operator. • How to implement to VMS- MobiFone? 4. Scope of work For the theoretical foundation, this thesis will study the mobile money theory in the world of Mobile operators since 2007 when mobile money was first soundly successfully implemented in Kenya and became a worldwide phenomenon. For the case study, this thesis will focus on some main factors of mobile money implement strategy to study like: market strategy (product and pricing), partnership model and distribution channel settlement because they are the most key challenges factors and also the vital success factors of the strategy.
All of VMS-MobiFone current situations of Mobile money initial from 2005 until now are put into study. 3 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Data resource For the theoretical part, data sources are textbooks, researches, articles from internet since 2007. As for the case study, data is obtained from questionnaire, interview customers and internal data.
Methods The thesis uses the empirical method, desk researches, questionnaire, interview and case study in the study process. Significance of thesis The thesis may contribute an important part to the development of mobile service industry – especially the launching of Mobile money in Vietnam for Mobile operators which has now starting in many developing countries. Since Vietnam is a rapidly increasing mobile penetration and low access to finance system, the deployment of Mobile money have lot of opportunities to success. Thesis limitation The biggest limitation of this thesis is due to the freshness of Mobile money all over the world in general, and in Vietnam in particular, therefore few academic reviews have been applied and proved.
And there has been no trial implementation of these by Vietnam operators so far. Another limit is from wide of the issue. This thesis cannot cover all the theoretical issues of Mobile money. Thus, later this study, this thesis only focus on the distribution channel settlement analysis and focus on this when design action plan to implement Mobile money in VMS- MobiFone.
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