Brand Trust in Impacted Telecom Brands to Be Severe: Trust Research Advisory

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Telecom is important in India, and it keeps in the news one way or the other. Supreme Court’s recent order cancelling 122 licenses has indeed raised deep trust-related issues about the stakeholders involved in the troubled telecom brands.

Hyderabad, A.P, India., February 4, 2012 - (PressReleasePoint) -

Telecom is important in India, and it keeps in the news one way or the other. Supreme Court’s recent order cancelling 122 licenses has indeed raised deep trust-related issues about the stakeholders involved in the troubled telecom brands. An interesting viewpoint is seen from the influencer-consumer point that is reflected in a study on Brand Trust conducted by Trust Research Advisory (TRA) from 15 cities and 2718 respondents. The research study titled “The Brand Trust Report (BTR), India Study, 2012”, compares Brand Trust on a proprietary 61-component matrix of TRA.
N. Chandramouli, CEO, Trust Research Advisory, publishers of the BTR 2012 commented on the development and said, “The Indian telecom growth is nothing short of a revolution and this growth has invisibly but tangibly impacted the growth of business and social connections in India. In fact, telecom has left no life untouched. The recent Supreme Court judgment will definitely impact the consumers, but the bigger and deeper damage has been done to the trust that these brands evoke. The Brand Trust of the impacted brands is bound be severely affected.”  Unaffected by the recent troubles of the sector, the trust leaders in the mobile telephony have retained their last year’s leading ranks. Airtel (ranked 1st) continues to top the list, Vodafone ranks 2nd and Idea ranks 3rd in the list of 18 telephony brands that emerged in the search for India’s 1000 Most Trusted Brands.
The brands which feature among India’s 1000 Most Trusted Brands have had their licenses cancelled. The telecom category has a high Category Trust and the brands which feature include Uninor (BTR ranked 113^th), Videocon (not ranked among telecom), S Tel (not ranked), Loop Telecom (BTR ranked 129^th), Etisalat (not ranked), Sistema (not ranked), Idea (BTR ranked 18^th) and Tata (Tata Docomo ranked 64^th and Tata Indicom ranked 395^th).
The Brand Trust Report^TM is priced at Rs. 10,000/- and is available in major stores and at the offices of Trust Research Advisory.