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Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26323 Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider Pau, Louis-Francois ichelp@gibs.co.za Mankum, Ethesen UCTD Mobile-service provider Prepaid Subscribers Churn Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011. High prepaid subscriber churn impacts on the service provider's profitability, financial evaluation and resource utilisation. Simultaneously it deprives subscribers of improved service because service providers are committing resources to subscriber acquisition and the management of subscriber retention instead of committing these resources to improving the value propositions offered to subscribers. A prepaid churn rate of just less than 50% in South Africa (2009) highlights the need for research into the factors that influence churned prepaid subscribers' choice of mobile-service provider. This in turn will increase the knowledge of retention and acquisition of prepaid subscribers. Using a telephonic survey on a sample of 861 prepaid subscribers, quantitative research was conducted to determine those factors that churned prepaid subscribers consider important when choosing a mobile-service provider. By making use of Analysis of Variance 4 out of 11 factors that, prepaid subscribers considered very important were identified when choosing a mobile-service provider. These included, in order of importance, Customer service quality, Mobile tariffs, Prepaid airtime and Starter-pack availability and Promotions. Discriminant Analysis highlighted 9 factors to be used to predict and classify groups of subscribers based on average monthly spend. The discriminate equation coefficients highlighted how these two groups of subscribers view the 9 factors when choosing a mobile-service provider. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T04:36:45Z 2012-09-21 2013-09-07T04:36:45Z 2012-03-08 2011 2012-07-15 Dissertation Mankum, E 2011, Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26323 > F/12/4/695/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26323 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07152012-133330/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Mobile-service provider Prepaid Subscribers Churn Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider |
| title | Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider |
| title_full | Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider |
| title_fullStr | Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider |
| title_short | Factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile-service provider |
| title_sort | factors that influence prepaid churn subscribers when choosing a mobile service provider |
| topic | UCTD Mobile-service provider Prepaid Subscribers Churn |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26323 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07152012-133330/ |