Service Quality Dimensions And Customers Satisfactions In Mobile Communications

Objective - The world is moving towards continuous and ubiquitous availability of information. Entry of private operators in 1990's, competition has caused prices to drop and calls across India are one of the cheapest in the world. Technological advances combined with forces of globalization resulted in the transformation of the economy, industries, markets and customers resulting in a connected knowledge economy, borderless global economy, globalizing, covering and consolidating industries, fragmenting and frictionless markets and active, connected, informed and demanding customers. The objective of this research is to ascertain the constructs like customer satisfaction towards the mobile phone service providers, switching barrier and the customer loyalty factors.Methodology/Technique - Respondents in the study are the customers who use mobile phones. Primary data were collected with the help of the specially designed questionnaire, which was administered to the mobile users. The final questionnaire was pre tested on 40 respondents and the coefficient values are all above .8 thus meeting Nunnaly's recommendation of greater than 0.7 as the acceptable reliability level. The overall alpha value was 0.8 and the instrument consists of customer satisfaction regarding the mobile service providers, which includes factors like price (5 items, 0.816), network coverage (4 items, 0.795), customer service (5 items, 0.852) and usage (8 items, 0.884). Switching barriers factors consists of 28 items like credibility factors (8 items, 0.863), congruency factors (7 items, 0.816), switching cast (8 items, 0.871), and value (5 items, 0.900). Final part of the instrument includes 17 customer loyalty factors like trust (7 items, 0.858), commitment (4 items, 0.848), word of mouth (3 items, 0.779) and cooperation (3 items, 0.691).Findings - Gender, location of the customers and service providers has significant association with level of customer satisfaction. Gender and occupation has significant association with level of customer switching barriers. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the main effect and the adjustment effect of those switching barrier factors and the relative effect. Novelty - The contribution is that this study review theoretically and verifies empirically the relationship and mechanism between the customer retention and the switching barrier. Type of Paper: Empirical.

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 3.85, , course: Master of business adminstration, language: English, abstract: It was proven that perceived service quality had a positive relationship with customer satisfaction and the researcher think this supports the argument of linking mobile banking service and customer satisfaction. They use the SERVQUAL model but rather the dimenstiononly scale to assess service quality other than website desig nand responsivness. The researcher therefore think using the SERVQUAL model (MiykelSisaye)model would be a contribution to existing research mobile banking context. This is the current research gap and in order to fill the gap, the researcher was try to measure service quality and customer satisfaction, The study aimed at examining the effect of five online banking service quality dimensions on the customers satisfaction in the case of CBE. The study followed an explanatory research design identifying the dimensions of service quality for online services namely reliability, responsiveness, ,personalization, web design and security as independent variable and customer satisfaction as dependent variable. Primary data was collected for the analysis based on five points Likert scale from 396 sample respondents who are customers of CBE online banking services. The data was coded and analyzed using SPSS version 25 software. The reliability of the instrument was checked using Cronbach’s alpha test. The data analysis employed both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The descriptive statistics was used for summarizing the background of respondents and computing average score of CBE on each dimensions of service quality and customers satisfaction. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were conducted to examine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables.

In the modern world of mobile applications, the expansion of e-services, self-services, and mobile communication constantly allows for new multidisciplinary developments in academia and industry. Optimizing Current Practices in E-Services and Mobile Applications is a critical scholarly resource that examines issues in the production management, delivery, and consumption of e-services. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as marketing, management, social media, and entrepreneurship, this book is an ideal resource for professionals, researchers, academicians, and industry consultants with an interest in the emergence of e-services.

The booming revolution in Information Technology sector has pushed India's telecom market significantly. India has shown tremendous growth in the past few years in terms of cellular services. For the past few years consumers prefer wireless mode of telephone services to wire line services. As per the survey report made by Voice & Data by the end of October 2014, the number of mobile subscribers has increased from 957.61 million at the end of the September 2014 to 962.63 million at the end of the October, 2014.

The aim of this study was to examine effects of service quality dimensions on customer satisfaction using SERVQUAL model in Afghan wireless communication company of Balkhab district of Sar-e-Pol province. For this propose 170 questionnaires were used and collect data, in the literature review, generally service quality and its impact on customer satisfaction in developing countries have been greatly examined. In this study service quality dimensions such as tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy have been taken as independent variables and customer satisfaction as dependent variable. Firstly, in order to assess the internal consistency of the questionnaire Cronbach Alpha has been tested. In addition, in order to know the relationship between customer satisfaction and service quality dimensions Spearman correlation has been analyzed, the result shows that reliability 0.601, empathy 0.560, responsiveness 0.550, assurance 0.515, and tangibility 0.389 have positive relationship with customer satisfaction respectively, except tangibility relationship is in a moderate manner. According to regression analysis, tangibility, reliability and empathy can have significant and positive impact on customer satisfaction of Afghan wireless communication company of Balkhab district.

This volume presents a pragmatic approach to understanding and capitalizing on contemporary m-commerce trend. It comprehensively encapsulates the evolution, emergent trends, hindrances and challenges, and customer perceptions about various facets of how physical and online retail channels are merging, blurring, and influencing each other in new ways. The rapid rise of m-commerce (or mobile commerce) has led to the emergence of new paradigms in the marketplace. The difference between physical and digital retail is diminishing, and a new “phygital retail” phenomenon is on the rise. Marketers need to understand this emerging paradigm and consider the new opportunities and challenges involved. This volume, M-Commerce: Experiencing the Phygital Retail, provides a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary m-commerce concepts along with the emerging paradigms in a pragmatic way. It presents empirical analyses and reviews on the myriad aspects of m-commerce, including both contemporary academic and business research.

Research in the field of service quality and consumer behavior has developed in many dimensions in the past decade. A number of models have been developed to determine the factors leading to satisfaction; however, within the past few years, scholars have proved that satisfaction is not sufficient to leave a strong mark in the minds of the customers. Service quality and customer delight have been the buzzwords in the business world in recent times as scholars have proven that customer delight is the key to customer retention. The Handbook of Research on the Interplay Between Service Quality and Customer Delight considers how companies around the world in a cross-cultural environment are dealing with service quality and customer delight and proposes a global outlook on the current trends, tactics, and opportunities. Covering key topics such as buyer funnels, consumer dissonance, and digital solutions, this reference work is ideal for business owners, managers, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

Over the last few years, the mobile and wireless market has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world and it is still growing at a rapid pace. This opens up huge markets for financial institutions interested in offering value added services. With mobile technology, banks can offer a wide range of services to their customers, such as transferring funds while traveling, receiving stock price updates, and stock trading while being stuck in traffic. Mobile devices are the most promising way to reach the masses and to create "stickiness" among current customers, due to their ability to provide services anytime, anywhere, with high rate of penetration and potential to grow. Mobile banking is the usage of mobile phones as a platform for banking transactions. The high penetration of mobile phones in India is the biggest driver for mobile banking in India. Most of leading banks such as ICICI, HDFC, SBI etc., have successfully launched their mobile banking operations in India.Delivering high quality services is a prerequisite for achieving customer satisfaction; and only through customer satisfaction can the company gain, loyal customers (Grönroos, 2000). Although the literature on service quality is abundant, very little research has been conducted on the evaluation of the quality of services delivered through mobile banking.This study has developed a scale to facilitate an empirical study to measure the service quality offered by mobile banking services. For this purpose, quantitative research method was used, which included the design and distribution of a questionnaire and collection of empirical data, on which statistical analysis has been performed. Based on the results of the analysis of the empirical data, the present study has made an attempt to develop a scale for measuring the quality of mobile banking services. Implications of the findings and potential areas of research are also discussed.

Foreword TAKE 2016 is a dream that came true. In about six months, a group of friends and colleagues put together in an upcoming and very dynamic university a conference with 9 streams, 3 keynotes, and 3 special sessions. 60 papers presented, 6 posters and around 80 participants from 20 countries. This is awesome! I would like to deeply thank Aveiro University, the GOVCOPP research centre, the conference committee, the keynote speakers, the special session convenors, the stream leaders, the reviewers, the authors, and the administrative people for all their work and support. I want to have two special words one for Blazenka Knezevic without whom the website would not have been possible, the other for Gaby Neumann for work in these Proceedings. Scientifically, TAKE seems to be as important and new and far reaching. We don’t have shortage of models regarding the knowledge economy but we decisively lack to explore the relation between theory and practice. TAKE is a step in exploring that difference. We know that “Exact sciences find the best answers and social sciences give the best questions” (J.C. Spender) and we also know that “Knowledge Management is more preached by scholars than done by practitioners” (Aino Kianto). We assume the first idea and try to overcome the second. Hopefully TAKE 2016 will be a great success. Thank you for everything.