Effective factors on mobile phone customer satisfaction


Hamed Mohafez, Vahidreza Mirabi and Bahram Kheyri


Cellular phone is one of the most profitable industries in the world and especially in middle east regions. There is a growing competition among different firms in this market and the market share is exchanged very quickly depending on the features and equipments introduced. Customer satisfaction plays an important role on retaining present marker share or absorbing new customers. In this paper, we present an empirical study to measure the effects of different factors influencing customer satisfaction such as the effect of perceived expectations on perceived quality and the effect of perceived expectation on perceived value. The survey is performed among customers who live in Tehran, the capital city of Iran and it shows there are some meaningful and positive relationship between perceived expectations and other factors such as perceived quality and perceived value. There is also positive relationship between perceived quality and perceived value. perceived expectation and customer satisfaction.


DOI: j.msl.2012.01.009

Keywords: Customer satisfaction ,Cellular phone industry ,Perceived expectations ,Perceived quality ,Perceived value

How to cite this paper:

Mohafez, H., Mirabi, V & Kheyri, B. (2012). Effective factors on mobile phone customer satisfaction.Management Science Letters, 2(3), 1011-1016.


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