Title :
User-oriented: An optimal pricing strategy based on rural consumers´ preferences
Author :
Xu Cheng-gang ; He Wei-jun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Three Gorges Univ., Yichang, China
Abstract :
This paper pointed out that the user-oriented pricing strategy uses four aspects of the sensitivity analysis (the price expectation, the price indication effect, the availability of alternative service and economic condition of user) and thus stratifies for rural users. We found that based on above pre-development activities, the process of Service Value Delivery can wake up the user unaware of consumption desire and expresses their true acceptable prices. So can avoid the negative competition by lower price-based among Mobile Network Operators.
Keywords :
pricing; telecommunication industry; alternative service availability; mobile network operators; optimal pricing strategy; price expectation; price indication effect; rural consumer preferences; sensitivity analysis; service value delivery; user oriented pricing strategy; Availability; Companies; Economics; Mobile communication; Pricing; Sensitivity; mobile communication; rural user; user-oriented pricing strategy;
Conference_Titel :
Business Management and Electronic Information (BMEI), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-108-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBMEI.2011.5916949