• DocumentCode
    3539831
  • Title

    Churn prediction methodologies in the telecommunications sector: A survey

  • Author

    Bandara, W.M.C. ; Perera, A.S. ; Alahakoon, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    11-15 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    172
  • Lastpage
    176
  • Abstract
    Predicting customer churn is a critical requirement of many if not all companies dependent on customer subscription services. The telecommunication sector is especially impacted due to the rival competition being very high and since tariff rates are maintained at a lower level. This paper describes the efforts made by researchers to build successful churn prediction models highlighting their special characteristics.
  • Keywords
    consumer behaviour; telecommunication industry; churn prediction methodologies; customer churn preduction; customer subscription services; telecommunications sector; Accuracy; Artificial neural networks; Companies; Decision trees; Expert systems; Predictive models; Telecommunications; Telecommunication; churn prediction; customer retention;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Colombo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1275-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTer.2013.6761174
  • Filename
    6761174