Customer Resistance to Churn in a Mature Mobile Telecommunications Market

Customer churn analysis: Churn determinants and mediation effects of partial defection in the Korean mobile telecommunications service industry

Retaining customers is one of the most critical challenges in the maturing mobile telecommunications service industry. Using customer transaction and billing data, this study investigates determinants of customer churn in the Korean mobile telecommunications service market. Results indicate that call quality-related factors influence customer churn; however, customers participating in membershi...

Mobile Operator Customer Classification in Churn Analysis

Customer churn is a grave problem for all mobile operators. Early identification of customers from the risk group could help retain them in the operator's network. This paper introduces a set of potential churn factors on which data can be relatively easily extracted from the operator’s databases and analyzed using the SAS® Enterprise Guide®. A multi-stage research procedure utilizing such real...

Identifying Negative Influencers in Mobile Customer Churn

Customer churn, the loss of customers for a company, is one of the biggest loss of revenue for Verizon Wireless and other wireless telecommunications companies. Many companies use the lifetime value of a customer, the expected future cash flow from a particular customer, to determine long-term allocation of resources and human capital. As a result, the sudden defection of customers can greatly ...

Identification of churn routes in the Brazilian telecommunications market

Customer Churn in Mobile Markets A Comparison of Techniques

The high increase in the number of companies competing in mature markets makes customer retention an important factor for any company to survive. Thus, many methodologies (e.g., data mining and statistics) have been proposed to analyse and study customer retention. The validity of such methods is not yet proved though. This paper tries to fill this gap by empirically comparing two techniques: C...