DocumentCode
2434081
Title
Pricing Strategies for Mobile Service Products with Vertical Differentiation
Author
Chong, Xiaoli ; Zhang, Jinlong ; Wang, Weizhou ; Wang, Yuchen
Author_Institution
Sch. of Manage., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
fYear
2010
fDate
7-9 May 2010
Firstpage
2080
Lastpage
2084
Abstract
This paper introduces the quality of service products and network externalities intensity coefficient into consumer utility function, and analyzes the impact on market share and profits in incomplete market coverage of a duopolistic marketing with the difference of network externalities and quality of products. It´s shown that the profits increased neither depend on the network externalities nor quality of products, but depends on the marketing strategy of the service products. Different quality of service products in the market competition has its own advantages.
Keywords
consumer behaviour; pricing; profitability; telecommunication industry; consumer utility function; duopolistic marketing; market share; marketing strategy; mobile service products; network externalities intensity coefficient; pricing strategies; profits; vertical differentiation; Barium; Companies; Games; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Monopoly; Pricing; Mobile service; network externality; service products; vertical differentiation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
E-Business and E-Government (ICEE), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3997-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICEE.2010.526
Filename
5592546
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