• 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