A system dynamics model for pricing telecommunication services

Author

Wei, Zhang ; Xiongjian, Liang

Author_Institution

Coll. of Manage. & Humanities, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China

fYear

1998

fDate

22-24 Oct 1998

Abstract

In this paper, pricing telecommunication services is considered as a non-linear, multi-feedback, time-variable and sophisticated system which has a close relation and interaction with social economic systems. On the basis of analyzing the influence of tariff level on the whole social economic system and the telecommunication service itself, we designed the cause-effect relation diagram model, built the flow diagram models of six sub-systems separately, established simulated equations and made the system simulation by taking the e-mail service as an example. As a result of the validity test, the SD model proposed in this paper is very reasonable and practical

Keywords

costing; electronic mail; tariffs; SD model; cause-effect relation diagram model; e-mail service; flow diagram models; nonlinear multi-feedback time-variable sophisticated system; pricing; social economic systems; sub-systems; system dynamics model; tariff level; telecommunication services; validity test; Analytical models; Costs; Electronic mail; Environmental economics; Equations; Government; Pricing; Solid modeling; Technological innovation; Telecommunication services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology Proceedings, 1998. ICCT '98. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

7-80090-827-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.1998.740983

Filename

740983