Measuring service performance in mobile communications

With the rapid growth in the size of the cellular phone market, performance standards are emerging as the strategic imperative for the service providers in ensuring customer satisfaction. This article develops and validates a psychometrically sound multi-item measure of service performance in mobile communications. A pool of 16 items was developed to cover the hypothesised multiple aspects of service performance and tested using a sample of 120 customers. The construct validity of the multi-aspect service performance measure was evaluated through assessing convergent, discriminant and predictive validity. Mr Satinder provides consultating services in the marketing of high technology products and services.

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