Exploring Mobile Pricing Strategies and Innovations in Thai Mobile Communication Market
Paper in proceeding, 2012

This paper aims to explore the price plans offered by Thai mobile operators and analyse the role of demand characteristics in the development of new price plans. The paper also shows how demand affects a firm’s degree of innovativeness in terms of the number of new price plans. The empirical qualitative analysis is based on an original data set from several secondary data sources and includes all the price plans offered in the history of the Thai mobile communications market between 2002 and 2010. The results show that mobile operators have introduced several innovative price plans to attract and retain their consumers. Although a greater number of price plans can increase competition among operators, some have complex combinations that may lead to confusion for consumers. A price comparison programme should therefore be implemented by the telecom regulator to ensure that consumers receive correct and complete information about the price plans.

mobile communications market

pricing strategies

Thailand

innovation

Author

Chalita Srinuan

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Technology and Society

Pratompong Srinuan

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Technology and Society

Erik Bohlin

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Technology and Society

the Regional International Telecommunications Society India Conference 2012

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Economics

Roots

Basic sciences

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10/6/2017