Customer loyalty programs to sustain consumer fidelity in mobile telecommunication market

摘要

Companies realized the importance of well-managing their relationships with their customers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) allows companies to manage their marketing strategies and deliver specific services to clients with different values. The mobile telecommunication market is a very competitive market where the customers are tended to move from one company to another easily. Mobile telecommunication companies should carry on specific programs and services to their customers in order to keep them satisfied and thus ensure their fidelity with the company. In this article our objective is to provide companies a model that facilitates to decide what kind of customer loyalty programs they should address to their clients from different segments. In order to do that we present a fuzzy based Hungarian method that allow assigning different loyalty programs to customers with different characteristics.