Ijirt146454 Paper PDF
Ijirt146454 Paper PDF
Ijirt146454 Paper PDF
Abstract- Indian Telecom industry is one of the fastest Reliance Jio. The subject has been taken for the
growing telecom markets in the world. In telecom research as it plays key role in the success of
industry, service providers are the main drivers, The Telecom sector. No company can think of selling
entitled “A S tudy on Customer satisfaction towards
their product without having satisfied customer. No
Reliance Jio network” is carried out with an objective
company can survive in long run without coming up
to determine the customer satisfaction on Reliance Jio
and to find out the customers satisfaction towards the to the satisfaction level of customer.
products and services and. Data were collected by JIO Product and Services
survey method through structured questionnaire with JioPhone
both opened and closed ended questions. For 4G broadband
distribution of questionnaire to the customers random LYF smartphones
sampling method was used to select the customers and
JionetWi-Fi
the survey was taken among those selected users. After
collecting the data from the respondents it was analysed
using S imple Percentage Analysis, Friedman Test, chi - 1.2 Problem Identification
squared test and regression. In the era of information The Customer‟s transformation of network from
explosion, people are to be provided with quick and the existing services to the Reliance Jio 4G
timely access to information. The present study carried Mobile services have been increasing highly.
out with 172 users of Reliance Jio. The whole study is Even though the sector has reflected promising
carried with the help of those respondents.
growth, the industry is expected to continue to
record good subscriber growth.
Index Terms- Jiosim, Jio network, service.
The company can come up to the expectation
1. INTRODUCTION only by finding out the problem that customers
are facing during their purchase of Reliance Jio
Marketing concept starts with the consumer needs products.
and in behavior in meeting these needs. Every action The study makes effort to ascertain the
of a person is based on the needs. The real problem is satisfaction level of customers of Reliance Jio
to learn what a customer takes into consideration through survey. So that company would be able
when he chooses a particular brand. Such a study is to come up to the expectation level of its
concerned with consumer Satisfaction. customer.
To identify the factors influencing to choose jio telegraphic and telephonic systems in the 19th
network. century, the field of telephonic communication has
To study the problems faced by subscribers now expanded to make use of advanced technologies
while using jio network. like GSM, CDMA, and WLL to the great 3G
Technology in mobile phones. T. Kavipriya and
1.4 Need for the Study P.Rengarajan (2012) in their article titled, “User‟s
To eliminate the discomforts of services Level of Satisfaction with Mobile Phone Service
provided by the Reliance Jio. Providers - with Special Reference to Tiruppur
To measure the satisfaction level as there is District, Tamil Nadu” have point out in recent the
always scope of improvement. demand for mobile phone is increasing. There are
many players in the mobile phone industry. Though
1.5. Scope of the Study cell phone industry has its origin in the recent past
This study covers customers about Reliance Jio. It and the growth has been excellent. To market their
makes effort to ascertain the satisfaction level of services, every company is adding many new
customers of Reliance Jio 4G mobile services. The features. S.Vishnuvarthani (2013) in her article
various factors that lead to test the satisfaction level entitled “Consumers‟ Awareness and Preference for
of customers are speed, connectivity, customer care, Mobile Phone Services at Erode City” has pointed
getting new connections, compatibility. By using this out that telecommunication is one of the most
factors to measure the satisfaction level towards important growing service sectors in India. It plays an
Reliance Jio. inevitable role in today‟s busy world. The
telecommunication includes both mobile
1.6 Limitations of the Study communication and fixed telephony lines. In recent
The behavior of the customer is unpredictable days there is an upsurge in the use mobile phones
which may result in the lacking of accuracy in rather than land lines. The number of mobile phone
the data. subscribers outnumbered land line telephony system.
As the sample size of the survey was so small It is because of certain advantages that mobile phone
and comprise of only 172 customers, the results has for itself. Government and private operators are
may have some prone to errors. competing at close margin and are trying to provide
Study accuracy totally based upon the multiple value added services to people. Hence, the
cellular operators should strive to provide cost
respondents response.
effective quality equipments, affordable and
Stipulated short span of time for survey.
competitive call tariffs for connectivity at various
The study is based on the opinion expressed by
levels and customized services in order to satisfy and
subscribers only.
delight their consumers. Dinesh Kumar Pandiya,
DrBrajeshKumar, MazahidulHaqueChoudhury
2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
(2014) did a study titled “A Study of Customer
satisfaction on Telecom Service Providers”. To
Review of Literature helps in getting the view of
understand the performance of different brands in the
current trends in the industry and it helps accruing an
market on various parameters like Network
idea in which way the study should be focused. It
Satisfaction, GPRS, SMS pack, customer care, free
also helps in getting a reference to how the study
talk time, festival offer, full talk time, free roaming,
should be preceded.
validity, connection charges, ease of availability of
B. Adhinarayanan and K. Balanagagurunathan(2011)
retailers selling recharge coupon, ease of availability
in their article entitled, “A Study on Customer
of the retailers transferring recharge voucher and
Satisfaction towards Reliance Telecom in Tamilnadu
online recharge. This study it helps in understanding
with Special Reference to Salem City” have indicated
the factors influencing customer satisfaction towards
that Indian Telecom sector, like any other industrial
telecom service like service quality of network,
sector in the country, has gone through many phases
customer care, SMS packs, free talk time, connection
of growth and diversification. Starting from
charges, Ease of availability of the retailer selling
recharge coupon, Ease of availability of retailers Data can be defined as the quantitative or qualitative
transferring recharge voucher.NitikaRawat(2015) did values of a variable. Here the Data is collected using
a study titled “Future and Challenges of 4G Wireless Questionnaire method. Data is thought to be the
Technology” In his paper he explains about IP based lowest unit of information from which other
and IP based devices. This paper describes how 4G is measurements and analysis can be done. Data can be
easy to deploy and thus, cost effective as well. The numbers, images, words, figures, facts or ideas. Data
idea of multimode software for maintaining different in itself cannot be understood and to get information
networks simultaneously is explained, along with the from the data one must interpret it into meaningful
mechanisms of system initiated discoveries. Also, the information. There are various methods of
challenge of managing user accounts is discussed. interpreting data. Data sources are broadly classified
The paper describes the concept of security that into primary and secondary data.
should be given heed. This paper explores what 4G Source of data
network technology actually is, along with some of
the propositions in order to fully figure out the Primary data
advantages and challenges of effectively The primary data is original research data in its raw
implementing 4G.A.K. Antony (2016) “A study on from without any analysis of processing. This
consumer satisfaction towards reliance jio connection provides a wealth of information for researchers.
palakad area kerala state” The study aims to know the Primary data collected through survey from the
level of satisfaction towards the reliance jio net respondents by using questionnaire.
connect. He concluded most of the respondents are
highly satisfied with the reliance net connect for its Tools for data collection
network coverage. In this study Questionnaire is used for data collection
This chapter clearly defines the research methods The primary data collected using the instrument –
used to conduct the study. It also explains how the Questionnaire with demographical questions,
necessary data and information to address the research questions and a open ended feedback
research objectives and questions was collected, questions from 172 respondents. The data are coded
presented and analyzed. in to MS excel and transformed into the software
package SPSS for statistical analysis. The following
Research methodology analysis were carried out
Research Methodology is a way to systematically 1) Percentage Analysis
solve the research problem. This would include the 2) Regression Analysis
procedure and techniques used to perform the 3) Friedman Test
research as well as any of the terminology and 4) chi-squared test
explanation of how these methods will be applied Percentage Analysis
effectively. In Percentage Analysis, demographic factors are
considered to evaluate the research questions to find
Sample size the percentage level of the responses. The following
Sample size refers to the numbers of respondents is the formula for percentage analysis:
selected for the survey. The sample size selected for Percentage of respondent = No of
the study is 172.Individual Customers are taken as Respondent x 100%
the Sampling unit. The type of sampling is Random
Probability sampling. In simple random sampling Total no of respondent
each member of population is equally likely to be Profile of the Respondents
chosen as part of the sample. 59% are the Male respondents and 41% are the
female respondents.
Collection of data
Friedman Test
The Friedman test is the non-parametric alternative to Mean Ranks of Factors influencing the RelianceJio
the one-way ANOVA with repeated measures. It is Services
used to test for differences between groups when the
dependent variable being measured is ordinal. It can
also be used for continuous data that has violated the
assumptions necessary to run the one-way ANOVA
with repeated measures (e.g., data that has marked
deviations from normality). Thus here the Friedman
is used to test the differences between various factors
influencing Reliance Jio services.
Customer Satisfaction Level towards Reliance Jio 4G
Mobile Services/product:
Test Statistics of Factors Influencing the Reliance taking care on these factors, the company would be
JioServices able to come up to the expectation level of its
Particulars Values customer and can improve its services.
N 172
Chi-Square 233.153 Chi-square test for „the network which is used before
Degree of freedom 15 Rjio:
Asymptotic Significant .000 Particulars The network which is used
before Rjio
Interpretation chi-square 11.081
The Asymptotic Significant (P Value) is less than the Degree of freedom 4
stipulated value of 0.05. So the carried out test is Asymptotic Significant .026
statistically significant with the degree of freedom 15
and calculated Chi Square value is 233.153. The Chi Hypothesis:
Square table value is 29.663. As the calculated Chi H0: there is no significant difference between the
Square value is higher than the table value, the H0is respondents about „the network which is used
getting rejected and H1is accepted. It infers that there before rjio‟
is significant difference among various factors H1: there is significant difference between the
satisfying the Reliance Jio. respondents about „the network which is used
before rjio‟
From the Mean Rank table, we can able to categories
the factors which gives high ranking to low ranking.
Interpretation:
They are;
The significance (p value) calculated is 0.026 which
High Ranking Factors Influencing the Reliance Jio
is less than the stipulated value of 0.05. So this test is
Services
statistically significant to conduct chi-square test. The
degree of freedom for the test is 4 (5-1), the chi-
square calculated value is 11.081. This is higher than
the table value of 9.488. Since the chi-square
calculated is higher than chi-square table value, we
cannot accept the null hypothesis. Hence reject null
hypothesis and accept alternate hypothesis, so there is
Moderate Ranking Factors Influencing the Reliance a significant difference between the respondents
regarding „use social media‟
Jio Services
Hypothesis:
H0: There is no significant difference between the
respondents about „type of jio scheme‟
H1: There is significant difference between the
respondents about „type of jio scheme‟
• From the above table it is inferred that, the
factors which are compatibility, speed, voice quality, Interpretation:
indoor coverage, access to the customer care, getting The significance (p value) calculated is 0.019 which
new connection are ranking poor.If the industry is is less than the stipulated value of 0.05. so this test is
cannot accept the null hypothesis. Hence reject null statistically significant to conduct chi-square test the
hypothesis and accept alternate hypothesis, so there is degree of freedom for the test is 4 (5-1), the chi-
a significant difference between the respondents square calculated value is 42.012. this is higher than
regarding „getting new connection‟. the table value of 9.488 since the chi-square
calculated is higher than chi-square table value, we
Chi-square test for „Jio‟s local and national sms‟ cannot accept the null hypothesis hence reject null
Particulars Jio‟s local and national sms hypothesis and accept alternate hypothesis, so there is
a significant difference between the respondents
chi-square 19.977
regarding „error free sms delivery & receipt‟.
Degree of freedom 4
Asymptotic Significant .001 5. FINDINGS SUGGESTIONSAND
Hypothesis: CONCLUSION
H0: there is no significant difference between the
respondents about „jio"s local and national sms‟. The research findings are the deciding factor to know
H1: there is significant difference between the the proportion of determinant of the Customer
respondents about „jio"s local and nationalsms‟. satisfaction towards Reliance Jio mobile services.
Findings
Interpretation: From the percentage analysis, it is found that
The significance (p value) calculated is 0.001 which Customers of Age group (18-25) are using
is less than the stipulated value of 0.05 So this test is Reliance Jio more than other age groups.
statistically significant to conduct chi-square test. The Most of the Respondents preferring Reliance jio
degree of freedom for the test is 4 (5-1), the chi- are low cost and jio plans.
square calculated value is 19.977.This is higher than 91% of the Respondents are recommending
the table value of 9.488. Since the chi-square Reliance jio to other peoples.
calculated is higher than chi-square table value, we Most of the Respondents think that jio phone and
cannot accept the null hypothesis. Hence reject null jio app are the more helpful services in Rjio.
hypothesis and accept alternate hypothesis, so there is
a significant difference between the respondents From the Regression Analysis, it is found that
regarding „jio"s local and national s ms‟. As we have conducted research on the given
variables we came to know that the factors like
Chi-square test for „Error free sms delivery & recommendation over jio is difference to all the
receipt‟ other variables in the analysis (reject null
Particulars Error free sms delivery & hypothesis), as there is significant difference
receipt between the dependent and independent
chi-square 42.012 variables taken in the analysis.
Degree of freedom 4
From the Friedman test, it is found that
Asymptotic Significant .000 Customer‟s Satisfaction level with Jio‟s free
Hypothesis: local and national SMS has the high
H0: there is no significant difference between the Mean ranking of about 10.74.The Speed of Jio's
respondents about „errors freesms delivery & 4G broadband is better when
receipt‟. compared to other networks,
H1: there is significant difference between the The Reliance Jio 4G mobile service provides
respondents about „errors freesms delivery & excellent network in terms of error free SMS
receipt‟. Delivery & receipt. It provides excellent
network in terms of outdoor coverage.
Interpretation: It also provides excellent network in terms of
The significance (p value) calculated is 0.000 which roaming services.
is less than the stipulated value of 0.05 so this test is
Compatibility of Jiosim in every mobile phoneis Reliance Jio's free local and national SMS and
difficult when compared to other networks. experience excellent network in terms of error free
Jio‟s 4G internet speed is not highly satisfied. SMS delivery & receipt, outdoor coverage, roaming
Network in terms of voice quality and indoor services. They have also agreed that the speed of Jio's
coverage have low mean ranking. 4G broadband is better when compared to other
Access to customer care is found difficult among networks. Reliance Jio is capturing the wide area of
customers. Indian markets increasingly day by day. Hence, these
Getting new connection for Jiosim is difficult statistics imply a bright future for the company. It can
when compared to other networks. be said that in near future, the company will be
booming in the telecom industry.
From the Friedman test, it is found that
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