Consumer Decision Making: Supply and Demand
Demand in the wireless industry is determined by the aggregation of individual mobile carriers through the number of wireless subscriptions. Economists all agree that price for a service is an important factor in the decision making for consumers, however it is definitely not the only factor and may not always result in the deciding outcome. Based on pricing, microeconomics can estimate and forecast with plausible accuracy what a consumer may pay for and how much of that service will be purchased.
While we do not have available information regarding the pricing to determine the consumer demand in the wireless communication industry, we can represent the demand curve based on the number of
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This may become important to keep in mind when deciding whether to invest in Wind Mobile and its profitability.
A new entrant like Wind Mobile may not be profitable given the data due to the decreasing rate of new subscriber growth i.e. lack of main revenue source via selling handset as well as monthly stream of revenue from services. In order for Wind Mobile to be sustainable in the long run, it needs to make a profit where its price is greater than its average cost (including fixed capital infrastructure as well as user’s variable mobility cost.) The population in Canada provided by Statistics Canada demonstrates a healthy positive linear growth over the period of 2005 and 2012. After doing statistical analysis, I can conclude my finding that as population increase; the demand for wireless subscribers also increases while at a very slow rate. Furthermore, my regression findings can help forecast the demand for wireless subscribers over time based on an estimate of population for a given year.
In order to do so, we must first estimate the population for a given year based on this equation:
Population (in millions) = - 676.5029 + 0.3535 * Year
After, we substitute our estimated population value for a given year into another equation to determine the number of wireless subscribers:
Wireless Subscribers (in millions) = - 131.5938 + 4.6155 * Population (in millions)
The demand curve for Wind Mobile
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The generation of talking face-to-face is slowly fading away, and the technology era is going to keep on growing. One of the most widely used technology services known today is the cellular phone industry. According to the Pew Research Center’s website, 90% of American adults own a cell phone. Of that 90%, the smartphone ownership is at 64% (2013). Verizon Wireless, along with the other major carriers, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T, have taken this data and comprised a growing industry where competition arises from all angles. These companies have battled one another on pricing, plans, and customer service for many years in order to stay on top. Unfortunately, these are major factors in whether or not a customer will choose the particular company over another.
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A significant gap is established when a large amount of people is affected by the gap in wireless services. Id. In Omnipoint, the carrier
What is the value of the population mean? What is the best estimate of this value?
In this following report I will discuss the phone industry and analysed it in great detail. I will analysis the market structure and try and understand why the mobile industry falls to heavily oligopoly structure. I will highlight all the structures, however I will discuss in detail how, for example Vodafone can be incorporated in the porter’s five forces method to show how the mobile industry has devolved over the years and to understand if consumers are driven by the actual technology of the phone but if it driven more by style.
Population Denisty – Figure calculated by dividing the population of a region by the region’s area.
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