# Introduction obile telecommunication sector in Bangladesh has been grown. The total number of mobile phone subscribers has reached 115.627 million at the end of April 2014 (BTRC, 2014). Customers of mobile telecommunication extended in respect of age, income, profession, gender, education and religion. It has become an essential component of the present lifetime. It encompasses a broad scope of communication facilities in personal life as well as the corporate office. Telecommunication service providers offer a wide range of value added services, including voice call, voice SMS, MMS, information service, roaming, internet service, video call and remote customer care service. Communication has become a means of clicking on the cell phone bottoms rest of the responsibility lies with the telecommunication service provider to convey it in an appropriate manner. Telecommunication service prov iders like manufacturing organization offers a wide Author ? ? ? ? : Department of Business Administration, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Pabna, Bangladesh. e-mails: hasebur7208@yahoo.com, redwanu_375@yahoo.com, mhasan.mkt.ru@gmail.com, rupokmgtdu@yahoo.com range of product and service; based on customers' needs. Today telecommunication sector in Bangladesh has become competitive. Competition within this industry indicates the priority of customer satisfaction for corporate profitability and survival. Customer satisfaction becomes a strategic parameter of corporate success. Therefore, today's corporate manager highly concerned for maximizing customer satisfaction through quality product and services. But in 21st century customer speaks in everyday language. Therefore, what are the factors responsible for making them satisfied becomes an intense focus of corporate managers as well as academic scholars from the better half of last century. Customer satisfaction literature spell out customer is the king of marketing and only one determinate factor of corporate success. Grameenphone (GP) in Bangladesh has become a leading mobile telecommunication company in Bangladesh. Currently other five operators become proactive in the market place for gaining market share through different promotional activities. Likened to other operators Grameenphone's customer experiences high tariff, poor II. # Research Objectives A. To investigate respondent's demographic. B. To investigate user service interface. C. To investigate the correlations with the variables leading to the customer satisfaction. D. To investigate the relationship between service innovativeness and the customer satisfaction. E. To investigate the relationship between service reliability and the customer satisfaction. F. To investigate the relationship between service competitiveness and the customer satisfaction. G. To investigate the relationship between service consistency and the customer satisfaction. H. To investigate the relationship between network & signal coverage and the customer satisfaction. M client service, new product and service with implied terms and conditions. In spite of this backdrop Grameenphone's total number of subscribers has reached 48.847 million at the end of April 2014 at the rate of 42.24 percent market share (BTRC, 2014). On the basis of these realities authors are motivated to identify what factors responsible for customer satisfaction of Grameenphone users in Bangladesh. I. To investigate the relationship between pricing and the customer satisfaction. J. To investigate the relationship between quality of offering and the customer satisfaction. K. To investigate the relationship between customer demand and the customer satisfaction. L. To investigate the relationship between value added service and the customer satisfaction. M. To investigate the relationship between contribution to society and the customer satisfaction. N. To investigate the relationship between brand value and the customer satisfaction. # III. Literature Review and Conceptualization of Hypotheses a) Customer Satisfaction Customer satisfaction literature indicates that customer satisfaction has long been an agenda of marketing scholar and corporate executives. Customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal of business. Customer satisfaction associated with the stable market demand of product/service, loyal customer, profitability, growth, success and positive corporate image. Customer satisfaction is defined as pleasure from product and service utility, fulfillment of expectation. It is obvious that customers are important stakeholders in organizations and their satisfaction is a priority for management. Customer satisfaction has been a subject of great interest to organizations and researchers alike. In recent years, organizations are obliged to render more services in addition to their offers. The quality of service has become an aspect of customer satisfaction (Agbor, 2011). Customer Satisfaction can provide you with major competitive advantages, which can directly lead to increase in profitability and growth of business (Sheth, 2001). # b) Factors Affecting Customer Satisfaction Today's world of intensive competition requires firms to maintain the capability of high-quality service as a sustainable competitive priority (Lee, 2013). Identification of factors responsible for customer satisfaction is a key concern of marketing scholars and marketers in now a days and it will remain in the future. There is considerable evidence that quality factors affecting customer satisfaction in numerous ways (Rahman, 2014a). Many studies have found a direct positive link between service quality perceptions and customer behavioral intentions (Zeithaml et al., 1996). Several factors responsible for customer satisfaction in telecommunication industry includes-Service innovativeness: Innovativeness as the tendency to develop new products as well as with innovativeness understood as the capacity to introduce new products satisfy customers and improve firm value at acceptable risk, has become a critical organizational capability. There is a positive significant relationship observed between service innovativeness and customer satisfaction. (Dotzel, Shankar & Berry, 2013). Degree of newness directly effect on customer satisfaction. Therefore, the 1 st hypothesis of the study is-H 1 : There is a significant relationship between service innovativeness and the customer satisfaction. Service reliability: Reliability is about the accuracy and timeliness in the service provided. Service reliability refers to Accessibility -Service is available when desired (when the customer wants to use it); Continuity -Customer has an uninterrupted service over desired duration and Performance -Meets the customers' expectations (CQR, 2014). In order to maintain the customer, the organization needs to ensure that the right products and services, supported by the right promotion and making it available at the right time for the customers (Munusamy, Chelliah & Mun, 2010). Degree of service reliability has significant influence on degree of customer satisfaction. Therefore, the 2 nd hypothesis of the study is-H 2 : There is a significant relationship between service reliability and the customer satisfaction. Service competitiveness: Service competitiveness refers to the degree of fitness of a service organization in dealing with competing with other competitive business firms; high degree of competitiveness leads to higher innovativeness in goods and services leading to strategic advantages in market place & higher customer satisfaction. Companies can foster customer value learning and incorporate it as a cornerstone of their competitive strategies (Parasuraman, 1997). Therefore, the 3 rd hypothesis of the study is-H 3 : There is a significant relationship between service competitiveness and the customer satisfaction. Service consistency: Consistency determines the desirable service qualities for clients. Service consistency is an expectation of all customers at all times; they want peace of mind and no unpleasant surprises. In service, consistency implies achieving sameness, uniformity and fairness in the delivery or execution of all the service attributes, regardless of time, place, occasion, and service provider (Domingo, 2014). Therefore, service consistency refers to degree of conformity of service value whereas customer perceived that they received service in a consistent manner without any variation. Therefore, the 4 th hypothesis of the study is-H 4 : There is a significant relationship between service consistency and the customer satisfaction. Network & signal coverage: Signal quality and network coverage have always been essential criteria for selecting mobile telephone service providers. Today the signal quality has been improved and the company networks have grown to a great extent. Surveys have shown that both signal quality and network coverage affect positively consumer's satisfaction and the image of the company (Woo & Fock, 1999). Therefore, the 5 th hypothesis of the study is-H 5 : There is a significant relationship between network & signal coverage and the customer satisfaction. Pricing: Several factors affect on customer satisfaction, price is one of them. Price is used as an indicator of product quality, which results in better expectations from the product and determines higher satisfaction. The research shows that price perceptions directly influence satisfaction judgments as well as indirectly through perceptions of price fairness (Herrmann et al., 2007). Price reasonability and consumer satisfaction are significantly associated with each other. The customers can switch to any other cellular service provider who offers fair prices. This reveals that the consumers can be held on to for a longer duration by offering them the fair prices so; the customer satisfaction is caused by the fairness of the price (Ali et al., 2010). Therefore, the 6 th hypothesis of the study is-H 6 : There is a significant relationship between pricing and the customer satisfaction. Quality of offering: Quality Function Deployment (QFD) model used to incorporate customer wants and desire in product and service requirement for satisfying want, desire and expectation of ultimate customers. Quality of offering how does consistent with demand and qualitative to the customers depends on corporate translation it into product and service requirements. Here, quality of service refers to how particular service offering able to meet customer expectation. Higher the fulfillment of expectation; higher will be customer satisfaction. Therefore, the 7 th hypothesis of the study is-H 7 : There is a significant relationship between quality of offering and the customer satisfaction. Customer demand fulfillment: Service providers render services in expectation to fulfillment of customer demand. For fulfillment of customer demand requires an intensive investigation to find out what the customer expected and incorporate it into service requirement. Higher degree of usefulness of service leads to a higher degree of customer satisfaction. Therefore, the 8 th hypothesis of the study is-H 8 : There is a significant relationship between customer demand and the customer satisfaction. Value added service: Value added service refers to additional service for maximizing and adding value to existing customer satisfaction. Currently mobile telecommunication service provider offers a wide range of value added service, including voice call, voice SMS, MMS, information service, roaming, Internet service, video calling, remote customer service. This study is predicted value added service have significant influence on customer satisfaction in telecommunication industry. Therefore, the 9 th hypothesis of the study is-H 9 : There is a significant relationship between value added service and the customer satisfaction. Operator's contribution to society: Corporate responsiveness towards society creates perception of societal partnership in the customer's mind and they realized themselves that they are valued by the corporation. The study reveals that corporate social responsibility has a positive impact on the valuing brand image of the corporation and also makes customers satisfied. Corporate social responsibility taught to be an important strategic tool for organizations in order to gain a competitive advantage and to display a positive image to society for profitable and long lasting customer relationship management in service and manufacturing industry around the world (Rahman, 2014b). Therefore, the 10 th hypothesis of the study is-H 10 : There is a significant relationship between contribution to society and the customer satisfaction. Brand Value: Marketing academics and practitioners have repeatedly reported that consumers look for brands that provide them with unique and remarkable experiences. As a result, the concept of brand experience has become popular among marketers (Rundle-Thiele & Bennett, 2001). The industry depends on people's experience on quality and a good experience may lead to better purchase intention which could build a better image on the market. Since the market is highly competitive, it is recommended that only high quality products be offered to customers (Khalili, Rahchamani & Abtahi, 2013). Therefore, the 11 th hypothesis of the study is-H 11 : There is a significant relationship between brand value and the customer satisfaction. On the basis of literature review the overall customer satisfaction model can be presented as under-Customer Satisfaction = ? (Constant) + ? 1 (Service innovativeness) + ? 2 (Service reliability) + ? 3 (Service competitiveness) + ? 4 (Service consistency) + ? 5 (Network & signal coverage) + ? 6 (Pricing) + ? 7 (Quality of offering) + ? 8 (Customer demand fulfillment) + ? 9 (Value added services) + ? 10 (Operator's contribution to society) + ? 11 (Brand Value) + e (Random Error) IV. # Materials and Methods This study is descriptive and designed to test hypotheses. Therefore, this study is aimed to examine the factors leading to the customer satisfaction to the Grameenphone Users in Bangladesh. The hypotheses testing based on literature review for explaining the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. This study mainly based on primary data originating from a survey. For this purpose a constructed questionnaire has developed. Excepting the questions regarding demographic characteristics and user's value added service interface of the respondents and the issues relating to service innovativeness, service reliability, service competitiveness, service consistency, the operator's network/ signal coverage, pricing, offering, fulfillment of customer demand, value added service, brand value, operators contribution to society and customer satisfaction have been constructed, measured and investigated through 5 point Scale standardized by Brayfield-Rothe (1951). The scale consists of 12 statements, for each statement has five options/ points such as strongly agree/ 5, agree/ 4, undecided/ 3, disagree/ 2, and strongly disagree/ 1. The survey is conducted during July 2013 to March 2014 and total 140 number of Grameenphone users has been taken for this. SPSS Statistics software package version 16 is used for statistical analysis. Reliability of data has measured by using the Cronbach Alpha (Cronbach, 1951). Cronbach Alpha was 0.7. Alpha is higher than that is suggested by Nunnally (1978) and therefore data collected can be considered reliable. Descriptive statistical techniques such as mean and standard deviation were used to measure the mean scores and their variability. Pearson Correlation is used to indicate correlations among the variables, Linear Regression analysis is used to test the hypotheses. V. # Analysis and Findings a) Respondent's Demographic The questionnaires were distributed to the users (n=140) of Grameenphone among them 78.6% respondents thoroughly use GP, 10.7 % users were Banglalink users, 2.1% users were Robi, 0.7% users were Airtel, 2.1% were Taletalk, 5.7% were Citycell users who currently use GP service. Among the respondents, 70% users use multiple operators' service and 30% use only the GP service. 13.6% users use GP below 3 years, 37.1% respondents use within 3-6 years, 49.3% use for 6 years and above. Respondents bellow 30 years using GP is 75.7%, within 30-45 years users comprise 15.7% and above 45 years users are 8.6%. 53.6% respondent's monthly expense bellows Tk.500, 32.1% incur expense within Tk. 500-1000 and 14.3% respondents have above Tk 1000 monthly expense. Among the respondent's 5.0% below SSC, 7.9% SSC, 25% HSC, 35% Bachelor, 24.3% Master, 1.4% PhD and 1.4% have other educational degree. 59.3% Student, 25.7% Service Holder, 9.3% Businessman and 5.7% respondent's occupying other profession. 79.3% Male and 30.7% are Female respondents. Descriptive statistics such as mean is used to measure the average value of the variables and standard deviation is used to test variability of the mean value. Five point scale is used to collect perception regarding the variables. Therefore, mean value of variables ranges 1 to 5. A mean value below 2.5 is below average, mean value 2.5 to 2.9 above average, 3 to 3.9 is moderate and mean value 4 to 5 is high. The mean value of the variables ranges 4.10 to 2.23. Mean value ranges up to above average except customer satisfaction (3.55 Moderate) and network & signal coverage (4.1 High). Standard deviation ranges 0.767 to 1.201. Therefore, higher variability in perception regarding variables has been observed. A correlation is a single number that describe the strength of linear relationship between two or more interrelated quantitative variables. A mathematical measure of the between two set of variables is called the Correlation Coefficient. It is most commonly symbolized by the letter r. the value of correlation coefficient (r) lies between -1 to +1. In universal, r > 0 indicates positive relationship, r < 0 indicates negative relationship while r is = 0 indicates no relationship. Here r = +1.0 describes a perfect positive linear relationship and r = -1.0 describes a perfect negative linear relationship. Closer the coefficients of +1.0 and -1.0, greater are the strength of positive/ negative the relationship between the variables. The following general guidelines indicate a quick way of interpreting the value of correlation coefficient: -0.9 to -1.0 or 1.0 to 0.9 very strong; -0.9 to -0.7 or 0.7 to 0.9 strong high; -0.7 to -0.4 or 0.4 to 0.7 moderate; -0.4 to -0.2 or 0.2 to 0.4 weak, low correlation and -0.2 to 0.0 or 0.0 to 0.2 very weak to negligible negative/positive correlation. # Table 4 : Correlations among Variables Table 4 shows the Pearson's correlation coefficient of the variables of the study. The results show that there is a significant positive moderate correlation between the service innovativeness (IV 1 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .495 at p < 0.00 level; there is a positive significant moderate correlation between the service reliability (IV 2 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .457 at p < 0.00 level; there is a significant positive moderate significant correlation between the service competitiveness (IV 3 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .525 at p < 0.00 level; there is In this section, multiple regression analysis is used to study the effect of the independent variables (X 1 = Service Innovativeness, X 2 = Service Reliability, X 3 = Service Competitiveness, X 4 = Service Consistency, X 5 = Network/Signal Coverage, X 6 = Reasonable Price, X 7 = Quality of Offering, X 8 = Customer Demand Fulfillment, X 9 = Value Added Service, X 10 = Brand Value, X 11 = Contribution to Society) to the dependent variable (Y = Customer Satisfaction) Significance level for, variables are accepted on Alpha (?) = 1%, significance level = 99% significant at 1% (*). Table 5 shows the analysis of multiple regressions. The value of R is .697, the value of R square is .486 and the standard error of the estimate was .851. The model summary and the data are shown in Table 5. The results from Table 5 show that the regression equation explains more than 48.6 % of the variability in customer satisfaction. This is an acceptable level of R Square in explaining variability of customer satisfaction. The results of the multiple regression models indicate that service innovativeness, service reliability, service competitiveness, service consistency, the operator's network/signal coverage, pricing, offering, fulfillment of customer demand, value added service, brand value, operators contribution to society explain the variance in customer satisfaction. The value of the R Square is an acceptable value for explaining variability of customer satisfaction. Analysis of variance test statistics (ANOVA) in table 6 indicates that the model is significant at ? = .000. This table provides the information on the significance of the model indicating a significant p-value of .000 and F=11.019. This indicates that the overall model was reasonably fit and there was a statistically significant association between service quality dimension and customer satisfaction. The AVOVA findings are shown in Table 6 below. Table 7 shows that the values of the T-statistic are significant for service innovativeness, service reliability, service competitiveness and customer demand. Thus, all the independent variables can be retained in the model. In other word, these variables can explain the change in customer satisfaction. Table 7 shows that four independent variables are found to be very significant and supportive to the hypotheses of regression analysis except the operator's network/ signal coverage, pricing, offering, service consistency, value added service, brand value, operators contribution to society are not statistically significant and it does not support the hypotheses. between the quality of offering (IV 7 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .051 at p < 0.548 level; there is a significant weak, low positive correlation between the customer demand (IV 8 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .286 at p < 0.001 level; there is a significant weak, low positive correlation between the value added service (IV 9 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .332 at p < 0.00 level; there is a weak, low significant positive relationship between the contribution to society (IV 10 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .220 at p < 0.009 level, and there is a weak, low correlation positive significant correlation between the brand value (IV 11 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .182 at p < 0.031 level. On the basis of results of regression model of the study is-Customer Satisfaction = -0.375 + 0.261 (service innovativeness) + 0.245 (service reliability) + 0.280 (service competitiveness) + 0.081(service consistency) + -0.074 (network & signal coverage) + 0.064 (pricing) + -0.127(quality of offering) + 0.241 (customer demand) + 0.046 (value added services) + 0.045 (contribution to society) + 0.157 (brand value) + e Table 8 : The Summary of Hypotheses Results # Hypotheses Results H 1 : There is a significant relationship between service innovativeness and the customer satisfaction. Accepted H 2 : There is a significant relationship between service reliability and the customer satisfaction. Accepted H 3 : There is a significant relationship between service competitiveness and the customer satisfaction. Accepted H 4 : There is a significant relationship between service consistency and the customer satisfaction. Rejected H 5 : There is a significant relationship between network & signal coverage and the customer satisfaction. Rejected H 6 : There is a significant relationship between pricing and the customer satisfaction. Rejected H 7 : There is a significant relationship between quality of offering and the customer satisfaction. Rejected H 8 : There is a significant relationship between customer demand and the customer satisfaction. Accepted H 9 : There is a significant relationship between value added services and the customer satisfaction. Rejected H 10 : There is a significant relationship between contribution to society and the customer satisfaction. Rejected H 11 : There is a significant relationship between brand value and the customer satisfaction. Rejected # VI. Conclusions and Recommendations Assessing, building and keeping customer satisfaction reveals the top most priority in today's competitive business. Customers of a mobile telecommunication service have many options available due to low switching cost, competitive service among the operators. Hence, the urgency of customer satisfaction revels among them. Satisfied customers are loyal, act as a recommender to potential customers. But building a satisfied customer is not easy job; it cries for many people's sweating. Customer centered philosophy declared customer focal point of corporate success; believes in together we grow-valuing customer satisfaction and corporate profitability. Therefore, corporate success is associated with responsiveness to customer; higher responsiveness to customer leads to higher customer satisfaction. Study reveals that customers of Grameenphone widely distributed regardless the income groups, profession, gender, educational attainment, year of service connection, age, receiving multiple operators' service Evidence shows that the customer of Grameenphone is satisfied about its service innovativeness. Grameenphone is the market leader in the telecommunication sector in Bangladesh and thus it is important for Grameenphone to maintain innovativeness in its service so that it can hold its leader position in the market and in the mind of the customer. As this survey shows that Grameenphone's customers have a positive perception about the The customer always seeks consistent services and it is an important factor in customer satisfaction. But unfortunately this study shows that the customer of Grameenphone does not find the services consistent as their expectation. Thus, it is recommended that Grameenphone may try to ensure the highest level of consistency of their services. Network and signal coverage is the core value of telecommunication services. Comparatively the network & signal coverage of Grameenphone is better than those of other telecommunication service provider in Bangladesh. But as this study shows that customer do not find a significant relationship between network & signal coverage and customer satisfaction, this may imply that customer thinks network & signal coverage as the core of telecommunication services and it is usually expected to have a good network & signal coverage of company increases customer satisfaction by lowering its price the result may be lower the profits. As Grameenphone is the market leader in the telecom industry in Bangladesh with some close competitor Grameenphone should charge slightly higher prices than its competitor that is actually currently doing this company. In the 21st century business environment is very much competitive. Consumer favors the company which plays a positive role in social welfare. At the same time the effectiveness of advertising is decreasing rather consumer is influenced by publicity. And this publicity is the outcome of the CSR activities of a company. On the other hand contribution to society can build a good image of the company which ultimately creates brand value. Thus, it is recommended that Grameenphone should give more emphasize on contribution to social welfare. It can reduce some portion of the advertising cost and divert these on CSR activities. Thus, if Grameenphone can ensure and maintain service innovat-iveness, service reliability, service competitiveness, service consistency, quality & quantity of offering and CSR activities its brand value is expected to increase and which expected to lead customer satisfaction. Grameenphone. Although the presence of good network & signal coverage do not lead to a customer satisfaction, but absence of network & signal coverage may lead to strong dissatisfaction. That's why Grameenphone should keep up and try to increase the quality of network & signal coverage. Although any firm tries to create high customer satisfaction but this is not the ultimate goal. If the reliability of the services and competitiveness of services. Grameenphone should always maintain this positive perception of the customer regarding those factors. At the same time Grameenphone should not increase the expectation of customer by unnecessarily promising for more value to the customer. It is obvious that designing an offering with expected attributes and quality of those offerings according to the demand of customer is very much significant for customer satisfaction. But increasing the attributes within an offering and maintaining the quality of those offerings is not free of cost. Here this study reveals that customer of Grameenphone's are satisfied about their demand fulfillment in terms of offering with their expected attributes, but they are not satisfied about the quality of their offering. So Grameenphone should emphasize on maintaining the quality of their offering rather than to promise for offering with more new attributes. ![a. Predictors: (Constant), Brand Value, Customer Demand, Service Consistency, Service Innovativeness, Network & Signal Coverage, Service, Reliability, Pricing, Contribution to Society, Value Added Services, Quality of Offering, Service Competitiveness.](image-2.png "") 1Demographic VariablesFrequencyPercentFirst Mobile OperatorGP11078.6Banglalink1510.7Robi32.1Airtel1.7Taletalk32.1Citycell85.7Total140100.0Current Mobile OperatorGP140100.0Use of Multiple Operator's ServiceYes9870.0No4230.0Total140100.0Year of Connectionbelow 3 years1913.63-6 years5237.16 years and above6949.3Total140100.0Agebellow 30 years10675.730-45 years2215.7above 45 years128.6Total140100.0Monthly Mobile Expensebellow Tk 5007553.6Tk 500-10004532.1above Tk 10002014.3Total140100.0Educationbelow SSC75.0SSC117.9HSC3525.0Bachelor4935.0 2Service InterfaceFrequency PercentCumulative %Voice CallYes140100.0100.0Voice SMSYes3625.725.7No10474.3100.0Total140100.0SMSYes13395.095.0No75.0100.0Total140100.0MMSYes5136.436.4No8963.6100.0Total140100.0InternetYes8661.461.4ServiceNo5438.6100.0Total140100.0InformationYes3122.122.1ServicesNo10977.9100.0Total140100.0c) Descriptive Statistics 3YearVolume XIV Issue III Version I( )Variables Dependent (DV) Independent (IV 1 ) Independent (IV 2 ) Independent (IV 3 ) Independent (IV 4 ) Independent (IV 5 ) Independent (IV 6 )Quality Factors Customer Satisfaction Service Innovativeness Service Reliability Service Competitiveness Service Consistency Network & Signal Coverage PricingN 140 140 140 140 140 140 140Mean 3.55 3.36 3.46 3.16 3.39 4.10 2.23Std. Deviation 1.140 1.019 .985 1.201 .980 .867 .977Global Journal of Management and Business ResearchIndependent (IV 7 )Quality of Offering1402.31.960Independent (IV 8 )Customer Demand1402.27.995Independent (IV 9 )Value Added Service1403.061.026Independent (IV 10 )Contribution to Society1403.311.072Independent (IV 11 )Brand Value1404.19.767 Variable/sCustomer SatisfactionService InnovativenessPearson Correlation.495 **Sig. (2-tailed).000N140Service ReliabilityPearson Correlation.457 **Sig. (2-tailed).000N140Service CompetitivenessPearson Correlation.525 **Sig. (2-tailed).000N140Service ConsistencyPearson Correlation.179 *Sig. (2-tailed).035N140Network & Signal CoveragePearson Correlation-.012Sig. (2-tailed).885N140PricingPearson Correlation.171 *Sig. (2-tailed).044( )Quality of OfferingN Pearson Correlation140 .051Sig. (2-tailed).548N140Customer DemandPearson Correlation.286 **Sig. (2-tailed).001N140Value Added ServicePearson Correlation.332 **Sig. (2-tailed).000N140Contribution to SocietyPearson Correlation.220 **Sig. (2-tailed).009N140Brand ValuePearson Correlation.182 *Sig. (2-tailed).031N140a significant very weak to negligible positive significantcorrelation between the service consistency (IV 4 ) &customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r= .175 at p < 0.35 level; there is an insig-nificantnegative very weak to negligible insignificant positivecorrelation between the network & signal coverage (IV 5 )e& customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = -.012 at p < 0.885 level; there is a very weak to negligible significant positive correlation between the pricing (IV 6 ) & customer satisfaction (DV) with coefficient correlation r = .171 at p < 0.044 level; there is a very weak to negligible insignificant positive relationship e) Regression Analysis 6ModelSum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig.1Regression87.864117.98811.019.000 aResidual92.786128.725Total180.650139a. Predictors: (Constant), Brand Value, Customer Demand, Service Consistency, Service Innovativeness,Network & Signal Coverage, Service Reliability, Pricing, Contribution to Society, Value Added Services,Quality of Offering, Service Competitiveness.b. Dependent Variable: Customer Satisfaction. 5ModelRR SquareAdjusted R SquareStd. Error of the Estimate1.697 a.486.442.851 7 7Factors Affecting Customer Satisfaction on Grameenphone Users in Bangladesh © 2014 Global Journals Inc. (US) © 2014 Global Journals Inc. (US) 62 © 2014 Global Journals Inc. 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