ABSTRACT: The study aimed to understand and analyze the technological and innovation performance measures of the Nepalese cellular telecommunications industry from the customers’ perspective. Measures like network service quality, signal strength and coverage, voice quality, and call drop are used for technological performance, whereas measures like product/service innovation, process innovation, customization, competitive innovation, and marketing innovation are used for innovation performance. It followed a descriptive research design employing a structured questionnaire survey instrument. Two market-leading companies in the Nepalese telecommunications industry (Nepal Telecom and Ncell) and their customers were considered as objects of the study. For this study, 391 respondents were selected by using the judgmental sampling technique. The targeted respondents of the study were postgraduate understudies, service holders, business persons, and freelancers. The survey instrument was set in three segments with 19 questions to collect and analyze information with the help of a statistical package for the social sciences and analysis of moment structures software. Two constructs with nine test variables were found to be the determinants of the technological and innovation performance of the Nepalese cellular telecommunications industry. The results of the study would provide helpful guidelines for understanding the key drivers of technological and innovation performance in the Nepalese scenario. <<<READ MORE>>>
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Dahal, R.K., Bhattarai, G., & Karki, D. (2020). Determinants of Technological and Innovation Performance of the Nepalese Cellular Telecommunications Industry from the Customers’ Perspective. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 5, 1013-1020. https://doi.org/10.25046/aj0506122