{"id":549454,"date":"2006-07-07T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549454-mnp-survey-methodology-questionable.html"},"modified":"2006-07-07T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T18:45:35","slug":"mnp-survey-methodology-questionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549454-mnp-survey-methodology-questionable.html","title":{"rendered":"MNP survey methodology ‘questionable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This fact is refuted by Meta Analyst at Ask Afrika, Craig Kolb, who says these conclusions may have been drawn too quickly.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cWhether Cell C will gain or lose from MNP still requires further research,\u201d says Kolb.<\/font> <\/p>\n

A major issue, which makes it hard to reach any definite conclusions, relates to the survey\u2019s methodology. \u201cThe total survey sample of 892 would have to have been split into smaller sub-samples. In all likelihood they used the standard practice of surveying equal numbers of consumers for each operator, which was then split further by prepaid\/postpaid. <\/font><\/p>\n

This equals approximately 149 respondents per sub-sample. This is too small to reach valid conclusions, and sampling error could easily have affected the conclusions that were drawn.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n

A further inaccuracy is raised by the fact that the costs of porting and time to port were not considered. \u201cUnless it is made clear what customers will face in reality \u2013 in terms of price and time to port for example \u2013 it is difficult for them to give accurate indications of what they would do. It all depends on the scenario that plays out,\u201d says Kolb. <\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cAll in all,\u201d Kolb concludes \u201cThe real impact of MNP on consumers, and the question of which operator will benefit the most, will only be determined once MNP is implemented, and the various companies are actively trying to target clients.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n

Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

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A recent survey, reported in Business Day (29 June, 2006), concluded that Cell C will sustain market share losses when mobile number portability (MNP) is introduced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}