A Study on Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction in Bharti Airtel at Tiruchirappalli Region

This study helps to improve the SERVQUAL model as the foremost framework for investigating service quality. The relationships among customer satisfaction and service quality variables. The results exposed that all the service quality items were decent forecasters of customer satisfaction. For managers, this finding has significant implications with concern to brand building strategies. Indications of a successful brand building strategy are identify when companies afford quality services relation to other companies within the similar industry.


INTRODUCTION
The foremost global telecommunications is Bharti Airtel Limited company over 20 countries have operations in Asia and Africa which is Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the Company positions among the top three mobile service providers have worldwide subscribers. In India, the Company's aid 4G wireless services, fixed line services, mobile commerce, DTH, enterprise services, home broadband, with domestic and international long-distance services to carriers. In other geographies, it provides up to 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had overall 372 Million worldwide customers at the finish of March 2017. The foremost provider is Airtel mobile telephony and it is the 2nd largest provider telephony in India, and is also provides with broadband with subscription of television services.Sunil Bharti Mittal headed Airtel brand and it @ IJTSRD | Available Online @ www.ijtsrd.com | Volume -2 | Issue -3 | Mar-Apr 2018 This study helps to improve the SERVQUAL model as the foremost framework for investigating service The relationships among customer satisfaction and service quality variables. The results exposed that all the service quality items were decent forecasters of customer satisfaction. For managers, this finding has significant implications with concern and building strategies. Indications of a successful brand building strategy are identify when companies afford quality services relation to other Service quality, Customer satisfaction, The foremost global telecommunications is Bharti Airtel Limited company over 20 countries have in Asia and Africa which is Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the Company positions among providers have worldwide subscribers. In India, the Company's aid exclude upto 4G wireless services, fixed line services, mobile DTH, enterprise services, high speed domestic and international rs. In other wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had overall 372 Million worldwide customers at the finish of March 2017. The foremost provider is Airtel mobile telephony and it is the 2nd largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also provides with broadband with subscription of television services.Sunil Bharti Mittal headed Airtel brand and it provides its telecom services globally. The first Indian telecom service is Bharti Airtel achieve Cisco Gold Certification. It also turns as a transporter for global distance communication services.   To identify customers preference towards the Bharti Airtel mobile service provider in Tiruchirappalli region.
 To measure the Service Quality of Bharti Airtel mobile Service provider in Tiruchirappalli region. Network Quality: It refers to the strength of the network and call quality.

SERVICE QUALITY GAP
In earlier service research, conference and more than chances of clients and consumers is a perception that has increased most attraction. This concept is all inclusive and cuts across service domains, but expectations change and experiences with alternate service providers could shape the customers' expectations. The important investigation gap here is attaining customers' expectation towards a particular service.
A gap is the difference, imbalance or disparity which is determined to exist between customers' perception of firm performance and their prior expectation. Service quality (SQ) perceived by customers is then as consequence of a contrast of customers' expectation (E) of facilities that the association should offer versus their perception of the performance (P) delivered by the service organization. Expectations and perceptions of customers is management of service quality largely focuses on managing the gaps. The goal of the firm is to reduce the gap between (E) and (P). Rowleypointed out that previous scholars such as Lehtinen and Lehtinen and Gronroos also applied gapmoralities similar to that upcoming by Parasuraman et al.

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Customer Satisfaction has been a central concept in marketing fiction and is an important goal of all business activities. Today, companies face their toughest competition, because they move from a product and sales philosophy to a marketing philosophy, which gives a company a better chance of outperforming competition (Kotler, 2000). Overall customer satisfaction translates to more profits for companies and market share increase. The importance of customers has been highlighted by many researchers and academicians. The primary concern of promotion is to connect with customers by building a strong customer relationship in order to meet their expectations. Therefore, managers who see customers as the only way of profit, they consider. Customer satisfaction has a positive effect on an organization's profitability. The more customers are satisfied with produces or services accessible, the more are chances for any successful business as customer satisfaction leads to repeat purchase, brand loyalty, and positive word of mouth marketing. Customer satisfaction leads to repeat purchases, loyalty and to customer retention (Zairi, 2000). Today most successful companies have taken the strategy of raising expectations and delivering performance to match. Such companies track their customers" expectations, perceived company presentation, and customer satisfaction. Highly satisfied customers produce several benefits for the company. Satisfied customers remain connected for a longer period and talk favorably to others about the company and its products and services.

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION INFLUENCES OF PREPAID CUSTOMERS OF AIRTEL
Bharti Airtelmobile telecommunication industry, around are through and indirect factors that effect customer satisfaction. Here Research attention on the Maximum significant factors that inspiration consumer satisfaction for prepaid consumers of Airtel which relates fundamentally with after sales services.

COST
The cost of the prepaid connection is one of major factor for the customers. Most of the people in India are low income level. Therefore, to attain more customers Airtel should not charge high price for the new connection so that it can be affordable to the low income people. Moreover, tariff of the prepaid packages must be judicious to keep satisfied its customers.

AVAILABILITY
Availability of the product at the right time leads the customers to a better experience. Customers always want the product to be availed near at home. They do not wish to go far to have product and other related services. Though, the prepaid customers require topup their credit more frequently. So, to ensure frequent purchase and to build up long term relationship with the customers, the top-up stores should be conveniently located to the prepaid users.

CUSTOMER PERCEPTION
Customer perception is valuation approximately something watched and restrained and it contrasts from customers to customers, as individually customer takes changed opinions towards confident services and products that performance of significant role in determining customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is determined by the customers' perceptions and opportunities of the excellence of the products and services. In several cases, customer perception is independent, but it offers some useful understandings for organizations to improve their marketing strategies. Providing high level of quality service has become the selling point to attract customer's helpfulness and is the most significant driver that principals to satisfaction. Hence, customer perception and customer satisfaction are very thoroughly linked composed, because if the apparent service is near to customer's opportunities it principals to satisfaction. Satisfied customers deliver recommendations; maintain faithfulness towards the company and customers in turn are additional likely to pay price dividends (Reichheld, 1996).

CONCLUSION
Airtel is a telecom service providing company where customer satisfaction is together goal and marketing tool. Today's customers in the telecom industry, where lots of offers are available, are harder to satisfy. They remain smoother, more challenging, more price conscious, less forgiving and they are innovative by many more companies with equivalent or better offers. The experiment is not only to produce satisfied customers also to produce loyal and delighted customer. This is competitive and customer driven market. It is high time for Airtel to satisfy and retain its existing customers. As the mobile connection price, call duty, even the price of the handset have been reduced due to technological advancement people of all income level are started using cell phone. Nowadays, most of the students and the low income people are deeply relying on Airtel because of the cheap cost. Hence, it has become inevitable for Airtel to expand the network coverage soon for a maintainable future.