Correlating service quality, customer satisfaction, perceived value and price in GSM operators

The aim of this research is to analyze the effects of the service quality in GSM Operators serving the Communication Sector on customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, perceived value, switching cost, image and price; and to describe the relationship between the variables.The research includes students attending to Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Uşak University. In this research, survey method was used and 660 survey forms were delivered. 623 of them were found acceptable to be used in analysis. Reliability analysis, factor analysis, variance analysis and regression were carried out in this research.As the results of this research, it is found that service quality directly affects perceived value, image and satisfaction, but it indirectly affects customer loyalty. Also other variables are found to affect customer loyalty. While perceived value, image and satisfaction have the same direction and linear effect on loyalty, price and switching cost have no linear effect on it.