Impact of Disruptive Innovations on Mobile Telecom Industry in Lebanon

• Main Author: Wael Bakhit
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ümit Hacıoğlu 2016-04-01
• Series: International Journal of Research In Business and Social Science
• Subjects: Telecom Industry, Disruptive innovation, Profitability, Mobile phones.
• Online Access: http://ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijrbs/article/view/437

The telecommunication industry is different from other industries in the basis of innovation rate. This industry continuously provides end users with new technological generations and disruptive technologies. Due to the complexity of the nature of the product served, telecommunication industry is an important case to study in order to explain the real reasons for the challenges facing telecom companies. Researching in this area will explain why some companies survive while others fail. The wide range served technology innovations is most likely to result in rapid mutation of consumers’ spending habits thus directly influencing the mobile phone companies. The aim of this is to test the reliability of innovations and its impact on companies’ profitability. For that purpose, a survey with 200 end users and 20 employees from two telecom providers (“Alfa, and “Touch”) was conducted to investigate various disruptive and conventional means and their impact on the financial performance of telecom industry. The results show that most of the revenue of telecom industry comes from usage of data while the industry is lacking for competition, and quality services while charging high tariffs for customers. Currently customers are migrating to data, therefore performing a pressure on the industry to improve its services. To conclude, network operators need to decide what to they want to sacrifice and how far they want to go to reach targeted results.