Strategi Penetapan Harga dalam Mempertahankan Pelanggan (Studi pada PT XL AXIATA TBK Regional Sumatera Utara)

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Pricing Strategy in Keeping Customers (Study on PT XL Axiata Tbk Regional North Sumatra)". As for the background of this thesis is the development of telecommunications is now a trend in society because communication is a means to interact and relate with others. Thus encouraging telecommunications companies conduct pricing strategy is cheap and can continue to compete to survive and win the competition, while every customer wants the easy, cheap and fast. The research method used is descriptive - Qualitative aimed knowing Pricing Strategy in Keeping existing customers at PT XL Axiata Tbk Regional North Sumatra so that it can be seen how pricing strategies undertaken by PT XL Axiata Tbk Regional North Sumatra in retaining customers and Business Strategy Competitors are done in the face of Services. This study aims to determine how the pricing strategy undertaken by PT XL Axiata Tbk Regional North Sumatra in retaining customers as well as business strategies undertaken in the face of telecommunications competitors sharing. The research is descriptive. Data was collected by interview, observation and documentation and data analysis was conducted based on interviews and data obtained during the study. Based on the interviews conducted, the results showed that the pricing strategy carried out by PT XL AXIATA Regional North Sumatra that price fluctuations follow a growing market that is by doing a cheap price rates to the same operator, cheap sms to all operators, and the fastest internet access The cheapest and tailor's customers, business strategy by PT XL AXIATA Regional North Sumatra is to look at what the customer needs, for example on price, price-fixing of rates based on low prices and affordable to the same operator in order to communicate to anyone , with innovative continuous innovation and price are always focused on customer needs. And based on data obtained from PT XL Axiata Tbk Regional North Sumatra is the XL subscribers (in thousands) from 2010 to 2011 has increased while in 2012 decreased so that it can be seen from the data obtained in the number of subscribers XL pricing strategy has increased despite a decrease but the decrease was not too far from the amount of the increase in the previous year.