Price-Reduction of Long Haul Fixed-Line

Price-Reduction of Long Haul Fixed-Line Telecommunication Service and Infrastructure in the Middle East

The expansion of telecommunications via fixed-line networks depicts a significant contemporary, credible concern, not only in the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world as interactions with the Middle East regularly occur in and outside its borders. During the thesis, the researcher argued that enhanced negotiations, deeper cultural understanding, and infrastructure expansion could contribute to reducing prices for fixed-line long haul telecommunications service procurements in the Middle East/Southwest Asia (UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, and Afghanistan).

In the mixed-method case study, the researcher explored fixed-line long haul telecommunications service procurements in the Middle East; using various data collection procedures over a sustained period of time to collect detailed information. For the quantitative aspect of the study, the researcher conducted a survey, administered to ***; to generalize from the retrieved sample to a population. The researcher uses the sequential procedure; associated with the qualitative approach. In this strategy, the researcher began with a qualitative method and followed up with a quantitative method.

Findings from the study regarding the qualitative method the researcher implemented generally confirm the researcher's premise to be true. The survey which depicts the quantitative method the researcher utilized, however, did not confirm the researcher's premise as specific information could not be proven to be true or false for all. Rather, based on location, individuals from some Middle East nations indicated that progress in reducing costs relating to fixed-line long haul telecommunications service procurements to be better than others. The country's exposure to more technology as well as the time the country obtained telecommunications knowledge and availability proved to be significant contributing factors to cost reduction results.

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