scholarly journals Customer Churn Prediction in Telecommunication Industry Using Data Certainty

Author(s):  
V R Reji Raj ◽  
Rasheed Ahammed Azad .V

Customer churn is a major problem affecting large companies, especially in telecommunication field. So the telecom industries have to take the necessary steps to retain their customers, to maintain their market value. So companies are seeking to develop methods that predict potential churned customers. We have to find out the factors that increase customer churn for making necessary actions to reduce churn. In the past, different data mining techniques have been used for predicting the churners. Here the most popular machine learning algorithms used for churn predicting are analysed. The conclusions are stated with the help of suitable tables.

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 290-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Amin ◽  
Feras Al-Obeidat ◽  
Babar Shah ◽  
Awais Adnan ◽  
Jonathan Loo ◽  
...  

Due to competition between online retailers, the need for providing improved customer service has grown rapidly. In addition to reduction in sales due to loss of customers, more investments are needed to be done to attract new customers. Companies now are working continuously to improve their perceived quality by way of giving timely and quality service to their customers. Customer churn has become one of the primary challenges that many firms are facing nowadays. Several churn prediction models and techniques are proposed previously in literature to predict customer churn in areas such as finance, telecom, banking etc. Researchers are also working on customer churn prediction in e-commerce using data mining and machine learning techniques. In this paper, a comprehensive review of various models to predict customer churn in e-commerce data mining and machine learning techniques has been presented. A critical review of recent research papers in the field of customer churn prediction in e-commerce using data mining has been done. Thereafter, important inferences and research gaps after studying the literature are presented. Finally, the research significance and concluding remarks are described in the end.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Aayush Bhattarai ◽  
Elisha Shrestha ◽  
Ram Prasad Sapkota

Churners are those people who are about to transfer their business to a competitor or simply who cancel a subscription to a service. This paper is based on a specific business sector, which is telecommunication sector. With a churn rate of 30%, the telecommunication sector takes the first place on the list. In this paper, we present some advanced data mining methodologies which predicts customer churn in the pre-paid mobile telecommunications industry using a call detail records dataset. To implement the predictive models, we initially propose and then apply four machine learning algorithms: Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, and XG Boost. To evaluate the models, we use various evaluation metrics and find the best model which will be suitable for any class imbalanced data and also our business case. This paper can also be viewed as a comparative study on the most popular machine learning methods applied to the challenging problem of customer churn prediction.


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