Evaluation of Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction: Thirteen Years in the Brazilian Telecommunications Operating Companies
Jos Eduardo Benevello de Castro Telebras, Brazil. andEdmundoBrando Dantas,Telebraslia, Brazil
INTRODUCTION
Until 1985, no customer satisfaction evaluation was made in the companies that, under coordination of the holding Telebras, formed the Telebras System. A strong engineering culture prevailed at that time (and which continued until recently) in which 'technology seduction' prevailed, and products and services were almost 'pushed' into the market to see what could happen. They imagined that if the telecommunication companies had uptodate equipment, perfect from the...