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SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS:
4. Answers must be set out in a systematic way under appropriate headings and
sub-headings. Number your answers clearly.
6. Make sure that you give a bibliography at the end of the assignment and provide
references in the body of your answers where you have referred to other
sources. Use the correct referencing method (Harvard system).
7. Take note that 10 marks are allocated to the presentation and layout of your
assignment.
Prescribed textbook: Wiid, J. & Diggines, C., 2013. Marketing Research. 2nd ed.
Juta.
Read the mini case study below and answer ALL the questions that follow
based on it.
Based on the mini case study above, answer all the questions below. You may make
any reasonable assumptions that you believe may be useful in answering the
questions.
QUESTION 1 [20]
QUESTION 2 [45]
As a marketing researcher, you are tasked with preparing a brief report for your
client, using the Internet and any other secondary sources, about the mobile
telecommunications market in South Africa. The report, based on this secondary
research, must address the following issues:
2.1 The market: market size, pre-paid and post-paid, market growth (10)
2.2 The market shares and strategies of the various players (20)
2.3 Projected trends, published reputations, customer acceptability, and any other
relevant information that would be deemed to be important in addressing the
problem (10)
QUESTION 3 [25]
With reference to the mini case study above, describe how the different types of
quantitative research techniques could be used in collecting primary data to address
the research problem.
PRESENTATION [10]