Survival and growth are the prime purposes of businesses. Companies are required to
provide better quality services, so that they can meet their objectives. From this starting
point, the present study examines the quality of service provided by telecom (cellular)
companies in Pakistan, and its effect on the level of satisfaction and the intentions of
customers to stay with the same telecom company. Specifically, we examine customer
attitudes toward the Short Messaging Service (SMS) provided by these telecoms companies
using the SERVQUAL model by Parsurman et al. (1988). Respondents of the study were
331 university students using SMS provided who completed a specially-developed
customer questionnaire. Findings suggest that there is positive relationship between
elements of service quality and both customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions,
except for the element of empathy which was found to have a negative relationship with
satisfaction and repurchase intentions of customers. Findings also indicate a positive
relationship between user satisfaction and their repurchase intentions. Implications of
the results for telecom companies are discussed