ANALYZING DATA CONSUMPTION RATE AMONG NIGERIAN TEACHERS: USING NASH EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTION ON TEACHING-LEARNING

Abstract

The potential fluctuation in price of internet access has brought educational clients’ focus on a good internet service. Clients in educational sector now quest for demand guarantees for the bandwidth promised. Proposed scheme in which educational clients are assured connection and bandwidth and if assured service is not provided, service providers pay penalty to them. The use of multi-SIM handheld devices such as mobiles and tablets has enabled educational clients to make a “choice” between multiple service providers for communication services. With competition, an educational client will prefer connection to that provider who is providing the lowest price with guarantees. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation for the research questions and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) for hypotheses. Results showed that showed that students taught using internet resources (data) performed better than those taught using traditional method. In this scenario of potential fluctuation pricing and guarantees, providers have to decide on pricing strategies which will maximize their income. This present a solution among two service providers which achieves a Nash equilibrium with the maximizing of the expected income being the decision criterion.