I was one of the early converts to mobile phones. Despite their high prices, I found the convenience worth it. But when the flat-rate unlimited plans came around, I totally got rid of my landline and despite the spotty coverage became completely untethered. With falling prices my call volume increased. So it is hardly a surprise (and almost obvious) to find a study showing that falling prices boost the minutes used on mobile networks.
On Thursday GSMA’s Wireless Intelligence released a report that shows that in 2010 there were 1.6 trillion global voice minutes, a whopping ten times the minutes in 2001, when there were 170 billion minutes of voice calls. Or, as the report points out, the usage of mobile phones has grown “twice as fast as the number of connections, which grew from around 950 million to 5.4 billion over the same nine year period.”
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Author:Om Malik
