Growing impact and importance of mobile telecommunications
Posted by MattE on 12 Dec 2008 at 08:03 pm | Tagged as: SMS
The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s Communications Report 2007-08 highlights the growing impact and importance of mobile telecommunications
The ACMA report’s key findings for mobile telecommunications are:
* The number of 3G subscriptions grew by 88% in 2007-08 from 4.6 million to 8.6 million
* There were 22.12 million mobile phone services in Australia at June 30, 2008, up from 21.26 million
* The welfare gained by customers (consumer surplus) from using mobile telecommunications services was $3,287.80 million compared to $317.50 million for internet services. The ACMA report says the majority of the increase in the consumer surplus is attributable to changes in the mobile telecommunications sector as prices fell and subscriber demand grew
* In estimating the consumer surplus for mobiles, ACMA calculated that mobile phone calls fell in price by 21.5% and the price of SMS/MMS decreased by 41.5%.
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