Telcos revenues are growing, but people talk less
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Phone subscribers aren’t that eager to talk. Associate Press said it in a snapshot write-up on the telecommunications industry. The top of the list are cellphone companies, whose revenues are growing at a steady pace, but the engine of growth is non-voice services, not phone subscriptions.
“Overall, data revenue accounted for 14.1 percent of the quarter’s revenue from services, up from 8.4 percent a year earlier,” says AP. And “subscribers were paying $7.16 a month for services beyond their calling plans, an increase of nearly 70 percent year-over-year.” Translated in dollar terms, that means “the increase of nearly $3 per user in data revenue was almost entirely offset by another decline in monthly revenue generated by phone calls.”
While it’s good news for telcos, while those figure would entice them invest more into 3G networks, WiFi and WiMax technologies, what could we expect? More ringtones? Nay. But instead, we expect:
- more IM service on mobile phones, like Windows Live Messenger in Orange cellphones,
- more multimedia content; YouTube has smelled the trend,
- more GPS services, to tout some interests.
But these services would more likely appear faster in Europe than in North America. A recent ComScore study shows more European users access the Internet than North America ones, 29% against 19%.
Nov 10, 2006 | By Nuno
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[…] Aumentano i ricavi degli operatori di telefonia mobile, ma la gente parla di meno 3$ in più per ogni utente dai servizi dati… questo l’incremento negli USA, ma l’Europa sembra poter contare su una percentuale maggiore di utenti Internet da cellulare (tags: mobile internet data traffic revenue) […]