(Business in Cameroon) - In a “2017 Annual Observatory of the Electronic Communications Market” report, the Telecoms Regulatory Agency of Cameroon notes that outgoing international mobile calls contracted very sharply by 30.95% in 2017. This represents a loss of 63 million minutes compared to 2016.
“This is the third consecutive annual decrease, a loss of 176.9 million minutes since 2014. This situation tends to confirm that mobile subscribers are increasingly replacing international communications (perceived as the most expensive) with communications through OTT (over the top) applications,” ART reveals. As well, roaming traffic is down 27.67% compared to 2016 (loss of 3.7 million minutes since 2015) and now represents only 0.92% of outgoing calls on mobile networks.
Overall, mobile calls declined by 3.89% in 2017 to 15.26 billion minutes issued, representing a net loss of 617,634,522 minutes compared to 2016. According to ART, this decline follows the growth of mobile broadband services, whose widespread penetration in consumer use since 2014 has led to the restructuring of commercial policies and the widespread introduction of unlimited and bundled offers.
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