Deloitte's UK Mobile Consumer Survey 2016

Deloitte's publication of its mobile phone survey has plenty of interesting stats. Here are some that caught my eye:

• 4G adoption has more than doubled in the last year, from 25% to 54%.
• 31% of smartphone users make no traditional voice calls in a given week. This contrasts with a quarter in 2015, and just 4% in 2012. The substitutes are text messaging, instant messaging and social networks.
• The majority of survey participants have downloaded 20 or fewer apps.
• Smartphone penetration in the UK leapt from 52% to 81% of the population in the four years to May 2016, but further penetration is anticipated to slow to 2-4% in the next 12 months.

Mobile Network aggregator in Brasil

I read (with mild interest) this Economist article on the woes of Brazilian mobile operators: Telecommunications in Brazil - The next big blackout?

I picked up this statistic:  A 2009 World Bank study found that raising mobile-phone penetration in a developing country by ten percentage points increased GDP growth by 0.8% a year.

But what really got my attention was this statement:

Venko, a local phone maker, now offers a handset that holds four SIM cards, automatically choosing the cheapest for each call.

That's arbitrage!

Ofcom Report - July 2012

Ofcom's Communications Market Report is always full of stats. Here are a couple that I thought were interesting.

Fixed vs Mobile revenue

• Voice revenues declined, in contrast to data revenues. Fixed voice revenues declined by 4.9% in 2011 to £8.9bn, while mobile voice revenues fell by 0.9% to £10.5bn.
• Mobile messaging and handset data revenues increased 5.5% to £4.6bn.
• Fixed data revenues (broadband and narrowband) increased by 6.8% in 2011 to £3.4bn, with broadband contributing the vast majority. (All figures are retail.)

Voice

• The volume of voice calls shrank for both fixed and mobile telephony.
• The number of minutes of calls made from fixed telephones was down 10.0% in 2011, while the number of minutes of calls made from mobile phones fell for the first time: down 1.1% on 2010.
• For the first time, over half (52%) of all call volumes were made from a mobile.

Messaging

• People in the UK sent an average of 200 SMS and MMS messages per month in 2011.
• The average number of text and picture messages sent per UK inhabitant continued to increase in 2011, growing by 17% to 200 messages per month.

Broadband

• The total number of UK fixed broadband connections passed 20 million for the first time in 2011. 
• The number of mobile broadband connections passed 5 million during the year, and by the first quarter of 2012 76% of UK homes had a broadband connection of some description.

Mail (yes, indeed, this is included in the report!)

• Mail volumes have been falling consistently for the past five years, and declined by 25% between 2006 and 2011.
• Direct mail usage remains constant, in a failing market, meaning the its share of post is increasing.
• It is estimated that residential consumers send less than 10% of mail in the UK.