UK Mobile Networks Providing Better Service for Lesser Money


August 23rd, 2010 • Related • Filed Under

The revenue charges for UK mobile networks have gone down since the last year owing to the people’s increasing demand for better services at a lesser cost. Since then, the number of traffics in the network has gone up staggeringly.

The Market Report of Ofcom Communication mentioned many things about the mobile phone industry, one of which is the downfallen turnover of the UK mobile operators. The industry which was worth £14.9 billion in the last year was reportedly worth three and a half percent more in the previous year. This has resulted due to the substantial fall in the voice and messaging rate since more and more people are investing on mobile data, which is not making up for it.

This does not mean that people have quitted conversing over the phone. The voice traffic has seen a rise of six percent, whereas the messaging sector has seen a meager upheaval of a quarter percent which is because people are paying less for these services in particular. Whereas the quantity of traffic has jumped by a staggering 240 % between 2008 and 2009, the takings from data have only increased by 70 % since 2007.

This increasingly drastic disparity between the number of bits used and the profits extracted from them has become a cause of concern for both wireless and fixed telecom companies.

A large mass of users still prefers fixed telephone connections than mobiles because they consider the former, faster and cheaper. While this is a fact, the mobile network companies are also now offering broadbands at rates competent with the fixed connections. Ofcom suggests that users are worried about the data capping. While very few users hit the caps, it is the fear of add on expenses that is deviating users from even popular mobile networks like Orange, Vodafone PAYG, O2, T- Mobile, etc.

About 12 % of the adults in UK are using mobile connections in addition to landlines at home. However, these fixed connections are also made wireless to serve the purpose better.

Since neither they, nor the ADSL is providing services at a fixed rate, it is only by providing 4G deployments and suitable payments at the expecting mega-auction in UK, that they can cram some real money out of us.

Source: The Register