{"id":148101,"date":"2019-05-31T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=148101"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:37:14","slug":"snapshot-2019-update-mobile-cellular-spend-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2019\/05\/snapshot-2019-update-mobile-cellular-spend-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: 2019 update of mobile\/cellular spend across the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 2019 update of our mobile\/cellular spend Snapshot, to determine the extent to which mobile\/cellular calling rates have changed across the Caribbean since our 2018 exercise.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is time for us to revisit the monthly spend for mobile\/cellular services in the Caribbean, based on pre-defined baskets of services. In this our latest exercise, we have examined the standalone calling rates for 23 Caribbean countries, and examined the extent to which they have changed since our last exercise, the results of which were published in May 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For our review of the monthly spend for mobile\/cellular service in the Caribbean, we continue to use the approach presented in the\u00a0Revised OECD Telecommunications Price Comparison Methodology (2006), with adjustments. The original methodology sets out three service baskets, which suggest the volume of voice calls, text messages (SMS), and multimedia messages (MMS) generated by hypothetical users. However, cognisant that to a considerable degree, instant messaging has replaced SMS and MMS, we have limited use of the OECD methodology to focus on voice calls only (see Table 1).<\/p>\nMethodology<\/h3>\n