{"id":148133,"date":"2019-06-07T05:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=148133"},"modified":"2019-06-07T05:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:33:14","slug":"snapshot-affordable-mobile-cellular-service-caribbean-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2019\/06\/snapshot-affordable-mobile-cellular-service-caribbean-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: how affordable is mobile\/cellular service in the Caribbean in 2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our annual update of mobile\/cellular affordability across the Caribbean, and to what extent has it changed since 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Last week, we published our 2019 Snapshot of the\u00a0likely monthly spend for mobile\/cellular calls\u00a0based on pre-defined baskets of services, and compared those results with figures reported in 2018. In this article, we updating our findings of how affordable mobile\/cellular calls are for the average consumer across the Caribbean region, and again, we compare the results with those from last year.<\/p>\n

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A summary of the mobile\/cellular spend results<\/h3>\n

In our Snapshot: 2019 update of mobile\/cellular spend across the Caribbean<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, we used three distinct baskets of mobile\/cellular services, as shown in Table 1, to conduct that assessment, which is based on the\u00a0Revised OECD Telecommunications Price Comparison Methodology (2006).<\/p>\n

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Table 1: Service baskets used in 2019 mobile\/cellular spend calculations (Source: OECD)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The key results of our review of mobile\/cellular spend, based on the rates advertised for prepaid for voice calls across the region, as at May 2019, were as follows:<\/p>\n