{"id":153722,"date":"2020-06-26T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=153722"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:20:06","slug":"snapshot-2020-update-mobile-cellular-spend-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2020\/06\/snapshot-2020-update-mobile-cellular-spend-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: 2020 update of mobile\/cellular spend across the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 2020 update of our mobile\/cellular spend Snapshot, to determine the extent to which mobile\/cellular calling rates have changed across the Caribbean since our 2019 exercise.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As have been doing over the past nine years, we are revisit the monthly spend for mobile\/cellular services in the Caribbean, based on pre-defined baskets of services. Similar to 2019, and in this our latest exercise, we have recorded the standalone prepaid calling rates in 23 Caribbean countries, and thereafter, examined the extent to which they have changed since our last exercise, the results of which were published in May 2019.<\/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