{"id":2271,"date":"2011-11-18T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2011-11-20T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T02:49:29","slug":"snapshot-how-affordable-is-mobile-services-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2011\/11\/snapshot-how-affordable-is-mobile-services-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: How affordable is mobile services in the Caribbean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post builds on our monthly spend update as at November 2011. We now examine the affordability of mobile\/cellular service across the English-speaking Caribbean.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the Caribbean, mobile phones have become integral to everyday life. However, as a paying service, their use must be balanced against all other expenses that the average customer must normally bear. This post is a follow-up from our previous post on the amount spent on mobile\/cellular services per month across the English-speaking Caribbean<\/a>. Now, we are examining the extent to which mobile\/cellular service is affordable, based on those previously calculated monthly spends. Additionally, since we are also updating our earlier Snapshot of the sector, we will compare the percentage of a customer\u2019s monthly income that is spent on mobile service, as at May 2011 and November 2011.<\/p>\n

Methodology<\/h3>\n

In the November 2011 instalment in this series, Snapshot: How much do we spend on mobile service across the Caribbean?<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, we used three distinct baskets of mobile\/cellular services, shown in Table 1, to conduct that assessment.<\/p>\n

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

The key results of that mobile spend exercise, are summarised below.<\/p>\n