2014 update on monthly spend on mobile\/cellular data plans<\/a>, generally, prices have fallen over the past year, which in some respect, is reflected in Figure 3. However, it is important to highlight that in virtually all countries included in this exercise, per capita GDP (which has been used as a proxy for average annual income in a country) increased, albeit marginally in most countries. Nevertheless, that increase would affect, i.e. lower, the percentage of monthly income calculated as being spent on mobile\/cellular data plans.<\/p>\nFurther, and as was done in last year\u2019s exercise, it is again important to highlight that in the majority of instances, mobile\/cellular data would be an add-on service \u2013 in addition to the standard voice and text message services. Hence customers would already be paying for those basic capabilities, and therefore an even larger portion of their monthly income would be consumed on mobile\/cellular services, when mobile\/cellular data is included.<\/p>\n
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