The Moldovans last year spoke 2.6 billion minutes over the landlines, which is by 13.3% less than in 2013. In the case of mobile telephones, the volume of voice traffic rose by 7.8% exceeding 6 billion minutes, IPN reports.
According to the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology, the fixed-line telephone users brought fewer revenues in 2014, for the seventh consecutive year. Sales decreased by over 10% to 1.2 billion lei. During a year, the total number of subscribers fell by over 3,200 (0.3%).
Even if the people spoke more on the mobile phone, the revenues collected by the carriers were slightly lower. Thus, the revenues decreased by 1.1% on 2013 to 3.4 billion lei. The average monthly traffic per user was 211 minutes (three hours and 31 minutes). The number of SMSes sent through mobile phones rose two times to over 1.1 billion.
The Agency’s specialists say the decline in sales and in the number of subscribers to landline services is due to the migration to voice services provided through the Internet and to mobile phone services, which are more advantageous to users.
