The average monthly traffic per mobile phone user last year rose by about 7% on 2014 to 226 minutes or 3.46 hours. The total al volume of voice traffic in the mobile phone networks increased by 3.7% to over 6.3 billion minutes. The data were published by the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology, IPN reports.
The clients of Orange Moldova spoke over the phone 274 minutes on average a month, those of Moldcell – about 170 minutes, while those of Moldtelecom (Unite) - 114 minutes. The number of SMSes sent by users through mobile communications networks was 983.6 million, which means that a user sent by 22 messages a month.
Following the rise in the volume of voice traffic in the mobile phone networks, the revenues of the three mobile phone carriers grew by over 61.8 million lei (+1.8%) on 2014. The sales of Moldtelecom and Moldcell increased by 11.3% and 6.7% respectively, while of Orange Moldova fell by 0.7%. The monthly average revenue per mobile phone user last year was 67.8 lei, up 3.4% on a year before.
The number of mobile phone users in 2015 decreased by 49,800 (-1.14%) on 2014 to about 4.3 million, while the mobile phone penetration rate per 100 people was 121.6%.
Compared with 2014, the market share of Orange Moldova declined by 1.6 percentage points to 67.8%, of Moldcell rose by 1.3 percentage points to 28.3%, while of Moldtelecom increased by 0.3 percentage points to 3.9%.
