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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

UK mobile at a glance

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has launched a consultation on Mobile citizens, mobile consumers (PDF), and if you want to have your say, you have to do it by November 6. Incidental to this, Ofcom also offers "The mobile sector in 2007 at a glance":

* Number of network operators: 5 * Number of mobile connections: 74 million * UK mobile retail revenues: £15.1bn * Number of mobile voice calls: 115.6 minutes per month per subscriber * Number of SMS and MMS messages sent: 59.1bn * Average time spent texting and calling per mobile connection: 10 minutes per day

Average usage for voice calls, then, is just 3.8 minutes per day....

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