The Philippines: more revenue from data than calls.
"Pyramid Research, says that the average data revenue per subscription in the Philippines now stands at $3.90 (£2.08) a month, compared with $3.50 a month for voice - meaning that data accounts for 53% of the total". Although this is a milestone in the use of data, this change is not due to some new killer app. The cause appears to be due to the pricing model used in The Philippines, where text charges are much cheaper than voice calls.
"While there are some other examples of operators getting up to 30% of revenue from data, notably O2 and 3 in the UK, and NTT DoCoMo and KDDI in Japan, in the majority of cases the data share is between 10% and 20%."
From The Guardian, via SmartMobs.
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