There is a rising trend for Dominican consumers to use data plans for communication, at the expense of voice plans. Indeed, there has been a substantial decline in voice minutes and voice plans sold by telecom companies, according to a report published on 8 February 2018 in El Dia.
The decline in the minutes consumed for voice communication is down a hefty 50% compared to three years ago, according to data from the Dominican Telecommunications Institute cited in the El Dia article. While in all of 2015, mobile phone customers used 12.23 billion minutes, from January to September 2017, consumption was only 7.49 billion. During that same time period, the number of Internet accounts increased from 4.9 million in 2015 to 6.9 million in 2017.
Indotel statistics indicate that in 2016, there were 6,064,695 Internet accounts in the country. By 2017, there were 6,998,032 Internet accounts.
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El Dia
13 February 2018
