The Austrians and Austrians call less in 2024 than in the previous year. The minutes of the conversation fell by 3.4 percent. The number of SMS sent has also decreased by 14.4 percent, as the Telekom Monitor 2024 annual report has shown.
In a broadcast of the Rundfunk and Telekom that regulated GmbH (RTR) on Wednesday, it was said that data consumption had increased by ten percent during the comparison period.
Less “classic” phone calls and SMS
According to Klaus Steinmaurer, director of RTR for the telecommunications department and the mail, compared to 2023, the minutes of discussion fell by 3.4 percent. The number of minutes of the conversation of fixed networks with 12.2 percent of this, which fell from mobile phone networks by around three percent.
“Austrians spoke for almost two days or 2676 minutes: on average in 2024 in 2024 (per head, note) with the fixed or mobile phone,” said Steinmaurer.
About 920 million SMS were sent at the end of 2024, which resulted in a decrease of 14.4 percent in the previous year. According to Steinmaurer, SMS is still relevant, not only because they make communication with almost all mobile phones possible-they are important in emergency situations of reliable information transfers and for two-factor authentication.
Growing data consumption
In exchange, data consumption has increased by ten percent compared to 2023 in the previous year and it was 11,654 petabytes. “A petabyte is an unimaginably large amount of data. With an average file size of three MB for a digital photo, storing around 333 million photos would require a petabyte,” said Steinmurer.
Market share of small mobile operators at 18 percent
A1 had the largest market share of SIM cards with 36.3 percent at the end of 2024. Magenta was in second place with 25 percent, three had a share of 20.7 percent. According to the broadcast, small providers have increased their market share by approximately three percent compared to 2013 – in the fourth and five hot with 9.6 and Spusu with 5.2 percent.
Source: Krone
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