EU survey shows 24% of Europeans ditch landlines and go mobile
Written by admin on June 30th, 2008 in devices and gadgets.
A survey by the European Union has found that many Europeans are ditching their landline phones all together.
According to the survey, 24% of European households just use a mobile phone. If that wasn’t bad enough for traditional phone service operators, another 22% were using their computer to make calls over the Internet.
What’s kind of interesting about almost one in four households using just a mobile phone is that many subscribers have reported problems with their service. One in four mobile subscribers reported having occasional problems connecting to their mobile network. Another 28% reported that they are sometimes cutoff while in the middle of a call.
I must admit that’s it’s not too surprising to see people ditching their landline phones for mobile phones or an Internet-based phone service. There are just too many financial incentives not to maintain a landline phone and a mobile phone.
This survey should be a wake up call for traditional phone service operators in Europe. They need to work harder at transforming their business in order to retain customers before the service they offer becomes technically obsolete. In many ways, it already has.
Read more from the European Union press release.
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