Mobile internet users in the Netherlands consume an average of 193MB per month. That is from the figures of the OPTA. The number of sms sent take now strongly; in a year’s time were one-fifth less of sms sent.
In the same period, the use of mobile internet significantly, by a whopping 55 percent. There are 8.3 million connections to mobile internet. How many people actually use mobile internet is unclear. Compared to a year ago, the number of terminals for mobile internet by about a quarter.
The decline of sms is a trend that providers have previously reported. It is largely due to apps like WhatsApp, which many users have and that ‘free sms’and’. In addition to WhatsApp, there are other chat services such as BlackBerry Messenger (ping), iMessage from Apple, Google Talk and Facebook Chat.
The number of sms sent was in the first three months at € 2.2 billion messages. Thus sending the Dutch still 24 to 25 million sms messages per day. Dutch verstookten in that period of 4.6 petabytes, approximately 53.500 GB per day. Per mobile connection per month to approximately 193MB of data consumed.
The figures on the decline in sms, and the increase in the use of mobile internet come from the market of the OPTA, which relies on figures from the providers.
