According to data from the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) on the mobile telephone service during and the indicators of income, subscribers and minute traffic in the year 2022, the country already has almost twice as many cell lines as people.
According to the report, at the end of last year, subscribers to the mobile telephone service exceeded 80 million, with an increase of 7.7 percent compared to the same period of 2021.
But the income for this service decreased by 4.7 percent, reaching $574,000 million, while the number of minutes processed had a reduction of 17.5 percent, reaching 31.3 million.
The average income per minute was $18.4 during the quarter of 2022, which represents an increase of 15.5 percent compared to the same quarter of the year 2021, while the average revenue per subscriber was $7,107, that means 11.5 percent less than what was registered in the same previous year.
In the case of the minutes carried by each line, there were an average of 387 for the fourth quarter of 2022, a reduction of 23.4 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
Regarding the short text message service (SMS), which includes the
messages exchanged between users and those associated with the provision of content
or applications, its total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2022 was $41.8
billion, with an increase of 6.6 percent, compared to the same
period of the year 2021.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, a total of 12 billion messages were sent, 16.8 percent less than those registered in the same period of 2021.
In addition, messages between users represented 2.7 percent of the total number of messages sent.
How are the operators doing?
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According to the Superintendence of Companies, the companies dedicated to the offer of telecommunications services generated operating income for 35.89 billion pesos (8.5 billion dollars), which represents a growth of 10 percent over 2022.
In the first place of the companies is Claro, from América Móvil (Cellular Communication), which reported revenues in the order of 14.62 trillion pesos (3.5 billion dollars) in 2022, followed by Telefónica (Colombia Telecommunications) with 7.8 trillion dollars. pesos
In third and fourth place would be Tigo (through UNE EPM) and Colombia Móvil, with revenues of 2.75 trillion and 2.61 trillion pesos, respectively.
