OECD Mobile Voice and Data Price Benchmarking Q1 2022 update:
The Q1 2022 update of the OECD Mobile and Data Voice Price Benchmarking service is now available for download. For a residential user with a relatively heavy call and data requirements (making 300 calls a month totalling just over 577 minutes, and with a 5 GB mobile data requirement and 40 text messages), the My Prepaid Epic Value plan from Optus in Australia, which comes with 5GB of data is the cheapest at just over USD PPP 9 per month. Next cheapest are the Mutlu Mega Happy plan with a sizeable data allowance of 70GB, from Turkcell in Turkey, and the Cellcom Perfect Package plan with a huge 200 GB of data, from Israeli operator Cellcom, at USD PPP 9.19/month and USD PPP 9.40/month respectively. Also under the USD PPP 10 per month mark is Tango Luxembourg’s Smart LU plan with 5GB data.
At the other end, most expensive for this basket is the Hiper M Talk plan from Telenor Hungary, with 5GB data, and a monthly cost of just over USD PPP 63, followed by KDDI au Japan’s 4G All-You-Can-Use Max plan, at just under USD 56.
The average cost for this basket across all OECD countries is USD PPP 25.07/month.
5G tariffs are increasingly featuring in the results, with some 5G plans featuring as the overall cheapest for this basket.
Source: OECD Mobile Voice and Data Price Benchmarking Q1 2022, Strategy Analytics
For clients of the Premium version of the service (which includes additional providers in selected markets – see below), the system includes two new flags, which allow users to view results for 3G/4G separately, and 5G separately.
The Q2 2022 update for Mobile Voice and Data service incorporates the OECD 2017 baskets, which are shown in the table below.
The system includes a custom facility, allowing users to produce results for customised usage profiles.
Additional operators in selected countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, USA) are available on request as part of the OECD Mobile Voice and Data Price Benchmarking Premium Service.
Historical pricing for the OECD countries over several years is available.
Results from this and previous updates in a time-series format can also be accessed in the convenient OECD Mobile Voice and Data Price Benchmarking dashboards.
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If you have any difficulty using any of the functions within OECD Mobile Voice and Data Price Benchmarking, or would like more information on how to get the most out of the system, please contact either:
Angela Toal, Senior Tariff Analyst, Teligen. Tel: +44 1908 423 678. Email. atoal@strategyanalytics.com
Bernadette Finn, Associate Director, Teligen. Tel: +44 1908 423 672. Email. bfinn@strategyanalytics.com