Mobile voice declining

[rpm]

It has finally happened – mobile voice declining

The latest State of the Internet report shows that global mobile voice volumes have declined, while data traffic is growing fast

 

[Rocket-Boy]

From that graph it doesnt show voice declining, its just not growing at the same rate as data.

 

[Skerminkel]

Three questions on the study:
1. How does Ericsson acquire the data? Do their phones "phone home"?
2. Do they even have smart phones on the market? (OK, too lazy to google this)
3. What is the vertical unit of the voice traffic on the graph?

 

[Paul_S]

From that graph it doesnt show voice declining, its just not growing at the same rate as data.

Click to open a larger version of the graph.
Voice appears to have leveled off in 2013 Q2 and Q3 and in Q4 it's slightly lower.

 

[Fingolfin]

Telepathy++ [curated v0.9]

Dit Dit Dit Beep beep beeeep.

Humanity--

 

[dzasta2002]

1. Ericsson is a major supplier of network equipment worldwide, you know the stuff that makes the phones find one another.
2. No they are out of the handset game. They merged with Sony for their handset business (Sony Ericsson) a long while ago, then sold it completely to Sony who later decided to drop the Ericsson moniker once they had complete control, similar to the Microsoft - Nokia situation.
3. Petabytes