AMMAN — Jordanians collectively spent 70,000 years speaking
on the phone in 2020, according to official figures by the Telecommunications
Regulatory Commission (TRC).
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The phone calls are divided among the three telecom service
providers in the Kingdom.
The TRC stats also revealed that Jordanians spent 4.25
million minutes on the phone every hour and 102 million minutes per day.
Based on the commission’s report, Jordanians spoke on the
phone for 36.7 billion minutes at a monthly average of 3.1 billion minute.
The number of cell-service subscriptions amounted to around
7 million, most of which were prepaid lines (phone cards). Given this number,
each subscriber would have had approximately 443 minutes of call time per month
and 14.6 minutes per day.
Around 78 percent of all subscriptions or 5.46 subscriptions
were prepaid, according to TRC figures from at the end of last year.
The remaining 22 percent of subscriptions were postpaid
(billed monthly) for a number of 1.54 million subscriptions.
But compared to previous years, the above figures have not
spiked massively.
Official figures showed that phone call activity has only
increased by 4 percent when compared to the 35.4 billion minutes of calls four
years ago.
The commission’s data covers outgoing cellular activity to
and from mobile phones. Outgoing activity was divided into four parts: calls
within the same network, to landlines, to other networks and international
calls. Incoming activity includes, calls from landlines and incoming
international calls.
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