Heavy mobile data users to pay more

The boss of Dutch mobile operator KPN, which is also active in Belgium and Germany, said that in future, heavy users of mobile data, e.g. by extensively using the Web on their mobile phones, will in future have to pay more, as “sanity” returns to the mobile industry that had charged high fees for voice calls while offering unlimited data downloads for very modest fees. In the long run, data would be more important than voice, KNP said. One needs to differentiate between heavy users, light users and people in between and charge each group accordingly. Voice also is data, but it is a very light use of data. In five years 10 % of mobile phone use may be voice and 90 % data. People should then pay less for voice and more for data. (Source: Financial Times)