According to Potraz, the decline in mobile revenue is attributable to the decline in voice traffic and revenue thereof, which still accounts for 59.3% of total mobile operator revenues.
From the previous quarter last year, there was an overall decline in the mobile voice traffic from 1 466 738 999 in the last quarter of 2018 to 1 404 872 174 this year, thus recording a decrease of 4.2%.
Econet recorded voice traffic market share decline of 1.3% whereas NetOne and Telecel gained 1.1% and 0.3% respectively.
The decline in voice traffic has been attributed to the rebasing of tariffs in line with the official USD: RTGS exchange rate.
Mobile data and internet traffic increased from 8 559 432 098MB to 10 201 778 409MB largely to the fact that promotions were still available in the period under review. Econet gained 3.9% of the market share whilst Telecel and NetOne recorded a loss of 0.4% and 3.5% respectively.