Net on Net mobile voice traffic saw an increase of 14.4% while mobile to fixed and incoming from fixed recorded a decline of -3.7% and -1.3% respectively.
The increase of the Net on Net calls can be attributed to various promotions offering bonus minutes for net-in-net. On the other hand roaming traffic declined considerably.
As more and more people adopt OTT Communication (a class of real-time communications solutions that operate over the Internet) platforms for international communication, international traffic and roaming traffic is expected to decline.
Econet is the dominant operator in terms of mobile voice service with over 70% market share. However, in the quarter under review, Econet lost 2.5% voice traffic market share whereas Telecel and NetOne gained 1.1% and 1.4% respectively.
Meanwhile, a total of 116.4million minutes of voice traffic were processed by the fixed telephone network in the second quarter of 2018.
This presents a 10.9% growth in voice traffic from 105 million minutes recorded in the first quarter of 2018.
