Snapshot: How affordable is mobile services in the Caribbean?

In the Caribbean, mobile phones have become integral to everyday life. However, as a paying service, their use must be balanced against all other expenses that the average customer must normally bear. This post is a follow-up from our previous post on the amount spent on mobile/cellular services per month across the English-speaking Caribbean. Now, we are examining the extent to which mobile/cellular service is affordable, based on those previously calculated monthly spends. Additionally, since we are also updating our earlier Snapshot of the sector, we will compare the percentage of a customer’s monthly income that is spent on mobile service, as at May 2011 and November 2011. More