Commentary

Marin Perez
 

Consumers Cutting Cell Phone Spending

Has the global economic slowdown made you change your cell phone plans? You may not be alone, as a new poll for GetJar shows that more than 75% of respondents are planning to cut back on their bill, or wait to upgrade or buy a new phone.

Has the global economic slowdown made you change your cell phone plans? You may not be alone, as a new poll for GetJar shows that more than 75% of respondents are planning to cut back on their bill, or wait to upgrade or buy a new phone.Mobile Attitudes has a great breakdown of the survey, and it shows that 78% of people are planning to delay buying or upgrading their cell phones, and 76% are "immediately planning to reduce the amount they spend on phone usage."

"What we are seeing is a quite understandable reaction to the economic news that has dominated headlines all around the world," said Ilja Laurs, founder and CEO of GetJar. "It will be interesting to see how these intentions are played out in reality over the coming months -- whether they are based on short-term concerns that will fade quite quickly, or whether we will see long-lasting changes in consumer behavior."

More Mobility Insights

White Papers

More >>

Reports

More >>

Webcasts

More >>

Have the economic woes made you change your cell phone habits? A few months ago, I realized I was tired of paying $90 a month for a data plan and voice services. I switched to the local MetroPCS and now have unlimited voice and texts for half that price. My phone can't do as many cool things, and the out-of-area coverage is atrocious, but I'm not missing my personal smartphone that much.

I must say, though, I've been extremely tempted to hop back into the data plan game with the G1, BlackBerry Bold, and BlackBerry Storm here, or just around the corner. It's really tough, though, because there have been plenty of powerful, cool smartphones in the last 6 months. I just know the minute I snap one up and get locked into a two-year contract, an incredible smartphone will be rolled out.


Related Reading




Currently we allow the following HTML tags in comments:

Single tags

These tags can be used alone and don't need an ending tag.

<br> Defines a single line break

<hr> Defines a horizontal line

Matching tags

These require an ending tag - e.g. <i>italic text</i>

<a> Defines an anchor

<b> Defines bold text

<big> Defines big text

<blockquote> Defines a long quotation

<caption> Defines a table caption

<cite> Defines a citation

<code> Defines computer code text

<em> Defines emphasized text

<fieldset> Defines a border around elements in a form

<h1> This is heading 1

<h2> This is heading 2

<h3> This is heading 3

<h4> This is heading 4

<h5> This is heading 5

<h6> This is heading 6

<i> Defines italic text

<p> Defines a paragraph

<pre> Defines preformatted text

<q> Defines a short quotation

<samp> Defines sample computer code text

<small> Defines small text

<span> Defines a section in a document

<s> Defines strikethrough text

<strike> Defines strikethrough text

<strong> Defines strong text

<sub> Defines subscripted text

<sup> Defines superscripted text

<u> Defines underlined text

InformationWeek encourages readers to engage in spirited, healthy debate, including taking us to task. However, InformationWeek moderates all comments posted to our site, and reserves the right to modify or remove any content that it determines to be derogatory, offensive, inflammatory, vulgar, irrelevant/off-topic, racist or obvious marketing/SPAM. InformationWeek further reserves the right to disable the profile of any commenter participating in said activities.

Disqus Tips To upload an avatar photo, first complete your Disqus profile. | View the list of supported HTML tags you can use to style comments. | Please read our commenting policy.
T-Shirt Giveaway T-Shirt Giveaway: Each week we're selecting one great comment from our readers. The author of the comment will receive an InformaitonWeek Community t-shirt. So get posting!
Subscribe to RSS

Resource Links