{"id":16023,"date":"2012-06-21T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:56:16","slug":"78-of-sa-cellphone-users-experience-dropped-calls-monthly-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/16023\/78-of-sa-cellphone-users-experience-dropped-calls-monthly-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"78% of SA cellphone users experience dropped calls monthly – survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new survey by Pondering Panda<\/a> shows that 78% of South African cellphone users experienced dropped calls over the last month.<\/p>\n

The survey, which polled 2212 cell phone users in South Africa on the MXit<\/a> platform, revealed that 78% of people who made calls experienced unexpected call termination over the last month, while 72% of people had dropped calls for calls received.<\/p>\n

12% of people surveyed said that they experience dropped calls “nearly all the time”, with 59% saying it happens “only sometimes”. 29% said it only happens “every now and then”.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results indicated that the level of dropped calls was similar across all four major cell phone networks,\u201d Pondering Panda said in a press statement.<\/p>\n

When a call is dropped, 31% of polled Mxit members said that they call back, with 10% sending an SMS<\/a>; 13% sending a “please call me”; 11% waiting for the person to call back; and 6% using MXit to send a message to the person.<\/p>\n

The majority of surveyed MXit<\/a> users were aged between 15 and 34 (89%). The gender breakdown was 69% female and 31% male, while the household income of the 60% of users were below R10,000 per month.<\/p>\n

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