How many minutes do Jordanians speak on the fixed phone?

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Ibrahim Al -Mobaideen

Amman - It may pass weeks and months in which people do not use the ground phone after it was the most widespread and perhaps the only one in which people were communicating from a distance..

Today, the ground phone is the largest affected by the spread and penetration of mobile phones, amid people's dependence on them in all the details of daily life, especially since it has become linked to the Internet.

Many may believe that our daily migration from the "constant" to the "mobile" contributed to the freezing of our entire Earth's contacts, but the recent official figures issued by the Communications Sector Regulatory Authority prove the opposite.

Many use the ground phone, especially large families and the elderly, and institutions in various sectors.

Data and numbers

Communications Authority data showed that the "land" phone movement in Jordan has registered about 50.5 million minutes during the first half of the current year, including the local telephone movement between the governorates and the international phone movement with the countries of the world.

According to the data of the Communications Authority, the volume of the telephone movement of the fixed phone has declined by 11.5 million minutes of communication and up to 18.X %.

This is when comparing the size of the phone movement of the ground phone registered in the same period last year, when it reached about 62 million minutes of land connection.

This comes at a time when the ground phone services have been facing for years, a fierce competition settled in favor of its cell phone..

What had had previous data showed that the size of its phone movement reached nearly 17.4 billion minutes in the first half of this year.

Meanwhile, the Telecom Authority’s figures indicated that the size of the terrestrial phone movement during the first half of this year is distributed as follows 45.5 million minutes of local terrestrial connection, and about 5 million minutes of international land connection.

All the phone movement of the fixed phone came during the first half of the current year from about 302 thousand subscriptions to this service, which dates back to the seventies of the last century through one ground network.

The entry of cell phone services in the mid -nineties of the last century had to expand and spread during the last 20 years, with three major cellular networks that serve the local communications market today..

Today, the number of cellular subscription in Jordan is estimated at about 7 million subscriptions.

But it is important today to mention that the cell phone services, with smartphones, attracted millions to the service, with their connection to the Internet and provided it hundreds of applications that have been serving the user along with the voice communication service.