Despite some recent company efforts to help pay for customers' phone bills through promotions and subscription programs, the telecommunication industry largely relies on customers using more phone data each year - through new applications and innovations - to keep its sales growing, $4. And this is no more apparent than when you see how cell phone bills have risen since the dawn of the smartphone.
Based on data from the $4 charted for us by $4, US households are spending 50% more on their phone bills than they did in 2007, the year the iPhone launched and Google introduced the Android operating system for mobile devices. Households spent an average of $913 on phone bills in 2013 - and a fifth of those households spent more than $1,400 that year. According to Verizon Wireless, the average monthly phone bill is about $161.24, which is a 3.5% rise from last year.
BI Intelligence