Dubai: Sixty-six per cent of the businesses in the UAE spent more than Dh1,000 per month on mobile telephony while 40 per cent had post-paid subscriptions, according to a survey conducted by the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority.
TRA released its “ICT in UAE; Business Survey — 2013” that focuses on business usage of ICT services in the UAE with an aim to better understand business perception on their usage and demands for ICT services.
A total of 1,502 businesses across the UAE participated in this research and was limited to businesses with 10 or more employees.
“The provision of accurate and timely ICT information provides an important input into the overall assessment of the nation’s ICT sector in the UAE and is therefore a key to the effective and efficient functioning of this it,” said Majed Al Mesmar, Deputy Director General for telecommunications sector at TRA.
He said the TRA conducts these surveys every two years and considers them an invaluable tool when seeking to inform all relevant stakeholders, the general public included, in the current state of the UAE ICT sector.
The survey spanned multiple services including fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet, advanced telecommunication services and E-commerce. Across these services, the survey examined the access to, and the use of ICT by businesses in the UAE along with their engagement in e-commerce and their satisfaction levels.
According to the survey, 100 per cent of business had a fixed telephone line and a personal computer, but 28 per cent of them spend more than Dh3,000 per month on fixed line while 95 per cent had an internet connection.
