Austrian regulator RTR said telecoms users in the country made active calls lasting a total of 97.5 million minutes in other EU countries in Q1, which was 1.3 million minutes fewer than in the first quarter the prior year, according to its roaming monitor report. The trend in roaming calls is partly the result of replacing traditional telephony by video telephony, according to Klaus M Steinmaurer, managing director of RTR for the Telecommunications and Post department.
The restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic may have had an impact on the volume of roaming calls in the first quarter, but the real effects will be clearer in Q2 and Q3, he added. There has been a steady, significant decrease in the use of roaming SMS over the quarters. In Q1, users sent only 6.5 million roaming SMS, the regulator said. The use of roaming data rose in Q1 2020 year on year by 0.3 petabytes to 2.3 petabytes in total due to an increase in the use of video telephony and messenger services.
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