US Cellphone bills average $3.02 per minute, study says

In San Diego, mobile users pay more than $3 per minute on average. That’s according to a new consumer-advocacy study featured in the LA Times yesterday via The Christian Science Monitor.

The Utility Consumers’ Action Network surveyed 700 cellphone users and found that the average cellphone bill went down since 2004, falling from $57.92 for a single-line account to $37.15 today.

However, “cost per minute can be outrageous,” says the report. “Doing the simplest of calculations – dividing the total cost by the number of minutes – we find that the average ‘account’ is paying $3.02 a minute.”

emily | 12:17 PM | News, Buzz |
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