Camera phone users with prepaid accounts pay a total of 44 pounds ($79) per month for their entire cellular bill and camera phone subscribers with contracts pay a total of 54 pounds ($97) per month, reports a BBC News article about a J.D. Power and Associates survey.
This doesn't mean the large bill is due primarily to photos, but it's an indication of usage. The survey finds that camera phone users are taking 20 photos per month, but there's no information about whether they are transmitting those photos.
Gunda Lapksi, the director of European telecommunications and utilities services for J.D. Power, says in the article, "We don't know if they are sending these pictures or not but they are using their phones more for a variety of things such as downloading ringtones, news and sports."
More than utilities bills
One interesting finding of the survey is people are spending more per month on their cellular use than their gas and electricity bills.
The survey also found that 23 percent of the people interviewed would like to own a videophone.
The survey is based on telephone interviews with more than 2,000 cellular customers. I believe, however, that you have to take the results of surveys and polls with a large grain of salt.
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