Are mobiles expensive?

In an interesting column about the cost of mobile telephony published on 6 January 2010, Hay más celulares, pero ¿cuánto cuesta usarlos?  (There are more mobiles, but how much does it cost to use them?), Humberto Campodónico, columnist for the Peruvian newspaper, La República, uses data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and updated data from DIRSI’s report Affordability of mobile phone service in Latin America to support his position in favor of the need for regulating mobile telephony in Peru. The updated DIRSI data was presented by Hernan Galperin at the LIRNEasia@5 conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka last December. Galperin's presentation is available online and the updated study will be published soon on DIRSI.NET.