Vodafone Claims 380,000 to I-mode Style Service"

Vodafone has said that it has registered over 380,000 customers with Vodafone live! enabled handsets in the period from launch at the end of October 2002 to 31 December 2002. This total includes over 150,000 in Germany, over 90,000 in the UK and over 60,000 in Italy.

Commenting, Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive, said: 'In the first two months of Vodafone live!, we have achieved over 380,000 customers across eight markets and are on track to achieve our target of a million sales to customers by the end of March.

'In addition, having progressed two months further since the half year, but before we have seen December's results, we have seen nothing in any of the key performance indicators that would cause us to lower our expectations for this financial year. For next year, we therefore see no reason to alter our outlook statement at this stage.'

Vodafone did not indicate if the customers signing up to the Vodafone Live! service are actually using the service, or just signing up automatically when purchasing a compatible handset."

Posted to the site on 8th January 2003