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Articles tagged with: Arpu and Mvno
DoCoMo Full-Year Profits Down 3.9%
Japan's NTT DoCoMo has reported a dip of 3.9% in its full fiscal year profits to reach ¥471.9 billion (US$4.93 billion), compared to ¥491.2 billion in the previous year. The average expected by analysts had been a rise in profits to around ¥499.5 billion, according to a Dow Jones Newswires report. Operating income saw a slight rise to ¥831 billion due to a decrease in cost of equipments resulting from decreased number of handsets sold. more
Related Tags: docomo, tim, itu, 3g, Japan
Vodafone Sees Loss of UK Market Share and Lower ARPUs
The UK added over 3m new mobile connections during 2008, to take the total base to 75.75m, equivalent to 124% penetration. The market is one of the most competitive in Europe, if not the world, with five established MNOs and several MVNOs, of which the most successful are Virgin and the increasingly ambitious Tesco. more
Related Tags: tesco, virgin-mobile, vodafone, orange, hutchison-3g-uk, t-mobile, iphone, o2, ict, eu, 3g, , tim, h3g, lte, 3m, UK
Virgin Mobile USA Added 216,000 Subscribers in Q4 '08
Virgin Mobile USA has announced that fourth quarter net customer additions were approximately 216,000 with churn for the fourth quarter 2008 of 4.8%. The CDMA based MVNO ended the year with approximately 5.38 million customers, including customers added with the acquisition of Helio, which closed on August 22, 2008. The Company attracted more than 3.3 million gross customer additions during the year. more
Related Tags: sprint-nextel, virgin-mobile, cdma, virgin-mobile-usa, nextel, USA
Belgacom - Regulatory Intervention Takes the Shine off a Good Operational Performance
BelgacomÃ's Q3 financial report shows reduced revenues, reduced EBITDA and reduced profit, whether at the operating, pre-tax or after tax level. The 2.6% drop in revenue (to €1,473m) became -4.7% at the EBITDA line (€503m) and this continued on down the P&L, with operating profit 6.0% lower and pre-tax off 8.1% at €285m and €215m respectively. more
Related Tags: viviane-reding, roaming, tax, Belgium
US Mobile Market Remains Slow as Economic Concerns Mount
During Q2 08, the US mobile market saw a marginal recovery from the depressed levels of Q1, with around 4m net additions, taking the total to 261.5m, up from 243.3m one year ago. Overall penetration has now reached 86.1%, against 80.8% in June 07. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, mobile-data, t-mobile-usa, rural, metropcs, leap-wireless, virgin-mobile, verizon, alltel, cdma, iden, sprint, billing, USA
Mobistar - MVNOs Boost Growth but ARPU Drops Again
Third-party net additions have outstripped net additions from retail services for the third successive quarter at second-placed Belgian operator, Mobistar, majority owned by France Telecom. The operatorÃ's first MVNO, in the form of quad-play telco Telenet, launched in August 2006 and was followed less than a year later by Lycamobile, the pan-European MVNO offering low-cost international calls. It was this latter player which contributed the bulk of the 155k net additions seen in Q4 2007 - the highest number in any quarter for over six years - whilst the two MVNOs in combination provided 72.7% of the new customers. more
Related Tags: roaming, mobistar, proximus, Belgium
UK Market Tops 70 Million - Vodafone Leads Subscriber Growth
The total number of mobile connections in the UK surpassed 70 million during the fourth quarter of 2007, finishing the year on 70.99 million. In total there were 4.10 million net additions during the year, up from 1.35 million in 2006, while on a proportionate basis the annual customer growth rate almost tripled from 2.1% to 6.2%. This was due in part to the one-off loss of 1.30 million customers in 2006 as a result of T-Mobile's change in policy regarding active users, but even if we discount this there would have been an increase in customer growth in 2007. This is despite the fact that penetration is well over 100%: at the end of 2007, in fact, the penetration rate had reached 116.5%, up from 110.1% a year earlier. more
Related Tags: orange, o2, hutchison, UK
Belgacom Shows Good Q4 Customer Growth – But at Some Cost
At the end of 2007, Belgacom remained the market leader in Belgium, but its market share fell to 43.8%, its lowest ever level. The latest quarterly fall of 0.4pp was the 23rd successive quarterly fall, an astonishing run which stretches back to the second quarter of 2002. more
Related Tags: mobistar, proximus, belgacom, Belgium
Mobistar Q4 2007 Results - MVNOs Boost 2007 Growth
Belgium's second largest operator by customer numbers, Mobistar, has reported its Q4 07 results, which suggest that it finished the year strongly, adding a record 155k new connections in the final quarter of 2007. This takes its total customer base to 3.49m, with net additions of 337k in the year, up from 240k in 2006. On a proportionate basis, annual growth rose to 10.7% from 8.2% in 2006. more
Related Tags: mobistar, Belgium
High Growth Forecasted for Western European Mobile Communications
A new European market report from Reportlinker notes that the sector has undergone enormous changes in response to regulatory pressure on roaming and interconnection tariffs, competition from numerous new start-up MVNOs, and pressure on voice tariffs and bundled SMS offers which have lowered voice and data arpu. The company says that revenue growth in coming years will primary depend on the continued increase in subscriber numbers and the use of multiple SIMs, and by the further adoption of rich-media services including music downloads and mobile TV. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, mobile-data, teliasonera, o2, rcom, eu, roaming, yoigo, teliasonera-finland, umts, UK