Vodafone reaches 150 million customers
27 January, 2005
Vodafone's global subscriber base rose to 151.8 million in the three months to the end of December, the group announced today.
The 150-million mark comes on the back of the group's strongest quarter of net additions since December 2000, with over 5.4 million net customers signed on in the quarter to December.
In Fiji, Vodafone Fiji also broke all connection records, with 6,473 net subscriber connections in December 2004, taking the subscriber base to 145,631.
Vodafone Group also reported 3.9 million new Vodafone live! customers, bringing its global live! customer base to 28.3 million, while controlled non-voice services increased to 16.7% of service revenue.
Following the successful launch of 3G services across 13 markets, Vodafone reported a total of 400,000 Vodafone Mobile Connect data card customers, including over 170,000 3G customers.
Said Arun Sarin, chief executive of Vodafone: "I am very pleased to announce another impressive quarter for customer and revenue growth. We have seen consistently strong performances across Europe and in the US, whilst we continue to focus on our turnaround programme in Japan.
"In the last quarter we saw record new Vodafone live! customer additions in our controlled base of 3.9 million, which contributed to a total of over 28 million customers across our controlled networks.
"This highlights our success in attracting and migrating customers to new services. Our customer proposition is enhanced by Vodafone live! with 3G and we have seen positive early indications following our launch in November.
27 January, 2005
Vodafone's global subscriber base rose to 151.8 million in the three months to the end of December, the group announced today.
The 150-million mark comes on the back of the group's strongest quarter of net additions since December 2000, with over 5.4 million net customers signed on in the quarter to December.
In Fiji, Vodafone Fiji also broke all connection records, with 6,473 net subscriber connections in December 2004, taking the subscriber base to 145,631.
Vodafone Group also reported 3.9 million new Vodafone live! customers, bringing its global live! customer base to 28.3 million, while controlled non-voice services increased to 16.7% of service revenue.
Following the successful launch of 3G services across 13 markets, Vodafone reported a total of 400,000 Vodafone Mobile Connect data card customers, including over 170,000 3G customers.
Said Arun Sarin, chief executive of Vodafone: "I am very pleased to announce another impressive quarter for customer and revenue growth. We have seen consistently strong performances across Europe and in the US, whilst we continue to focus on our turnaround programme in Japan.
"In the last quarter we saw record new Vodafone live! customer additions in our controlled base of 3.9 million, which contributed to a total of over 28 million customers across our controlled networks.
"This highlights our success in attracting and migrating customers to new services. Our customer proposition is enhanced by Vodafone live! with 3G and we have seen positive early indications following our launch in November.
