(keitai-l) Re: i-mode subscribers vs Vodafone Live! in EU

From: Erik Hörnfeldt <erik_at_hornfeldt.se>
Date: 05/13/03
Message-ID: <3EC0AEC0.18479.1F8629E8@localhost>
Great gross adds but dissapointing use of the actual content services 
is what I hear.

Erik H








On 12 May 2003 at 11:50, Mark Frieser wrote:

> 
> Vodafone is doing great with V-Live, isn't it?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/12/03 9:45, "Giovanni Bertani" <giovanni.bertani@exsense.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> KPN has just released the i-mode subscriber numbers as of March 31,
> >> 2003.
> >> 
> >> KPN Mobile (Netherlands): 137,000 i-mode subs out of 4,908,000
> >> mobile subscribers
> >> 
> >> E-Plus (Germany): 140,000 i-mode subs out of 7,446,000 mobile
> >> subscribers
> >> 
> >> Base (Belgium): 8,000 i-mode subs out of 1,131,000 mobile
> >> subscribers.
> > 
> >> And for Bouygues (France) that's 161,000 i-mode subs (since launch
> >> the 15 th of november)
> > 
> > Numbers are quiet impressive.
> > 
> > It could be interesting to see a comparison for the user base
> > penetration
> > between i-mode and Vodafone in EU to see if i-mode is more succesful
> > than Vodafone Live!
> > 
> > Has anybody the Vodafone  subscribers numbers of Germany,
> > Uk and Italy ? Here are the Vodafone live! numbers:
> > 
> > Customers by 31 March 2003.  Launched on 24 October 2002:
> > 
> > Germany over 375,000
> > 
> > Italy 190,000
> > 
> > UK 220,000
> > 
> > The press release states:
> > 
> > Vodafone also has an additional 420,000 customers in these markets
> > that now own a MMS capable device*.
> > 
> > * Defined as a device with the capability to send and receive MMS
> > 
> > Go to : www.vodafone.com under group news
> > 
> > Also interesting is that 3  in the first month has opened 40.000
> > contracts in Italy and just 10.000 in Uk. If we compare this to
> > Vodafone's numbers looks like that 3 contracts are interesting to
> > the italians more because of the flat-rate than for the services as
> > the italian users seams to be less interested in the mobile content
> > services...
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Giovanni
> > 
> > 
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Received on Tue May 13 09:38:59 2003