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

From: Mark Frieser <mark_at_consect.com>
Date: 05/12/03
Message-ID: <BAE53B01.442DA%mark@consect.com>
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 Mon May 12 18:52:38 2003