Forced Mobile Disconnections Continue But Overall Numbers Up
March 8th, 2010
The number of active Spanish mobile phone numbers fell by 76,303 in January as operators disposed of 244,111 prepaid numbers, whose owners had not been identified. The fall was expected as the mobile phone operators continue to adhere to the law requiring all numbers to have an identifiable owner.
The Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) said that the first numbers were lost on November the 9th last year. By December, Telefonica Movistar announced it had disconnected 715,000 numbers, Vodafone quoted 266,000, while Orange had not yet reported any data. At this time, the CMT said that further losses would continue to be reflected in their data in the following months.
High numbers of new contract numbers in January (167,808) mostly offset the loss of the prepaid numbers, which meant that the total drop of numbers was only 76,303. Even with the number of disconnections, the mobile market is still a growth sector within Spain; the overall number of active lines is now 52,810,480, some 3.4% more than a year ago.
The report from the CMT also showed general market share – Movistar ended January with a market share of 43.12% (0.46% down), Vodafone with 30.83 (a 0.22% increase), Orange with 20.48% (0.09% increase), Yoigo with 2.64% (0.13% increase) and others with 2.93% of the market (0.02% up).
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