Virgin Mobile UK said fourth quarter sales were up 20% year-on-year as it added 193,000 net active mobile users in the three months to 31 December 2005, taking its total customer base to 4.346 million. ARPU on a twelve-month rolling basis was up GBP2 to GBP123, whilst non-voice services accounted for 32.6% of revenues; churn stood at 27.5% for the quarter, from 26.9% in 3Q05.
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Virgin Mobile posts steady growth
- May 5th, 2007
- 1:17 pm
Telcordia, mPortal team on MVNO content solution
- May 4th, 2007
- 1:52 pm
Telecom software and services provider Telcordia Technologies announced a partnership with mobile content and applications provider mPortal, bolstering its hosted services for MVNOs with mPortal’s Springboard content delivery manager platform and related content catalog. Promising its MVNO customers an efficient and cost-effective solution for launching mobile content services, Telcordia will also add mPortal’s smart client, which resides on subscriber handsets to improve content access and discovery.
“The partnership with mPortal helps us broaden our hosted services offer,” said Telcordia’s executive director of global solutions marketing Patrick McCarthy in an interview with FierceMobileContent. “The more we can put in the tin, the easier it is for MVNOs to work with us.”
Telcordia now boasts 13 hosted MVNO customers worldwide, delivering prepaid and post-paid mobile services. Its off-the-shelf content catalog includes ringtones, wallpapers and games, as well dynamic content like real-time news feeds. ”With this partnership, we’re reducing MVNO complexities by offering a single point of contact,” mPortal founder and CEO DP Venkatesh told FMC. “From a provider perspective, we have the entire mobile content solution you need.”
For more details:
- check out the release
Amp’d closing in on 200K subscriber mark
- May 4th, 2007
- 1:52 pm
Amp’d Mobile announced its subscriber totals are now approaching the 200,000 threshold following the first-quarter addition of 84,000 new customer activations. The MVNO also stated ARPU totals exceeding $100 per month, with data ARPU accounting for roughly $30 per month. Of that $30 monthly total, more than 50 percent derives from mobile entertainment, doubling the industry average; according to Amp’d, subscribers consumed more than four million videos, songs and mobile games in Q1 2007, doubling the MVNO’s Q4 2006 figures.
Other Amp’d benchmarks: Subscribers are now downloading more over-the-air music downloads than ringtones, and original content–though comprising just five percent of all Amp’d Live content–generates 30 percent of overall downloads.
For more on the Amp’d subscriber data:
- read this release
