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Spain adds 539,631 mobile lines in H1′08 (Spain)

  • August 12th, 2008
  • 10:31 am

Spain has reportedly added 539,631 mobile lines in H1′08, taking the total number of mobile lines to 49.6 million.

The Mobile-to-Mobile sector saw 220,842 H1 additions bringing the total to 1.3 million lines, up by 43.2%, which brought the total number of mobile lines to 51 million.

In June, the total number of mobile lines rose by 166,657.Spain saw an addition of 171,936 postpaid subscribers and lost around 5,279 prepaid subscribers.

Between April and June, Vodafone won 41% of the total new additions, Yoigo and MVNOs got 32.7%, and Movistar accounted for 24% of the overall new additions in the quarter. Vodafone, Yoigo and the MVNOs saw a positive balance in portability, while Movistar and Orange registered a negative balance.

Between the period of January and June over 1.9 million mobile phone were ported in Spain, with some 322,654 lines ported in June alone.

   

Number of mobile lines in Spain hits 50.2 mln (Spain)

  • February 21st, 2008
  • 2:37 pm

The number of mobile lines taken out in Spain increased 7.3 percent last year to hit 50.2 million, said the telecoms regulator. Spain has a penetration rate of 112.2 lines per 100 residents, said the CMT. An extra 3.4 million mobile lines were added in 2007, 39.7 percent of which were with Vodafone (1.36 million lines) compared to 35.1 percent with the market leader Movistar (1.2 million). Spain’s fourth mobile operator Yoigo scooped 11.4 percent of new lines, or 389,296 users, while MVNOs got 14.5 percent together, equalt o 495,365 lines. Orange lost 22,832 lines overall after scrapping 500,000 inactive lines in April from its tally. During the year, 4.2 million customers switched operator, 6.4 percent more than 2006.

   

Telmex in talks with TeliaSonera over Spain (Spain)

  • February 14th, 2008
  • 1:56 pm

Mexican operator America Movil is in talks with TeliaSonera about entering Spain, reports El Economista, citing sources close to the operator owned by Telmex. Daniel Hajj, chairman of America Movil has met with a top director at TeliaSonera at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress and a legal team from one of the firms is also involved in the discussions. TeliaSonera controls 76.5 percent of Spain’s fourth mobile operator Yoigo. Telmex has long wanted to start business in Spain where its key rival Telefonica is the dominant operator.

   

Orange and Yoigo in five-year infrastructure-sharing deal (Spain)

  • January 19th, 2008
  • 6:41 am

Mobile operators Orange and Yoigo have signed a five-year deal to share infrastructure in Spain. In a joint statement, the companies said the agreement meant each could use each other’s networks to install their base stations, cutting down the impact on the environment from installing mobile masts. The move will also help the pair in quicker rollout. Yoigo is Spain’s fourth mobile operator and is keen to extend its own coverage throughout Spain.

   

Spain adds over 182,000 mobile subscriptions in November (Spain)

  • January 14th, 2008
  • 11:35 am

Spain added 182,263 mobile phone subscriptions in November 2007, taking the toal to 49.58 million mobile lines, or 110.9 lines per 100 inhabitants, according to telecommunication regulator CMT. Of the subscribers, 50.7 percent (92,407) signed with Vodafone, 30.2 percent (55,043) chose Yoigo, 10.9 percent (19,867) went with Telefonica Movil’s Movistar, and 1.6 percent (2,916) chose MVNOs. Mobile number portability rose by 7 percent to 328,455 lines in November 2007 compared to November 2006. Telefonica added 18,269 ported numbers and Yoigo added 18,150. Orange had lost 21,945 net lines to portability, followed by Vodafone with 12,131, Euskaltel with 359 and the remainder of MVNOs lost 1,987.

   

Spanish mobile subscriber base grows to past 48 mln mark

  • July 9th, 2007
  • 10:58 am

The number of new mobile subscribers in Spain was 256,692 in May, raising the total base to over 48 million, to figures from the CMT, Spanish telecommunications regulator. The new figure raising mobile penetration to 107.4 lines per 100 residents. Mobile operators ported 318,862 numbers in May. In January-May 2007, nearly 2 million users changed number using portability. Yoigo had a net positive balance of 8,626 new numbers in May, followed by Euskaltel with 2,449 numbers and Vodafone with 1,761 net new numbers. Between January 2006-April 2007, Vodafone gained 56,695 fewer numbers.

   

Movistar, Yoigo in talks to share mobile antennas

  • June 18th, 2007
  • 2:25 pm

Spain’s fourth mobile operator Yoigo is negotiating a deal with Telefonica to use its Movistar antennas, reports Expansion. The agreement, which could be signed in the next few days, according to the paper, would see Yoigo sharing the costs of antennas with Spain’s dominant fixed and mobile operator, cutting both firms’ costs. Initially, Yoigo, which is run by Scandinavian TeliaSonera, would be given access to around 100 antennas. However, Yoigo could use more of Telefonica’s 14,000 mobile installations in Spain in the future.

   

Interest in Yoigo doubles after price promise

  • February 6th, 2007
  • 11:39 am

Telecompaper writes…Yoigo says calls from interested potential customers have doubled in the last week to 13,000 a day, reports El Mundo. Spain’s fourth mobile operator, which launched in December, said interest had increased since it had announced it would not increase prices from 1 March in response to Spain’s anti-rounding law, unlike rival operators Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, Euskaltel and Happy Movil. Chief executive Johan Andsjo said: “Although it’s still too early to affirm it completely, we are satisfied with the response of the market to our announcement that we won’t increase tariffs from 1 March…Definitively, we are on the right track”.