O2 Is Top Of The Texts
Two Phones Each
Ofcom figures show that there were 62.5 million UK mobile subscriptions at the end of September 2005, 9% higher than a year earlier with MVNOs now accounting for over 5.5 million subscriptions in the UK. The numbers of reported active subscriptions for each of the four largest networks are still reasonably close, although it should be noted that the figures for T-Mobile include 4.2 million Virgin Mobile subscriptions and O2’s figures include around 750 thousand Tesco Mobile subscriptions. In addition to the four largest networks, 3 had over 3.3 million subscriptions in Q3 2005.
However while MVNO and independent service provider customers made up 13% of UK mobile subscribers, Ofcom estimates that they only accounted for 9% of total mobile revenues.
Vodafone O2 T-Mobile Orange(O2 subscriber numbers do not include Tesco Mobile but T Mobile Virgin Mobile customers are included).
2005 Q3 14,279 15,086 14,600 14,479
MMS Peeks Over The Horizon
Over half of mobile users aged between 18 and 34 now use MMS, according to research carried out by Enpocket. Particularly interesting is the fact that older age groups have shown the highest jump in usage patterns: 38% in the 35-44 age group and 33% of those between 45-64 used the service in Q4, representing an increase of almost 20 percentage points for both age groups
Volume of SMS & MMS (millions)
Vodafone O2 T-Mobile OrangeT-Mobile figures for SMS & MMS do not include figures for Virgin Mobile.
2004 Q3 1,462 2,382 943 1,387
2004 Q4 1,592 2,757 946 1,563
2005 Q1 1,661 3,052 986 1,668
2005 Q2 1,671 3,251 1,072 1,825
2005 Q3 1,752 3,457 1,110 1,864
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