Meteor market share misrepresented

Victor

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2002/0228/1981748399BZMETEOR.htmlMeteor secures 3.1% share
By Una McCaffrey

Mobile phone operator, Meteor, has achieved a 3.1 per cent share of the Republic's mobile phone market during its first year of operation, according to figures released by the company yesterday.

This compares to a 57.6 per cent market share for Vodafone and 39.3 per cent for Digifone, and leaves the third operator with 113,000 active customers. Some 10,200 customers joined the Meteor network on Christmas Day.

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If those figures are true, then market share is as follows

Vodafone	 58%	 2,099,613 
Digifone	 39%	 1,432,548 
Meteor		  3%	   113,000 
Total		100%	 3,645,161

Out of a population of about 3,800,000? What everyone over the age of 4 has a phone now?

Inspector Gadget

Well, there's not just personal phones; there are all the phones that are stolen and replaced on pay-as-you-go tarriffs that are still active, there are company phones, and so on... you're really chasing active SIMs rather than active phones...

Gadget

Victor

Originally posted by Inspector Gadget
Well, there's not just personal phones; there are all the phones that are stolen and replaced on pay-as-you-go tarriffs that are still active, there are company phones, and so on... you're really chasing active SIMs rather than active phones...

Perhaps, but under the rules, they have to remove them from the number after a few months. Not that many people loose phones.

OSiriS

You'd be surprised how many ppl have phones stolen etc.

I myself have 2 phones, and know of plenty of ppl who have seperate phones for work and personal use etc

ykt0di9url7bc3

i've got 4 sim cards?

dont know how but i have em

Victor

Originally posted by SearrarD
i've got 4 sim cards?

Only the ones with a valid account will be counted.

Inspector Gadget

I think there's a thing with Digifone Speakeasy SIMs that they don't expire?

Gadget