Vodafone Romania announces the key performance indicators for the quarter of the year ended September 30th. The telecom operator recorded revenues of EUR 183.6 million, slightly higher than the precedent quarter.
Vodafone Romania had 9,730,487 total customers at September 30th, 2018, remaining flat compared to the same period of last year. Out of the total number of customers, 8,990,849 were mobile customers.
Vodafone Romania’s mobile ARPU (average revenue per user) is maintained at EUR 6.1 over the three months ended on September 30th, 2018.
The service revenue is at EUR 183.6 million and continues to grow at an underlying level. The organic service revenues decreased compared to the same quarter of the previous year by 0.8 percent as a result of MTR reduction from 0.96 eurocents/minute, to 0.84 eurocents/minute for mobile voice calls.
At September 30th, 2018, mobile postpaid customers represented 41.2 percent, and prepaid customers 58.8 percent of the total mobile base. The postpaid base users increased by 2.2 percent as compared to the same period of last year.
Data usage increased by 69 percent for the quarter ended September 30th, 2018, compared to the same period of last year.
“During the past quarter, we have continued to invest in our network and launched the first Narrow Band-IoT with country-wide coverage which is an important milestone in this sector of growth where businesses are embracing large scale IoT projects. We have also accelerated our recruitment plan by hiring highly-skilled professionals in multiple departments, including customer operations in order to offer our clients the best experiences and enriched propositions,” said Murielle Lorilloux, CEO at Vodafone Romania.