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Optus adds 156,000 mobile customers in Q4
Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 13 May 2009 11:48
The most recent figures from the other carriers are for end 2008. At 31 December 2008 Telstra had 9.706m mobile customers up from 9.335m six months earlier and from 9.319m a year earlier - a full year growth of 4.2 percent. Vodafone added 186,000 customers in the three months to 31 December 2008 taking its total to 3.915m, but half of those (76,300) came with the acquisition of reseller Crazy Johns. A year earlier Vodafone had 3.572m customers, so achieved a full year growth of 9.6 percent.
Greatest growth in percentage terms was achieved by Hutchison, the operator with the smallest subsriber base. It reported a 29.0 percent increase for the year to 31 December 2008 taking its total to 2.036m, 90.6 percent of them post paid.
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