Number of mobile customers grows by 6% in one year - second quarter 2003

Data released by the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) indicates that the number of land mobile service customers grew by 6% between the second quarters of 2002 and 2003, for an increase of 500,000 new customers. Compared to the first quarter of this year, growth was more modest - no more than 0.4%, for 38,000 new customers.

The total number of service subscribers rose to 8.63 million, of whom 6.7 million are customers of prepaid services.

During the second quarter of the year, the volume of numbers ported between operators increased by 48%, and stands at more than 13,500 numbers.

In the same period, some 1.4 billion calls were made in the three mobile networks, 3.6% more than in the previous quarter and 3.7% more than in the same quarter of 2002.

Those calls originated 2.5 billion telephone connection minutes, 4% more than in the first quarter of the year and 7.9% more than in the same quarter of 2002.

Intra-network traffic continued to account for most connections originating in the mobile networks, representing 67% of total outgoing traffic.

Average call length increased in the second quarter, for calls both originating and terminating in the mobile networks.

Some 553 million written messages were sent by customers of the three mobile operators throughout the second quarter, corresponding to an average of 64 messages sent per customer.

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