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Orange, One2One buzzing
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4 October 99
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| Britain's mobile phones market is booming. Orange, Britain's third-largest mobile phones operator, saw its customer base swell by a record 520,000 in the third quarter to nearly 3.5 million, with sales of subscription tariffs leading the charge. Orange said 51% of new customers joined on subscription tariffs rather than on pre-paid packages. Pre-pay churn for the year to end-June was 12.9%. In contrast, smaller rival One2One has 51% of customers signed up to pre-paid packages. Meanwhile, One2One connected 604,000 new customers in the third quarter, a near five-fold increase on a year earlier, leading to a total of 3.25 million customers. | |
| Calls to India and Pakistan are banned |
3 October 99
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| Mobile phone operator BT Cellnet is banning or barring calls to India and Pakistan following a complex fraud in which massive numbers of illegal free calls have been made. The company believes computers have been used to interfere with its network operations. | |
| Orange glows in survey |
6 October 1999
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| Orange has come top in an industry survey of reliability, according to figures published by the telecom watchdog yesterday. It achieved a 97.3% success rate ahead of One2One, Vodafone and Cellnet. All four networks checked their performance with up to 15,000 test calls but watchdogs said the figures should not be seen as a best-buy recommendation. | |
| Japanese deal for Vodafone |
8 October 1999
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