Above: the TCF's official stats. Click image to enlarge.The latest number portability stats from the Telecommunications Carriers Forum offer another hint that 2degrees is doing well - but the new entrant refuses to give its total customer count.
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Above: the TCF's official stats. Click image to enlarge.
The latest number portability stats from the Telecommunications Carriers Forum offer another hint that 2degrees is doing well - but the new entrant refuses to give its total customer count.
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The TCF, which collects data directly from its member phone companies, said today that 122,325 people ported a telephone number (that is, took their old telephone number with them to a new phone company) between August, when 2degrees launched, and May 31.
Of the 122,325 ports since August, 61% - that is, 75,000 - ported their number to 2degrees. And of the 2degrees porters, around 80% came from Vodafone (which has a compatible 2G/3G network, allowing people to keep the same cellphone as well as number; phones for Telecom's older CDMA network are incompatible).
On February 12, when 2degrees announced it had gained 206,000 active* customers since its August launch, 53,000 of the total were ports.
With that number swelled to 75,000 by the start of May, it seems logical to assume that 2degrees has also grown overall. But today the telco was shy of offering any update on its total customer count.
The number of ports in the year to May 31 - 132,394 - is easily a record.
In the prior year - the first that number portability was allowed following a regulatory change - 3000 to 5000 people a month ported numbers.
“There was a significant peak in ports in September last year following our launch with 17,313 mobile ports, and the numbers have stayed consistently high since then," 2degrees chief operating officer Bill McCabe said today.
"Last month alone there were 10,116 ports with more than 50% of those ports people bringing their number to 2degrees."
2degreees told NBR it believes there's still limited public awareness of number portability, which is the focus of the company's latest TV campaign (see still above).
*Active defined as someone who had paid for a call within the last 30 days.
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