Vodafone
Vodafone

The quarterly figures are announced by Vodafone. The major failure last April let the provider see a slight dip in its sales. Without the interference and the subsequent compensation action, the turnover of the telecom provider has increased.


The major failure due to a fire at a substation network was not a good start of the quarter. The quarter where Vodafone now reports covers April, May and June. After the outage, which lasted several days and made sure that Vodafone customers in a large part of the Randstad reach, was a compensating action. Customers could call for free four days. The missed revenue during the fault and the cost of compensation were added together the increase in sales offset by Vodafone.

 Decrease in revenue, increase customer
 The turnover was, in fact, done increase as Vodafone is not such a big setback had. The total number of terminals at Vodafone, namely increased to more than 5.3 million. That was 3 percent more than the same quarter last year. In total there were 17,000 new clients. The average income per customer declined slightly, with 10 cents of € 29 - to € 28.90. The number of minutes called the Vodafone plants decreased by 50 million, total phoned Vodafone customers 2,902,000 minutes. This decrease was also well compensated by an increase in data traffic, a trend that is visible everywhere in telecom land. With Vodafone saw a 35% increase in use compared to a same quarter last year.