Vodafone Romania had 9,456,879 clients on December 31, 2016, 355,587 more than in the same period a year before. Of the total number of clients, 8,763,478 are users of mobile services.
The average revenue per user (ARPU) of Vodafone Romania reached EUR6.2 in the last three months of 2016.
Service revenue reached EUR178.7 million at the end of the fourth quarter ended on December 31, 2016, up 2.8% from the year-earlier period, in organic terms.
On December 31, 2016, subscribers to Vodafone Romania services accounted for 41% of the mobile client base and users of Vodafone cards accounted for 59%. The number of users of pre-paid services fell by 0.1 percentage points, compared with the previous quarter.
Mobile data consumption in the quarter ended on December 31, 2016 soared 107%, compared with the year-earlier period. This was also backed by the smartphone penetration rate into the user base which rose by 3.9 percentage points in the quarter ended on December 31, 2016, compared with the same interval a year ago.
Vodafone Romania reports its financial results depending on the British fiscal year which starts on April 1 and ends on March 31. The results reported today, February 2, 2017, correspond to the third quarter of the current financial year, 2016-2017.
Vodafone Romania is a division of Vodafone Group Plc., one of the world’s biggest mobile telecom groups offering a range of services including voice, messages, data and fixed communications. Vodafone has divisions in 26 countries, 49 partner networks worldwide and fixed broadband operations in 17 countries. On December 31, 2016, Vodafone had 470 million users of mobile services and 14.3 million users of fixed broadband services.