O2 earnings – Data is good. Postpay customers paying a fortune.

O2 Ireland also today issued its KPIs for the Q4 period, from 1 October 2007 to 31 December 2007.

  • * Service revenue for the 3 months to 31 December 2007 was €231 million, an increase of 3.7% on the same period last year.
  • * O2 Ireland’s customer base at the end of December 2007 was 1.646 million, its highest level to date. Customer numbers were up 0.9% compared to the same period last
  • year, with 22,000 net new postpay customers added in the quarter.

  • * Monthly average blended ARPU for the quarter was €45.7, down from €47.0 in Q3, but up from €45.0 in the same period last year.
  • * For the quarter, monthly average ARPU for postpay customers was €78.8, down from €84.9 in Q3, and down from €81.4 compared to the same period last year.
  • * For the quarter, monthly average ARPU for prepay customers was €29, down slightly from €29.2 in Q3, and down from €29.6 compared to the same period last year.
  • * Average monthly minutes of use increased by 2.5% year on year to 252, up from 246 in the same period last year, and up 0.8% from 250 in Q3.
  • * 400 million text messages were sent during the three-month period representing a 1.8% increase in text usage up from 393 million in Q3.
  • * O2 Broadband continued to perform well in the quarter, with subscriber numbers to date now standing at 41,000.
  • * Data revenue as a percentage of overall service revenue was 27.9% in Q4, up from 26.5% in Q3, and up from 22.1% in the same period last year.

5 Responses to “O2 earnings – Data is good. Postpay customers paying a fortune.”

  1. Dermot says:

    400 million text messages over 120 days with 1.6 million customers. Thats an average of 2 texts per day. Why does that seem low to me

  2. cw says:

    Re: Dermot

    The kids are all on Meteor?

  3. KPIs for the Q4 period…………. WTF!

  4. Brian White says:

    @Dermot: There are ~90 days in a quarter…

  5. Dave says:

    @Dermot
    Q4 has 92 days, not 120. So that’s closer to 3 text per day per customer. I have three O2 sim cards, two of which I don’t use (You know you can get prepay 02 sim cards for free now)! So a 1.6 million customer base doesn’t equal 1.6 million active customers.

    I wonder does the 400 million text messages include the free text messages you can send from their website?

    @Roy
    KPI – Key Performance Indicators