By reviewing the mobile and landline portability figures to another operator we can get an idea of how things are going for companies at the moment. If we add up all the monthly results so far this year, we can even get a better idea. Today we will see the abyss that separates Vodafone from Digi, but also how things are going for the rest of the operators.
The different Spanish operators already know more or less how they will close the year 2023 if we look at the portability harvested in the first nine months of the year. This figure indicates the amount resulting from subtracting the customers that have been stolen from the competition with the customers that the competition has taken from them. A positive balance is good news and a negative balance is bad news, but there are always levels of bad and good news.
This is how the year went until September
First, let’s review Digi’s numbers. The Romanian operator harvested nearly 594,000 net ports between January and September. Of these, there were 125,000 landline telephones and 469,000 mobile telephones. By month, in September it gained 13,400 landlines and 48,400 mobile lines. As always, it must be the CNMC (National Markets and Competition Commission) that confirms these figures in the coming weeks.
On the other side of the coin we have Vodafone with 465,000 lines lost in the first nine months of the year, of which 105,000 correspond to landlines and 360,000 to mobile phones. The business segment has suffered a lot according to sources familiar with the matter, but the truth is that it is not going through the best situation after not reaching a successful conclusion for the sale of its business and many changes having occurred at the top.
Movistar cannot take too much notice either since it has left behind the figure of 234,000 lines between January and September, of which 167,000 correspond to mobile phones and nearly 67,000 to landlines. However, it is not bad news since, in September, it registered growth in mobile portability with a gain of 7,800 lines in total.
Another of the big three, Orange, lost around 130,000 mobile lines in portability. Here we have to make a clarification since it did not do the same in all segments. On the one hand, it lost nearly 130,000 mobile lines in portability and, on the other hand, it gained 9,000 in fixed telephony.
We continue the review by talking about the MásMóvil Group, which, with its brands Yoigo, Pepephone, Másmóvil, etc., gained 39,800 fixed telephone lines, although it lost 19,000 in mobile phones. Ultimately, Avatel gained some 56,000 mobile phone lines.
