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Vodafone reports it has 200,000 fixed line customers in Ireland

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  • 20-01-2012 1:51pm
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    bealtine
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    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/25423-vodafone-reports-it-has/

    Vodafone’s Irish division has reported that after three years it has achieved the milestone of 200,000 paying customers for landline and broadband services.

    The telco is marking the milestone by offering a free Android smartphone to every new and existing customer. The free smartphone, the Vodafone Smart 858, will come with three months of free mobile internet access on pay as you go.

    In 2009, BT and Vodafone signed a landmark multimillion deal to transfer BT's consumer, small-business broadband and voice customer base to Vodafone.

    This deal, which involved the transfer of some €4.8m worth of assets, gave Vodafone access to BT's 22 unbundled local exchanges around Ireland, as well as access to BT's consumer phone and broadband base of 84,000 consumers and 3,000 small businesses.

    The plan also saw BT and Vodafone commit significant investment towards developing an enhanced broadband infrastructure with speeds of up to 24Mbs for about two-thirds of available broadband lines by unbundling up to 58 additional exchanges.

    Prior to the BT/Vodafone deal, Vodafone acquired broadband service provider Perlico for €80m in 2008.


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    watty
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    Are these not really all eircom customers? How much LLU has vodafone? Of course LLU is practically an Eircom customer, an almost pointless option if the incumbent was doing their job.


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    bealtine
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    watty wrote: »
    Are these not really all eircom customers? How much LLU has vodafone? Of course LLU is practically an Eircom customer, an almost pointless option if the incumbent was doing their job.

    The vast majority of them are eircom bitstream customers. Vodafone have no LLU themselves, through BT they have 58 exchanges unundled. They are just resellers of eircom or BT services.


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    thebman
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    watty wrote: »
    Are these not really all eircom customers? How much LLU has vodafone? Of course LLU is practically an Eircom customer, an almost pointless option if the incumbent was doing their job.

    If we getting really technical, the Smartphone isn't that smart either :P
    http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_858_smart-3955.php

    Nor is it made by Vodafone, its Huawei :P

    So all in all, Vodafone doing a great job selling/giving away others peoples stuff and making a tidy profit.

    I wish I had a recognised brand name :)


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    You need a Marketing Guru to sell you :)


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