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'Spain adds nearly 270,000 mobile lines in June'Aug 12, 2010 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) -- Spain added 269,371 mobile lines in June, bringing the total number to 52.83 million, up by 2.2 percent over the same month of 2009, according to the monthly report by Spanish regulator CMT. The prepaid segment added around 75,860 lines in the period, while the postpaid segment saw 193,511 lines in June. Over the last three months, Movistar won 38.26 percent of the total new additions, the MVNOs 32.29 percent, Yoigo 29.00 percent, while Orange attracted 12.21 percent of the overall mobile adds, and Vodafone had a negative mobile adds balance of 11.76 percent. Mobile penetration reached 115.6 lines per 100 inhabitants, versus 112.1 in June 2009. The M2M sector went up by 20.9 percent over the same period last year, to over 1.94 million lines. The growth of the M2M sector brings the total number of mobile lines to over 54.77 million. Some 377,6 mobile phone numbers were ported in June, down by 1.9 percent versus the same period last year. Yoigo, the MVNOs and Orange saw a positive balance in portability, while Movistar and Vodafone registered a negative balance. Yoigo won 32,640 users, the MVNOs added 7,086 users, and Orange won 5,716 ported customers. Movistar shed 3,008 users and Vodafone lost nearly 42,434 customers in the month. Spanish operators added 49,804 broadband lines in June, reaching a total base of 10.19 million lines, up by 8.6 percent year-on-year and a penetration of over 21.8 lines per 100 inhabitants. The number of DSL lines rose by 46,828 connections or by 9.6 percent over the same period of 2009, reaching a total of 8.28 million lines at the end of June. Some 2,976 cable modem lines were added in the month, reaching a total of 1.90 million lines. The overall number of fixed lines dropped by 26,728, to 19.83 million lines at the end of June. Fixed penetration reached 42.4 lines per 100 inhabitants, down from 42.6 in the year-earlier month. A record 153,215 fixed numbers were ported in June, up by 16.8 percent from 131,131 fixed numbers ported in June 2009. Distributed for DMeurope.com via M2 Communications (www.m2.com) |