The just-ended October has been a particularly favorable month for Digi and Finetwork, both low-priced telecommunications operators. According to the data to which elEconomista.es has had access, updated until last October 29the two telecommunications companies have sufficiently won the battle of portability, that is, the statistic that counts customers who decide to change providers but without changing the subscriber number.
Movistar has also concluded the first month of autumn with positive figures, something that Orange, MásMóvil, Euskaltel and Vodafone cannot say. Specifically, in the same reference month, Digi has registered a favorable net balance of 55,300 accesses, a similar figure to the losses of Masorange’s main brands (57,800), that is, the sum of Orange (-21,600 cell lines), MásMóvil and Yoigo (-30,300 lines) and Euskaltel (-5,900).
For its part, Finetwork added a total of 30,300 mobile lines to its customer portfolio in October –at the rate of a thousand cell phone connections captured from its rivals per day– between those won minus those lost. In this way, the low-price operator consolidates itself as the second most attractive Spanish telecom company for customers during October and only surpassed by Digi.
Movistar (including the O2 brand) continues the upward trend registered since last summer with a favorable balance of 11,500 lines during the same analysis period. Despite being a result that deserves celebration in the Telefónica brand, the figure is almost half that of the 21,000 cell lines gained by the same company during the month of September.
Vodafone closes the month of October with a negative portability balance, with the loss of 37,600 lines. Nevertheless, That figure includes the 24,000 lines migrated from the accounting of the operator owned by Zegona to Finetwork. In fact, since October, Finetwork already enjoys full visibility of its commercial activity independently, with its own NRN (Network Routing Number or Portability Routing Prefix).
This accelerated transit of lines from Vodafone Spain to Finetwork does not include the change of users’ SIM cards, since the company led by Oscar Vilda operates under the network of the red operator, directed by José Miguel García. Therefore, once this distorting effect in the accounting is discounted, Vodafone Spain has lost 13,600 mobile accesses.
According to the data to which this newspaper has had access, just two days before the end of the month of October, most of the lines captured by Movistar come from Vodafone Spain, estimated at 11,100 lines. Likewise, the main victim of Digi’s commercial offensive has been MásMóvil, with 20,800 clients fleeing from the company founded by Meinrad Spenger, current CEO of Masorange.
Distorted balance
Last May, Vodafone Spain signed a wholesale network access agreement with Finetwork, an operator that already enjoys its own accounting in the portability node. As part of this process, Vodafone Spain must migrate 1.2 million mobile and fixed lines to Finetwork before the end of the year, at an average of 20,000 accesses per day. Therefore, while the migration occurs, the Finetwork line portfolio will be divided between the new Finetwork node, with clients already migrated from Vodafone Spain, and the new positive ports.
In the opposite direction, Vodafone Spain census clients pending migration from Finetwork and negative portability from Finetwork. However, this accounting effect will be progressively diluted as the migration occurs before the end of this year.
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