12 Jan 2003

The number of users of the mobile services in Portugal amounted to 8.34 million at the end of Q3 2002, 2.8% more than in Q2 and equivalent to 220 thousand new subscribers, according to data disclosed by Anacom, the Portugese regulator.

78% of the mobile service users are subscribers of prepaid access cards. The service penetration rate reached 80.7 users per one hundred inhabitants, Portugal being above the European average, which was positioned at 77% at the end Q3 2002.

The users of the three national mobile networks generated 2.34 thousand million minutes of voice telephone traffic, 1.9% more than in the previous quarter. Out of this value, 1.52 thousand million conversation minutes were made to the same mobile network.

As to traffic of data during the same period, 542.23 million written messages (SMS) were sent, 15.4% more than in the previous quarter. 8.34 million WAP calls were made, representing 10.26 million traffic minutes, which translates a variation of 6.7% and -5,8%, respectively, between the second and third quarters of this year
 

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