O2 customer numbers down as firm maintains top spot in bill pay sector
The mobile communications company – which is ultimately owned by Spanish telco, Telefonica – formally overtook Vodafone Ireland in terms of post-pay market share here during the second quarter of last year.
Latest figures from the company, covering the fourth quarter and full year, showed that 15,400 new post-pay customers signed up to O2 in the last three months of the year – bringing its total bill-pay customer base to 691,765. At the same time, its pre-pay/top-up customer base fell by 18,590. Overall, O2’s Irish subscriber base amounted to 1.714 million as of the end of 2009. This was down from 1.717m at the end of the third quarter last year and – more significantly – down from a full-year figure of 1.728m as of the end of 2008.
