BRATISLAVA, August 4, (WEBNOVINY) — Penetration of mobile services in Slovakia has reached 112.11 percent as of the end of June of this year, which represents an increase of almost 4.83 percentage points in yearly terms. All three mobile telecommunications companies, Orange Slovensko, Slovak Telekom (T-Mobile) and Telefonica Slovakia (O2), registered 6.054 million activated SIM cards as of the end of June, which represented a net increase of 261,000 cards compared with the same period of last year.
Mobile operator Orange Slovensko registered a total of 2.849 million, Slovak Telekom (T-Mobile) 2.205 million and Telefonica Slovensko (O2) 1 million active SIM cards as of June 31. Orange registered a year-on-year increase in the number of active clients, namely by 8,000 SIM cards. Telefonica Slovakia registered 291,000 new active clients. On the other hand, the number of T-Mobile brand clients shrank 38,000. The overall number of SIM also includes data provided by mobile services distributors that use networks of some of the active operators, namely projects Nay mobile, Swan Mobile, Tesco Mobile, Mphone and FunFon.
The data on the penetration of mobile services is calculated on the basis of comparable methodology, which considers customers of prepaid services, who carried out at least one active operation on their SIM card and customers using lump-fee services as active customers. The number of Slovak citizens totaling 5.4 million is used as a base for calculation of the penetration.
Data provided by mobile operators also include the overall number of clients including SIM cards used in technological facilities, for operation of GSM gateways, mobile Internet services, telemetry, SIM cards for operation of e-toll system services, localization services of transporters, alarm systems, camera monitoring systems and other and so they cannot be used as the overall number of private individuals who are clients of mobile operators.
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