T-Mobile market share continues to erode in 2006

Winkler said the drop in market share was not bad, considering the company earlier lost as much as 2.4% market share in a year, and the fall in the number of active users was just 0.04%. T-Mobile controlled 50%-54% of the corporate market in 2006, including 60%-65% of subscriptions at Hungary's biggest 500 companies. The proportion of post-paid clients rose to 35%-36% of total subscribers in 2006, Winkler said. T-Mobile's average revenue per user (ARPU) rose a slight Ft 20 to Ft 4,917 in 2006. The share of revenue from data transfer was 15%-16%, with the rest voice traffic.
T-Mobile has sold 4,000 notebook computers together with a wireless modem as part of a recently introduced special promotion. The company expects to sell 6,000-7,000 of the notebooks by year-end, making it one of the biggest players on the notebook market, Winkler said. T-Mobile's 3G network, which allows faster data transfer than its conventional network, has 28%-30% coverage of the country, but this is expected to increase to 45%-50% next year. The company expects to sell 70,000 3G-enabled devices this year.