Vodacom reflects 4.7% growth

Vodacom hits 33 Million subscribers
MyADSL - Melville,South Africa
As at December 31, 2007, Vodacom Group recorded 33.0 million customers across its networks operating in South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and Mozambique. This reflects a 4.7% increase in the three months since September 30, 2007. The growth in the customer base is a result of high gross customer connections of 4.8 million for the quarter. The Group’s non-South African operations comprised 8.8 million customers, or 26.6% of the total customer base. Year on year, revenue for the 9 months ended December 31, 2007 increased by 17.3% to R35.7 billion ... South Africa’s customer base includes 3.4 million contract customers and 20.7 million prepaid customers, reflecting an increase of 0.7% and an increase of 4.7% since September 30, 2007, respectively. Vodacom South Africa has retained its leadership position in a highly competitive South African mobile communications market with an estimated market share of 55.6% at December 31, 2007.