‘Mobile market truly competitive’

Tuesday 22nd December 2009, 2:30PM GMT.

Iain Williams BEING able to keep the same mobile number while changing providers has resulted in true competition in the market, Airtel-Vodafone has said.

The Office of Utility Regulation introduced mobile number portability a year ago and all providers welcomed the move.

Airtel-Vodafone and Wave have both enjoyed a significant number of customers ‘porting’ their numbers to the networks.

Sure, as the operator with the largest market share, were upbeat about the move, with far fewer customers leaving it to port to another provider than had been anticipated.

Despite being delighted with its first-year results, Airtel-Vodafone chief executive Iain Williams (pictured) believed there was still significant misunderstanding among islanders about mobile number portability.

The company has launched the ‘Full/Fast/Free’ campaign to coincide with the scheme’s first anniversary.

‘We hope the large percentage of the population who are unaware of MNP, or who are not clear about what is possible, will be touched by our campaign and by the coverage that the first anniversary of MNP will generate so that they too can start enjoying the benefits of true and fair competition,’ he said.

To read Guernsey Press stories in full, click here for subscription details. Individual editions are now available online.

1
Scarlett

December 23, 2009 at 9:22 am

…and of course, we can also enjoy even more enormous, vile looking masts that Airtel have added to the many that were already there, making our tiny island look like a technological pin cushion, and not forgetting to appreciate their Chairman’s comment about how the CI’s (for his company) were just a ‘stepping stone’ into Europe…….still, mustn’t grumble, they’re doing that all so we can ‘start enjoying the benefits of true and fair competition’……

talking of fair competition, Mr Regulator, when are you planning to introduce some for internet provision (where we are all being heartily ripped off), or are we just going to keep having more mobile companies crowbarred into an already saturated and finite market?

Report abuse