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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
The Group’s non-South African operations comprised 8.8 million customers, or 26.6% of the total customer base. <\/p>\n
Year on year, revenue for the 9 months ended December 31, 2007 increased by 17.3% to R35.7 billion, while total Group customers increased by 17.1% since December 31, 2006.<\/p>\n
South Africa increased its customer base by 4.1% since September 30, 2007 to 24.3 million customers. 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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n