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Old 12-01-2015, 20:45
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Disclaimer: All information posted here is preliminary and is subject to change. Do not take what is posted here as gospel.

Hi guys,

I thought you all might be interested in some preliminary data I was able to get my hands on. Enjoy!

- More than 25 million smartphones* were sold through to end users in the UK in 2014
- Android accounted for more than 17 million smartphones sold through
- Approximately 29 million total phones were sold through to end users in 2014.
- Samsung was number 1 manufacturer with approximately 10,433,000 units sold through to end users.
- iPhone 6 series is best selling in the UK
- Total smartphone revenue was up 5.4% YOY. Now over £4,500m.
- Internet sales accounted for over 30% of the total market. Brick and mortar store sales accounted for over 20 million units with over 7 million of that number being sold directly by network stores.
- Total mobile penetration now at 140% in 2014.
- More than 50 million contract customers and over 33 million pay as you go customers.
- Total number of mobile broadband subscribers exceeded 5 million in 2014.
- Blended ARPU is around ~£15.
- EE leads the subscriber market with ~32% market share, O2 is second, followed by Vodafone and then Three with just ~11%.
- EE has the most 4G subscribers with ~45% market share. 4G reaches 20% penetration in the UK.
- 2G Only still accounts for ~20% of total subscriptions.

*Estimated sell through
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Old 12-01-2015, 21:52
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- 2G Only still accounts for ~20% of total subscriptions.

Im guess this is blended over all networks. I would expect the majority of 2G only subscriptions will be on O2 with Three being zero.
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Old 12-01-2015, 22:09
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- 2G Only still accounts for ~20% of total subscriptions.

Im guess this is blended over all networks..
yeh, works out to about ~16 million registered subscriptions using a 2G phone.

Bear in mind that the UK population is around ~65m at the moment, and the total number of mobile subscriptions is ~84m. So what that means is some people have maybe 2, 3 or even more subscriptions to themselves. No doubt it's these second or third lines that are mostly being used in 2G only phones. Of course some people still have a 2G only phone for their primary SIM but it's hard to say just how many.

I personally know a few people who have a second phone (as a spare/throwaway) that is 2G and has it's own SIM.

Also, contract sales accounted for around ~16m units sold through which is less than last year. Seems more and more people are buying their own handsets SIM free.
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Old 13-01-2015, 00:17
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Does this count payg sim cards that are stuffed away in a drawer somewhere (in which case I count for at least 8 accounts), or only active accounts?
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Old 13-01-2015, 00:34
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Disclaimer: All information posted here is preliminary and is subject to change. Do not take what is posted here as gospel.

Hi guys,

I thought you all might be interested in some preliminary data I was able to get my hands on. Enjoy!

- More than 25 million smartphones* were sold through to end users in the UK in 2014
- Android accounted for more than 17 million smartphones sold through
- Approximately 29 million total phones were sold through to end users in 2014.
- Samsung was number 1 manufacturer with approximately 10,433,000 units sold through to end users.
- iPhone 6 series is best selling in the UK
- Total smartphone revenue was up 5.4% YOY. Now over £4,500m.
- Internet sales accounted for over 30% of the total market. Brick and mortar store sales accounted for over 20 million units with over 7 million of that number being sold directly by network stores.
- Total mobile penetration now at 140% in 2014.
- More than 50 million contract customers and over 33 million pay as you go customers.
- Total number of mobile broadband subscribers exceeded 5 million in 2014.
- Blended ARPU is around ~£15.
- EE leads the subscriber market with ~32% market share, O2 is second, followed by Vodafone and then Three with just ~11%.
- EE has the most 4G subscribers with ~45% market share. 4G reaches 20% penetration in the UK.
- 2G Only still accounts for ~20% of total subscriptions.

*Estimated sell through
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Old 13-01-2015, 10:59
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What the hell does that mean???
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Old 13-01-2015, 11:50
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What the hell does that mean???
He is saying he thinks your post is worthless.


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Old 13-01-2015, 11:53
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He is saying he thinks your post is worthless.
Oh... thats nice....
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Old 13-01-2015, 12:00
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Oh... thats nice....
Some people are just a bit "difficult" sometimes, I'm sure the majority will find the stats interesting.

Maybe he was looking for the CBB section and accidently opened the thread .
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Old 13-01-2015, 16:30
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Interesting. Thanks for posting jabba.
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Old 13-01-2015, 16:42
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2G Only connections will likely still remain 5-10% even when the networks prepare to switch it off in years to come most likely. Some people just hang on to ancient devices and never use them.
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Old 13-01-2015, 22:05
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Depends on how you define 2G and 4G! Someone who wants this counts as a 4G customer as they get a 4G capable EE sim...

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/p...6-payg/details
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Old 13-01-2015, 22:19
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Depends on how you define 2G and 4G! Someone who wants this counts as a 4G customer as they get a 4G capable EE sim...

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/p...6-payg/details
EE is an interesting one as they're a network.... yet they're also all 4G subscribers technically...

Japaul, do you have any thoughts on the statistics in the OP? In general I mean.
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Old 13-01-2015, 23:23
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You know me, I'm a sucker for numbers.

Anyway in the spirit of the poster above I'd say they are supercalafragilisticexpialidocious
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Old 14-01-2015, 08:11
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Depends on how you define 2G and 4G! Someone who wants this counts as a 4G customer as they get a 4G capable EE sim...

http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/p...6-payg/details
And of course Three have the highest penetration of 4G subscribers of any network as 100% of there customers have a 4G capable sim.. How many actually have a 4G phone and live in a 4G are might be silghtly less than 100% however.

Numbers and data are always good. It is what we infer from them that causes the problems.

I wonder what WP market share was last year in the UK?
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Old 14-01-2015, 13:16
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And of course Three have the highest penetration of 4G subscribers of any network as 100% of there customers have a 4G capable sim.. How many actually have a 4G phone and live in a 4G are might be silghtly less than 100% however.
But we know that ~36% of Three's userbase has a 4G phone and is classed as a 4G subscriber.
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Old 14-01-2015, 19:14
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I wonder what WP market share was last year in the UK?
In terms of total units sold through to end users, ~7.6%.
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