NEWS
Growth in a fixed business drives Vodafone’s
best results since 2009
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t the end of the fiscal year 2017-2018, service revenue reached
236 million Euros, an increase of 3.9% when compared
with the same period last year and the best results since 2009.
The performance of this important business indicator reflects
the consistent execution of a solid investment and business
diversification strategy in a sector which is, year after year,
increasingly competitive and convergent.
Vodafone Portugal improved the service revenue positive trend
and at the end of December, the number of mobile customers
reached 4.631 million, representing a slight reduction of 3.1% when
compared with December 2016, but with an increased weight of
4G customers, that totalled by the end of Q3 1.686K (Q2 1.555K),
growing 34.7% YoY. Smartphone penetration reached 72.6% of
total mobile active customer base. Concerning data usage, the
increase during the same period was 50% year on year.
Vodafone Portugal recently achieved another important milestone in
its innovation history; the company tested 5G technology for the first
time, attaining speeds of 20Gbps ‘over the air’. communicating innovative projects and new technological trends.
In the same quarter, Vodafone Power Lab launched the Smart
Innovation Challenge, which promotes the creation of a multi-device
service capable of being integrated in the Vodafone’s consumer
portfolio of products.
In October 2017, Vodafone celebrated its 25th anniversary and
towards an ‘exciting future’, launched the first digital and futuristic
project in Portugal; Vodafone Future, a platform exclusively Mario Vaz, Vodafone Portugal CEO, said: “We remain continually
focused on customer’s needs, which encourages the business
reinvention in order to overcome customers’ expectations and interests.”
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NOS and Lagoa Council open Algarve’s first
‘Smart City’ Control Centre
situations reported by local people. After collecting and analysing the
data, appropriate actions are put into motion to resolve problems,
using the platform/app available online for this purpose.
F
ollowing the signing of the cooperation protocol between
NOS and Lagoa Town Council, the Control Center has been
inaugurated, thus fulfilling the promise made by the two
organisations to transform the town into the first Smart City in
the Algarve.
The Control Center was officially opened recently in Lagoa, a
ceremony attended by the Lagoa Town Mayor, Francisco José
Malveiro Martins and Tiago Ribeiro, responsible for corporate
business development at NOS.
The Control Center functions 24/7, manned by specialised
technicians from NOS, collecting data from sensors, as well as
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The Mayor of Lagoa Town Council, Francisco Martins, said that it is
“important to take this step in opening the first Control Center in the
Algarve to create a Smart City because by focusing on ‘intelligent
cities’ aimed at rationalising and monitoring the management of
the entire energy sector, water supply and waste treatment system
and even administrative modernisation, we are heading towards
achieving the main objectives defined in the strategic plan made for
the future of Lagoa.”
As far as Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Executive Board Member of NOS,
is concerned, “the opening of the Lagoa Control Center signals
a new era in the relationship between municipalities and local
authorities which, through technological innovation, emphasises the
sharing of information and knowledge, interaction and proximity.
In Lagoa, encouraging the creation of more intelligent cities is now
a reality, which NOS intends to roll out across Portugal, combining
our technological solutions and expertise with the ambition of
modernising local government to improve the provision of services
and reduce their cost, to attain higher levels of sustainability and a
better quality of life for their municipalities.”
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