3 UK Bottoms On Customer Satisfaction Survey
39 million UK adults now
own a mobile phone, spending on average US$36.40 per month on their bills. Now
that mobile penetration is so high, the future market will be overwhelmingly
that of churners rather than subscribers, according to Continental Research's
Autumn 2005 Mobile Report.
Continental Research, which
has been analysing the mobile phone industry for the past 13 years, has found
that growth of one mobile network will almost invariably be at the expense of
another and that the main challenge for the networks is to retain their own
customers, whilst poaching others from rival networks. This competitive
situation has become even more so with the arrival of the new network 3. The
choice of network that customers would switch to varies quite considerably by
network, as the table below shows.