Telstra cracks a million mobiles

Telstra's boom in mobile phone subscribers has allowed it to top an extra one million clients this financial year, afterwards scoring 364,000 new clients in just the first three months of 2011.

The 555,000 added in the previous three months

While this number is lower than the 555,000 added in the previous three months, indicating a slowdown in mobile subscriber net adds, Telstra's growth in the mobile phone market is all in all going strong, according to results released by CEO David Thodey at the Macquarie Australian Investor Conference in Melbourne yesterday. He said that the telco had added a total of 1.2 million new mobile clients in the three quarters of this financial year.

Combined, the quarters give the telco 186,000 new fixed-line clients so far this financial year; but, the company noted that fourth quarter figures will include the loss of 65,000 "non-revenue generating" services.

Other figures released by Telstra reveal that the company has sold an additional 67,000 T-Box and T-Hub products, bringing this year's total to 281,000 units sold. The company's mobile broadband business as well added 206,000 new clients, bringing the total to 711,000.

Earlier this week, Telstra CEO David Thodey announced that the company would spend $600 million over the then five years to upgrade 1600 exchanges with Quality-of-Service in order to allow business clients to use Voice over IP services as part of the company's Digital Business package, designed to prepare business clients for the transition to the National Broadband Network.

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