Wireless Operator Performance Benchmarking Q4 2014

Mobile service revenue declined by 2% in Q4 2014, with continued weakness in China and growth in “split billing” equipment instalment plans in the US pulling down the total. 80% growth in data traffic helped lift data revenue 21%, the bright point in the market. This data table tracks the operational and financial performance of 245 active wireless operators, which collectively account for 80% of the world's cellular subscriptions.

1. Key Point Conclusions
2. Country Subscriptions
3. All Operator Subscriptions
4. All Operator Subscription Market Shares
5. Country Penetration
6. Subscriptions
7. Market Share
8. Net Additions
9. Market Share of Net Additions
10. Total Postpaid Subscriptions
11. Total Prepaid Subscriptions
12. Prepaid Share of Subscriptions
13. Prepaid Share of Net Additions
14. Gross Additions
15. Monthly Churn Rate
16. Postpaid Monthly Churn Rate
17. Prepaid Monthly Churn Rate
18. Service Revenue
19. Average Revenue per User (ARPU)
20. Postpaid ARPU
21. Prepaid ARPU
22. Voice Revenue
23. Non-Voice Revenue
24. Data Revenue
25. Messaging Revenue
26. Monthly Voice ARPU
27. Monthly Non-Voice ARPU
28. Monthly Data ARPU
29. Monthly Messaging ARPU
30. Non-Voice as a % of Revenue
31. Data as a % of Revenue
32. Messaging as a % of Revenue
33. Messaging as a % of Non-Voice Revenue
34. Smartphone Share of All Subscriptions
35. Smartphone Share of Postpaid Subscriptions
36. Average Minutes of Use (MOU) - Outgoing and Incoming
37. Total Traffic Minutes - Outgoing and Incoming
38. Voice Revenue per Minute
39. Total Data Traffic (TB)
40. Data Traffic per Subscription (MB)
41. EBITDA
42. EBITDA Margin
43. Average Margin per User (AMPU)
44. Operational Expenditure
45. OPEX per Subscription
46. CAPEX
47. CAPEX as % Service Revenues
48. CAPEX per Net Addition
49. CAPEX per Additional Traffic Minute
50. Simple Free Cash Flow
51. Service Revenues - Variable Exchange Rate
52. ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
53. Postpaid ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
54. Prepaid ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
55. Voice Revenue - Variable Exchange Rate
56. Non-Voice Revenue
57. Data Revenue - Variable Exchange Rate
58. Messaging Revenue
59. Monthly Voice ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
60. Monthly Non-Voice ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
61. Monthly Data ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
62. Monthly Messaging ARPU - Variable Exchange Rate
63. Non-Voice as a % of Revenue - Variable Exchange Rate
64. Data as a % of Revenue - Variable Exchange Rate
65. Messaging as % Revenue - Variable Exchange Rate
66. Messaging as % Non-Voice Revenue - Variable Exchange Rate
67. Voice Revenue per Minute - Variable Exchange Rate
68. EBITDA - Variable Exchange Rate
69. EBITDA Margin - Variable Exchange Rate
70. Average Margin per User (AMPU) - Variable Exchange Rate
71. Operational Expenditure - Variable Exchange Rate
72. OPEX per Subscription - Variable Exchange Rate
73. CAPEX - Variable Exchange Rate
74. CAPEX as % Service Revenues - Variable Exchange Rate
75. CAPEX per Net Addition - Variable Exchange Rate
76. CAPEX per Additional Traffic Minute - Variable Exchange Rate
77. Simple Free Cash Flow - Variable Exchange Rate
78. Coverage
79. Methodoloy, Definitions and Exchange Rates