Fourth generation networks for mobiles and connected devices (LTE) could debut in our country this year. Yoigo would be the operator that opened the melon, while the rest of the companies would maintain the pulse until the release of the 800 MHz band, which is currently used for digital terrestrial television broadcasts.
Yoigo, however, is able to use one of the channels authorized by the European authorities. This is the 1,800 MHz band, which, although it does not operate with the signal power that guarantees that currently used for DTT, opens the way for the company majority owned by TeliaSonera "" for the moment "" Released a standard that begins to be irritatingly delayed in our country.
At the moment, the company does not show its cards, and is limited to placing its decision at the beginning of next summer, which would be when it would reveal if they would finally release their LTE networks this year. This was acknowledged by the CEO of Yoigo, Eduardo Taulet, who pointed out that at this time the deployment of infrastructures for 2G (GSM) and 3G operates on this band, that they could come to resort to it to be the first to offer 4G. Despite everything, there was no security in this regard, slipping any clarification at the doors of next summer.
On the other hand, from Yoigo they were not only pleased to recognize the good data they recorded in their business in 2012, defined in the acquisition of 700,000 customers in relation to the previous year "" at the end of the last year they had 3,707,000 users, which which represents a six percent share of the national market ””, but they also X-rayed the yoigger . In this sense, the data was very interesting.
Among the more than 3.7 million customers, 68 percent are smartphone users. It is meaning that nearly seven out of ten subscribers of the operator carries a smart phone that got through this company "" pioneer in the grant terminal "". Of all of them, only fifteen percent demand an iPhone, while half of them are Samsung users. In this sense, Taulet also expressed surprise when pointing out that customers are increasingly demanding with the performance of their phone, so that the taste for the high-end is gaining followers at a significant rate.
Regarding its expectations for this year, the company's management is optimistic. Although it has been the only non-virtual company that gained customers during the past year, the forecasts maintain the flattering tone, to the point that they hope to end this 2013 by settling in the 4.2 million customer mark.
For this, for the moment, they will maintain the offer of rates that they released between summer and Christmas 2012 "" composed of Infinitas, La del 2 and La del 1, in the postpaid catalog, and La del 5, prepaid "", although the CEO of the firm anticipated that they are working on a new configuration of the catalog of services, with a view to expanding the philosophy of "infinites" and introducing some other novelty related to data packages.
