BREAKING DOWN DU’S NUMBERS
Mobile customer base has touched 6.5 million. The postpaid category was “resilient” during the third quarter with net-additions of 13,000 subscribers. The postpaid customer base grew to 1.3. The prepaid base declined to 5.2 million subscribers “due to a combination of summer seasonality and flight restrictions brought by the Covid-19 Delta variant.
With an eye on the Expo, du offered tourist arrivals and Dubai International Airport free prepaid
SIM cards packed with a fair bit of data as well.
In fixed services, there were net-additions of 52,000 subscribers in the third quarter. That took the tally of broadband customers to 331,000.
The du 5G network covers 90% of the population, while “independent tests confirmed our network was the fastest during the (third) quarter.”