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Old 08-05-2008, 09:48   #1
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VM announce Q1 2008 results

Summary here and the official looooong press release here. Good to see the V+ penetration continues to grow impressively - now what about some more HD services for those 300k customers to enjoy??
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Re: VM announce Q1 2008 results

Can anybody tell me what the expression "churn" refers to.?
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Churn is the loss of customers.
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Re: VM announce Q1 2008 results

As harmitage says, it is lost customers as a percentage of the base - if you have a quarterly churn of 1.2%, that means you are losing 12,000 in every million customers in that quarter.
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Re: VM announce Q1 2008 results

Just listened to the conference call...nothing that we didn't already know tbh
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Re: VM announce Q1 2008 results

These results are showing VM intend to stay
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Re: VM announce Q1 2008 results

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As harmitage says, it is lost customers as a percentage of the base - if you have a quarterly churn of 1.2%, that means you are losing 12,000 in every million customers in that quarter.
But it reflects turnover of customers so factors in adds and deletions from the customer base.
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