topic Re: Amount of subscribers in Get Support

Amount of subscribers

Handy1 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 05:53:58 GMT

Hello pm community !! I recently heard from a Telus rep that they have 7 million subscribers strong , so naturally this got me to wondering how many pm has. So out of curiosity has anyone have an idea how many subscribers are on pm ?

Re: Amount of subscribers

Hollister — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:23:27 GMT

@Handy1

Have a look at these stats:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/460099/total-number-of-mobile-subscribers-by-provider-canada/

Re: Amount of subscribers

Handy1 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:34:17 GMT

@Hollister @Thanks for the info

Re: Amount of subscribers

softech — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:24:24 GMT

@Hollister wrote:
@Handy1

Have a look at these stats:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/460099/total-number-of-mobile-subscribers-by-provider-canada/

I don't see much from here.. it's only paid subscription

Re: Amount of subscribers

softech — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:33:13 GMT

@Handy1 as of today, Community has 269747 members.

but remember, people come and go. There are also scammers created accounts for scamming messages. There are people who keeps create new accounts after being banned. But also, there are people who joined but never create a community account.

I will take a wild guess, maybe only 20% of 269747 is active subscribers, so it will be around 54,000 I guess

Re: Amount of subscribers

CountyDownIeUk — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:35:14 GMT

@Handy1

I think you are on the low side...more like 10 million.

You might find from the horses mouth, here. Too hard on an iPad to find.

And the the good thing, in a way, is the more Koodo and PM subscribers (be it post or pre paid) they have takes away from Rogers and Bell.

Thus the CSA style of help here should sway towards customer retention.

@darlicious

Re: Amount of subscribers

gpixel — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 05:36:39 GMT

@Handy1

it's probably somewhere in-between 500k-1million. when PM was bought out by Telus they had just under 300k in 2013

Re: Amount of subscribers

darlicious — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:34:55 GMT

@Handy1

Public Mobile does have a fairly high churn rate still the overall churn rate for telus is well under 2%. My guess would put it at the high end of @gpixel 's estimate. For example in the 4 months this summer between the end of May and the end of September public mobile had approximately 77,000 activations and was averaging about 50/hour. Account numbers well exceed 3,000,000 so pm could easily have over 2,000,000 subscribers and that's using a very high churn rate of 10%.

Re: Amount of subscribers

dust2dust — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:46:35 GMT

@darlicious- That's 3 million activations. Any number of which could have gone away over all these years from when that 3 million was 3.

Re: Amount of subscribers

darlicious — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:06:04 GMT

@dust2dust

Yes.....but if you use a high estimate based on a telus's churn rate of 2% on 10,000,000 subscribers that's 200,000 per year across telus, koodo and public mobile. That still easily puts pm's subscribership between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 if not more....?

Official statistics as if November 2022.

TELUS (TU) Churn Rate % as of today (November 25, 2022) is 0.00%. ... with its 9 million mobile phone subscribers nationwide.

And....

2021, Telus had a monthly blended churn rate of 0.91 percent among its wireless subscribers, making Telus one of the large wireless provider with the lowest churn rate in the world.

Re: Amount of subscribers

dust2dust — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:54:38 GMT

@darlicious- Maybe I need a Univac 6000 churning away in my basement plugged in to the neighbours power 🙂 But then I'd need the lovely and talented operator to run it.

Re: Amount of subscribers

darlicious — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 01:54:52 GMT

@dust2dust

You can hire me on contract but it'll cost ya?!! 😉

Don't worry I'm working on running it on solar power....I've already figured how to charge my bike using my solar panels how much harder could it be for the Univac 5000?

Re: Amount of subscribers

CountyDownIeUk — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:00:14 GMT

@Handy1

Find a financial report for Telus year end 2021 or third quarter 2022.

Re: Amount of subscribers

darlicious — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:08:40 GMT

@Luddite

The only problem with your solution is you can't see any stats in the linked post unless you pay for the subscription.