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Telefonica posts a subscriber base of 189 million at Q3′08 end

  • November 17th, 2008
  • 7:36 am

Telefonica reports a rise in Q3′08 revenues by 5.7% to $ 18.82 billion since ;ast year driven by continous growth in its mobile activities in Latin America. OIBDA fell 15.4% to $7.41 billion and net profits slipped to $2.51 billion, a fall of nearly 50%. driven by one-time gain in the year-earlier period for selling Endemol. Revenues in Latin America rose 14.5% to $7.26 billion, and Telefonica Spain’s revenues increased by 2% to $6.76 billion. Telefonica in Europe posted a 0.6% fall in sales to $4.63 billion. Telefonica subscriber base grew by 6.2 million in Q3′08 ending the quarter with 189 million mobile subscribers.

   

Globul’s subscriber base grows to 3.95 million in Q2′08 (Bulgaria)

  • August 29th, 2008
  • 12:25 pm

Globul, the Bulgarian mobile operator, has maintained it’s shares in the Bulgarian mobile market with firm revenue growth in Q2′08.

The service revenue for Globul rose by 11.3%, based on 17.5% rise in contract revenues and 95% increse in data revenues following the introduction of 3G services.

The mobile operator reported a strong OIBDA margin improvement in the Q2 despite strong growth in the contract subscriber base. Key factors contributing to this improvement have been network expenses and marketing.

Globul’s key focus remains on the post-paid subscriber segment, adding 112, 000 net new contract subscribers, to bring its contract subscriber base to 1.9 million, or 48% of the total, the firm said. As in previous quarters, pre-paid subscribers registered a decline of approximately 45 000, leading to an overall subscriber growth of 67 000 and a base of 3.95 million subscribers.

Globul’s blended AMOU for H1 was up by about 20%, reflecting a 41 per cent increase in pre-paid AMOU following commercial initiatives to stimulate usage and the subscriber base rationalization. Reflecting lower post-paid ARPU, resulting from the higher subscriber numbers in this category as well as tariff erosion, blended ARPU was down in the first half of 2008.

   

Telefonica O2 Q2′08 revenues up by 0.6% (Czech Republic)

  • July 25th, 2008
  • 1:07 pm

Telefonica O2, Czech Republic has announced its Q2′08 revenues of CZK 15.8 billion, up by 0.6% from a year earlier. Mobile revenues grew 3% to CZK8.4 billion. OIBDA improved 6.5 percent to CZK 7.6 billion, giving a margin of 48.1 percent, while net profit rose 30.4 percent to CZK 3.4 billion, helped by gains on property sales. Capex fell 16.7 percent from a year ago to CZK 1.6 billion. The number of mobile customers increased by 6 percent year-on-year to 5.2 million at 30 June, of which 2.369 million were contract subscribers. The operator lost 36,000 prepaid subscribers during Q2, while gaining 63,000 contract subscribers. Mobile ARPU fell to CZK 523 from CZK 529 a year earlier, while revenue from data services increased 6.8 percent to CZK 505 million. O2 added 7,000 data users during the quarter for a total 212,000 at the end of June.
Despite a more challenging operating environment, the company expects to meet its earlier full-year guidance for revenues up 2-4 percent and OIBDA flat to 2 percent higher. Capex is expected to be around CZK 9 billion in 2008.

   

MTS group profits more than double in Q1

  • June 1st, 2007
  • 12:57 pm

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) saw its group profits more than double in the first quarter. Group revenues went up 35 percent to USD 1.74 billion from USD 1.29 billion in the year-ago quarter, with Russian operations contributing the bulk (75.2%) followed by Ukraine (20.2%). OIBDA rose 51 percent to USD 903 million, from USD 598.6 million, with an OIBDA margin of 51.9 percent. Net income surged 143 percent to USD 449 million from USD 184.4 million.

   

OTE profit rise beats forecasts

  • May 31st, 2007
  • 7:25 am

Greek former monopoly telco OTE’s first-quarter net profit rose by a stronger-than-expected 28% on lower payroll costs and taxes, partly reflecting its corporate restructuring efforts over the past two years. CEO Panagis Vourloumis said in a statement: ‘In Greek fixed line, the cost cutting of the past two years is yielding results’. For the three months to 31 March, the company said net profit was EUR140.9 million (USD189.7 million) compared with EUR109.7 million in the same period a year earlier, while revenue rose 8.8% to EUR1.51 billion, up from EUR1.39 billion. Operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA) – which the company adopted in the first quarter last year to replace earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) – rose 9.6% year-on-year from EUR512.5 million to EUR561.7 million. The net profit figures were much higher than analyst expectations of EUR116 million, but turnover was in line with forecasts of EUR1.52 billion.

   

VimpelCom sees Q1 operating revenue rise to USD 1.49 bln

  • May 26th, 2007
  • 7:29 am

Vimpel Communications (VimpelCom), Russia-based provider of mobile telecommunications services, had USD 1.49 billion net operating revenue in Q1 2007, up 59 percent from USD 936.17 million in the year-earlier period. OIBDA was USD 766.42 million, up 58.8 percent from USD 482.61 million. OIBDA margin was 51.5 percent, down from 51.6 percent. Net income was USD 277.28 million, up 84.6 percent from USD 150.22 million. Operating cash flow was USD 655.9 million, up 81.2 percent. ARPU in Russia was unchanged. Market share exceeded 50 percent in Kazakhstan. The number of active mobile subscribers was 45.78 million at end-Q1 2007, up 14.4 percent from 40.03 million at end-Q1 2006. The number of fixed-line subscribers was 607,400.