Bouygues posts a 10% year-on-year rise in Q3′08 from $10 billion to $11.13 billion driven by strong growth in its construction and real-estate activities, and a steady performance from its telecoms arm. Bouygues Telecom revenues for Q3′08 rose by 5.3% to $1.63 billion from $1.55 billion since Q3′07. The French operator reports a 6.5% increase in sales for the period of January to September’08 to $4.73 billion. Sales from network services rose by 5.1% despite an 8% cut in call termination charges and the regulation of roaming charges.
The subscriber base totalled to 9.327 million mobile subscribers.
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Bouygues Telecom posts a subscriber base of 9.32Mn at Sept-end (France)
- November 18th, 2008
- 5:53 am
SK Telecom posts a fall of 58% in Q3′08 earnings (South Korea)
- October 30th, 2008
- 6:31 am
SK Telecom, South Korea, posts a fall Q3′08 earnings by 58% on increased marketing costs.
Net income earned 333.6 billion won (US$224.5 million) Q3′08, compared with 777 billion won in Q3′07.
Sales grew by 2.98% to 2.89 trillion won in Q3, while operating profit slipped by 6.06% to 504 billion won.
Handset’s sales grow at 10% but ASP declines (US)
- July 24th, 2008
- 7:34 am
Global mobile handset sales could reach nearly 1.3 billion units, a 10% growth in 2008, as projected by analysts and vendors.The projected Unit growth may partially offset by declining Average Selling Price (ASP).
The factors behind price decline will be the weak US dollar and the popularity of lower-priced handsets in emerging markets, where most of the unit growth is occurring.
Sony Ericsson takes over Nokia’s hadset sales value in Taiwan (Taiwan)
- July 23rd, 2008
- 2:20 pm
Sony Ericsson has managed to overtake Nokia in terms of handset sales value in Taiwan. A report from Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, citing sources in the retail trade said that Sony Ericsson took 31.6% of the sales value. This compared to 30.8% of the cash value for Nokia.
In terms of handset sales volume though, Nokia still leads the Taiwan market with over 30%, compared to 24.8% market share for Sony Ericsson.
The market has been strongly moving towards selling 3G handsets which would support Sony Ericsson as it has fewer low-cost handsets than Nokia. The operators have also stepped up subsidies for their higher end handsets.
According to earlier figures from the MIC (Market Intelligence Center, Taiwan), Taiwanese mobile phone market volume for the entire 2008 is expected to slightly advance 0.9% to 7.2 million units, with the share of WCDMA models expected to top 40%.
The share of WCDMA models jumped to 35.8% in the first quarter of 2008, up 7.8 percentage points from the fourth quarter 2007, with its market volume increasing by 181,000 units to 679,000 units in the first quarter. The share of GSM/GPRS models fell 7.4 percentage points to 60.6%, as many subscribers switched to WCDMA models.
Nokia sales slowdown in Q2 08, “optimistic” about FY
- July 17th, 2008
- 2:03 pm
Nokia encountered a slowdown in sales growth in the second quarter, yet remained upbeat on the industry outlook for the year,predicting a rise in the mobile phone sales. The Finnish company, reported a 4% rise in the sales from a year earlier to US$ 20.84billion (EUR 13.15 billion). Due to restructuring charges of US$ 728.9million (EUR 460 million), the operating profit fell 39 % to US$ 2.33billion (EUR 1.47 billion). Excluding one-time items, operating profit was still up 39 percent to US$ 3.05billion
(EUR 1.934 billion).
Sales at the Devices & Services division came down to US$ 14.42billion (EUR 9.1 billion), a fall of 1%, as strong growth in emerging markets Latin America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa was offset by a drop in revenues from Europe, North America and Greater China. Operating profit fell 12 percent to US$ 2.53billion (EUR 1.6 billion), including a charge of US$ 410.54billion (EUR 259 million) for shutting its site in Bochum, Germany. The company sold 122 million phones in the quarter, up 21 percent year-on-year and up 6 percent from Q1. However, average selling prices fell sharply, to US$ 117.32(EUR 74) from US$ 142.71(EUR 90) a year ago, due to a greater share of low-price phones sold in emerging markets and the weak dollar versus the euro. Nokia said its “optimistic” about the rest of the year amid positive feedback on upcoming new phones. The company increased its outlook for the industry, saying it now expects market growth of 10 percent or more in device shipments this year, versus a previous estimate of just 10 percent growth. In the second quarter, the market grew an estimated 15 percent year-on-year and 3 percent from Q1, to 303 million units, and Nokia expects further sequential growth in Q3.
Nokia Siemens Networks reported second-quarter sales up 18 percent from a year earlier to US$ 6.5billion (EUR 4.1 billion), led by Latin America, the Middle East & Africa and Greater China. The company generated an operating loss of US$ 74.45million (EUR 47 million), including US$ 318.78million (EUR 201 million) in restructuring charges. Including another US$ 190.3million (EUR 120 million) in charges related to the company’s set-up, the group had a positive operating margin of 6.7 percent. Nokia Siemens Networks continues to expect the mobile and fixed infrastructure and related services market to be flat in euro terms in 2008.
