Nedjma has reported that its revenues grew by 38% year-on-year in Q1 to US$185.09 million.

At the same time, EBITDA improved by 50% versus the year-ago quarter to US$69.97 million. Its number of customers decreased owing to ongoing subscriber base clean up, while it’s corporate based continued to grow.

At the end of Q1, the operator had 8.076 million customers, compared to 8.276 million a year-ago. By the number of customers, it has a market share of 30 percent that is one percent lower than in Q1 2010.

Blended ARPU rose to US$7.39 versus US$7.03 in the previous quarter and US$5.32 in the year-earlier period.

Djezzy has added 168,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter, to finish the year with a total base of 15.09 million, an increase of 3.2% from 2009.

The company estimates its market share a 57.6%, declining slightly from 59.4% in 2009. Revenues for the full year 2010 were down 4.7% to US$1.80 billion, and EBITDA fell 7.2% to US$1.01 billion.

Capex dropped to US$90 million from US$261 million a year earlier, as the company faced government restrictions on importing equipment.

Djezzy’s parent company Orascom stated that subscriber additions picked up from December when it managed to secure new SIM cards from local manufacturers. ARPU dropped 6.9% over the year.

Mobilis has collaborated with partnered Algerie Poste to launch ‘Racidi,’ an SMS-based m-banking service that allows customers who have Algerie Poste accounts to get information about their account (compte courant postal, CCP).

The service is available to both postpaid as well as prepaid customers. To obtain information about their account such as account balance, customers need to send an SMS according to a requested format to 603.

Telecommunications regulator ARPT’s head of communications, Faical Madjahed has stated that there were 32,780,165 mobile phone users in Algeria at the end of 2010, 50,341 more than a year earlier.

He stated that despite a rise in customers, the country’s mobile penetration rate fell to 90.3% in 2010 from 91.68% in 2009.

Orascom Telecom Algeria (Djezzy) increased its mobile customer base to 15.09 million, for a 46 percent market share, versus 14.62 million at the end of 2009.

Algerie Telecom’s Mobilis service saw its customers shrink to 9.45 million from 10.08 million, for a 28.8 percent market share.

Finally, Wataniya Telecom Algeria (Nedjma), increased its user base to 8.25 million at the end of 2010 (25.2% share) from 8.03 million a year earlier.

According to the ARPT, monopoly fixed phone operator Algerie Telecom had slightly over 3 million fixed phone customers at the end of February 2011, 2.54 million with land lines and 533,300 on WLL. Madjahed added that there were an estimated 830,000 ADSL subscribers in the country at the end of February, for an around 10 percent penetration rate.