www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Six percent rise in the revenues to EUR 6.9 billion in the first quarter has been reported by French telecommunications and media conglomerate Vivendi. EBITDA of the company boosted by 14.1 percent to EUR 1.6 billion while net profit increased 13.4 percent to EUR 736 million.
The strong performance has been attributed to very good results from videogame subsidiary Activision Blizzard and French operator SFR. Success of the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 benefited Activision.
Revenues increased by 29.3 percent to EUR 945 million and the unit more than doubled its EBITA to EUR 377 million. SFR also added 227,000 mobile and 148,000 broadband fixed customers in the quarter.
