Net Profit

Turkcell net profit drops by 45.3%

On 03.12.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 45.3% year-on-year decline in fourth quarter net profit has been reported by mobile group Turkcell, whose revenues went to TRY253 million in 2009 from TRY462 million (USD300.4 million) in the final three months of 2008.

Drop to impairment charges, fixed asset write-offs and legal payments totalling TRY256 million in the three months have been attributed as some of the reasons behind the loss. With 3% year-on-year fall, the revenues for the period slipped to TRY2.26 billion. EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) fell by 11.5% from TRY770 million to TRY682 million.

Meanwhile, the full year net profit of the company fell by 25.9%, down to TRY1.7 billion. The company had a tough time dealing with the accumulated legal fees and impairment charges of TRY381 million which greatly affected the earnings.
A consolidated customer base growth of 2% year-on-year has been recorded by Turkcell despite a 4.3% drop in subscribers in its domestic operation (down to 35.4 million cellular subscribers)

Telecom Argentina net profit rises 46%

On 03.11.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 15 percent year-on-year rise in the revenues has been reported by Telecom Argentina generating ARS 12.26 billion in 2009. With 46 percent rise in the net income for the period reached ARS 1.4 billion. The mobile revenues of the company rose 16 percent to ARS 8.06 billion while the fixed-line revenues increased 14 percent to ARS 4.1 billion.

17% improvement in OIBDA has also been noticed which reached ARS 3.9 billion. 1.9 million new customers has been gained by the company in the year 2009 for a total of 14.5 million and out of total, 69 percent are prepaid and 31 percent are postpaid.

Company’s Paraguay unit, Nucleo had 1.8 million customers at the end of the period, down 1 percent from a year earlier. 2 percent increase in the number of lines of the fixed division has been showed which reached up to 4.36 million and the number of ADSL customers rose 17 percent year-on-year to 1.2 million users at end-December.

With 1% rise, ARPU for fixed customers reached ARS 40 in 2009.

Tagged with: Argentina • ARPU • Europe • Net Income • Net Profit • OIBDA • Paraguay • South America • Telecom Argentina

Telkom predicts 7% rise in 2009 profit (Indonesia)

On 03.10.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 5%-7% rise in FY2009 net profit has been expected by PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), Indonesia’s dominant telecoms group. The increase is expected because of the growth in operating revenues.

5% year-on-year rise in revenue is also predicted by the company from the IDR61 trillion (USD6.6 billion) posted in FY2008. The increase in the revenues might be attributed to increased sales of multimedia and cellular services.

Tagged with: ASIA • Net Profit • Operating Revenues • PT Telekom • PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia

Qatar Telecom reports increase in turnover

On 03.09.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Consolidated group financial and operational results for 2009 has been posted by Qatar Telecom in which 20.5% increase in the net profit attributable to shareholders has been revealed, going up from up from QAR2.3 billion in 2008 to QAR2.8 billion (USD765 million) in the full-year. The company showed 15.1 percent increase in the EBITDA going up to QAR 11.3 billion.

The consolidated customer base of the group stood at 60.5 million at December 31, 2009. Entry of Qtel’s first mobile competitor, Vodafone Qatar affected the domestic EBITDA which fell to QAR3.3 billion.

The Indonesian unit of the company, Indosat’s subscriber base at end-December 2009 stood at 33.7 million, down from 37.0 million a year earlier. Removal of a significant proportion of the lower-value, calling card type behavior subscribers’ from its base over the twelve-month period has been cited as reason behind this decrease.

The total active subscribers of Asiacell increased by 20.4% during 2009 as a result of which the year closed at 7.35 million, revenue increased by 40.4% to QAR4.0 billion and EBITDA increased by 43.9% to QAR2.2 billion.

Tagged with: ASIA • Asiacell • EBITDA • Indonesia • Indosat • Middle East • Net Profit • Qatar • Qatar Telecom • Qtel • Vodafone

Qatar telecom Q4 profit drops by 7%

On 03.09.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Due to non operational provisions in Kuwaiti’s Wataniya subsidiary, 7.9% drop in the fourth-quarter profits of QAR431 million (US$118 million) has been reported by Qatar Telecom (Qtel). 9% increase in the revenue has been shown, going up to QAR6.54 billion (US$1.8 billion) while the EBITDA was up by 4.6% to QAR2.97 billion. However, the EBITDA margin fell to 45% from 47%.

The net profit was up by 20.5% to QAR2.78 billion (US$764 million) for the full year and revenues on the other hand grew by 18.2% to QAR24 billion (US$6.6 billion).

With a rise of 5.2% over the year, 60.53 million customers were gained by Qtel across all its markets.

According to His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani, Chairman of the Qtel Group, this has been a year of real achievement for the Qtel Group and now the company is the largest telecommunications provider in the Middle East – North Africa region by number of operations while the diversified operations have delivered strong returns and enabled the firm to thrive in a highly competitive and challenging environment.”

Tagged with: Africa • EBITDA • Kuwait • Middle East • Net Profit • Qatar Telecom • Wataniya

SmarTone’s revenue falls and EBITDA rises by 7% (Hong Kong)

On 03.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 7% year-on-year decrease in the total revenue for the six months ended December 31, 2009 has been released by Hong Kong-based cellco SmarTone. Lower handset and accessory sales, and a 2% decline in services revenue brought the revenue to USD233 million.

As a result of the reduction in interconnection charges and cost control measures, 7% growth in the EBITDA has been recorded while the net profit increased by 112% to HKD111 million. 8% rise in the customer numbers has also been recorded, reaching to 1.231 million as of December 31, 2009. Out of this, 70% were post-paid customers.

Post-paid churn rate improved to 1.5% from 2.0% and blended ARPU fell by 7% to HKD214 in the six-month period compared to HKD230 a year earlier. The trend reflects continued downward pressure on local tariffs and lower roaming revenue.

23% year-on-year increase has been witnessed in data service revenue and it accounted for 33% of service revenue in the period under review. The HSPA+ network is already complete till 28.8Mbps, increasing the network speed to 42Mbps in 2010. This will pave the way for 80Mbps and even higher speeds with the implementation of 4G LTE services.

3G license was awarded to SmarTone in September 2009 and the country will start enjoying the 3G network in 2010.

Tagged with: 3G • 4G • ARPU • ASIA • EBITDA • Hong Kong • Net Profit • SmarTone

Telefonica reports better Q4 results (Spain)

On 03.03.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 1.2 percent rise in the Q4 revenue from a year earlier to EUR 14.98 billion has been reported by Telefonica. The OIBDA of the telco improved 1.4 percent to EUR 5.98 billion. The lower tax bill helped the company to generate a net profit of EUR 2.44 billion, up 22.2 percent.

In the home market, revenues of the Spanish operator fell 1.6 percent to EUR 5.05 billion, while OIBDA improved 3.6 percent to EUR 2.52 billion. In Latin America, revenues increased 8.0 percent year-on-year to EUR 6.33 billion and OIBDA in the region grew 4.7 percent to EUR 2.5 billion.

The revenue decline in Europe slowed down to 3.9 percent, to EUR 3.48 billion and OIBDA declined 6.8 percent to EUR 1.03 billion.

Tagged with: Europe • Latin America • Net Profit • OIBDA • operator • Spain • Telefonica

Telekom Austria gains EUR94.9 million as net profit

On 02.25.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The financial results for the full-year 2009 has been announced by Telekom Austria in which the company has gained a net profit of EUR94.9 million, up from a net loss of EUR48.8 million a year earlier.

Due to the decline in the fixed line operations, the company’s revenues declined from EUR5.17 billion in 2008 to EUR4.8 billion a year later. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) jumped 40.1% year-on-year, up to EUR1.79 billion.

According to Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO at Telekom Austria Group, the company’s focus on effective cost management in both segments and reduced operative expenses has enabled it to soften the impact of lower revenues on EBITDA and Telekom will continue to improve its offering in order to strengthen its competitive advantage.

Tagged with: Austria • EBITDA • Europe • Net Profit • Telekom • Telekom Austria

Telekom Austria’s Q4 revenue falls 9.6%

On 02.24.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Due to weakness at both fixed-line and mobile operations, the fourth-quarter revenues of Telekom Austria went down 9.6 percent from a year earlier EUR 1.18 billion. Excluding some EUR 632 million in restructuring charges in Q4 2008, EBITDA also fell to EUR 399.4 million from EUR 420.5 million.

The lower depreciation and amortization adjusted operating profit which rose to EUR 120.0 million from EUR 116.4 million and net profit which rose to EUR 63.6 million from EUR 53.9 million, after excluding the one-time charges.

According to Telekom Austria, the difficult market environment of the past year is expected to continue in 2010, as a recovery in the economic environment in Eastern Europe appears unlikely in the near term. Fall in the revenue is predicted by the company for the year 2010.

Tagged with: Austria • Eastern Europe • EBITDA • Net Profit • Operating Profit • Telekom Austria

Telekom Malaysia’s Q4 revenue falls but net profit rises

On 02.23.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A rise of 2.5% in the net profit but 9% fall in the revenue of the fourth quarter has been reported by Telekom Malaysia. 7.8% loss from MYR 822.0 million to MYR 757.7 million has been reported in EBITDA while the profit before tax slipped 0.1 percent to MYR 235.6 million.

A net profit of MYR 170.2 million, up 2.5 percent from MYR 166.0 million in Q4 2008 has been posted by Telekom Malaysia.

The company ended the quarter with 1.43 million broadband customers and 4.32 million fixed customers. For 2010, TM expects revenue growth of 2 percent and an EBITDA margin of 33 percent.

Tagged with: ASIA • EBITDA • Malaysia • Net Profit • Revenue Growth • Telekom Malaysia