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Bouygues Telecom posts stable revenue, customer growth in Q2
2015-08-27 09:45:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) French operator Bouygues Telecom reported EUR 1.1 billion of revenue in the second quarter, stable on the year-earlier period, and down by 1 percent to EUR 2.2 billion in the first half. The company's EBITDA rose by EUR 21 million to EUR 323 million in the first half, raising its EBITDA margin by 1.5 percentage points to 17.1 percent. The company recorded a EUR 54 million current operating loss, a EUR 17 million improvement on the first half of 2014 and an operating loss of EUR 109 million, including EUR 55 million in non-current charges essentially related to the rollout of network sharing with Numericable-SFR in the first half. Bouygues Telecom added 160,000 new mobile customers in the second quarter and over 312,000 in the first half to reach 11.4 million mobile customers at the end of June. Postpaid customers, excluding M2M, rose by 293,000 in first half and by 147,000 in the second quarter. The company had 4.1 million LTE customers at the end of June, or 42 percent of the mobile base excluding M2M, up on 19 percent a year earlier. LTE customers consumed 2.4 GB of mobile data per month on average. Bouygues continued to expand in fixed broadband, adding 78,000 new customers in the second quarter and 174,000 in the first half to reach a total of 2.6 million at the end of June. The operator had 23,000 FttH customers on its own network at the end of June, out of 398,000 total customers on very-high speed broadband (30 Mbps+).
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