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Bouygues Telecom sues French govt for 2.3bn

2015-12-10 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Operator reportedly seeks damages stemming from Free Mobile launch; says Arcep wrong not to examine Free's roaming deal with Orange.

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Solid customer growth drives Bouygues Telecom Q3 revenue up 4%

2015-11-13 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

French operator gained 208,000 mobile customers, 94,000 fixed customers; EBITDA jumps 9.5%.

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Bouygues Telecom announces new targets

2015-10-06 09:54:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) French operator Bouygues Telecom is announcing new targets at a Capital Markets Day on 6 October. Bouygues said it aims to add 1 million mobile customers and 1 million fixed broadband customers by 2017, versus 2014. The company expects sales from network growth of over 10 percent in 2017, compared to 2014. The company anticipates an average annual capital expenditure of around EUR 750 million in the coming years. It expects to achieve an EBITDA margin of 25 percent in 2017 and 35 percent longer term. Bouygues added that its LTE network coverage will reach 99 percent of the population by 2018, compared to 72 percent at present. It will extend the network to 20,000 base stations by 2018, versus 15,000 now. In broadband operations, the operator is speeding up the rollout of its directly owned ADSL network, which will cover 16 million homes by the end of this year, compared to 12.3 million at the end of 2014. Thanks to partnership with other operators, it now offers 30 Mbps or faster services to a potential 7 million homes, including 1.5 million via FttH.

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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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