Telkom on Friday (14 June) reported\u00a0a 3.42% increase in active mobile subscribers to 1.54 million in South Africa (2012: 1.48 million) though the operator is earning less per each user.<\/p>\n
Telkom launched its mobile arm in October 2010.<\/p>\n
The telco saw a decrease of over 58,000 post-paid subscribers over the financial year to 375,938, while adding\u00a0118,879 pre-paid subscribers to 1.15 million.<\/p>\n
The decrease in post-paid subscribers was due to a clean-up of debtors and an improvement to the credit vetting systems, the operator said.<\/p>\n
Blended ARPU (average revenue per user) for the period dropped 17% to R61.47 from R74.16 in 2012.<\/p>\n
ARPU from pre-paid increased 14.7% to R23.96 (2012: R20.89), while post-paid dropped almost 20% to R166.13 (2012: R206.83).<\/p>\n
Comparably,\u00a0MTN South Africa recorded a 15.4% rise in subscribers for the year ended December 2012, to 25.4 million. Blended ARPU declined by 9% to R122.<\/p>\n
Vodacom meanwhile,\u00a0\u00a0saw a 4.9% lift in subscribers to 30.3 million, increasing by 1.4 million customers in the year ended March 2012. Blended ARPU declined 17.8% to R129.<\/p>\n
Mobile voice revenue decreased 7.6% and interconnection revenue decreased 25.5% as a result of the decrease in the number of post-paid subscribers, Telkom said.<\/p>\n
Mobile data revenue increased 123.3% to R364 million (2012: R163 million) due to an increase in the number of data subscribers and the data deals and promotional products launched during the year, Telkom said.<\/p>\n
Telkom Mobile’s share of all mobile operators’ year on year data revenue growth was 8.6%, the company reported.<\/p>\n
Telkom has also boosted its LTE sites to 651 sites in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Telkom on Friday (14 June) reported a 73.2% decline in headline earnings per share to 87.0 cents \u00a0in results for the year ended March 2013.<\/p>\n
Group operating revenue decreased by 1.7% to R32.501 billion (2012: R33.079 billion).<\/p>\n
The decrease is mainly due to lower fixed-line voice revenue, partially offset by an increase in mobile and data revenue, Telkom said.<\/p>\n
Telkom’s ADSL subscriber base grew to 870,505 at the end of the reporting period, up 5.2% from 827,091 in March 2012; however the company continued to drop in fixed access lines, having lost 195,000 subscribers over the period to 3.8 million.<\/p>\n
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