Telkom’s latest subscriber figures show that its active mobile subscriber base increased 26.7% to 2,024,495 over the past year.<\/p>\n
The group reported its financial results for the six months ended 30 September 2014, on Monday (17 November).<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s mobile operations contain 1,595,130 pre-paid subscribers, and 429,365 post-paid subscribers.<\/p>\n
Telkom also increased the\u00a0blended average revenue per user (ARPU) of its active mobile subscribers by 22.4% to R71.99, up from R58.81 a year ago.<\/p>\n
The group’s mobile voice and subscriber revenue increased 54.7% to R348 million,\u00a0up from R225 million in September 2013.<\/p>\n
This growth can be attributed to an increase in the number of active mobile subscribers, and the increase in blended ARPU, Telkom said.<\/p>\n
“We managed to reduce the EBITDA loss of our Mobile business by 50.7% by increasing service and subscriptions revenue (excluding equipment sales) by 48.0%,” it said.<\/p>\n
On the mobile data front, it said: \u201cIn line with our strategy to focus on data, we offered attractive data deals which led to an increase in data subscribers and a 39.3% increase in mobile data revenue to R422 million.”<\/p>\n
During the reporting period, Telkom said it constructed an additional 17 mobile base stations, with 2,473 mobile sites integrated, up 10% from 2,238 in 2013.<\/p>\n
LTE sites integrated was up 46.4%, to 1,275, from 871 sites in 2013.<\/p>\n
Telkom advised that it remains in discussions with MTN South Africa regarding the potential extension of its existing roaming agreement.<\/p>\n
The deal would include bilateral roaming and outsourcing of the operation of Telkom\u00b4s radio access network.<\/p>\n
Turnaround strategy paying off: Telkom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n