Brussels, 21 October 2010 – Today, Mobistar publishes its financial results at 30 September 2010. The Mobistar group continues to grow, both on the Belgian and Luxembourg markets. The financial results for the third quarter enable Mobistar to confirm its upward-revised forecasts for the 2010 financial year.
Key facts:
The consolidated turnover of the Mobistar group, including the consolidation of MES S.A. (Mobistar Enterprise Services) for 6 months, grew by 7.5 % over a period of one year, and amounted to 1,233.7 million euro at the end of the third quarter of 2010. (+3.7 % excl. MES S.A.).
At the end of September 2010, the Mobistar group recorded an EBITDA margin on service revenues of 36.8 % (37.8 % excl. MES S.A.) compared with 39.2 % at the end of September 2009. As a result of the fall of the MTR and roaming tariffs, the EBITDA of the Mobistar group was impacted negatively for an amount of 26 million euro for the first nine months of 2010 and amounted 418.2 million euro on 30 September 2010, or 0.6 % lower than the 420.8 million euro a year earlier.
At the end of the third quarter, the Mobistar group recorded a consolidated net profit amounting to 192.8 million euro, 1.4 % lower than at the end of September 2009 (0.2 % excl. MES S.A.).
At the end of September 2010, the total number of active mobile customers of the Mobistar group was 4,004,664, an increase of 190,828 customers compared with the end of September 2009.
The number of Mobistar S.A. mobile Internet customers was 103,510 at the end of the third quarter of 2010, or an increase of 33.4 % compared with one year earlier. The share of mobile data in service revenues was 31.5 % at the end of September 2010 compared with 28.3 % a year earlier.
The number of Mobistar S.A. postpaid customers rose by 150,589 over a year, and their proportion of the total customer base was 62.9 % at the end of the third quarter of 2010.
The ARPU of Mobistar S.A. customers rose by 1.6 % to reach 31.8 euro at the end of the third quarter of 2010.
At the end of September 2010, Mobistar S.A. had 48,730 ADSL customers, a rise of 45.9 % on a year earlier.
At the end of the third quarter of 2010, Mobistar S.A. had 166,924 active machine-to-machine cards, an increase of 38.3 % compared with a year earlier.
The number of active fixed telephone lines with Mobistar S.A. rose by 21.3 %, from 142,097 on 30 September 2009 to 172,364 a year later.
Based on the results of the first nine months of 2010, Mobistar can confirm the forecasts that were revised upwards in July for the whole 2010 financial year.