Today, Mobistar publishes its financial results for the third quarter of 2009. In an unfavourable economic climate with continuous regulatory pressure, Mobistar confirms its forecasts for the 2009 financial year.
Key facts:
Consolidated turnover reached 1,147.7 million euros at the end of the third quarter of 2009, an increase of 0.7 % compared with the end of September 2008.
The Mobistar group ended the third quarter of 2009 with an EBITDA margin of 39.2 % of service revenues, compared with 41.5 % a year earlier. This decline is mainly due to regulatory measures.
The total number of active mobile customers of the Mobistar group was 3,813,836 at the end of third quarter of 2009, an increase of 1.6 % compared with the end of September 2008.
The number of Mobistar postpaid customers rose by 7.5 % over a one-year period to 2,033,441 at the end of September 2009.
The number of Mobistar machine-to-machine cards was 120,673 at the end of September 2009, an increase of 21.3 % compared with the previous year.
The fixed and mobile broadband offering is still proving a great success. Mobistar doubled its number of customers for ADSL, 'Internet Everywhere' and 'Business Everywhere' in a year, rising from 53,694 at the end of September 2008 to 111,015 a year later.
Between the end of September 2008 and the end of September 2009, the share of mobile data in telephony revenue of Mobistar rose by 35.1 % from 21.1 % to 28.5 % in a year.
On 28 October 2009, VOXmobile, Mobistar's Luxembourg subsidiary, will become operational under the Orange brand.
Mobistar S.A. has signed a cooperation agreement with KPN Belgium for the deployment of their respective network infrastructure.