Friday, July 29, 2011

XL Income Up 8 Percent

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - telecommunications operator PT XL Axiata, Tbk, reported on the performance of the first half of 2011 with revenues increased by 8 percent (year-on-year) to Rp 9.1 trillion. The increase in operating revenue sustained by the data service revenue growth of 47 percent, and norms zation and net profit of Rp 1.6 trillion.

While EBITDA reached Rp 4.8 trillion (up 7 percent), and EBITDA margin was steady at 52 percent at the end of June 2011. In addition the number of subscribers increased by 10 percent from 35.2 million in June 2010 to 38, 9 million in June 2011.

Increasing our revenue primarily from the data service revenues, which increased by 47 percent and contributed 21 percent to total revenue of our customers use, said the President Director of XL, Hasnul Suhaimi, Friday (29/07/2011) in Jakarta.

Hasnul said, there is great potential in business services related to changes in customer behavior data from the use of traditional services (conversational and SMS services) to the data service, so in the future, we will focus more on developing data services business by strengthening our overall department.

Over the past 12 months, t elah Excelcomindo also add as many as 4084 BTS BTS (2G/3G) in Indonesia, where 1220 is a 3G BTS (3G base stations increased by 53% from 2301 to 3521 BTS BTS Jun10 Jun11). Total BTS (2G/3G) we Jun11 totaled 24,971 at the end of the BTS.

We have decided to accelerate the addition of network infrastructure for data services with consideration of the growing 3G mobile phone users in the 3G market and also the traffic generated. Our cash capital expenditures will reach about Rp 6 trillion, of which more than half will be allocated for data services, said Hasnul.

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