Belgacom expects difficult year
Belgacom posted expects in 2006 a higher net profit then. The volume of trade ascended with 7.1 per cent until 6.1 billion euro. This year the furrow Belgacom becomes to not to do obviously it just good. As the mobile operator Proximus in 2007 would post possibly 5 , 7 per cent less volume of trade, while the volumes of trade of the fixed line services go down will with 1 , 2 per cent.
The obetained sales of 6.1 billion euro lies in line with the average expectation of 6.07 billion euro. The net profit of 973 million Euros lies then again a lot more high than expects (namely 1,4%). That results in a profit per share of 2.87 Euros. The growth would be, to thank especially at the sale of enterprises and participations.
In the mobile telefonie, Belgacom-daughter Proximus succeeded to win there the voorbije year in round 58,000 new customers. Also BelgacomTV does it properly good: end last year bred the digital television service approximately 140,000 customers. Also this year expects Belgacom that the number TV-customers at one and the same rhythm rises (with an average monthly sales of 15 Euros per customer).
Aanwervingsstop”
Before hit also known that the Belgacom-groups, that next to Proximus also IT-integrator Telindus contain, it against 2011 with 1,500 less staff members should dig up. A fear that lived through the integration of Proximus, Telindus and Skynet already longer by the Belgacom-personnel. By Belgacom work in totally 18,000 men. Only of according to Belgacom-senior official Didier Rindes no talk will dismissed forced be. Rindes said this during the press conferences the year from now figures of the telecomgroep. 'Because of the sore concurrentile market must we our internal structure efficinter organize.' Rindes referred also to the forced drop of the prices, under influence of telecomregulator BIPT, through which an efficintere, gentegreerde organization is necessary.
Assistant secretary of public Enterprises Bruno Tuybens (socialist party. a) watch firstly the social thought off before he self want to pronounce about the number of jobs that possibly would disappear. Already there are, according to Tuybens, in any case a number synergien that happen must. Also Tuybens emphasizes that it no naked dismissed will fall.
Or there in the near future new take-over purchases follow, wanted to have said Rindes not. 'Belgacom is genteresseerd in each new market. Only I see it on this moment no', according to yet Rindes.