More customers and more profit for Belgacom

Belgacom wanted to expand in the first nine months of 2007 its customers truce, and down a net growth in profits of thirteen per cent jotted. The total number ADSL-customers lies now on 1.201.853. For mobile telefonie, that number lies on just no 4.5 million.

There stands opposite that the number fixed telephone line in going out fall has been hit. Since this year begin has the business 157,000 less fixed lines. One of the causes of that that surfers is want to have now no full telephone line more necessarily for their ADSL-connection with someone else provider.

Despite the greeting of 78,110 new customers in the third quarter, fell the total yield by Proximus back at the same time 3.8 per cent until 1,554 million Euros. The operator earns through here 39.8 Euros per month per customer in comparison with 41.1 Euros a year ago. The operator blames this on the drop of the terminatierates and the lowered roaming-expenses that since this summer of power are. Striking is have been increased that the yields from data. Totally they just no quarter of the total earnings from mobile telefonie.

For ADSL ascended yields with twelve per cent. That increase is to be thanked at the 74,000 new broad tie customers, in combination with a rise in prices of two per cent. Because of this alley the average yield per customer slightly with two per cent until 32.30 Euros.

Digital televisions doubled

Belgacom TV got in totally 19 million Euros more in then last year. The earnings per customer ascended with 36 per cent and there came since January 109,769 new customers by. The half of that comes thanks otherwise exclusively from the last three months, what the group on its extensive offer. In total have the digital-television services of the business now just no 250,000 customers.

Earnings from ICT ascended this year with 6.2 per cent in comparison with the first nine months of 2006. That come mainly from the Telindus Group and services as hosting and protection. Also names Belgacom recent yet the Dutch ISIT about.

For the whole year 2007, the business keeps its expectations. For fixed telefonie and ADSL, that eddy comes on a yield drop ofper cent, for which the business most wisely to the lowered rates of fixed lines to mobile numbers. The yield drop by Proximus becomes geschat on four per cent.