[Iliad Press Release] Q3 2017 Revenues
16 Novembre 2017 - 7:30AM
Paris, November 16,
2017
THIRD-QUARTER 2017
REVENUES
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250,000 new mobile subscribers
during the quarter - the net growth being
fully attributable to the €19.99/month Free Mobile Plan -
making Free Mobile France's leading recruiter of mobile subscribers since its launch,
i.e., for almost six years[1]
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A record-breaking quarter for
FTTH connections with 64,000 new subscribers, making Free France's
leading alternative FTTH operator with a total of nearly 500,000
subscribers
KEY
OPERATING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AT SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Subscriber numbers |
Sept. 30, 2017 |
Sept. 30, 2016 |
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|
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Total mobile
subscribers |
13,390k |
12,385k |
|
7,400k |
5,300k |
|
|
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Total Broadband and
Ultra-Fast Broadband subscribers |
6,495k |
6,327k |
|
483k |
265k |
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|
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Total number of subscribers |
19,885k |
18,712k |
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|
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Other indicators |
Sept. 30, 2017 |
Sept. 30, 2016 |
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Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband
ARPU (in €) |
33.90 |
33.50 |
Freebox Revolution ARPU* (in €) |
>38.00 |
>38.00 |
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|
|
Number of connectible FTTH sockets |
5.6m |
4.0m |
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|
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Average 4G data usage (in GB per month per
subscriber) |
6.9 GB |
4.4 GB |
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|
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* Excluding
promotions
CONSOLIDATED THIRD-QUARTER 2017 REVENUES
In a fiercely competitive
operating environment, consolidated revenues rose 6.6% year on year
in the first nine months of 2017, to €3,710 million. During that
period, revenues for Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband
climbed 4.7% to €2,087 million and Mobile revenues advanced 9.0% to
€1,630 million.
The table below shows the
breakdown of consolidated revenues by category for the nine-month
and three-month periods ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 as well
as year-on-year percentage changes.
In € millions |
Nine months to Sept. 30, 2017 |
Nine months to Sept. 30, 2016 |
% change |
Q3 2017 |
Q3 2016 |
% change |
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Mobile |
1,630 |
1,495 |
+9.0% |
554 |
521 |
+6.3% |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Landline |
2,087 |
1,994 |
+4.7% |
694 |
665 |
+4.4% |
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|
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|
|
|
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|
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Intra-group sales |
(7) |
(9) |
-22.2% |
(2) |
(3) |
-33.3% |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Total consolidated revenues |
3,710 |
3,480 |
+6.6% |
1,246 |
1,183 |
+5.3% |
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Landline revenues
Despite persistently fierce
competition and numerous promotions launched by competitors, the
Group's revenues from Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband activities
rose 4.4% to €694 million in third-quarter 2017. The significant
events of the quarter for the Landline business were as
follows:
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Consolidation of the
Group's position as France's leading alternative operator, with 27,000 net adds
during the quarter bringing the total Broadband and Ultra-Fast
Broadbrand subscriber base to nearly 6.5 million.
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Ongoing excellent momentum for
expanding the Group's FTTH coverage. With some 300,000 new connectible FTTH
sockets added during the quarter, the Group had a total of 5.6
million at September 30, 2017.
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A record-breaking quarter in
terms of FTTH subscriber connections, with 64,000 new subscribers
added. In accordance with its commitments, the Group continued
to accelerate its FTTH connections, despite the summer vacation
period. Since the beginning of 2017 it has connected 173,000 new
subscribers - more than for the whole of 2016 - affirming its
position as France's leading alternative FTTH operator, with a
total of nearly half a million subscribers.
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Broadband and Ultra-Fast
Broadband ARPU at €33.90, representing an increase of
40 euro cents compared with the third quarter of 2016. ARPU
for the Freebox Revolution offer once again exceeded €38[2].
Mobile revenues
Revenues for the Mobile business
rose 6.3% year on year to €554 million in third-quarter 2017,
reflecting a robust commercial performance. The significant events
of the quarter for the Mobile business were as follows:
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A higher number of net adds
than in the last two quarters, with 250,000 new subscribers for the
Group's mobile offers. Free is the only
operator in France to offer unlimited calls, texts/MMS and 4G (for
Freebox subscribers) for less than €20 per month and now has close
to 13.4 million mobile subscribers. In the third quarter of 2017,
Free had the highest number of net adds in France for the
23rd consecutive
quarter. At September 30, 2017, the Group had an 18.7%[3] share of
the French mobile market, one point higher than a year
earlier.
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Another improvement in the
subscriber mix, with a decrease in subscribers on the €2/month plan
(€0 for Freebox subscribers) for the second quarter in a row
due to the net growth in third-quarter 2017 being fully
attributable to the €19.99/month Free Mobile Plan
(€15.99/month for Freebox subscribers).
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Further confirmation that the
Group's 4G network is an industry benchmark
with total 4G subscribers amounting to 7.4 million at end-September
2017. This 600,000 increase during the third quarter of 2017
also reflects the excellent level of net adds for the €19.99/month
Free Mobile Plan (€15.99 for Freebox subscribers). In addition,
users of the Group's 4G network have one of the highest monthly
data usage rates in Europe, at nearly 7 GB per subscriber, which
represents an increase of almost 60% in the space of one year.
These achievements illustrate the quality of Free Mobile's 4G
network, as demonstrated by the fact that Free obtained the best
score for 4G connections in France in the nPerf mobile connections
performance survey for the 10th consecutive
quarter.
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Ongoing deployment of 4G
frequencies, with 1,100 sites newly equipped to use
1,800 MHz, 100 new sites equipped for 700 MHz and 560 sites
for 2,600 MHz. The Group's deployment drive has enabled it to raise
its 4G coverage rate by six percentage points since the beginning
of the year and at September 30, 2017 its 4G network covered more
than 84% of the French population. In parallel, the Group is
continuing to roll out its 3G network and now has a total of 11,300
sites, representing an increase of over 1,000 during the quarter.
This drove a 2-point rise in the 3G coverage rate compared with
June 30, 2017, with the Group's 3G network now covering nearly
93% of the French population.
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A 7.5% increase in Mobile
services revenues in third-quarter 2017. This
growth figure would have been over 10% for the
period without the negative impacts of (i) a decrease in
incoming revenues due to lower volumes of text messages as mobile
data usage rises, and (ii) the loss of revenues resulting from the
move to once again enhance the Free Mobile Plan by increasing the
mobile Internet roaming allowance to 25 GB per month.
Alternative operator: An operator that entered the
market subsequent to the incumbent State operator losing its
monopoly.
Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband ARPU (Average Revenue
Per Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband User): Includes
revenues from the flat-rate package and value-added services but
excludes one-time revenues (e.g., fees for migration from one offer
to another or subscription and cancellation fees), divided by the
total number of Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband subscribers
invoiced for the period.
Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband subscribers:
Subscribers who have signed up for the Group's ADSL, VDSL or FTTH
offerings.
Connectible FTTH socket: A socket for which
the link between the shared access point and the optical splitter
has been put in place by the building operator, which the Group can
access in accordance with its co-financing commitments, and for
which the connection to the Group's network has been completed or
is in progress.
Freebox Revolution ARPU (Average Revenue Per Freebox
Revolution Subscriber, excluding promotions): Includes
revenues from the flat-rate package and value-added services but
excludes one-time revenues (e.g., fees for migration from one offer
to another or subscription and cancellation fees), divided by the
total number of Freebox Revolution subscribers invoiced for the
period.
FTTH (fiber-to-the-home): Data delivery technology
that directly connects subscribers' homes to an optical node
(ON).
M2M: Machine to machine communications.
Mobile services revenues: Mobile revenues excluding
handset sales.
Net adds: Represents the difference between total
subscribers at the end of two different periods.
Total Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband
subscribers: Represents, at the end of a period, the total
number of subscribers, identified by their telephone lines or
optical fiber, who have signed up for Free's or Alice's Broadband
or Ultra-Fast Broadband service, excluding those recorded as having
requested the termination of their subscription.
Total mobile subscribers: Represents, at the end of
a period, the total number of subscribers, identified by their
telephone lines, who have subscribed to a Free mobile offering,
excluding those recorded as having requested the termination of
their subscription.
About
Iliad
Iliad is the
parent company of Free, the inventor of the Freebox, the first
multiservice box on ADSL. Free is behind numerous innovations in
the Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband access segment (VoIP, IPTV,
flat-rate calling plans to multiple destinations, etc.) and
provides straightforward and innovative offerings at the best
prices. For example, the Freebox Revolution, the 6th generation
of Freebox units, includes an NAS and a Blu-RayTM drive,
and the Freebox mini 4K was the first Android TVTM and
4K box on the French market. Free was the first operator to
include calls from landlines to mobile phones in its offerings and
also calls to French overseas departments (DOM). Since
January 2012, Free has brought mobile phone usage within
everyone's reach with straightforward, no-commitment offerings at
very attractive prices. The Free Mobile Plan includes roaming
communications all year round from more than 35 countries
(unlimited calls, texts and MMS as well as 25GB/month of
3G mobile Internet from these destinations). Free also
includes unlimited 4G in its €15.99 plan for Freebox subscribers.
As at September 30, 2017, Free had nearly 20 million
subscribers (6.5 million Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband
subscribers and 13.4 million mobile subscribers).
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[1] Metropolitan France excluding M2M; Company
estimate.
[2] Excluding promotions.
[3] Metropolitan France excluding M2M; Company
estimate.
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