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Articles tagged with: Ais and Arpu
Thailand's AIS profits up despite prepaid slowdown
ShinCorp holds investments in mobile networks in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. ais, the Thai market leader, is by far the largest operation of these three, with a customer base of 26.77m at the end of Q3 08. The Laotian operation Laotel had just under 0.80m customers at the end of the quarter, while Cambodian operation Camshin had 0.71m. However, the two smaller networks are growing in importance: their proportion of ShincorpĂ's total mobile base increased from 4.5% at the end of Q3 07 to 5.4% a year later. ais saw quarterly net additions of 0.81m, up from 0.51m in the year-earlier quarter. The contract base grew strongly with 0.15m net additions, the highest figure in six quarters, and finished Q3 with 2.49m customers. more
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Thailand's TrueMove Grows Falters on Unfavourable Tariffs
Third-placed Thai mobile operator TrueMove turned in its weakest net additions performance for more than two years in Q1 2008 with just 368k new customers joining its service, compared with an average of 1.1m per quarter in 2007. As a result, proportionate growth fell from 7.4% in Q1 07 and 7.5% in Q4 07 to 3.0% in Q1 08, taking the customer base to 12.45m. more
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AIS - Removal of bad debtors helps to boost profits
First quarter operating profit at Thai mobile market leader ais has risen 26% year on year to Bht7.66bn as low SG&A costs complemented a 21.9% increase in overall revenues. The progress came partly on the back of a programme to reduce bad debt, and therefore bad debt provisions, which saw the postpaid churn rate soar last year as offending accounts were disconnected. This extraordinary gain was complemented by an accounting change relating to the amortisation of goodwill - again, a one-off effect - as well as a general drive to reduce marketing spend as a percentage of revenues. more
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Thailand AIS - Credit-Control Crunch Catapults Contract Churn
Full-year results from Thai market leader ais show the company to have ended 2007 with a customer base of 24.1m, up from 19.5m a year earlier. In proportionate terms, the year's growth amounted to 23.5% of the 2006 total, the best performance by the company since 2003. The growth rate still lagged behind rival DTAC, which registered a 32.9% increase, but in absolute terms the growth amounted to a greater number of net additions - 4.58m against DTAC's 3.90m - extending ais' lead over DTAC from 7.65m to 8.33m customers over the course of the 12 months to 31st December 2007. more
Record-breaking quarter for Truecorp but AIS still leads
ais and Truecorp, Thailand's 1st and 3rd largest operators respectively, have reported their third quarter results for 2007. ais maintained a customer base over twice the size of that of Truecorp, but only just: with 23.3m customers, ais was 107% larger than Truecorp, which had 11.2m customers. A year previously, ais was 162% larger, and even at the end of Q2 the ratio was 1.5 to 1. more
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