Articles tagged with: Q Telecom and Weather

WIND Hellas - Budget brand continues to burgeon

The Weather Investments-backed company WIND Hellas operates two brands in Greece, WIND and q-telecom. The combined customer total of the two was 5.27m at the end of Q1 09, a gain of 73k in the quarter and 687k in the year. Both of these figures showed improvements compared to the year-earlier figures of 59k and 418k respectively. On a proportionate basis, annual growth stood at 15.0%, up from 10.0% for the prior twelve-month period.  more

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Wind Group - ARPU holds up in Italy as Greek business improves profitability

Both European subsidiaries of Naguib SawirisĂ' Weather Investments have recently reported first quarter results, both showing net subscriber growth of less than 2% in the traditionally slow first quarter. In Greece, the combined total of WIND Hellas and prepaid-only unit q-telecom recorded an increase of just 1.3% in Q1. Meanwhile in Italy, WIND managed 1.9% growth, although there is an error margin here of more than 0.3pp due to the fact that customers tnumbers are only released to the nearest 0.1m.  more

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