Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service     by Ian Colville       Home         Topics: Main | VoIP | Wireless | Undersea Cables | Security | IPTV | MSOs | CDNs  | Ethernet | Mergers  | Financials  | People  | Europe | Canada | China | Japan | Korea | India | Latin America | Archive   France Telecom Reaches 182 million Customers Accesses The France Telecom Group reported consolidated revenues of 22.144 billion euros for the first half of 2010, down 2.2% on a comparable basis. EBITDA was 7.745 billion euros for a margin of 35.0%, with the erosion limited to 0.9 points on a comparable basis. The company confirmed its ambition for organic cash-flow generation for 2010 and 2011. Capital expenditure was 2.114 billion euros in the first half, for a CAPEX rate of 9.5% of revenues organic cash flow of 3.989 billion euros in the first half of 2010. Some highlights: A total year-on-year increase in the customer base of 3.8%, with 182 million customers at 30 June 2010 There was a 6.6% growth in the mobile customer base to 123.1 million customers at 30 June 2010, driven by Africa and the Middle East with a combined total of 34.0 million customers at 30 June 2010, an increase of 18.4% year on year. There was a 2.2% growth in ADSL broadband subscribers (13.2 million customers) and rapid growth of digital TV with 3.6 million subscribers at 30 June 2010, a year-on-year increase of 34% In France, broadband ARPU grew by 4.6% to 36.6 euros per month. The company's Pay TV customer base reached 1,687,000 vs 1,619,000 at the end of March 2010. Orange Cinema Series + Orange Sport had about 752,000 subs. The company experienced stable first half 2010 revenues compared with the first half of 2009 excluding the effects of regulation, an improvement after the 0.9% downturn recorded in the second half of 2009: There was a very strong growth of 8.0% in Africa and the Middle East driven mainly by the 29% increase from new operations. Growth of operations in France (+0.3%, including +4.0% growth in mobile services), Spain (+2.5%, including +3.7% growth in mobile services), Poland (an improvement of 1.8 points to -3.4%, following -5.2% in the second half of 2009) and the other European countries (+0.9%), led by Belgium. France Telecom will propose a dividend of €1.40 per share for the fiscal years 2010, 2011 and 2012, subject to a vote in favour of these payments by shareholders at the relevant Annual General Meetings. http://www.orange.com 29-Jul-10     No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Service Provider News Australia's Nextgen Networks Tests 100G with Alcatel-Lucent 9/7/2010 Arbitration Tribunal Rules Against Telekomunikacja Polska 9/6/2010 BT's Openreach to Test Fibre Nomination Scheme 9/6/2010 China Telecom Americas Joins CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchange 9/3/2010 MegaPath + Covad + Speakeasy Merger Completed 9/1/2010 AT&T Sells Japan Domestic Network Operations to IIJ 9/1/2010 euNetworks Builds Low-Latency Trading Net in London 9/1/2010 Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network Launches 8/31/2010 NTT America Deploys VMware for Offering Cloud Services 8/31/2010 SingTel Launches Services over NGNBN Fibre 8/31/2010 Ridgemont Equity to Acquire Majority Stake in Unite Private Networks 8/31/2010 Singapore's M1 Offers 1 Gbps Residential Service 8/31/2010 Verizon Business Extends Cloud Services with VMware 8/31/2010 Verizon Boosts DSL to 10-15 Mbps Downstream 8/30/2010 Equinix Plans $63M Data Center in Hong Kong 8/30/2010 > More news...     Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Improving the Backbone with Dual Redundant SIP Service by Ian Colville Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras