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Airtel hits 14% growth in revenues to US$659M in East Africa

The Exchange by The Exchange
November 9, 2020
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Airtel recorded a 14 per cent growth in revenue to US$659M in East Africa for the six months ending September citing an increase in subscribers.

According to Airtel’s financial report, voice revenues saw a growth of 5.4 per cent to $312 million across the East African market which includes Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi and Zambia.

Data service recorded a 21.2 per cent growth in revenues to $ 174 million while mobile money as well saw a 33.2 per cent growth in revenues to $132 million during the period under review.

The telecom said that the double growth in revenue is due to an increase in subscriber numbers from 12.1 million to 14.9 million as well as 4G infrastructure network expansion from 60 per cent to 68.6 per cent of the sites in the period under review.

“Our mobile network in Uganda, Zambia and Malawi now consists of 100 per cent of 4G sites. The total data usage on our network grew by 83.8 per cent and 4G data usage almost tripled and now contributes 44.6 per cent to the total data usage. Data usage per customer reached 2.6GB, up by 49.1 per cent from 1.7GB per customer in the previous period.” the firm said in a statement

Its operating profits grew by 66 per cent to US$184M as well as the free cash flow which increased by 21.9 per cent to US$211M.

Also read: Airtel Rwanda reduces prices by 90%

Source: GeoPoll

Airtel Africa operations in Nigeria and Francophone countries also recorded a double growth in voice revenues to US$972M from US$954M. Mobile money revenues increased by 24.3 per cent to US$181M while data revenues increased by 26.4 per cent to US$548M in the six months to September.

Airtel Africa recorded an overall growth of 10.7 per cent to US$1,825M. As a result of strong revenue growth and lower operating expenditures in proportion to revenue, the telecom’s operating profit for the half-year was US$472M, an increase of 19.5 per cent.

“We remain alert to the potential for further disruptions from a second wave of COVID-19 across Africa, and the associated actions of governments to minimise contagion. The firm is in a strong financial position to capture the opportunities in a fast-growing region that is vastly underpenetrated in terms of mobile and banking services.” said Raghunath Mandava, chief executive officer at Airtel Africa.

The total revenue of the London Stock Exchange-listed telco increased by 11.2 per cent to US$3,422M.

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