Telstra Half Year ended 31 December 2012
Thursday, February 7th, 2013MELBOURNE, Australia — Telstra Corporation Limited has released Financial Results for the Half Year ended 31 December 2012.
TV revenue grew by 0.9% to $333 million, driven primarily by IPTV Content (BigPond® Movies and Foxtel on T-Box®). Cable revenue increased by 5.2% to $61 milllion primarily due to higher FOXTEL revenue from cable customers.
Telstra has sold over 450,000 T-Box and 456,000 T-Hubs, with customers downloading over 2.4 million movies in the last 6 months.
Services in operation (SIOs):
Half year ended Dec 12 vs Dec 11 Dec 12 vs Jun 12 ---------------------------- ---------------- ---------------- Dec 2012 Jun 2012 Dec 2011 Change Change Change Change ('000) ('000) ('000) ('000) % ('000) % -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Pay TV bundling SIOs 507 501 504 3 0.6 6 1.2 T-Hub® Sales* 456 360 293 163 55.6 96 26.7 T-Box® Sales* 456 388 289 167 57.8 68 17.5
* Units sold are life to date.
FOXTEL
The key focus of FOXTEL, a joint venture between News Corporation and Telstra, continues to be on the growth of its subscriber base which was up 1.7% in the period to just under 2.3m. For FOXTEL the first half of 2013 included a full six months contribution from the acquisition of AUSTAR.
1H12* 1H13 Growth ------ ------ ------ Residential subscribers 2,232k 2,270k 1.7%
* Proforma Foxtel + Austar after eliminations
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