Millicom releases Q3 2015 results
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Cable footprint increases by 243,000 to 7.5 million
STOCKHOLM — Millicom International Cellular S.A. has released its Q3 2015 results.
Millicom’s CEO: “I am also pleased with the progress we are making in Home, our pay-TV, fixed broadband and telephony business. We are bringing the digital lifestyle into customers’ homes. Our target is to reach 10 million homes in the medium term. This quarter, we delivered an accelerated cable build-out with 304,000 new homes passed in HFC, nearly tripling that of the second quarter. We continued to add new customers at a strong rate across our DTH and cable footprint with pay-TV contributing most to the growth. One of our core strengths continues to be our ability to provide relevant local content for customers. In Colombia we now offer the local football league (“DIMAYOR”) on our fixed network and exclusively on mobile via the Tigo Sports app.”
Millicom has residential cable services in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Paraguay, Bolivia and Colombia.
Tigo’s newly launched satellite Direct To Home (DTH) pay TV takes its television and broadband services to new areas historically beyond the range of fixed cable and urban development, in Bolivia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras.
CABLE
Cable and Digital Media revenue grew strongly at 25.2%. Total revenue generating units (“RGUs”), excluding a cleansing of 72,000 passive RGUs at UNE, increased by 83,000 from Q2 2015 to 5.25 million.
Our cable footprint expanded by 243,000 to 7.5 million homes passed. The number of RGUs per household increased to 1.87x from 1.78x a year ago. Around 55% of our households were double or triple play, a ratio in line with the prior quarter. The ARPU per Homes Connected in Q3 was $26.0, 10% lower on a reported basis than Q2 2015 due to currency impact in UNE ARPU. Excluding UNE and currency impacts, the average ARPU was flat year-on-year.
South America – Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia
Cable continued to perform strongly increasing by 27.1% (excluding UNE). The number of HFC homes passed increased by 237,000 from 30 June 2015 with the ratio of RGUs / Homes Connected at 2.01x (1.90x a year ago).
Central America – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica
In Cable, the number of homes passed increased by 67,000 during the quarter and the ratio of RGUs / Homes Connected reached 1.51x, broadly flat compared to the previous quarter but an increase compared to the prior year ratio of 1.43x.
Cable RGUs
Q3 2015 Q2 2015 Q1 2015 Q4 2014 Q3 2014 % change ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- South America 3,770 3,797 3,778 3,677 3,658 3.1 Central America 1,102 1,069 1,052 1,027 986 11.7
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