América Móvil adds 158,000 Pay TV units in 2015

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
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MEXICO CITY — América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (“América Móvil”) [BMV: AMX] [NYSE: AMX] [NASDAQ: AMOV] [LATIBEX: XAMXL], announced today its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter of 2015.

Fourth quarter revenues were up 0.6% from the prior year to 231 billion pesos. Service revenues declined 0.6% year-on year at constant exchange rates, in line with the preceding two quarters. Wireless data revenues expanded 10.3%, fixed data 7.9% and PayTV revenues 6.6%.

We ended the year with 367 million access lines. This figure—0.3% lower than last year’s on account of mobile disconnections—comprises 286 million wireless subscribers, 35 million landlines, 24 million broadband accesses and 22 million PayTV units.

At the end of the year we had 80.8 million RGUs, 3.1% more than a year before, after adding 2.8 million net RGUs including 669 thousand broadband accesses, 571 thousand landlines and 158 thousand PayTV units.

The total number of PayTV units was up 1.0% in spite of Brazil’s disconnections of 240 thousand units.

América Móvil’s consolidated wireline subsidiaries as of December 2015:

  • Telmex – Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador
  • Claro – Brazil, Dominicana, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay
  • Telekom Austria