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The firm made a net profit after royalty of Dh326.9 million ($89 million) in the three months to September 30, compared with Dh244.3 million in the year-earlier period, according to a company statement.
Du provisions to pay 50 per cent of its profits in royalties — or taxes — to the federal government, with the government usually deciding the actual royalty rate after the financial year has ended.
Analysts polled by Reuters on average forecast du would make a quarterly profit of Dh333.3 million.
Quarterly revenue was Dh2.52 billion. This compares to Dh2.23 billion a year ago.
“Financial performance during the third quarter was stable, with a solid improvement in data usage,” chief executive Osman Sultan said in the statement. “This reflects the global trend, which indicates a shift of some voice revenues to data.”
Third-quarter mobile data revenue nearly doubled to Dh323 million from a year ago. Overall mobile revenue rose 13 per cent over the same period to Dh1.94 billion to provide about three-quarters of du’s total revenue.
Du’s net profit margin before royalty was 25.9 per cent in the third quarter, up from 21.9 per cent a year ago.
The telecoms operator had 5.96 million mobile subscribers on September 30, adding 227,800 in the quarter. This gave it a 46.5 per cent share of the UAE’s mobile subscribers, the same as in the second quarter. Mobile penetration at 149 per cent or almost 1.5 subscriptions for every UAE resident.
The operator’s fixed subscribers stood at 555,000 at quarter-end, up 1.5 per cent from the previous quarter. Quarter on quarter, overheads rose to Dh752 million from Dh733 million.
“Operationally, we maintained control on overheads, although we saw certain costs increase due to seasonality and with the initialisation of outsourcing arrangements,” Sultan added.
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