Proximus completes the first half of the year on "performing results"

Proximus announced Friday to end a solid first half of the year on strong results in the second quarter, can read in a statement of the group. Despite the opening of the Belgian market to a fourth mobile operator in 2019, Proximus confirms its forecasts for 2018.

Proximus continued to expand its customer base for the Internet and television, thanks mainly to a " strong performance of Scarlet, the discounted brand "of the group and" to the continued success of Tuttimus / Bizz All-in offers, which totaled 439,000 customers at the end of June 2018 ". [19659002] The number of unique TV customers amounted to 1,584,000 (+ 9,000 new subscriptions in the second quarter of 2018, + 3.3% year-on-year) while the number of fixed-line subscribers reached 2,002 .000 end of June (+6,000 lines, + 2.2%). As for the fixed line, its figure was 2,569,000 (+25,000 lines, -3.8%). The Mobile Postpaid customer base also increased by 45,000 cards (+ 2.9%), to 3,952,000 cards in total. The number of prepaid cards amounted to 886,000 at the end of June 2018 (-39,000, -16.4%).

In the second quarter of 2018, Proximus achieved an underlying domestic turnover of 1,144 million, 0.8% more than the same period in 2017, and an EBITDA of 454 million (+ 5.5%).

" For the first half of 2018, the Group EBITDA was up 3.6%, slightly above our expectations, driven by a few favorable single-markings at the direct margin level, based on our estimates for the remainder of the year. again our forecasts for the whole year 2018: we should end the year on a Group ebitda growth and a virtually stable domestic turnover ", said Dominique Leroy, CEO of Proximus. "In the coming months, we will work intensively on the development of different scenarios anticipating the possible arrival of a 4th operator and the potential consequences for Proximus," she added.