News Airtel DTH revenue up 19% on higher subscriber additions & ARPU

[Technoglitch]

The 31 December, 2015 deadline for Digital Addressable System (DAS) Phase III has been a boost for the carriage industry in subscriber additions, revenues, and operating profits. Buoyed by the government’s decision to stick to deadlines for digitisation, the direct-to-home (DTH) industry in India is continuing its bloom run, if one were to go by the results reported by Bharti Airtel for its Digital TV services (Airtel DTH) for the quarter ended 31 December, 2015 (Q3-2016, current quarter).

Revenue in Q3-2016 increased 19 per cent to Rs 742.2 crore, up 19 per cent YoY as compared to Rs 623.4 crore. EBIDTA for Q3-2016 grew 45 per cent to Rs 247.4 crore (33.3 per cent margin) as compared to Rs 170.7 crore (27.4 per cent margin).

The segment’s subscriber base grew 13.2 per cent YoY to 111.06 lakh in the current quarter as compared to 98.10 lakh and grew five per cent as compared to 105.76 lakh in the immediate preceding quarter. Though in US dollar terms, average revenue per user (ARPU) was constant YoY and QoQ at $3.5, in Indian rupees it has increased seven per cent YoY to Rs 229 from Rs 214 and increased two per cent QoQ from Rs 224. Given that the deadline for DAS phase III was 31 December, 2015, Airtel DTH segment reported 5.30 lakh net subscriber additions in the current quarter, which was almost double (1.96 times) the 2.70 lakh subscriber additions in Q3-2015 and more than triple (3.2 times) the 1.64 lakh subscribers added in Q2-2016.

Subscriber churn in Q3-2016 was lower at 0.7 per cent as compared to one per cent in Q3-2015 and 1.3 per cent in the immediate trailing quarter.

Airtel’s CAPEX for its DTH segment more than doubled (by 2.1 times) to Rs 342.2 crore as compared to Rs 163 crore in Q3-2015. Airtel’s cumulative investments in its DTH segment increased 17 per cent YoY to Rs 6177 crore as compared to Rs 5494.8 crore.


Note: 100,00,000 = 100 lakh = 10 million = 1 crore

Indian Television Dot Com | Airtel DTH revenue up 19% on higher subscriber additions & ARPU

 

[Prateek Marwadi]

in my area people are leaving adtv and here subscribers added 3 times and 2 times as in comparison with Q2 and Q3 respectively.

i still have a doubt. adtv provides all hd channels along with ur base pack @ 251 rs. only in ur secondary/multi connections.

and other dth operators charged for first/ primary connection also.

then also other dth capex have not been unfolded. y ???

 

[THAKUR]

The 31 December, 2015 deadline for Digital Addressable System (DAS) Phase III has been a boost for the carriage industry in subscriber additions, revenues, and operating profits. Buoyed by the government’s decision to stick to deadlines for digitisation, the direct-to-home (DTH) industry in India is continuing its bloom run, if one were to go by the results reported by Bharti Airtel for its Digital TV services (Airtel DTH) for the quarter ended 31 December, 2015 (Q3-2016, current quarter).

Revenue in Q3-2016 increased 19 per cent to Rs 742.2 crore, up 19 per cent YoY as compared to Rs 623.4 crore. EBIDTA for Q3-2016 grew 45 per cent to Rs 247.4 crore (33.3 per cent margin) as compared to Rs 170.7 crore (27.4 per cent margin).

Note: 100,00,000 = 100 lakh = 10 million = 1 crore

The segment’s subscriber base grew 13.2 per cent YoY to 111.06 lakh in the current quarter as compared to 98.10 lakh and grew five per cent as compared to 105.76 lakh in the immediate preceding quarter. Though in US dollar terms, average revenue per user (ARPU) was constant YoY and QoQ at $3.5, in Indian rupees it has increased seven per cent YoY to Rs 229 from Rs 214 and increased two per cent QoQ from Rs 224. Given that the deadline for DAS phase III was 31 December, 2015, Airtel DTH segment reported 5.30 lakh net subscriber additions in the current quarter, which was almost double (1.96 times) the 2.70 lakh subscriber additions in Q3-2015 and more than triple (3.2 times) the 1.64 lakh subscribers added in Q2-2016.

Subscriber churn in Q3-2016 was lower at 0.7 per cent as compared to one per cent in Q3-2015 and 1.3 per cent in the immediate trailing quarter.

Airtel’s CAPEX for its DTH segment more than doubled (by 2.1 times) to Rs 342.2 crore as compared to Rs 163 crore in Q3-2015. Airtel’s cumulative investments in its DTH segment increased 17 per cent YoY to Rs 6177 crore as compared to Rs 5494.8 crore.
Indian Television Dot Com | Airtel DTH revenue up 19% on higher subscriber additions & ARPU

 

[THAKUR]

The 31 December, 2015 deadline for Digital Addressable System (DAS) Phase III has been a boost for the carriage industry in subscriber additions, revenues, and operating profits. Buoyed by the government’s decision to stick to deadlines for digitisation, the direct-to-home (DTH) industry in India is continuing its bloom run, if one were to go by the results reported by Bharti Airtel for its Digital TV services (Airtel DTH) for the quarter ended 31 December, 2015 (Q3-2016, current quarter).

Revenue in Q3-2016 increased 19 per cent to Rs 742.2 crore, up 19 per cent YoY as compared to Rs 623.4 crore. EBIDTA for Q3-2016 grew 45 per cent to Rs 247.4 crore (33.3 per cent margin) as compared to Rs 170.7 crore (27.4 per cent margin).

Note: 100,00,000 = 100 lakh = 10 million = 1 crore

The segment’s subscriber base grew 13.2 per cent YoY to 111.06 lakh in the current quarter as compared to 98.10 lakh and grew five per cent as compared to 105.76 lakh in the immediate preceding quarter. Though in US dollar terms, average revenue per user (ARPU) was constant YoY and QoQ at $3.5, in Indian rupees it has increased seven per cent YoY to Rs 229 from Rs 214 and increased two per cent QoQ from Rs 224. Given that the deadline for DAS phase III was 31 December, 2015, Airtel DTH segment reported 5.30 lakh net subscriber additions in the current quarter, which was almost double (1.96 times) the 2.70 lakh subscriber additions in Q3-2015 and more than triple (3.2 times) the 1.64 lakh subscribers added in Q2-2016.

Subscriber churn in Q3-2016 was lower at 0.7 per cent as compared to one per cent in Q3-2015 and 1.3 per cent in the immediate trailing quarter.

Airtel’s CAPEX for its DTH segment more than doubled (by 2.1 times) to Rs 342.2 crore as compared to Rs 163 crore in Q3-2015. Airtel’s cumulative investments in its DTH segment increased 17 per cent YoY to Rs 6177 crore as compared to Rs 5494.8 crore.

Indian Television Dot Com | Airtel DTH revenue up 19% on higher subscriber additions & ARPU

 

[Teufel]

Someone has just posted it few minutes earlier. Do you check before posting, bro ?

 

[Technoglitch]

in my area people are leaving adtv and here subscribers added 3 times and 2 times as in comparison with Q2 and Q3 respectively.

i still have a doubt. adtv provides all hd channels along with ur base pack @ 251 rs. only in ur secondary/multi connections.

and other dth operators charged for first/ primary connection also.

then also other dth capex have not been unfolded. y ???

capex?

 

[Technoglitch]

Someone has just posted it few minutes earlier. Do you check before posting, bro ?

he never does that.

 

[Prateek Marwadi]

capex?

capital expenditure bro

 

[Deepu]

For Airtel Digital TV, the fiscal third quarter has been outstanding in terms of subscriber growth. The DTH arm of Bharti Airtel added 530,000 net subscribers, its highest in the last 18 quarters.

Average revenue per user (ARPU) saw modest increase to Rs 229 due to higher HD penetration and upselling of packs.

Operating profit grew 45% to Rs 247.4 crore (Rs 2.47 billion) from Rs 170.7 crore (Rs 1.71 billion) a year ago. The QoQ increase was 5.59% as EBITDA in the second quarter of the fiscal stood at Rs 234.3 crore (Rs 2.34 billion).

EBITDA margin at 33.3% in the current quarter compared to 33.1% in the trailing quarter and 27.4% a year ago.
The DTH operator’s EBIT jumped 216% to Rs 53.8 crore (Rs 538 million) in the current quarter compared to Rs 17 crore (Rs 170 million) in the preceding quarter. The company reported EBIT loss of Rs 36 crore (Rs 360 million) in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.

Read more at: http://www.televisionpost.com/dth/airtel-digital-tv-adds-530000-subs-in-q3-ebitda-at-rs-247-cr/ | TelevisionPost.com

 

[IndianMascot]

That's nice. Upcoming channel additions will further enhance this figures.