French mobile and broadband operator Bouygues Telecom added 73,000 mobile customers in the fourth quarter of 2014, taking its total to 11.12 million at the end of the year. This included postpaid mobile customers up by 99,000 to reach 10.13 million. Some 28 percent of Bouygues’ mobile customers used LTE at the end of 2014, compared with 9 percent a year earlier. The average LTE user consumed 2.2 GB of data a month. Fixed broadband customers grew by 110,000 in the fourth quarter to reach 2.43 million at the end of December, up by 415,000 (21%) on a year earlier. Overall mobile and fixed customers grew by 393,000 in 2014 year to reach 13.55 million.
Bouygues Telecom reported EUR 4.4 million of sales in 2014, including EUR 3.9 billion of service revenue, down 5 percent and 7 percent, respectively, on 2013. EBITDA declined by EUR 186 million, to EUR 694 million, but the operator met its target of EUR 10 million EBITDA minus Capex. The company reported a EUR 65 million current operating loss and a EUR 41 million net loss. The operator expects EBITDA to remain stable this year, with capital expenditure rising slightly due to fixed network expansion and an agreement to share part of its mobile network with Numericable-SFR. The agreement could generate around EUR 200 million in write-downs this year.
