Results Numericable – SFR: turbulence new group … – ITespresso.fr

“General Public”, “Company”, “Information Networks and Systems” and “Subcontracting and optimization overhead” … It identifies 15 sites in the four major categories for the new set Numericable. – SFR , which yesterday presented its financial results for the year 2014. While the merger was finally validated on 27 November

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The great work started internally. One is tempted to say, say sprucing given the number of managers who left the company or prompted to do so: there are 200 resignations since the arrival of the new management team led by Eric Denoyer

The union locals are concerned about the social destruction amid risk “re-organization / restructuring” (11 800 employees in the group). Suppliers and subcontractors of the operator are also under pressure because of the will of the operator to reduce operating costs.

According Silicon.fr, this sometimes involves “practical unknown on the French market and totally unacceptable. ” Digital Syntec calls for a “business to business mediation” face to identified problems.

No need to look the other way. To realize its ambitions to mount a large telecom group capable of measuring face Orange, Patrick Drahi , President of the investment holding Altice (and largest shareholder in Numericable, SFR has strengthened its position with the recent final withdrawal of Vivendi occurred since the end of 2014 financial statements) must mount a coherent and efficient telecom group in the medium term.

Given the consolidation that he supervised in the field of cable France (to arrive at a single cable operator Numericable) is a project that does not scare him.

With the presentation of the 2014 results, financial situation is tense. The new group (Group Numericable, SFR but Virgin Mobile and Telindus) achieved a turnover of 11.4 billion euros, down 5% compared to 2013. All target segments are affected: Residential (- 4.5%), business (- 6%), wholesale (- 6.6%)

The EBITDA indicator (shows if the day-to-day shows a profit or not) drop. from 11% to 3.1 billion. Especially due to ARPU (average revenue per user) at half mast for mobile clients: 22.5 euros (- 5.9%). The EBITDA margin was 27.1% of total revenues.

At the customer base, it’s complicated forehead mobility. SFR has lost customers in 2014. 22.94 million at 31 December (1.2% decrease)

On the fixed component (high and very high speed), it is more reassuring. Numericable, SFR claims about 6.6 million subscribers. The federated operator identifies 1,550,000 customers in THD (fiber deployment at home or FTTH, or foot of the building FTTLA mode), up 4.5% year on year.

But the proportion of ADSL customers (broadband) redescent at Level 5 million subscribers (- 1.4%), according to the synthesis Silicon.fr. ARPU is fixed at 34.1 euros (-0.6%)

Networks. Investments continue despite all

The Battle of networks continues. Due to its historical status of cable operator Numericable has a head start on high speed broadband. Numericable, SFR, claiming 6.4 million high-speed broadband lines (over 30 Mbit / s), appears as the first actor of very high speed in France.

Over the year, he deployed 800,000 new THD lines to over 100 Mbit / s and still ambitious to reach the end of 2017 12 million and 15 million end of 2020.

Side mobile networks, SFR must put the double bite against its competitors Orange and Bouygues Telecom ahead of 4G. If Numericable, SFR was successful in its goal to cover 50% of the population in 4G end of 2014, it plans to cover 70% of the population by the end of 2015.

Of all the year, a total investment of € 1.7 billion has been made to strengthen the network infrastructure (half of which was devoted to the renovation and deployment of fiber and mobile networks).

The configuration of group changes because of the Authority’s requirements of competition, who had accepted the merger with conditions. Numericable will in particular open its cable network to competing operators (ISPs, MVNOs).

A Reunion and Mayotte, Numericable will, moreover, give the French overseas handset business Telecom. On this last point, we learned this morning via an advanced Silicon.fr: exclusive negotiations started with Hiridjee Group, owner operator Telma Madagascar to sell mobile activities Outremer Telecom

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