For the year ended 31st March, net profit of the company rose by 39.82% at Rs1,010.93 crore as compared to Rs722.99 crore in the previous fiscal
Mobile operator Idea Cellular Thursday reported jump of nearly 29% in its consolidated net profit at Rs308.18 crore for the fourth quarter ended 31st March, driven by growth in voice minutes and high data usage.
The company's net profit stood at Rs238.98 crore net profit in the same period last fiscal.
Total revenues for the company during the January-March 2013 quarter rose by 12.88% at Rs6,061.38 crore from Rs5,369.69 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal.
For the year ended 31st March, net profit of the company rose by 39.82% at Rs1,010.93 crore as compared to Rs722.99 crore in the last year.
“The high revenue growth is led by sharp expansion of voice minutes at 8.5% to 143.4 billion, on sequential quarterly basis, indicating consumer demand for mobile telephony is robust,” the company said in a statement.
Idea’s net profit from international long distance grew to Rs8.82 crore, from Rs5.86 crore.
“The Q4, FY13 has the highest data adoption by Idea customers' with 4.5 million sequential quarter addition, as the EoP base of data users grew to 26.2 million, now contributing 6.6% to service revenue,” the statement said.
The active 3G subscriber base for the company stands at 5.1 million and average revenue per user for data stands at Rs55, it added.
“Idea continues to strengthen its competitive standing by investing in long term value creators, launched 2,432 GSM sites and 1,595 3G sites, expanded optical fibre network to 74,000 km and strengthened its presence in NLD, ILD, ISP, data services and smartphone device business,” the statement said.
It added Idea is the biggest net gainer nationally in the Mobile Number Portability programme.
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