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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Regulation Erodes France Telecom

France Telecom said that its "underlying" revenues in 2010 should be flat compared with 2009, but it expected the impact of regulation to reduce sales by almost 1 billion euros in the year. In 2009, revenues fell 2% on a like-for-like basis to just under 51 billion euros. As it ramps up its fibre-to-the-home programme in France, France Telecom expects capital spending to be around 12% of revenues in 2010 compared with just over 11% in 2009.

Dragged down by the impact of regulation, France Telecom said that its revenues fell 3% year-on-year to 12.8 billion euros on a like-for-like basis in the fourth quarter of 2009. Group capital spending in 2009 fell 15% to 5.66 billion euros as France Telecom cut investment in 2G mobile networks. source: France Telecom presentation

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