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Alternative Networks - Converged devices help maintain ARPU

July 2007

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Alternative Networks has reported a strong H1 with sales growth of 9% to £35m. Pretax profit rose 30% to £4.1m and adjusted eps was up 27% to 6.1p. Mobile, which became the biggest revenue driver last year, was once again strong with sales growth of 18% to £18.8m, well ahead of the other two sides of its business - network services, which grew by 2% to £11.5m and advanced solutions (installation, 08** numbering), which declined by 4% to £4.7m. On the mobile side, the net number of connections increased by just 800 to 41,077 which may appear pedestrian but this masked a churn in smaller customers (<10 users) which are not a focus for Alternative. When we spoke to the company, management poi ...

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May Gurney

Eaga

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