Investor Presentaiton
Francophone Africa - Mobile services¹
Description
Summarised statement of operations
Quarter ended
Unit of
measure
Jun-22
Reported
Constant
Jun-21
currency
change
currency
change
Revenue
$m
262
253
3.5%
10.6%
Voice revenue 2
$m
149
146
1.5%
8.8%
Data revenue
$m
85
80
6.7%
14.2%
Other revenue
$m
28
26
4.9%
9.5%
EBITDA
$m
103
95
8.5%
14.8%
EBITDA margin
%
39.2%
37.4%
180 bps
144 bps
Depreciation and amortisation
$m
(47)
(52)
(10.0%)
(3.5%)
Operating exceptional items
$m
0.0%
0.0%
Operating profit
$m
56
Capex
$m
27
Operating free cash flow
$m
76
221
43
30.7%
36.8%
20
35.9%
35.9%
75
1.3%
9.2%
Operating KPIs
ARPU
Total customer base
Data customer base
$
3.2
3.5
(8.2%)
(1.9%)
Mn
Mn
27.0
7.5
24.5
10.1%
7.4
2.0%
(1) The Francophone Africa business region includes Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Madagascar, Niger, Republic of the Congo, and Seychelles.
(2) Voice revenue includes inter-segment revenue of $1m in the quarter ended 30 June 2022. Excluding inter-segment revenue, voice revenue was $148m in the quarter
ended 30 June 2022.
Revenue grew by 3.5% in reported currency and by 10.6% in constant currency. The difference in growth rates was due to devaluation
of the Central African franc (13.2%). The revenue growth in constant currency terms was largely driven by DRC, Niger, Chad and Gabon.
Voice revenue grew by 8.8% in constant currency, driven by customer base growth of 10.1% partially offset by voice ARPU decline of
3.5%. The customer base growth was driven by expansion of both network coverage and distribution infrastructure.
Data revenue grew by 14.2% in constant currency, supported by average customer base growth of 15.3%. Our continued 4G network
rollout resulted in an increase in total data usage of 45.2% and a per customer data usage increase of 25.9%. For Q1'23, 4G data users
constituted 49.7% of total data users, compared with 40.0% in the prior period. 4G users contributed 67.9% of total data usage this
quarter. Data usage per customer increased to 2.9 GB per month (up from 2.3 GB in the prior period), while 4G data usage per customer
reached 5.0 GB per month, from 4.5 GB in the prior period. Compared to recent quarters, data revenue growth has slowed as a result
of lower ARPU in Chad and Niger.
EBITDA, at $103m, increased by 14.8% in constant currency. The EBITDA margin improved to 39.2%, an improvement of 144 basis
points in constant currency. This EBITDA growth was driven by continued revenue growth and increased operating efficiencies.
Operating free cash flow was $76m, up by 9.2%, due to the expansion in EBITDA, partially offset by higher capex.
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