Release of 09.02.2021

Results for the 4th Quarter and Full Year 2020

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Key financial and operating highlights

  • Group total revenues decrease of 1.2% driven by equipment revenues while service revenues remained flat despite heavy roaming losses (~2% on Group revenues) and negative FX effects.
    • Mobile service revenues declined only slightly by 0.7% on a Group level as growth in Austria, Bulgaria and Serbia almost compensated for the decline in Belarus and Slovenia.
    • Fixed-line service revenues rose by 0.5% as growth in Bulgaria and Slovenia outweighed declines in other CEE markets, while they remained flat in Austria.
    • Equipment revenues declined by 8.1%, due to a considerably lower number of sold devices following the year-end lockdown measures.
  • Mobile contract subscriber numbers rose by 5.1%, with growth in almost all markets.
  • Fixed-line RGUs decreased by 1.6%, as the group-wide growth in high-bandwidth broadband RGUs could not compensate for the decline in low-bandwidth broadband and fixed-line voice RGUs.
  • Group EBITDA before restructuring increased by 2.8% on the back of operational efficiencies
    • Excluding FX and one-off effects as well as restructuring charges EBITDA rose by 5.0%.
    • In Austria, successful cost saving measures together with higher service revenues translated into EBITDA before restructuring growth of 4.2%.
    • In the CEE markets, EBITDA excluding FX and one-off effects grew by 3.7% (reported: -1.2%) due to growth in Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia.
  • Total CAPEX in the full year 2020 declined by 26.0% on Group-level. CAPEX in Austria was 13.4% lower. The CAPEX reduction was a decision taken early in 2020 to ensure flexibility in unstable times due to COVID-19.
  • In FY 2020, free cash flow increased by EUR 159.9 mn due to announced CAPEX cuts (EUR 131.3 mn less CAPEX paid) and better operational performance.
  • A1 Telekom Austria Group is currently working on developing alternatives to reap more benefits from its tower assets through a targeted management focus on internal efficiencies and higher tenancy ratios.
  • Outlook 2021: approximately 1% Group total revenue growth, approx. EUR 800 mn CAPEX excluding spectrum investments and acquisitions.


More information can be found at Interim Results


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