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Jakarta, Indonesia – Axiata Group Bhd is to spend a hefty RM4.8bil to mainly strengthen its data segment services and offerings this year. The company has been reported to have 3.4% year-on-year growth in net profit to RM595mil for its final quarter ended Dec 31, 2014.
The regional telecommunications player, with a market capitalization of RM61.5bil, said the RM4.8bil was one of its highest annual capital expenditures to-date. It spent RM4.1bil out of the RM4.4bil allocated last year.
Reviews say the reason for this big jump is that Axiata is planning to go big on data services and offering. Related investments may include more base stations, fibre-optic improvement, upgrade of IPs (Internet protocols) and core networks in most countries it was operating in.
The group said that “competition among players is expected to become more intense” with the advent of 4G network.
It also has affiliates in India and Singapore. It also formed an integrated telco infrastructure services firm edotco Malaysia Sdn Bhd less than a year ago.
Celcom’s overall data revenue grew 24.2% last year and it has a capital expenditure of RM1.1bil this year.
Meanwhile, Axiata plans to spend RM1.8bil for XL, RM500mil for Robi and RM300mil for Smart.
Jamaludin explained that Axiata would try to reduce cost which might result in Axiata spending less than its allocation.
On its latest quarterly results, Axiata attributed the 3.4% growth in its fourth-quarter net profit to higher earnings recorded by its Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Cambodia operations and associate company in India.
It said profit from its Malaysia operations decreased due to lower earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) and higher taxation, while Indonesia registered lower profits due to Axis consolidation, which was partly offset by a gain of RM71.4mil from its disposal of XL towers in the final quarter.
Despite to the profit decrease, the current state of Axiata shows that they are in the right track and will continue to stay at the top with their sister companies across Asia.
Group revenue increased 6.7% to RM4.8bil during the quarter on the back of higher revenue from all key operating companies except Malaysia.
On a yearly basis, its 2014 net profit was marginally lower at RM2.35bil against RM2.55bil last year – despite higher revenue of RM18.7bil – due to higher operating costs of RM11.7bil.
“This is mainly due to Axis’ integration in Indonesia. As a result, group EBITDA declined 3.7% to RM6.99bil and its margin declined by 2.2 percentage points to 37.4%,” explained Jamaludin.
JAKARTA - tier one mobile telecommunications operator PT XL Axiata Tbk (EXCL) estimate traffic data services at Christmas and New Year (Naru) rose 15% -20% of the normal average daily traffic. To that end, the company did increase traffic capacity at some crucial point.
Director of Service Management and Director of the Independent XL say to welcome Naru, Perseroaan has raised the capacity of the network capacity of up to two-fold.
"We estimate sepankang Naru, voice call traffic services will rise 5 %, short message service rose 10% and data services is projected to rise to 15% -20%, "he said on Tuesday (23/12).
He explained that in addition to setting up a fleet of mobile base stations for some crucial points such as shopping centers, recreational sites, ports and airports The company does have adopted the technology MSC and SGSN pool in pool for the national 3G network.
"With this pool system, the network will be protected from traffic increase is concentrated in one particular point, because the capacity of the network is spread at some point."
Increasing the capacity of mobile networks simultaneously placement BTS akab done at some point, among others; Night Market Festival in Surabaya, Bandung Dago area, Merak, and Kuta and Ngurah Rai Airport.
The same is also implemented in the field in Kuala Namu Airport as well as in Greater Jakarta, namely in Monas, Ancol, Ragunan, and Puncak Bogor.
Meanwhile, preparations traffic spikes XL Axiata has also been prepared in the majority of the people who celebrate Christmas, especially Medan, Pematangsiantar, Simelungun and Toba Samosir and Sulawesi in particular Tomohon, Manado, as well as several cities in Papua.
The company is optimistic will not experience interference in the network serving 58.3 million customers in view of the fiber optic infrastructure along more than 30 kilometers that connects almost all islands in Indonesia, in addition to the rogue-to 49,000 base transceiver stations (BTS) spread in Indonesia.
Another operator, PT Telecom Mobile (Telkomsel) also predicts traffic data service when Naru rose 25.99% to 1,100 terabytes of average daily traffic normally.
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Facebook and Ericsson, working together as part of the internet.org initiative championed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to boost online connectivity in emerging markets, claimed they can improve app performance by up to 70 per cent.
The companies said they have developed a methodology to measure and optimise network performance that can be applied globally. A joint project created a framework for evaluating user key performance indicators based on simulated Facebook app use cases using a test agent and correlating those with network statistics.
By identifying and addressing user-impacting issues, they said they were able to increase the number of connections completed within three seconds by 70 per cent, reduce the time to content by up to 70 per cent and cut upload time up to 50 per cent.
The test project, which ran on Indonesia’s XL Axiata’s network, is part of the internet.org initiative, which aims to connect the two-thirds of the world’s population that is not yet connected.
The initiative has three areas of focus, one of which is to use data more efficiently. Other areas are developing technologies that make mobile connectivity more affordable, as well as exploring new business models (including free internet access) to stimulate mobile data usage.
Facebook and Ericsson are among the founding members of internet.org, as are Qualcomm and Samsung.
Chris Daniels, VP of internet.org at Facebook, said: “The project will help ensure we have more efficient use of existing network capacity and resources, which is key to delivering on our mission to close the connectivity gap.”
XL Axiata CEO Hasnul Suhaimi said data traffic jumped 142 per cent last year, and more than half of its 62.9 million subscribers are data users and a majority of those use Facebook.
The country has the fourth-largest Facebook user base in the world. But 75 per cent of the country’s mobile subscribers are on 2G GSM/EDGE networks.
Suhaimi said he believes this is the first time that an operator, network technology provider and application provider have cooperated on such a project. “XL is proud to be selected by Facebook as operator partner in Indonesia.”
Facebook is hosting an Internet.org event, a mobile developer workshop in Jakarta on 13 October.
Source:
http://www.mobileworldlive.com/ericsson-facebook-optimise-app-coverage-xl-network
