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Title: Financial results for the first quarter of 2006


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Financial results for the first quarter of 2006
  • 31 March 2006

2
Financial results in brief
3
Financial history. Eesti Telekom Group
  • Both sales and OPEX were up heavily.
  • Main reasons for sales growth
  • Acquisition of MicroLink in November 2005
  • Good results of retail sales of equipment
  • Strong sales of mobile services
  • Continuously fast growth in IT services and
    Internet access areas.

4
Dynamics of sales
  • All major areas, except fixed voice, contributed
    to sales growth

5
Financial history. Eesti Telekom Group
  • Changes in sales structure have put some pressure
    on margins.
  • Share of IT services is up
  • Share of retail sales is up
  • During Q1 2006, reorganisation of IT and datacom
    areas of Elion and MicroLink contributed to the
    OPEX growth and lower margins.

6
Financial results in brief. Investments and
depreciation
  • During Q1 2006 Elion invested into its Digi TV
    mass-market product. The product was launched on
    April 17th.
  • At the beginning of March 2006, Elion introduced
    a new IP-based network platform for multimedia
    services.
  • EMT continues to expand the coverage of its EDGE
    and 3G networks.

7
Financial results in brief. Cash flow
As of 31 March 2006, Eesti Telekom Group had
1,950 mln EEK as cash, cash equivalents and short
term investments. The Group had interest bearing
liabilities for 6 mln EEK. Net gearing as of 31
March 2006 was -44.3
8
Headcount
9
Results by business segments
10
Financial history. Elion Group
  • Strong sales and OPEX growth of the Elion Group
    results from consolidation of the MicroLink
    Group.
  • With acquisition growth eliminated, sales growth
    would be 3 and OPEX growth 5

11
Financial history. Elion Group
  • The major reason for lower margins of the Group
    is changing structure of sales.
  • In case of Q1 2006, restructuring of some
    business areas had strong impact.

12
Fixed voice communications. Market shares
  • Market shares by call minutes have been stable
  • Elion has strengthened its position by service
    bundling and special offers.

13
Elion Group. Customers
  • Starting with 2006, reporting of main lines has
    been replaced by reporting of active voice
    connections
  • Active users of traditional fixed voice services
  • Users of VoIP.
  • Decline in number of active voice connections
    has slowed down during last two quarters.

14
Elion Group. Sales
  • Strong sales growth continued in both IT
    services and retail sales area.
  • Popularity of product bundles is growing. As a
    result, sales of separate products are down.
  • Decline of domestic call revenue continued also
    in Q1 2006.
  • In order to present better organic developments
    of sales, MicroLink Eesti sales have been
    consolidated also to Q1 2005 of the Elion Group.
  • Incl. domestic and international interconnection.
  • Incl. connection fees of product bundles.

15
Financial history. EMT Group
  • Sales growth resulted from
  • Higher number of customers
  • Active use of new services (mobile data) by
    customers
  • Higher use of traditional, voice services
  • Growth of retail sales.
  • OPEX growth resulted from
  • Higher interconnection costs
  • Higher costs of goods.

16
Financial history. EMT Group
  • Growth of retail sales has put some pressure on
    mobile margins
  • Cut of mobile termination rates from 1 July 2006
    (at the latest) shall have positive impact on
    mobile margins.

17
Mobile communications. Market shares
  • Mobile penetration in Estonia has reached 107.
  • EMT has maintained its 47 market share by number
    of active SIM-cards.

  • In order to strengthen its position among young
    customers AS EMT bought 51 of Serenda Invest
    OÜon April 5 2006, which owns the Rate brand, and
    administers Estonias most popular Internet
    communications environmentRate.ee.
  • Rate.ee, which was launched on May 1, 2002, is
    the largest social network in Estonia, which
    unites about 360,000 registered users. The main
    users of the site are 1525-year-old young
    people. There is an average of 130,000 visits per
    day made to Rate.ee per day and 350,000 separate
    visits per week. During 2005, Rate Solution OÜ
    earned revenues of 6.2 million kroons and a
    profit of 4.9 million kroons from services and
    advertisements on Rate.ee.

18
AS EMT. Customers and ARPU
  • The number of AS EMT contractual clients
    continues to increase.
  • The number of pre-paid cards was up on yearly
    bases. The decrease compared to December 2005 was
    caused by seasonal factors that influence the
    pre-paid card market.
  • Decline in mARPU has slowed down to 2.6 (on
    yearly bases).

19
AS EMT. Sales
  • AS EMT continues with stable revenue structure.
  • There has been some decline in roaming and
    pre-paid revenue, compensated by higher revenues
    from domestic calls and data.

20
Share price
  • 22 April 2005 Q1 2005 results released.
  • 22 April 2005 Proposal for 2004 profit
    distribution
  • 2 June 2005 Dividend list was closed
  • 15 July 2005 Q2 2005 results released
  • 21 October 2005 Q3 2005 results released
  • 7 February 2006 2005 preliminary results
    released

21
Structure of Eesti Telekom Group
22
Main shareholders of AS Eesti Telekom
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