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Telcos’ gross revenue, licence fees drop 10% in Apr-Jun quarter: TRAI report

04 Oct 2018 Evaluate

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in its Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator report has indicated that the gross revenue of telecom service providers and the licence fee collected by the government dropped by around 10 percent to Rs 58,401 crore and Rs 2,929 crore, respectively, on year-on-year basis, during the April -June period of 2018. It also noted that Gross revenue (GR) and adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of the telecom service sector for April-June quarter has been Rs 58,401 crore and Rs 36,552 crore, respectively.

According to the report, the year-on-year growth in GR and AGR declined by 10 and 8.11 percent, respectively. On quarter-on-quarter basis, the GR declined by 6.10 percent, while AGR increased by 2.40 percent in quarter June 2018. It pointed out that the decline in AGR, which is revenue earned from sale of telecom services, led to fall in licence fees paid to the government by around 10 percent to Rs 2,929 crore. Besides, it showed that the revenue of telecom operators from sale of services to retail subscribers, technically called access services, declined by 14.95 per cent to Rs 25,585 crore. The access services accounted for 70 per cent of the total AGR in the telecom segment.

The report further stated that in Access services, GR, license fee, spectrum usage charges and pass through charges declined by 9.07 percent, 2.88 percent, 2.21 percent and 21.86 percent, respectively in quarter ended June 2018. It noted that the GR and AGR of the telecom service providers have been on decline, barring few exceptions, after it peaked to Rs 73,344.66 crore and Rs 53,383.55 crore in April-June 2016 quarter with average revenue per user (ARPU) at Rs 140.88. The licence fee collected by the government during this quarter in 2016 was Rs 4,314 crore. The monthly ARPU in the April-June 2018 period declined by 12 per cent to Rs 73.34 oin yoy basis.

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