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RCOM Q3-FY12 Concall Live: RIL Deal? On Why Data Usage Went Up, PostPaid Focus

We're reporting live from the Reliance Communications conference call, for its quarter ended 31st December 2012 (Q3-FY12), where it reported that data usage on its network has increased by 29.38% to 22,512 terabytes, a 3G subscriber base of 6.1 million users, and 28 million data subscriber base. 1239: High speed data coverage in over 1300 towns. 6.1 3G customers, over 22,000 TB of data traffic. 1240: The exit of some players has opened up new opportunities, and with some players exiting some markets, will help bring back the pricing power in the industry. Telecom industry is under pressure, but the impact of these pressure points varies as per operator. There is likely to be pressure on many operators P&L due to abolition of national roaming. These have bearing on all sectors, and impact on RCOM will be lower. As some of these disparities are removed, it will be a level playing field. Refarming of spectrum, RCOM will focus on execution on the ground rather than reconfiguring our network. Industry needs to focus on enhancing revenue. Net additions across the industry have reduced, and reduction in channel commissions. Price hike is imminent. RCOM has modest incremental payment obligations, so we have better pricing power, and this will help improve the value of the business. Future revenue growth opportunity: around 600 million active users, and we expect an addition of 300 million more users in India. We expect data to contribute 40% of incremental revenue, driven by drop in prices of smart phones.…

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