Alex Sinaga
Analyst · Nomura
Thank you, Andi. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our conference call for first half 2015 results ended 30th June 2015. We sincerely appreciate your participation in this call. I would like to update you on the progress of our cellular and fixed line businesses performance as well as our businesses portfolio. Ladies and gentlemen, until end of this first half of 2015, we continue our excellent performance both in terms of operational and financial results. Let me start the overview by sharing the highlights of our first half of 2015 results. Number one, Telkom first half of 2015 consolidated revenue grew by 12.2% year-on-year, with EBITDA and net income grew by 6.3% and 2.2% year-on-year, respectively. While our cellular subsidiary, Telkomsel, recorded triple level digit growth, the revenue grew by 13%, EBITDA by 10.7% and net income by 14.7% year-on-year. Number two, mobile digital businesses continues strong growth at 37.6% year-on-year, resulted in OTT data, Internet and IT service, exclude SMS. Revenue grew by 33.7% [ph] year-on-year. At the same time, Telkomsel successfully exploit [ph] its legacy business with points grew by 9.1 year-on-year and SMS grew by 5.2% year-on-year. Number three, Telkomsel continues aggressive network deployment with 11,495 new BTSs installed in the fourth domain 10-leading network supply to strengthen mobile broadband experience that around 90% of new BTSs for 3G and 4G BTS. Ladies and gentlemen, our strong results in the first half of 2015 was in line with solid performance of cellular businesses. In term of operational aspects, Telkomsel gained almost 3.5 million net additional customers during first half of 2015, for a total customer base 244.1 million, despite relatively high SIM card penetration in Indonesian market. Mobile data payload jumped significantly to 207.2 petabytes or increased 121.4%, mainly supported by the fast-growing 3G and 4G capable devices adoption, which grew by 54.2% to 48.1 million users. Telkomsel continue expanding its network infrastructure by adding 11,495 new BTSs during first half 2015. We're around 90% 3G and 4G BTS. It is reflecting our focus, continue on data business. In the meantime, our fixed line subscribers increased to 10.2 million from 9.5 million, while fixed broadband users increased by 15.9% year-on-year to 3.7 million, contributed by our newly launched IndiHome Triple Play. Ladies and gentlemen, our excellent operational achievement has resulted in strong financial performance. Telkom consolidated revenue grew by 12.2% year-on-year, mainly contributed by our cellular subsidiary by around 70% contribution. We successfully maintained a healthy level of profitability with EBITDA margin of 48.2% and net income margin of 15.2%. Our margin was slightly lower, partly attributable to accelerated depreciation for our fixed wireless business and early-retirement program for the group's employees. On the expenses side, it increased by 14.4% to IDR 33.7 trillion. Operation and maintenance expenses grew by 50.3%, in line with the acceleration of network deployment, both in our cellular and fixed line businesses, in particular to support digital businesses growth. The personnel expenses grew by 23%, which was mainly due to early-retirement program for Telkom Group employees. General and administrative expenses increased by 9.2%, in line with increasing administration and also expenses. Marketing expenses decreased 2.8%, attributable to a more efficient marketing program, driven by a relatively stable competition and effective sales channel. In the meantime, depreciation and amortization increased by 7.7% to IDR 8.8 trillion, partly due to impairment of Flexi assets. Ladies and gentlemen, in the mobile business side, Telkomsel continued its strong momentum in first half 2015 with triple double-digit growth in revenue, EBITDA and net income, which grew by 15%, 10.7% and 14.7% year-on-year, respectively. Revenue grew by -- sorry, revenue grew to IDR 35.399 trillion, with the growth engine coming from digital businesses that increased by 37.6% year-on-year. Digital businesses accounted for 27.4% of total revenues, increase from 22.5% in the previous year. Telkomsel monthly recorded healthy growth in legacy business, which grew by 5.8% year-on-year, voice increased by 9.1% and SMS 5.2% year-on-year. This is attributable to the successful execution of cost of raise pricing and market segmentation strategy. Despite a high SIM card penetration, Telkomsel recorded grow in subscriber base of 4.9% year-on-year to 144.1 million due to effective sales and marketing programs. EBITDA and the income margin was superior at 54.4% and 28.5% respectively. During the first half of 2015, we deployed more than 11,000 new BTSs of which around 90% were 3G and 4G BTS in an effort to maintain leading network supply and grow our digital businesses. Data traffic increased by 121.4% to 207.2 petabyte, mainly driven by high-growth in 3G and 4G-capable device that reached 48.1 million, an increase of 54.2% year-on-year. This represented 53.4% of our customer base. As of June 2015, BTS [indiscernible] total 96,915 units, an increase of 21.8% year-on-year. More than half of our total BTSs were 3G and 4G BTS. Telkomsel made another milestone on 6 of July where it officially used 1,800 megahertz spectrum for LTE 4G services. We continue to strengthen our footprint with Makassar and Lombok to enjoy our 4G clear services following Jakarta, Bali, Bandung, Surabaya and Medan. Currently, Telkomsel 4G subscribers reached 655,000 subscribers. Ladies and gentlemen, we have decided and set up a road map to revive our fixed line businesses. This year, we are focusing our efforts to keep our sources, capacity and capabilities in terms of human resources and field equipment, so that we could accelerate deployment of fiber optic network to serve our customers with our fixed broadband services. We have superior product called IndiHome Triple Play, building services consist of fixed line voice, Internet access and pay TV, with competitive promotional price, until end of June had reached 427,000 IndiHome customers. Now I'll explain about our third focus, international business expansion. To realize our vision to be a regular player in telecommunication, IT and digital media, in the second quarter 2015, we may took operate except -- the first is engagement to acquire a telecommunication operator in Guam and second is the expansion of our data center in Singapore. In June, Telkom, through its subsidiary, Telekomunikasi Indonesia International USA, we call it Telkom USA, has entered an agreement to acquire TeleGuam Holdings, a parent company of GTA TeleGuam, a telecommunication operator in Guam. The planned transaction is subject to approval from Guam and United States authorities. This acquisition is expected to elevate Telkom's exposure in international businesses. After obtaining the license from the Singapore regulatory body last year, Telekomunikasi Indonesia International Singapore or Telin Singapore in June, started the development of new data center in Jurong, with around 20,000 square meter in size. This is the third data center owned by Telin Singapore and is expected to commence operations by third quarter 2016. Jurong Data Center is designed to fulfill the needs for premium data center for Singapore and regional and global mapping. Ladies and gentlemen, in order to make our company more efficient with healthy human resource structure, we have been doing early-retirement programs since 2002. In the second quarter 2015, we conduct the early-retirement program with 576 Telkom's employee and 116 Telkomsel's employees took part in the program, which cost around IDR 844 billion. Now let me discuss about bonds issuance. Telkom successfully issued IDR 7 trillion bonds in June 2015. The bonds that were issued in various tenure: 7 years, 10 years, 11 years and 15 years, and 30 years with coupon rates of 9.925%, 10.25%, 10.6% and 11%, respectively. The bond issuance was part of the company's 12 trillion served registration bonds offerings, which would be carried out in a 3-year period. The proceeds will be mainly used to fund our infrastructure development and also to finance our M&A activities. On capital expenditure, until June 2015, Telkom spent IDR 11.9 trillion, of which IDR 5.8 trillion was for Telkomsel and the remaining IDR 6.1 trillion was for Telkom and other subsidiaries. Telkom's CapEx was mainly utilized for deploying access and weak-point infrastructure to support development services, while Telkomsel CapEx was mainly utilized for radio access network. Let me now share with you about regulatory update. There are potential change in regulation that's still in progress, which could give impact to cellular business. They are interconnection tariff and 1,800 megahertz spectrum rearrangement. We expect the new interconnection tariffs scheme will provide fairness and incentive for operators to deploy infrastructure in the rural and remote areas. The interconnection regulation change is scheduled to be done by end of this year or early next year. Meanwhile, 1,800 megahertz spectrum rearrangement is expected to be completed by November this year. Post-rearrangement, the spectrum will be [indiscernible] and is fully ready for 4G LTE services. Finally, the last update that I could share with you is regarding with the conditional share exchange agreement with PT Tower Bersama infrastructure. The CSEA is in the process of termination due to commissioner request to terminate the transaction. Ladies and gentlemen, let me reiterate guidance for 2015 to conclude my remarks. We expect both Telkom and Telkomsel's revenue to grow in line with or slightly better than market rate by continued effort to grow the digital business revenue. For EBITDA and net income margins, we expect them to slightly decline both for Telkom and Telkomsel, in line with continued growth plan infrastructure development in mobile and fixed line businesses. Thank you.