Ririek Adriansyah
Analyst · HSBC
Thank you, Reza. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our conference call for the unaudited first quarter year of 2024 results. We appreciate your participation in this call. First quarter of the year 2024 will be considered to be an exciting and dynamic year and had to be credited in term of business and economic stability.
We have witnessed the macroeconomic downturn and the direction towards higher inflation worsened by geopolitical situation. The newly elected government and its administration in Indonesia post-election process will also be considered by our investors as the key player considering that these are our political, social, economic and business stability.
Amidst the potential recession and the rising of inflation as well as continuous increase of commodity, Telkom Group tried to improve the services and serving an even broader segment. It is resulting in a stable ARPU and the increase of traffic indicating the improvement of customer productivity, supported by leading infrastructure to maintain dominance in the telecommunication sector.
Telkomsat is becoming the big revenue contributor to the group, which manages B2C business such as mobile and fixed broadband. Telkomsat captured future customers by adopting a strategic localized approach, aim to maintain dominance and sustainable growth of convergence revenue share. With the integration of FMC, Telkomsel Lite and value become more relevant, allowing guests to use in mass market segments through cross-selling and upselling within of sorts.
Telkomsel also maintained the dominance by implement consumer value maximization or CVM, supported by network optimization and quality leadership. On the B2B business, Telkom consistently implement right business strategy especially in the data center or DC monetization and InfraCo business investment.
We plan to fully unlock our data center business within the year of 2024 by finding strategic partners who could contribute not only capital, but also expertise, management and access to the DC market. The growth of B2B business, especially in data center business is very high. We are fully aware that the opportunity in DC amidst in timely mark-to-market sizes. Meeting supply will create additional opportunities while lagging supply will absolutely wipe out opportunities.
We think there is still an important opportunity for value creation at a very good market with extremely strong competition. And I updated to you on the topic of Telkom [indiscernible] in the past. Telkom Group, nevertheless, will implement organic and inorganic effort to pursue the capacity of 400 megawatts within 6 years onward to year 2030. Infrastructure initiative has also been progressing with our business cycle. PT Telkom Infrastruktur Indonesia will serve as -- is mandated to commence infrastructure asset managed service in 2024 before it assume to have higher duty of the asset owner of Telkominfra further infrastructure in 2025.
On the B2B digital business, our performance and business process enhancement between our business unit division and business unit subsidiaries produced positive results. Synergy and efficiency among them have been established and now we are ready to come back with a product portfolio to serve for home and enterprise and small medium enterprise segments.
During the first quarter of 2024, unaudited financial results, Telkom Group revenue grew by 3.7% year-on-year to IDR 37.4 trillion with EBITDA stood at IDR 19.4 trillion, increased by 2.2% from the previous year. Our successful effort in promoting data and Internet revenue as well as managing our expenses create better line of profitability.
On our operating net income, it grew 3.1% year-on-year to IDR 6.3 trillion after stripping out mark-to-market effects from GoTo. The company recorded positive consolidated revenue growth in first quarter '24 as compared to the same period last year with a good profitability level supported by growth of mobile business.
Revenue increased 32.7% year-on-year to IDR 28.5 trillion, consists of IDR 21.9 trillion from mobile and IDR 6.6 trillion from fixed broadband business. Digital business revenue after consol remained strong. Growth rate grew by 8.6% year-on-year and increased its contribution to mobile revenue to 89.9% from 84.4%, in line with the company's strategy to capture new strategic initiative and focus on quality customers.
Telkomsel continues to maintain dominance both in the fixed and mobile with the customer oriented approach and productivity improvement. We have expanded mobile customer base to 159.7 million while reaching 8.9 million IndiHome B2C customers. Mobile ARPU remained stable with the improvement of payload as we provide better value to stay relevant with the market and grow the profitable revenue shares.
We capture future customers through Telkom satellite and by youth as we aim to become largest corporation in entire Indonesia, securing the youth and mass market segment is important and part of our strategy to drive sustainable performance. Telkomsel has prudently designed their products to better cater the customers' needs and experience while ensuring the relevance compared to other offerings in the market.
Consequently, we believe this tailored products will mitigate the risk of price wars and internal churn given the customization for specific segment and localized quota allocation. We committed to continue the healthy conduct initiative, smart acquisition and securing quality customers as indicated by increased payload and customer consumption. As a market leader, we aim to maintain profitability and act rationally to continue fostering healthy and constructive competition within the industry.
In the first quarter of 2024, wholesale and international business segment contributed revenue detectable in the amount of IDR 4.8 trillion, growth by 17.8% as a result of growing international wholesale voice business and digital connectivity infrastructure business. Data center business has been prepared as our B2B future revenue growth along with the double-digit growth of data center demand in Indonesia and the region with an initiative to find out a strategic partner in data center who owns not only capital, but also management capability and strong marketing channel.
Telkom Group has initiated monetization and hope that to finish the monetization process by end of 2024. Telkom has provided the data center services with a capacity of 42 megawatts with an average utilization of 70%. During the first quarter of 2024, Telkom has recorded data center and cloud revenue of IDR 449 billion, which grew 6.4% year-on-year.
PT Telkom Data Ekosistem, which was established in 2022 and operate under the name of NeutraDC as the brand has been working with the local government, various scales of business and even hyperscale companies that need a lot of data space. Currently, NeutraDC is focusing on expanding its ready-to-use capacity by 18 megawatts by end of 2024 at the Cikarang Hyperscale Data Center with various customer segment, including among others, hyperscalers, banking as well as government.
Our existing competitive advantages over the competitors, including fiber will further be monetized under our subsidiary, PT Telkom Infrastruktur Indonesia, which has been established since the fourth quarter of 2023. Telkom is focusing towards unlocking new potential or maximizing the value of its fiber to data service. We will generate additional synergy value by optimizing the network optimization, consolidating capital expenditure, boosting external revenue, delivering premium network services, financing operational efficiency and establishing strategic partnership.
Telkom Group reduced its remaining idle capacity significantly to [indiscernible] by B2B business areas. Commencing your preliminary talk, PT Telkom Infrastruktur Indonesia is actively preparing for daily operational readiness and conduct dry run exercise as a learning stage to ensure operational excellence and manage service operation and seamless transaction to -- of Telkom end-to-end network infrastructure assets for the coming year.
Currently, Mitratel has 38,100 towers after organically added 120 towers in the first quarter of 2024, maintaining its position as the largest tower provider in Southeast Asia. During first quarter '24, Mitratel successfully added almost 400 tenants resulted in improving tenancy ratio to 1.52 from 1.46 in the same period last year. In addition, Mitratel enjoys site diversification as around 59% of towers are located ex-Java, while the remaining 41% are located in Java.
On a stand-alone basis, first quarter 2024, Mitratel recorded revenue of IDR 2.2 trillion or grew by 7.3% year-on-year, driven by tower leasing revenue. EBITDA and net income grew by 9.9% and 4.0% year-on-year, respectively. EBITDA margin expanded to 83.5%, increased by 2 percentage point, and net income margin was 23.6%, decreased by 0.8 percentage points.
Colocation number and the number of tenants grew by 16.6% and 8.4% year-on-year, respectively. Furthermore, Mitratel demonstrated a strong financial position with a relatively low leverage ratio of 1.7 net debt to EBITDA as compared to the industry. This allows the company to better withstand economic downturns and take advantage of growth opportunities while providing stability to shareholders.
Mitratel continued expanding its Fiber-to-the-Tower business as part of its strategy to strengthen its product portfolio to become a digital infrastructure company. Mitratel achieved significant growth in its fiber optic network by adding around 3,700 kilometers during the first quarter of 2024, resulting in a total network length of 36,300 kilometers.
Enterprise segment recorded revenue of IDR 4.5 trillion during the first quarter of 2024 with B2B IT Digital Services and Enterprise Connectivity solutions as the largest contributors in the Enterprise segment. We continue to strengthen our capabilities in the cloud business, digital IT services and cyber security, including building strategic partnerships with global technology players. In this initiative, there are several areas that we are now strengthening, which are business development in the government segment. Large enterprise will focus on B2B platform and vertical solutions. [ In the year '23 ], we were focusing on Indibiz to capture the SME market.
On the ESG side of the initiative, Telkom has launched EXIST, ESG Existence for Sustainability by Telkom Indonesia program in which Telkom's sustainability performance achievements are described in each of the following three sustainability pillars.
First, right environmental approach, focusing on the environmental aspect, Telkom has proactively taken concrete actions, such as reducing carbon emissions through waste management activities, especially e-waste, and rehabilitating coral reefs. Telkom Group has used environmentally friendly energy sources such as solar cells, biodiesel and micro hydro. In addition, Telkom Group also supports the use of environmentally friendly transportation by encouraging the use of electric vehicles among its employees.
Second is right people. The efforts to develop HR competency has continued to be strengthened through intensive training and education programs. Concrete steps have been taken in managing the Digital Talent Readiness Program, an initiative aimed at developing employees' digital capabilities to adapt to changes in digital technology. We focus on developing working environments which support diversity and inclusivity.
Third one is right governance. Telkom consistently implements sustainability governance, business ethics, and compliance with applicable regulations and supervises to ensure compliance with relevant norms and business ethics by establishing a Data Protection Officer or DPO organization with a more precise map of roles and functions. The company also refers to the provisions of international standards, one of which is ISO 27001, to intensify data protection and security.
That is the ending of my remarks, and thank you for your time and attention.