Chunghwa Telecom announced its simplified financial forecast for 2015 on the 13th, with estimated annual revenue of NT$231.09 billion and earnings per share of NT$4.83, compared with NT$4.98 per share in 2014. The estimates are relatively conservative. Chunghwa Telecom also announced that The salary increase plan was announced, with an average increase of about 2.5%. However, channel expansion was blocked and they announced that they would suspend store openings this year. In 2014, 4G was launched in Taiwan, and all telecommunications companies were actively expanding the market. However, Chunghwa Telecom announced that it would suspend store openings. The first shot, it is worth paying attention to how other telecom giants will deploy in the future.
Chunghwa Telecom announced its full-year financial forecast for 2015 on the 13th, with estimated annual revenue of NT$231.09 billion, an estimated growth of 2% compared to NT$226.61 billion in 2014, and earnings per share of NT$4.83, compared with NT$226.61 billion in 2014. Earnings per share of 4.98 yuan is relatively conservative. This is mainly due to the expected continued growth in the number of customers for mobile Internet and fixed-line and mobile value-added services, the continued growth of broadband customers and the promotion of 300M Internet services, and the continued growth of MOD and enterprise information and communication projects, which will offset the decline in voice business due to VoIP replacement and The impact of declining market competition.
13 The board of directors of Chunghwa Telecom also approved a comprehensive salary increase plan for employees. The average salary increase is about 2.5%. In addition to the increase in expenses required for the growth of mobile Internet, MOD and various value-added businesses, and the increase in 4G franchise amortization, operating costs in 2015 And expenses are expected to increase by 1.8% to 185.92 billion yuan. In terms of assets,
will prioritize investments to gather growth potential businesses and improve the performance of existing equipment. The capital expenditure budget for real estate, plants and equipment is 30.7 billion yuan, a decrease of 1.86 billion yuan compared with 2014.
Chunghwa Telecom Chairman Cai Lixing said that it will continue to sprint for 4G services in 2015, with the goal of grabbing 40% of the domestic market share. However, today (16th) it was also reported that Chunghwa Telecom will stop expanding channels this year. Chunghwa Telecom President Manager Shi Mubiao confirmed this and said that in response to the opening of 4G, the number of stores opened and revenue have not grown at the same time, indicating that the number of stores opened is too large and the overall effect is not good. Based on cost considerations, all expansion will be suspended in 2015. plan.
2014 was the first year of the launch of 4G in Taiwan. However, at the beginning of 2015, Chunghwa Telecom took the first shot of suspending expansion. It is worth paying attention to the subsequent layout of other telecom players.
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