Reliance Communications disclosed a substantial rise in standalone net profit for the quarter ended March 2015. During the quarter, the profit of the company rose 46.15% to Rs 2,280.00 million from Rs 1,560.00 million in the same quarter last year.
Revenues for the quarter rose 5.35% to Rs 56,940.00 million, compared with Rs 54,050 million for the prior year period.
Earnings per share for the quarter stood at Rs 0.89, registering 18.67% growth over previous year period.
RPM: RPM at 44.4 paisa, up 2.8% Y-o-Y. Voice RPM at 33.2 paisa, up 0.6% Y-o-Y. Total MOU at 108.1 billion, up 5.7% Y-o-Y. ARPU: ARPU at Rs.147, up 14.8% Y-o-Y.
The total data customer base has grown 26.2% Y-o-Y to 33.7 million including 17.4 million 3G customers in Q4.
The total data traffic at 87,211 million MB, up 73.6% Y-o-Y. The traffic has increased due to increase in data subscribers and higher data usage per customer.
| Quarterly Results - Standalone (Rs in mn) |
| As at | Mar - 15 | Mar - 14 | %Change |
| Revenues | 56,940.00 | 54,050.00 | 5.35 |
| Net Profit | 2,280.00 | 1,560.00 | 46.15 |
| Diluted EPS | 0.89 | 0.75 | 18.67 |
Shares of the company declined Rs 1.85, or 2.73%, to trade at Rs 65.95. The total volume of shares traded was 783,411 at the BSE (2.40 p.m., Monday).
