TPSA announces a 3.4% increase in consolidated revenues for Q2 2003

Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA) announced yesterday that it recorded consolidated revenues from sales of zł. 4.57 billion before audit in Q2 of 2003. That is an increase of 3.4% as compared to the same period last year, and a better result than expected by market analysts. The publicly listed operator has shown a fall in revenues from fixed-line telephone services, compensating those with an increase in sales from its mobile phone operator, PTK Centertel. After the first six months of this year, revenues from its mobile operator, Idea, amounted to zł. 2.07 billion, which is an increase of 33% as compared to the same period last year. Centertel announced earlier that the number of its customers had grown to reach 5.1 million, of which 3.05 million are users of the pre-paid POP services. That is a 42% increase in the number of pre-paid POP service users. According to TPSA, the estimated market share of PTK Centertel, taking into account the number of users, amounted to 32.6% at the end of June. (Parkiet, p. 3) A.K.