Clarification of a change in net profit by more than 20%
13 สิงหาคม 2551
- Translation -
AIS-CP 094/2008
August 13, 2008
Subject: Submission of reviewed consolidated and company financial
statements for the second quarter of 2008 (2Q08) and clarification
of a change in net profit of more than 20%
To: The President
The Stock Exchange of Thailand
Enclosure: 1. Reviewed consolidated and company financial statements for 2Q08
in Thai and English
2. Management and Discussion Analysis (MD&A) for 2Q08
3. Reports Review Quarterly Financial Statements (F45-3)
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited ("the Company") would like to
submit the reviewed consolidated and company financial statements for 2Q08. In
addition, the Company would like to clarify the reasons of a difference in net
profit, which increased by more than 20% from the same period of last year.
In 2Q08, the Company and its subsidiaries reported a net profit of Baht 6,333
million, increased 72.9% year on year (y-o-y) from Baht 3,663 million in
2Q07. This was attributed to service revenue growth, other income from Digital
Phone Co., Ltd. ("DPC") and Total Access Communication Plc ("DTAC") dispute
settlement and lower selling & administrative expenses.
Service revenues excluding interconnection revenue (IC) grew 7.5% y-o-y to
Baht 21,060 million in 2Q08 from Baht 19,597 million in 2Q07 due to strong
revenue growth in prepaid service, non-voices, international roaming and
international calls.
Other operating income was Baht 1,944 million in 2Q08, consisted of a gain of
Baht 1,739 million from DPC and DTAC dispute settlement. DTAC submitted 3
disputes totaling amount US$ 123.2 million to the Arbitration Institute
demanding DPC, a 98.55% subsidiary, to pay for the assignment of the rights to
operate the Digital PCN 1800, the facilities and equipment, and the roaming
fee according to the Agreement to Unwind the Service Provider Agreement
("Unwind Agreement") plus interest charge at 9.50% per annum on the overdue
payment since the dispute submission date until the full payment is made.
On March 25, 2008, the Arbitral had a ruling in 2 out of 3 disputes that DPC
should pay DTAC for the total amount of US$ 84.7 million, which was 80% of
total claimed amount, plus interest of 9.50% per annum thereof.
On May 30, 2008, DPC and DTAC reached agreement to settle and surrender all
above cases and claims to terminate the Unwind Agreement as well as waive all
their respect rights and release each other from any current and future
obligations, whereby DPC agreed to pay DTAC for Baht 3,000 million. On June 3,
2008, DTAC has withdrawn the rest dispute.
DPC has booked the total liability of Baht 4,739 million under the concession
right payable as of December 31, 2007. As a result, gain of Baht 1,739 million
was recognized to other income in the Company's consolidated financial
statement.
Selling and administrative expenses declined 20.8% y-o-y to Baht 2,613 million
in 2Q08 from Baht 3,301 million in 2Q07 due to lower marketing expenses,
improvement in bad debt provision and discontinued amortization of goodwill
following a change in accounting policy.
Marketing spending for 2Q08 was 2.4% of total revenue excluding IC, declined
from 3.8% in 2Q07. Bad debt provision significantly improved in this quarter,
representing 2.2% of postpaid revenues, declined from 8.1% in 2Q07 as a result
of the group's conservative credit policy in screening new postpaid subscribers.
Please be informed accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
- Signed -
Mr. Vikrom Sriprataks
Director
Advanced Info Service Plc.
Compliance Department
Tel. 02-687-4278, 02-615-3277