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Malaysian Telcos Q4 24 review: Soft Q4; guidance suggests recovery on the horizon

4Q24 service revenue trend remained soft off prepaid weakness, partly offset by Fibre and Enterprise momentum which enabled Maxis to grow faster than CelcomDigi. Industry EBITDA was weaker off a higher comparable base, but guidance suggests a recovery in 2025 in particular for CelcomDigi.
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Axiata Group Bhd.

Axiata Group is an investment holding company. Co. is engaged in the provision of mobile communication services and network transmission related services. Co.'s principal activities are investment holding and provision of technical and management services. The principal activities of Co.'s subsidiaries are mainly the provision of mobile communication services and network transmission related services. Co. provides mobile services, leasing of passive infrastructure, and others such as provision of interconnect services, leased services, pay television transmission services and provision of other data services. Co. operates within Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.

Maxis Bhd.

Maxis is engaged as a communications service provider. Co. operates in three segments: mobile services, which comprises postpaid mobile, prepaid mobile, mobile data, broadband and roaming services; fixed line services, which comprises a range of voice services, data services, Very Small Aperture Terminal services and Internet Protocol and managed services to consumer and business customers; and international gateway services, which comprises services to international telecommunications carriers for termination of traffic into Malaysia, services to send Co.'s own international traffic abroad and bandwidth leasing services. As of Dec 31 2010, Co. had 13,954,000 mobile subscriptions.

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