Chinese Telcos Q4 23 review: Outperformance by China Telecom; bullish capex and dividend guidance
China Telecom was the clear outperformer for service revenue growth this quarter and for the full year too, driven by an acceleration in Enterprise. Industry EBITDA trend was less upbeat in Q4 as China Mobile and Unicom declined. Both capex and dividend guidance were bullish; industry capex expected to lower by 5% while payout is expected to trend above 75% over the next three years (by 2026) for China Mobile and China Telecom.China Mobile and its subsidiaries are engaged in the provision of mobile telecommunications and related services principally using the Global System for Mobile Communications standard and the Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access standard. In addition, Co. provides its customers with internet access through wireless local area networks. Co. also develops and carries its 4G business based on the TDD mode long-term evolution technology. As of Dec 31 2013, Co. had approx. 767,200,000 customers in all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and directly-administered municipalities in the People's Republic of China as well as in Hong Kong.
China Telecom is a full services integrated information service operator and wireline telecommunications and broadband services provider in the People's Republic of China. Co. offers wireline and mobile telecommunications services including wireline voice, mobile voice, internet, managed data and leased line, value-added telecommunications services, integrated information application services and other related services. As of Dec 31 2010, Co. had wireline access lines in service of approximately 175 million, wireline broadband subscribers of approximately 63 million and mobile subscribers of approximately 90 million.
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