28th April 2017
QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES REPORT AND APPENDIX 4C FOR QUARTER ENDED 31 MARCH 2017 | |
ASX Symbol: ST1 REGISTERED OFFICE Level 4, 100 Albert Road South Melbourne VIC AUS 3205 PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS Level 2 240 Chapel Street Prahran VIC AUS 3181 CONTACT P 1300 007 001 F 1300 887 813 www.spirit.com.au BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr James Joughin (Chairman) Mr Terry Gray (Director) Mr Geoff Neate (Managing Director) ISSUED CAPITAL Fully paid ordinary shares: 184,050,420 ST1O Listed Options: 44,654,523 ST1AC Unlisted Options: 2,500,000 ST1AB Performance Rights: 2,570,000 | Spirit is pleased to provide its Quarterly Activity report to our shareholders. Highlights:
Spirit Telecom Limited (ASX: ST1) ("Spirit") is pleased to provide shareholders with the 3rd quarterly activities report and Appendix 4C for the quarter ended 31 March 2017. During the quarter, Spirit's activities were focused on developing key strategic areas, considered important for Spirit's growth and development. These include: |
Spirit is pleased with the growth of on-net buildings to 306. The deployment of 58 buildings, more than double that of Q1/17, shows the continued appetite the market has for Spirit's superfast Internet and voice services. The Capex used in these buildings, for the quarter is $545K, or an average of
$9,396/building. The financial year to date in- building capex spend is $1.27 million or
$10,846/building, across the 118 buildings added this financial year.
20000
18,100 | |
16,930 | |
15,280 | |
660 | |
1,222 | 702 |
3247 | |
2877 | |
2335 | |
18000
$1,400,000
$1,000,000 | 214 | 250 |
$800,000 | 200 | |
$600,000 | 150 | |
$400,000 | 58 | 100 |
$1,200,000
$200,000
$-
248
2634
Q1 Q2 Q3
Total Capex Spend Buildings added per quarter Total Buildings
306
350
300
50
0
16000
14000
12000
10000
In the residential sector the number of connected apartments grew to 18,100 for the March quarter. Active customers within the residential and student apartments grew to 3,907, which is a growth of 9% over the December quarter.
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6000
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2000
One of the more significant buildings was the addition of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. Spirit entered the building more than a year after NBN and regardless of the 'first to market advantage' that NBN had, Spirit was able to gain nearly 20% of residents since activating Eureka Tower in late February 2017.
0
Q1 Q2 Q3
Residential Student Total Connected Apartments
Spirit's Managing Director Geoff Neate commented:
"This quarter's growth in buildings and Connected apartments has been encouraging. It shows what we are capable of and is a credit to the team's ability to compete against much bigger players in the industry. Our biggest test was to give NBN such a head start and we exceeded our expectations in a very short time"
The overall growth of Spirit has been healthy, with revenues increasing in all categories. As is illustrated in the chart below, the growth in building revenue, relative to total, is continuing to increase. In addition, non-building revenue has grown, providing an overall healthy increase in total revenue.
$3,500,000
$3,000,000
$2,500,000
$2,000,000
$1,500,000
$1,000,000
56% 58% 62%$500,000
$-
FY17/Q1 FY17/Q2 FY17/Q3*
Building Revenue Total Revenue
Factors affecting Australian Telco sector
Gross margin reduction experienced by NBN resellers, brought about by the NBN's pricing structure:
Spirit deploys and manages a totally separate network to the NBN. Because Spirit deploys 'switched Ethernet' in its buildings it does not resell NBN and is therefore does not experience the same negative margin impact being experienced by NBN resellers (see below).
Competitor's plan to build an alternative mobile network
Spirit's network development is focused on providing superfast internet and ancillary services, such as voice, to the commercial and residential sector. The entry of another mobile network is not expected to impair Spirit from achieving its growth objectives.
A single end user on a 25/5Mbps NBN service requires a $27 access fee and $15.25 of CVC2, compared to Spirit's less than $10 for 25/25Mbps
Based on a 25/5 Mbps service
Based on industry average of 1Mbps/user
+Rule 4.7B
Quarterly report for entities subject to Listing Rule 4.7BIntroduced 31/03/00 Amended 30/09/01, 24/10/05, 17/12/10, 01/09/16
Name of entitySpirit Telecom Limited
ABN Quarter ended ("current quarter")73 089 224 402
31 March 2017
Consolidated statement of cash flows | Current quarter $A'000 | Year to Date (9 Months) $A'000 |
| 3,355 | 9,042 |
- | - | |
- | - | |
(81) | (244) | |
(659) | (1,715) | |
(2,419) | (6,639) | |
- | - | |
2 | 16 | |
(58) | (126) | |
(39) | (72) | |
- | - | |
- | - | |
101 | 262 |
+ A reclassification has been made between the Year to Date income taxes paid and administration costs in relation to
$33,000 of income taxes paid in the December 2016 quarter.
- Cash flows from investing activities
Payments to acquire:
property, plant and equipment
(545) (1,269)
businesses (see item 10) - (4,400)
+ See chapter 19 for defined terms
1 September 2016
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