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Telmex’s net income and revenue fell in second quarter

Net income for the second quarter at Mexican fixed line incumbent Telefonos de Mexico SAB fell 11.8% from the year-ago period. Telmex’s revenue also dropped 2.9% from the year-ago period to 27.614 billions pesos (US$ 2.357 billions).

From April to June 2011, earnings were 11.074 billion pesos before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), representing a 2.5% year-on-year decline from 11.355 billion pesos a year earlier.

The carrier ended the quarter with a total of 12.354 million fixed line voice customers, down 1.9% from the previous year. Telmex said that it noticed a decrease in fixed-line penetration, though pointed to its 62.9% share of the market (77.7% if counted public fixed-lines, prepaid and those from Telmex Social). Broadband subscribers at the end of June 2011 totaled 7.7 million, up almost 10% from 6.954 million a year earlier.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, Americasrprescott@rcrwireless.com Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.