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Telstra lifts NPAT 5.4 percent

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Telstra has lifted revenues for FY12 by 1.1 percent% to $25.b and NPAT by 5.4 percent to $3.42b, lifted mobile customer numbers by 1.6 million. EBITDA was up by 0.8 percent to $10.2b.

CEO David Thodey said "We delivered on our commitments, met guidance and demonstrated greater resilience than other sectors in a challenging market environment. We have achieved top and bottom line growth and expect to do so again in the 2013 financial year."

Telstra also grew retail fixed line customers by 203,000 to 2.6 million and added 336,000 customers on bundled plans taking that total to 1.4 million.
It said that it had expanded LTE coverage to 40 percent of the population, using a total of 375,000 LTE capable devices.

Telstra's domestic mobile revenue growth was up 8.5 percent and accounted for more than one third of revenue. Telstra has added more than three million new mobile customers over the past two y

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Tracking the telecoms industry since 1989, Stuart has been awarded Journalist Of The Year by the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (twice) and by the Service Providers Action Network. In 2010 he received the 'Kester' lifetime achievement award in the Consensus IT Writers Awards and was made a Lifetime Member of the Telecommunications Society of Australia. He was born in the UK, came to Australia in 1980 and has been here ever since.

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