Telstra's sales 
revenue declined 2.2% or $558 million to $24,813 million (Australian) for its full 2009/10 financial year. EBITDA also declined by 0.9% or $101 million to $10,847 million. Net profit after tax declined by 4.7% to $3,883 million, however, free cash flow increased by $1.9 billion to $6.2 billion, exceeding the company's long-held target of $6 billion.
"2010 has been a challenging year, yet in the second half we started to see improving momentum in key products, and positive growth with business, government and enterprise customers as well as profit growth at Sensis," said Telstra CEO David Thodey.
Some highlights:
revenue declined 2.2% or $558 million to $24,813 million (Australian) for its full 2009/10 financial year. EBITDA also declined by 0.9% or $101 million to $10,847 million. Net profit after tax declined by 4.7% to $3,883 million, however, free cash flow increased by $1.9 billion to $6.2 billion, exceeding the company's long-held target of $6 billion."2010 has been a challenging year, yet in the second half we started to see improving momentum in key products, and positive growth with business, government and enterprise customers as well as profit growth at Sensis," said Telstra CEO David Thodey.
Some highlights:
- For the year, Telstra had a CAPEX-to-sales ratio of 14%, with $3.5 billion invested in the year.
- Mobile services revenue grew 5.9%
- Mobile data grew 21.7%
- Wireless broadband revenue grew 34% (with more than 1.6 million subscribers),
- Fixed broadband ARPU continues to increase.
- Fixed telephony, however, continued to present a significant challenge, with PSTN declining by 8% over the year.
- In 2011, Telstra expects an increase in the customer base and flattish revenues, but because of our investments and changing product mix the company expects a high single digit percentage decline in EBITDA, and free cashflow of between $4.5 and $5.0 billion.
- Telstra also foresees CAPEX/sales around 14 percent for the medium-term, excluding possible spectrum acquisition costs.
- Full year sales at CSL New World in Hong Kong declined by 7% due to challenging market conditions.
However, the figures were slightly below analyst expectations of $10.95 billion in sales and the company cited "mixed signals" for growth in the global economy.
extender that doubles the powering reach of its PoE midspans to 200 meters. PoE midspans enable both data and power to be delivered over a single standard RJ-45 cable, eliminating the need for external power supplies and their associated AC/DC power cabling for Ethernet-connected cameras, IP phones, WLAN access points, etc.
Ericsson delivered its one millionth radio base station, some 20 years since shipping its first base station. It has taken only three years to deliver the next million. The two millionth radio base station was an Ericsson RBS 6000 unit, delivered as part of a mobile broadband network expansion project.
will become the sales representative for a broad selection of advertising inventory on several cable networks carried on DIRECTV. Under the deal, national satellite advertising inventory on Bloomberg, Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, G4, Current, Ovation, Fit, Sleuth, Chiller and TV Guide will be available through the Google TV Ads system.
which combines traditional mobile telephony with push-to-talk (PTT) for the enterprise market, has reached 10 million subscribers outside the United States. Motorola said iDEN technology is currently in operation with more than 30 network operators in 23 countries worldwide for the delivery of communications services. 
