Operator results - 24/10/06

Google reported 3Q06 sales of $2.7bn (+70%), a net income of $733m (+100%) and an operational income of $825m, up 31%.

Cingular reported 3Q06 net income of $847m, up 282%, on revenues of $9.6bn, up 9%. Cingular had 58.7m mobile users at the end of Sept.

MTC (Kuwait) posted $2.9bn in 9-mo revenues (+115%) and net income of $ 767m and an EBITDA of $1.4bn.

M1 (Singapore) announced 3Q06 net profit is down 2% to $27m.

eBay reports 3Q06 earnings of $281m, up 10%, on revenues of $ 1.45bn, up 31%. It predicted that 2007 profits would increase by 20%, and revenue would increase by 17%-21%.

China Mobile reports 9-mo net profit of $5.8bn, up 25%, on revenues of $26.9bn, up 21%. EBITDA rose 26% to $15.3bn. It added 4.5m new customers in September and 13.4m in the quarter.

KDDI (Japan) posted 3Q06 net profit of $510m, up 24%, on revenues of $6.8bn, up 7%.

ATT reported strong 3Q06 earnings with a 74% increase to $2.2bn, on revenues of $15.6bn, up from a pre-merger $10.3bn in 3Q05. Operating income came at $2.9bn on a reported basis, with an operating income margin of 18.7%. ATT generated $3.4bn in cash in the quarter.

China Telecom announced 9-mo revenues of $15.9bn (+4.5%), an EBITDA of $8.2bn and net profit of $2.1bn.

Bellsouth reported 3Q06 consolidated earnings of $1bn, up 30% on revenues of $ 5.2bn, up 3%. Normalized earnings (including Cingular share) rose 26% to $1.2bn, on revenues of $9bn, up 5%.