Telekom Austria: growth, dividend and digital expansion

Telekom Austria Group expects growth in mobile communications and business customers. In Austria, 500 million euros will be invested this year.

Thomas Arnoldner deputy CEO of Telekom Austria AG shows itself optimistic for this year. He assumes sales growth of two to three percent. The plus should primarily be through growth in Mobile communications And through that IT business for business customers be achieved.

In addition to Austria, the group works in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Northern Macedonia and Belarus. Due to the Ukraine War and the proximity of the regime in Minsk zu Moscow, the situation is in Belarus Still tense for Telekom.

Among other things, Telekom may not call up the dividends achieved there to the extent of a high double -digit million amount.  Telekom has in that  Land 2,000 employees and Six million customers what with  9.1 million inhabitants  A strong market position means. According to Arnoldner, a withdrawal from Belarus is still not planned. Customers and employees would rely on Telekom.

The group has a total of 30 million customers and 17,000 employees. Around 6,700 of them in Austria. Around 300 to 400 jobs in this country are broken down by the so -called natural personnel fluctuation.

AI for years

Not a job killer is the artificial intelligence (AI) that has been in use at Telekom for years. The AI ​​says, for example, which mobile radio station is at risk of failure or which customer may soon quit.

The radio performance at night is also controlled via AI.  The AI ​​works supportive, said Arnoldner, but would not replace the jobs.

Investments in fiber optic network

Around 500 million euros The company is investing again in Austria this year. Most of the money flows into the expansion of the fiber optic network. Arnoldner and Austria boss criticize once again Marcus Grausa die Funding policy. This would promote construction, for example, which increased the civil engineering costs by 30 percent compared to 2021.

The funding should receive the one who wants a connection, says Gruelam. In addition, global tech companies would benefit from the digital infrastructure in this country without having to invest anything.

Telekom Austria currently belongs to 60.6 percent the Mexican Group America Movil and too 28.4 percent The Austrian State Holding ÖBAG. With the outsourcing of the radio towers in 2023, the group reduced its debts greatly and set ambitious growth and profitability goals by 2027.

The dividend should 0.40 euros your action be. Incidentally, the dividend (at that time 0.20 euros per share) has increased constantly since 2018.