China Unicom year net up 15.8% to Rmb12.06bn; div Rmb0.2

    China Unicom (00762) said its profit attributable to equity shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2014 rose 15.8% year-on-year to Rmb12,055 million.
  Its basic and diluted earnings per share were Rmb51 cents and Rmb49 cents.
  The revenue was Rmb284,681 million, a decrease of 3.5% from a year earlier. Service revenue reached Rmb244.88 billion, an increase of 2.6% compared with the previous year, outpacing the industry average by 3.9 percentage points. Revenues generated from mobile business and non-voice business accounted for 63.3% and 61.9% of its total service revenue respectively.
  EBITDA amounted to Rmb92.77 billion, up by 10.5% year-on-year. EBITDA as a percentage of service revenue reached 37.9%, up by 2.7 percentage points year-on-year.
  During the year, the number of its mobile broadband subscribers increased by 26.505 million to 149.105 million, of which the number of wireless data card subscribers amounted to 8.064 million. Its mobile broadband ARPU was Rmb63.6. The usage of WO+ services reached 330 million times, and the number of mobile music users reached 40.65 million.
  Its mobile service revenue rose 2.6% year-on-year to Rmb155.10 billion and its mobile subscribers grew by 18.115 million to around 300 million.
  The proposed final dividend is Rmb0.2 (2013: Rmb0.16) per share, payable on or about 10 June.