Bell expected to report 'mixed' Q1 results, pull 2022 outlook: analyst

According to Scotiabank's analysis, Bell is predicted to written report mixed Q1 2020 results and remove its outlook for the year due to the COVID-xix pandemic.

The bank's telecom analyst Jeff Fan notes Bong will likely use its FCF (gratuitous cash menstruum) and subsidies savings to go along investing in networks, including fibre and wireless to the home.

This comes equally Bell recently announced plans to accelerate wireless home internet deployment to reach 137,000 more homes than originally planned by the end of April.

Bong has previously stated that wireless home internet usage has increased by 40 percent over the last month, and says that the crisis has underscored the value of the service to customers in smaller communities.

"In wireless, we refined the quarterly timing of our service acquirement estimates for roaming and data overage, increasing our Q2 guess but reducing our Q4 estimates as nosotros look these revenues volition be dull to render," Fan notes.

As for Q1 2020 itself, Bell is expected to written report 28,000 postpaid wireless net additions, along with a loss of x,000 prepaid internet additions.

Postpaid churn rate volition be around 0.98 percentage, which is a decrease from the i.07 percent reported in Q1 2019. Churn rate is the percentage of subscribers who discontinue their subscriptions in a month.

Bell'south blended ARPU (average acquirement per unit) is predicted to exist around $65.19, which represents a refuse from the $67.35 recorded in the same menses a year ago. The report indicates the carrier'southward composite ABPU (average billing per unit) will be $52.27, depicting a v.2 percent subtract from the $55.17 reported in Q1 2019.

The Montreal-based national carrier is scheduled to written report its Q1 2020 results on May 7th, the same day as Vancouver-based Telus.

Rogers, the rest of the Big Three, revealed its Q1 2020 results on April 22nd, and reported a decrease in postpaid gross additions and revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic.