Singapore's M1 revealed its 2013 profit grew 9.4% to S$160.2 million ($125.3 million), attributing the result to continued mobile data gains.
The company also announced it is expecting “moderate growth” in net profit for 2014, based on the current economic outlook.
Total service revenue increased 6.3% year-on-year to S$819.8 million. Non-voice services' contribution to total revenue increased four percentage points to 41.6%.
The company added 35,000 postpaid mobile customers, to take its total mobile customer base to 2.11 million. Of these, 1.13 million are more lucrative postpaid subscribers.
Postpaid mobile revenue increased 5.4% to S$558 million, while postpaid monthly ARPU dipped 1.4% to S$61.80.
But M1's total operating revenue declined 6.4% to S$1.01 billion, due to lower handset sales in an increasingly saturated market.
The company estimates that its mobile market share was 25.3% at the end of the year, down slightly from 26.1% in 4Q12.
On the fixed side, M1 added 33,000 fiber customers during 2013, ending the year with 85,000 customers. But fiber monthly ARPU declined 9.3% to S$46.10 over the period.
The company is expecting a total capex outlay for 2014 of around S$130 million.