They were of the order of $176,778 million, $23,071 million less than in the fourth quarter of 2021, the company reported in its balance sheet for the period, with figures restated for inflation. Telecom registered a net loss in the period of $13.868 billion, which implies a decrease of 180.8%, since in the last quarter of 2021 it had had a profit of $17.161 billion.
Total sales of services fell 12% to $164,038 million between October and December, $22,446 million below the reference record.
From the sale of mobile services, the company generated $73.641 billion, falling 6.1%, with a loss of $4.820 billion, compared to the same period in 2021.
Internet service sales fell 11.6% to $38.5 billion; and sales of Cable Television services slowed down 19%, totaling $30.384 billion. Sales of Fixed Telephony and Data services reached $20.366 billion, with a fall of 23.4%, some $6.341billion year-on-year difference.
From the sale of equipment, the company collected $12.720 billion, 4.7% less ($625 million) than in the same period of the previous year.
Telecom closed 2022 with 20.2 million mobile service customers, 114,000 more than the previous year. Postpaid customers were 43% of the total. ARPU was $1,102.6, an 8.3% less. The monthly Churn was 2.3%, versus 1.5% in 2021.
Cable TV subscribers reached 3.5 million, some 84,000 less year-on-year. The ARPU was $3,006.9 (in 2021 it had been $3,668.3). Churn was 1.3%. As of the end of 2022, Flow's unique customers totaled 1.3 million.
Broadband accesses totaled 4.1 million, 8.5% below the reference period. Broadband ARPU reached $3,052.4, falling compared to 2021 ($3,364.3).
Regarding Telecom's performance in the entire fiscal year 2022, consolidated sales stood at $729.182 billion (-12%). The company suffered a net loss of $205.640 billion, compared to a profit of $19.362 billion in 2021. Revenues from sales of mobile services reached $268.035 billion (-4.7%): mobile Internet sales represented 86% of this total, against 75% of the previous year.
Revenues from sales of cable television services totaled $130.904 billion (-18.6%) and Internet services, $161.740 billion (-8.5%).
The company clarified in its report that the results presented in a comparative manner (compared to December 2021) contain the year-on-year effect of inflation, until December 2022, of 94.8%.