London, May 8 (Reuters) - British Fibre Broadband Company Cityfibre Said on Wednesday It Recorded Positive Core Earnings in Its First Quarter, Ahead of Its Target of Reaching the Milestone in the First Half, After It Grew Its Customer Connections by 77% to More Than 400,000.
倫敦，5月8日（路透社）— 英國光纖寬帶公司Cityfibre週三表示，其第一季度核心收益爲正，超過了上半年實現里程碑的目標，此前該公司將客戶連接增長了77％，達到40萬以上。
The Company, Which Serves More Than 40 Internet Service Providers and Mobile Phone Companies Including Talktalk, Three and Vodafone Vod.l, Said It Was Regularly Installing Over 1,000 New Customers a Day.
該公司爲40多家互聯網服務提供商和移動電話公司提供服務，包括Talktalk、Three和Vodafone Vod.l，表示每天定期吸引1,000多名新客戶。
Chief Executive Greg Mesch Said the Company, Which Last Year Reported 100 Million Pounds of Revenue, Was Ahead of Track in the Three Months to End-March.
首席執行官格雷格·梅施表示，該公司去年公佈了1億英鎊的收入，在截至3月底的三個月中處於領先地位。
"We Were Better on Our Cost Control Because We Did All the Work Last Year, but Also Our Growth Has Been Greater Than We Thought," He Said.
他說：“我們在成本控制方面做得更好，因爲我們完成了去年的所有工作，而且我們的增長也超出了我們的想象。”
"a Steady 1,000 Installs a Day and That's 25,000 Net Additions per Month."
“每天穩定的1,000次安裝，也就是每月淨增加25,000次。”
Cityfibre, Whose Backers Include Antin Infrastructure Partners and Goldman Sachs, Agreed to Buy Lit Fibre From Newlight Partners Last Month, Accelerating Its Roll-Out by up to 300,000 Premises Towards Its Eventual Target of 8 Million.
Cityfibre的支持者包括Antin Infrastructure Partners和高盛集團，上個月同意從Newlight Partners手中收購Lit Fibre，將其推出速度加快了多達30萬個場所，最終目標爲800萬個。
Mesch Said More Deals Were in the Pipeline, Helping Increase Its Footprint to Challenge Bt's Openreach and Virgin Media O2's Networks. He Is Aiming to Do One Deal or so a Quarter for the Next Eight Quarters.
梅施說，更多交易正在進行中，這有助於擴大其足跡，以挑戰英國電信的Openreach和維珍傳媒O2的網絡。他的目標是在接下來的八個季度中每季度做一筆左右的交易。
"That Would Be Somewhere in the Neighbourhood of Six to Eights Deals," He Said. "We Have Conversations Going With Almost All the Alt-Nets."
他說：“那差不多是六到八筆交易。”“我們正在與幾乎所有的 Alt-Nets 進行對話。”
"All Being Small Islands Is Not Going to Work, but US All Coming Together to Make a Large Continent, That Can Make US Survive," He Added.
他補充說：“所有都是小島嶼是行不通的，但我們齊心協力，組成一個可以使我們生存下來的大陸。”
(Reporting by Paul Sandle; Editing by Sarah Young)
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