Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Daniel Meron of RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed.
Daniel Meron - RBC Capital Markets
Congrats on the bottom-line execution. I'm a little bit interested in the pacing you've seen, if you can explain the weakness that you have seen June versus the pickup in July, and how much of that you can see into the August months that we started now? Because it does seem like the summer months are picking up a little bit, so just curious on the changes on a monthly basis?
David Hitchcock
Yes, Daniel, I think we tried to provide as much real-time information as we can. We certainly have July numbers, and we tend to look at those on a monthly aggregate because of the flow of the numbers and calendars and normalizations of volume. So what we can tell you, as we talked about on the call for July, is that we saw volumes stronger than what we were forecasting.
We saw particular strength in EMEA. In fact, EMEA for the first time in nine months had volume up versus the ticks going down. So clearly we expect some of the impact to be due to the new EU regulations where the mandate is put in place to decrease charging on messaging and data. So we think that's a very positive trend.
Frankly, as David said in his comments, we won't know the answer to that until we see July and August, and if you think about our business, Q3 is our seasonally adjusted highest quarter, and July, August, and September, are really where those volumes pull out, so while we are positively inclined about what we saw in July, clearly we saw negativity that we didn't expect in May and June. A lot of that we think is due to the swine flu, so we think we may be past that point, but again, our numbers have moved around far more than were used to at this point.
So that's a kind of a long answer to your question, but just to kind of give you a perspective and breakdown how we think about the numbers and where the flows come from.
Daniel Meron - RBC Capital Markets
So it could be that they will be the other way around because the swings in the inter-month basis are stronger, so it could be to the positive or the negative?
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