Profit: net earnings of $35 million, down from $157m
Main takeaway: Telco hit by mobile price competition with spending cuts also affecting enterprise and government business.
Spark shares moved into freefall on Friday, dropping by more than a fifth to as low as $2.30 by early afternoon trade, before recovering to $2.37, still more than $1 billion down by market capitalisation from $5.4 billion to $4.37b.
Announcing its half-year results to December, the country's largest
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