Networks, I want to highlight again, which achieved 39.9% gross margin, which was very much in the upper part of the range that we had guided for 38% to 40%. And of course, it again is the market mix that we talk about that continued to impact gross margin in networks. But however, and I think this is important actually achieving 39.9% gross margin is a strong proof point, because it demonstrates the resiliency of our company. It is a sign of how the business transformation that we’ve been on to over the years now has made us less sensitive to these swings between geographies. Third point, regarding EBITDA margin, we exceeded the previously mentioned expectations due to early positive effects of the cost out ambitions. So for the group, we came in at 7.3%, that’s a decline, of course, versus last year’s 11.3%, again, driven by the gross income in the networks.
Cloud Software and Services delivered actually well in the quarter. EBITDA was a SEK0.4 billion. And here we continue to execute on the turnaround strategy that we launched actually at the CMD last year. We are talking about strict commercial discipline, improved software sales, accelerated service delivery automation, as some of the key pillars there. But given the nature of the Cloud Software and Service business, results will fluctuate between individual quarters. So to assess how this business performs over time, my recommendation is to look more at the four quarter rolling basis. And if you do that, you will see a positive EBITDA number. You find all those numbers in the back end of the report. And you can compare this positive number with the four quarters one year earlier where we had an EBITA loss of over SEK1 billion.
So, we are clearly on-track moving in the right direction. I would say, as you know, we have discussed the breakeven target for or at least breakeven for full year 2023. We will come back to guidance a bit more later, but the this quarter is of course a good stepping stone towards that ambition as well. On the Enterprise side, we are impacted by a weaker market such as macroeconomic headwinds just like other participants in this ecosystem, but it is encouraging though to see that, the global communications platform and as you as you will remember, that’s where one entry sites, delivered a positive EBITDA also in the third quarter. Fourth point, free cash flow, before M&A came in at SEK0.5 billion negative, and this we have also explained many times that this is really a result of this same business mix shift, which includes big rollout projects with a longer order to cash cycle.
And maybe I have explained and expand a little bit more on this, in North America and some of the other, early markets customers largely managed the installment of equipment themselves. So payment terms are mainly related and to timing of delivery hardware and software rather than completion of sites and installment of equipment. But most of the large rollout projects, on the other hand, like in India, contracts are rather project based meaning that we have been assigned to build and install large scale networks and that leads of course to higher working capital in relation to sales volumes. But we expect this situation to taper off next year as the pace of these large rollouts will decrease. And when that happens, we expect to working capital to reduce.
And then gradually over time we will and should return to our long-term free cash flow targets as you know 9% to 12% of net sales. Finally as my fifth point on this slide, I wanted to highlight that we deliver on the cost out efforts. Year-to-date, we have achieved run rate savings of 10.5 billion, of which 1.9 has impacted the P&L in the third quarter. It’s about 1.2 in cost of sales, 0.7 in OpEx. The savings are primarily visible in the mobile networks business, less in enterprise, because in enterprise we continue to increase investments for value creation in that business, both when it comes to the product, meaning competitiveness, but also go to market. We booked provisions for restructuring so far in the year amounting to 5 billion of which 0.9 in Q3 and that’s all in line with the cost out plans.
