January-December 05 Results
Telefonica SA
02 March 2006
Quarterly results
January-December 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Telefonica Group 2
Financial Highlights
Consolidated Results
Financial Data
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Fixed Line Business
• Telefonica de Espana Group
• Telefonica Latinoamerica Group
Mobile Business
Cesky Telecom
Other Business
• Directories Business
• Atento Group
• Content and Media Business
• Telefonica Deutschland Group
AddendA
Companies included in each Financial Statement
Key Holdings of the Telefonica Group and its Subsidiaries
Significant Events
Changes to the Perimeter and Accounting Criteria of Consolidation
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development
The financial information contained in this document has been prepared under
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This financial information
is unaudited and, therefore, is subject to potential future modifications. 2004
financial results were originally prepared under Spanish GAAP and have been
translated into IFRS for comparison purposes only.
The English language translation of the consolidated financial statements
originally issued in Spanish has been prepared solely for the convenience of
English speaking readers. Despite all the efforts devoted to this translation,
certain omissions or approximations may subsist. Telefonica, its representatives
and employees decline all responsibility in this regard. In the event of a
discrepancy, the Spanish-language version prevails.
These consolidated financial statements are presented on the basis of accounting
principles generally accepted in International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS). Certain accounting practices applied by the Group that conform with
generally accepted accounting principles in IFRS may not conform with generally
accepted accounting principles in other countries.
TELEFONICA GROUP
TELEFONICA GROUP
ACCESSES
Unaudited figures (thousands)
December
2005 2004 % Chg
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 40,859.0 37,768.5 8.2
Internet and data accesses 12,859.9 10,872.2 18.3
Narrowband 5,166.9 5,672.5
Broadband 6,902.7 4,736.7
ADSL (2) 5,880.2 3,915.5
Retail (3) 5,023.1 3,225.6
Other accesses (4) 790.3 463.0
Unbundled loops (5) 434.8 116.1
Pay TV 683.2 408.3 67.3
Cellular accesses 99,124.0 74,441.4 33.2
Total Accesses 153,526.0 123,490.3 24.3
(1) PSTN (including Public Use Telephony) x1; ISDN Basic access x1; ISDN Primary access; 2/6 Access x30. Company's
accesses for internal use included.
(2) T. Deutschland's connections resold on a retail basis and Cable Modem in Peru included.
(3) Includes Cable Modem in Peru. TdE Retail includes Terra form 3Q05, Linea ADSL and satellite. TASA Retail includes
ISP in the north part of the country.
(4) Cable modem El Salvador, WiFi clients, satellite Latam, fiber and leased circuits included.
(5) Includes fully unbundled loops and shared loops.
TELEFONICA GROUP
Financial Highlights
The most relevant factors of Telefonica Group results for fiscal year 2005 are
the following:
• Net income reached a record amount of 4,445.8 million euros, 40.0% higher
than in 2004, thanks to the good evolution of operations and the positive
contribution of the executed acquisitions:
• Net income would have reached 4,915.8 million euros if we exclude the
write-down of the remaining value of the UMTS license of IPSE1 and the
provision2 for the Redundancy Program in Telefonica de Espana and Telefonica
Data Espana.
• A 43.4% rise in basic earnings per share, to 0.913 euros.
• Achievement of the financial targets set for 2005, in terms of revenues,
OIBDA, OI and CapEx, both at the Telefonica Group level and within the main
business lines.
• Strengthening of the Group's growth profile, after reporting a solid
year-on-year revenue growth of 25.1%:
• All business lines reported revenues above 2004 fiscal year figures.
• A sharp increase in total accesses (+24.3% over the prior year), driven by
the growth in mobile customers and in broadband, which stood at 153.5
million at the end of the year. Including the O2 customers, whose
acquisition was completed in 2006), the Telefonica Group's customer base
would increase to 180.9 million:
• Telefonica Moviles Group's customer base increased to 94.4 million,
gaining 16.33 million new customers.
• The Group's retail Internet broadband accesses reached 5.0 million, up
from 3.2 million in December of 2004.
• Outstanding organic growth4 (constant exchange rates and excluding changes
in the perimeter of consolidation) in the main Income Statement items:
• Revenues grew by 9.3% year-on-year, OIBDA by 9.9% and OI by 21.7%.
• The positive contribution of the exchange rate fluctuations, particularly
the appreciation of Latin American currencies against the euro, which added
47 percentage points 4.5 percentage points and 3.3 percentage points to the
growth of revenues, OIBDA and OI, respectively.
• Transformation of operating efficiency into profitability and generation
of free cash flow:
• The consolidated OIBDA margin stood at 40.3%, unchanged from the previous
year, in a high-growth environment and higher commercial activity.
• Operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) rose to 9,917.7 million euros,
equivalent to 17.3% increase over the 2004 figure with the positive
contribution of all business lines, despite a higher investment in growth.
• The 2005 shareholder remuneration policy is one of the most attractive in
the industry, as demonstrated by the payment of a cash dividend of 0.5 euros
/share, distribution of treasury stock representing 4% of shareholders'
equity (1x25) and extension of the share buy-back program until the end of
2007, for a total of 6 billion euros. For 2006, the Board of Directors
agreed to propose the payment of a dividend against 2005 fiscal year results
of 0.5 euros/share in the next AGM.
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1 Net of their corresponding tax effect and the loss attributable to minority
interest.
2 Net of their corresponding tax effect
3 Excludes the adjustment for 300,000 inactive lines in Mexico, no longer
considered in the reported customer base in the second quarter of 2005
4 Assuming constant exchange rates and including the consolidation of the Latin
American assets acquired to BellSouth in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela in the cellular
business and Atrium in the Telefonica Latinoamerica Group from January 1st 2004.
Cesky Telecom has been included in the period July-December 2004.
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TELEFONICA GROUP
Consolidated Results
The results obtained by Telefonica Group and the management report included in
this report are based on the actions carried out by the various business units
in the Group and which constitute the units over which management of these
businesses is conducted. This implies a presentation of results based on the
actual management of the various businesses in which Telefonica Group is
present, instead of adhering to the legal structure observed by the
participating companies.
In this sense, income statements are presented by business, which basically
implies that each line of activity participate in the companies that the Group
holds in the corresponding business, regardless of whether said holding has
already been transferred or not, even though it might be the final intent of
Telefonica, S.A. to do so in the future.
It should be emphasized that this presentation by businesses in no case alters
the total results obtained by Telefonica Group. These results are incorporated
from the date of effective acquisition of the holding.
Starting third quarter 2005, Terra Networks results will be included in the
Telefonica de Espana Group and Telefonica Latinoamerica Group results. Hence,
Terra Espana, Azeler and Maptel results will be incorporated within the
Telefonica de Espana Group, whereas Terra in Latin America will be incorporated
in the Telefonica Latinoamerica Group's results. The Terra Networks Group
results from the first and second quarter of 2005 and from fiscal year 2004 will
be incorporated into Other Companies in the Telefonica Group accounts.
Also starting in the third quarter of 2005, the Cesky Telecom results
corresponding to the July-September 2005 period will be incorporated as an
independent business line, at the closing of its acquisition last June.
In 2005, the Telefonica Group obtained a new dimension after the successful
integration of the mobile telephony operations acquired from BellSouth in Latin
America and Cesky Telecom, combined with the acquisition of O2, strengthening
the Group's competitive position through the Company scale. With these
acquisitions, the Group's strategic objective offering the best combination in
terms of growth and cash returns is strengthened, after successfully executing
the integrated management of operations through an increasing focus on customers
and efficiency.
The Telefonica Group thus achieved in 2005 a record net income of 4,445.8
million euros, 40.0% above last year's figure. The achievement of this good
result stems from the strong annual growth in revenues (+25.1%) thanks to the
expansion of the customer base (+24.3%) and of the average revenue per customer,
as a consequence of the increased commercial efforts, with particular emphasis
on growing businesses and on product and service innovation. Operational
efficiency means maintaining profitability (OIBDA margin) at a 40% ratio and
operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) growing at a high annual rate (+17.3%).
It is also significant the successful management of non-operational results,
going from an annual growth in OIBDA of 25.0% and 30.5% of OI to a 40.0% of net
income.
The economic and financial results for 2005 were also strengthened by the
diversification of being an integrated operator. The cellular business is the
main contributor to Group revenues (+38.1% year-on-year), while the fixed
telephony business line is so in terms of profitability, with a growth in the
operating income of Telefonica de Espana Group of 19.9% and of Telefonica
Latinoamerica Group of 14.6% year-on-year. This way, the need to finance the
increased number of customers in the mobile telephony business in order to
capture the unique opportunity for growth of its markets, with its logical
impact on margins, is compensated by the solid results from the fixed telephony
business line, a reference in the sector in terms of revenues, profitability and
generation of cash flow.
As a result, the Telefonica Group achieved all the financial objectives
established for 2005. In terms of revenues5, growth at constant exchange rates
and excluding changes in the consolidation perimeter stood at 17.2%, surpassing
the growth target of 'over 15%'. With respect to the Operating Income before
Depreciation and Amortization (OIBDA)5, growth stood at 12.3%6, within the
announced range of +10%/+13%. Operating Income (OI)5 grew by 16.1%6, also within
the range of +12%/+18%. Lastly, CapEx5 stood at 4,725.9 million euros, in line
with the guidance of reaching approximately 4,600 million euros. It should also
be noted that all business lines achieved the targets set for 2005.
The shareholder remuneration policy in 2005 continued to progress, being one of
the most attractive in the sector and reaffirming itself after the acquisition
of O2. In 2005 a dividend corresponding to the 2004 year of 0.5 euros/share was
paid, Telefonica S.A. shares were distributed, representing a 4% of capital
share, in a proportion of 1x25 and there has also been a progress in the share
buy-back program. This program was renewed in April, and extended until the end
of 2007, for a total of 6,000 million euros. On 31st December 2005, the treasury
stock stood at 2.8% of the current share capital.
For 2006, the Board of Directors agreed to propose the payment of a dividend
against 2005 fiscal year results of 0.5 euros/share in the next AGM.
At 2005 year end, the Telefonica Group managed 153.5 million accesses (+24.3%
year-on-year), of which 99.1 million are cellular accesses, 40.9 million are
fixed telephony accesses, 12.9 million are data and Internet accesses, and 0.7
million are Pay TV accesses. The acquisition of Cesky Telecom contributed with
8.3 million, while, if we include O2 lines as of 31st December 2005, the
Telefonica Group total accesses reached 180.9 million.
The Telefonica Moviles Group has placed itself as one of the sector's main
operators, in the high-growth environment of the Latin American markets, with a
managed customer base of 94.4 million, up 26.9% year-on-year. Net adds in the
fourth quarter recorded 5.4 million customers, in a period characterized by
Christmas campaigns, while in the year as a whole added 16.37 million new
customers.
The broadband market in 2005 showed great dynamism and growth in Spain, Latin
America and the Czech Republic, with a total of 5.0 million retail Internet
broadband accesses for the Telefonica Group at the end of December, 55.7% higher
than the previous year. The contribution of Spain (2.7 million +68.5%
year-on-year) and Brazil (Telesp: 1.2 million +46.0% year-on-year) must be
highlighted.
Telefonica Group revenues increased 25.1% compared with 2004, reaching an
absolute figure of 37,882.1 million. This strong yearly growth was due to the
increased revenues achieved by all business lines, the positive impact of
exchange rates (contributing with 4.7 percentage points to the growth) and
changes in the consolidation perimeter, mainly the BellSouth and Cesky Telecom
assets. Excluding these final two effects, the organic growth8 of revenues stood
at 9.3% (+9.9% to September).
By business lines, the cellular business continued to be the main contributor to
the Group's growth, recording a 38.1% year-on-year growth in revenues in 2005,
to 16,513.5 million euros. The solid performance of revenues is mainly explained
by changes in the consolidation perimeter on the one hand, and the contribution
of Telefonica Moviles Espana (revenues +7.6%, making it one of the European
operators with the highest growth in domestic market), Venezuela (revenues of
1,438 million euros) and Argentina (revenues of 1,010 million) on the other
hand. In the fourth quarter of the year there was a slowdown in the growth rate
of revenues (+29.1% year-on-year), since the first nine months (+41.7%
year-on-year) were more affected by the consolidation of eight of the ten Latin
American operators acquired from BellSouth since November 2004.
Telefonica de Espana Group revenues totaled 11,739.5 million euros in the year
(Terra's operations in Spain accounted 21.6 million euros), up 4.8% year-on-year
(+4.6% excluding Terra). Revenues from Internet and Broadband services (+26.9%
over 2004) are the growth engine, particularly those for Broadband (+40.2%
compared with January-December 2004), compensating the reduction in revenues for
traditional voice services (-0.7% year-on-year). In the fourth quarter of 2005
the quarterly trend for the slowdown in the year-on-year increase in revenues,
excluding Terra, (+3.6% vs. +4.0% in the third quarter vs. +4.9% in the second
quarter vs. +6.0% in the first quarter) mainly due to the elimination of the
effect of the increase in the monthly fee in 2004, the fall in revenues from
voice traffic and the slowing growth of broadband revenues.
The Telefonica Latinoamerica Group, supported by the good performance of the
operators, and the appreciation of Latin American currencies against the euro,
obtained revenues of 8,265.5 million euros in 2005 (Terra Latinoamerica
contributed with 111.0 million euros), 22.5% above 2004 figure. In constant
euros, and excluding the effect of Terra, the increase with respect to
January-December of the previous year stood at 6.2% (+6.5% to September) mainly
due to the contribution of Telesp (+7.9% compared with +7.7% of September)
driven by the increase in tariffs in July and the solid growth of the broadband
business.
By geographic areas and as of the end of 2005, Spain represented 51.9% of
consolidated revenues, reducing its contribution by 9.4 percentage points
compared with December 2004, while Latin America increased its contribution to
total revenues by 7.3 percentage points to 41.5%, due to the incorporation of
BellSouth Latin American operators. Brazil maintained a contribution to total
sales practically stable (18.2% vs. 17.3% twelve months ago). The incorporation
of Cesky Telecom in July 2005 has given better geographical diversification,
with 2.7% of revenues coming from the Czech Republic.
Cumulative operating expenses in 2005 stood at 23,219.3 million euros, recording
a year-on-year growth of 26.7%, as a result of the intensification of commercial
efforts carried out by Telefonica Group and the changes in the consolidation
perimeter.
Supplies expenses (10,065.0 million euros) grew by 31.8% year-on-year (+27.2%
excluding the effect of the exchange rate vs. +29.9% to September) and is
explained mainly by the cellular business, with the incorporation of BellSouth
Latin American operators and by the higher interconnection costs, as well as
Telefonica de Espana Group due to the purchase of equipment for the ADSL and
Imagenio services, and the boost in the local loop unbundling (ULL) by the
competition.
Personnel expenses amounted to 5,656.4 million euros and grew by 11.0% in 2005
year-on-year (+7.9% in constant euros vs. +5.3% to September) related with the
rise in the Group's average workforce (+21.4% to 190,385 employees) due to the
cellular business, the acquisition of Cesky Telecom and the Atento Group
(excluding Atento the average workforce would be 106,021 employees, a growth of
12.3%). Regarding the Telefonica de Espana 2003-2007 Redundancy Program, as an
exceptional measure, 127 layoffs have been accepted in addition to the 1,750
applications accepted for 2005, and a new Redundancy Program in Telefonica Data
Espana has been approved, joined by 68 persons, increasing the total provision
made for 2005 to 597,3 million euros.
Cumulative external services expenses at year end (6,715.3 million euros)
increased by 32.4% year on year (+26.4% in constant euros) as a result of the
increased commercial and advertising activity, mainly in the bet on growth in
number of customers and the changes in the consolidation perimeter. However, in
the last quarter there was a control over commercial costs in Telefonica Moviles
Espana.
At the end of the year 2005, Telefonica Group recorded a gain for the sale of
fixed assets of 249.3 million euros compared with the 21.6 million euros accrued
the previous year. The main items accounted for in this accounts are the capital
gains from; i) the sale of Infonet, ii) the listing of Endemol, iii) the
disposal of 1.2% of TPI share capital, iv) the disposal of real state and v) the
sale of Radio Continental and Radio Estereo, both from the ATCO Group. The
capital gain obtained from the listing of Endemol and from the sale of Telinver
in Argentina explain the positive accrued amount of 71.7 million euros in the
fourth quarter of 2005.
Consolidated OIBDA in January-December 2005 stood at 15,276.4 million euros, a
25.0% growth in relation to the same period in 2004, a significant increase in
the rate of variation compared with January-September (+20.0% year-on-year),
after the 39.7% year-on-year OIBDA growth during the period October-December.
The fluctuations in exchange rates contributed with 4.5 percentage points to the
growth rate in 2005. The organic growth8 in consolidated OIBDA in 2005 stood at
9.9%, 3.2 percentage points higher than in the first nine months of the year,
mainly due to the control of expenses during the last quarter, specially in the
cellular business. In terms of profitability, despite the high levels of
commercial activity, particularly in the cellular business, (OIBDA margin) was
maintained practically stable compared with the previous year (40.33% vs.
40.36%).
In 2005, there was an acceleration in the cellular business OIBDA growth rate
higher than the obtained to September (+25.4% vs. +19.4%), reaching 5,817.0
million euros and representing 38.1% of the consolidated OIBDA. In yearly terms,
the OIBDA margin fell by 3.5 percentage points, to 35.2%, due to the commercial
efforts made and the brand launch (movistar) last April. However, it is worth
highlighting the year-on-year 3.9 percentage points improvement in the OIBDA
margin of the fourth quarter (35.6%). This was mainly due to the 11.9 percentage
points increase in the OIBDA margin of the Latin American subsidiaries to 24.5%
because of the lower unit acquisition costs (SAC).
The Telefonica de Espana Group (31.2% of total OIBDA) finished the year with an
OIBDA of 4,766.8 million euros (Terra's operations in Spain contributed 27.3
million euros), up 4.5% on that recorded in 2004. In the fourth quarter, the
trend observed in previous quarters was reversed, and there was a year-on-year
fall of 3.8%, basically associated with the 127 new people joining the
Telefonica de Espana 2003-2007 Redundancy Program in 2005, and 68 people joining
the Telefonica Data Espana Redundancy Program. The OIBDA margin stood at 40.6%,
0.1 percentage point lower than in 2004, though if we exclude the effect of the
Redundancy Program in both years, the OIBDA margin would increase to 45.7% (-0.8
percentage points vs. January-December 2004).
The Telefonica Latinoamerica Group OIBDA, contributing with 24.6% to the total
OIBDA, stood at 3,758.3 million euros at year end (Terra in Latin America
contributed 4.8 million euros), showing a growth in nominal terms of 14.1%,
which translates to 0.4% (-7.5% to September), in constant euros and excluding
the effect of Terra Latam. It should be noted that these variations are
influenced by the gain on the sale of fixed assets (mainly the sale in July 2004
of the CTC mobile telephony subsidiary and the sales of Infonet and Telinver in
Argentina) as a result of which, the variation excluding this effect would be
27.4% (+11.7% excluding the exchange rates and Terra Latam effect). The OIBDA
margin, excluding the result of the gain for the sale of fixed assets in both
periods, stood stable compared with September at 44.2%, though increasing by 1.7
percentage points compared with 2004.
The geographical distribution of the OIBDA in 2005 reflects, in the same way as
revenues, greater diversification, with 58.3% of the consolidated OIBDA coming
from Spain (70.4% of the previous year), 36.4% from Latin America (32.5% two
months ago) and 3.0% from the Czech Republic after the incorporation of Cesky
Telecom in the second half of 2005.
The operating income for January-December 2005 amounted 8,558.8 million euros, a
year-on-year growth of 30.5%, 6.0 percentage points higher than that recorded in
the first nine months of the year. This acceleration was the result of the
higher increase in OIBDA described above, and despite the higher increase in
depreciation compared with September (+18.6% vs. +14.6%). The main business
lines that contribute to this increase in depreciation are, in first place, the
cellular business, due to the changes in the consolidation perimeter and the
impact of 280 million euros associated with the amortization of allocated
intangible assets related to the acquisition of Telefonica Movil Chile and
BellSouth Latin American operators in 2004 and at the beginning of 2005, and,
secondly, Cesky Telecom, which was incorporated from the second half of the
year. The organic variation8 rate in operating income is +21.7% compared with
the +16.6% registered to September.
The results of associated companies reversed the positive trend recorded in the
first nine months of the year (+9.6 million euros) and closed 2005 with losses
that can be attributed to these companies of 128.2 million euros (-50.5 million
euros in January-December 2004). In the fourth quarter -136.8 million euros
mainly related to the write-down of the remaining value of the UMTS license of
IPSE were accounted (this asset write-down does not imply any cash outflow)). It
should be noted, in particular, that if we exclude this effect, the results of
these companies would be positive (+8.6 million euros) thanks to the lower
losses that can be attributed to Sogecable, Lycos Europe and the positive
contribution of Medi Telecom, which, last year, brought losses to the Group.
Financial net expenses amounted to 1,634.3 million euros in 2005, 0.3%
year-on-year reduction (4.8 million euros) compared with the comparable figure
of 2004 (1,639.1 million euros). The interest rates expenses deteriorated by
334.3 million euros, of which 261.3 million euros belong to the 18.6% increase
in the average net debt versus 2004. The exchange rate differences improved in
339.1 million euros compared with 2004, highlighting the positive contribution
of the USD/EUR position, that contributed with a 43% to the improvement in the
result.
The net free cash flow after CapEx generated by the Telefonica Group amounted to
7,108.1 million euros in 2005, of which 4,476.1 million euros were dedicated to
the net payments of dividends and treasury stock in Telefonica S.A., 5,839.9
million euros were deployed on financial investments (net of the sale of real
state) and 692.8 million euros to the cancellation of commitments, mainly to
headcount reduction. Hence, the free cash flow after dividends, that explains in
a high degree the increase in the net financial debt of 3,900.7 million euros.
The Telefonica Group's net financial debt at the end of December 2005 stood at
30,067.0 million euros. The increase of 6,372.6 million euros with respect to
the 2004 net financial debt figure (23,694.4 million euros) was due to the free
cash flow after dividends of -3,900.7 million euros. Moreover, the net financial
debt increased by 1,075.8 million euros corresponding to changes in the
consolidation perimeter and others and in 1,396.1 million euros as a consequence
of the effects of the exchange rates on net financial debt not denominated in
euros.
The tax provision amounted to 1,969.2 million euros in 2005, and the tax rate
stood at 29.0%, although the cash outflow for the Telefonica Group will be
reduced even further as negative tax bases are compensated for.
The results attributed to minority interests in 2005 showed year-on-year growth
of 23.0% and deducted 381.2 million euros from the Telefonica Group's net
income. This evolution is explained by the participation of minority interests
in the net income of Cesky Telecom since 1st July 2005, the improved net income
obtained by Telesp and the lower losses recorded by Telefonica Moviles Mexico.
As a result of this, the consolidated net income accumulated to December reached
4,445.8 million euros, up 40.0% year-on-year In the fourth quarter, the net
income grew by 51.6% compared with the fourth quarter of 2004, and reached
1,192.5 million euros.
During 2005, consolidated CapEx reached 5,358.7 million euros (4,725.9 million
euros9 with constant exchanges rates of 2004 and excluding changes in the
consolidation perimeter), which represents a growth of 42.3% vs the 2004 figure
(organic variation8 +21.0%). By business lines, there was a generalized growth,
mainly associated with growth initiatives both in Spain and Latin America
(broadband, increase in capacity of mobile telephony networks, and rollout of
the UMTS network in Spain and GSM in Colombia). It is also worth to highlight
the investment made in Distrito C, the future Telefonica Group headquarters in
Madrid and the incorporation of the Cesky Telecom's investments since July 2005.
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5 All projections refer to local currency (constant exchange rates) and exclude
changes in consolidation other than assets acquired to BellSouth in Argentina &
Chile in 2005 (TEM), and Atrium (T.Latam).
6 In terms of guidance calculation, Operating Income and Operating Income before
D&A exclude other exceptional revenues/expenses not foreseeable in 2005.
Personnel Restructuring and Real Estate Programs are included as operating
revenues/expenses.
7 Excludes the adjustments of 300,000 inactive lines in Mexico, not longer
considered in the reported customer base as of the second quarter of 2005.
8 Assuming constant exchange rates and including the consolidation of the Latin
American assets acquired to BellSouth in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela in the cellular
business and Atrium in the Telefonica Latinoamerica Group from January 1st 2004.
Cesky Telecom has been included in the period July-December 2004.
9 All projections refer to local currency (constant exchange rates) and exclude
changes in consolidation other than assets acquired to BellSouth in Argentina &
Chile in 2005 (TEM), and Atrium (T.Latam).
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TELEFONICA GROUP
Financial Data
TELEFONICA GROUP
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 37,882.1 30,280.9 25.1
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 15,276.4 12,222.0 25.0
Operating income (OI) 8,558.8 6,556.0 30.5
Income before taxes 6,796.2 4,866.4 39.7
Net income 4,445.8 3,175.7 40.0
Basic earnings per share 0.913 0.637 43.4
Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period (millions) 4,870.9 4,987.8 (2.3)
Note: For the basic earnings per share calculation purposes, the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding
during the period have been obtained applying IFRS rule 33 'Earnings per share'. Thereby, there are not taking into
account as outstanding shares the weighted average number of shares held as treasury stock during the period nor the
shares assigned to the stock options plan for employees 'Programa TIES'. Furthermore, in line with IFRS rule 33, the
weighted average number of shares outstanding during every period, has been adjusted for these operations that had
implied a difference in the number of outstanding shares, without a variation associated in the equity, as if those
have taken place at the beginning of the first period presented. It consists on the distribution of the paid-in capital
reserve by means of delivery of shares in the proportion of 1 share to every 25 shares, approved by the AGM as of May
31, 2005.
TELEFONICA GROUP
RESULTS BY COMPANIES
Unaudited figures (Euros in
millions)
REVENUES OIBDA OPERATING INCOME
January - December January - December January - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Telefonica de Espana Group 11,739.5 11,202.2 4.8 4,766.8 4,560.0 4.5 2,627.7 2,192.4 19.9
Telefonica Latinoamerica Group 8,265.5 6,748.4 22.5 3,758.3 3,294.8 14.1 1,965.8 1,716.1 14.6
Cellular Business 16,513.5 11,961.4 38.1 5,817.0 4,637.6 25.4 3,443.0 3,057.5 12.6
Cesky Telecom 1,035.2 - n.c. 456.7 - n.c. 164.8 - n.c.
Directories Business 660.5 616.4 7.1 220.0 204.8 7.4 196.0 181.0 8.3
Atento Group 856.5 606.5 41.2 116.4 85.1 36.7 88.5 51.4 72.1
Content & Media Business 1,269.1 1,219.1 4.1 269.2 185.0 45.5 240.3 156.2 53.9
Other companies (*) 868.2 1,265.0 (31.4) (188.0) (248.9) (24.5) (258.5) (410.2) (37.0)
Eliminations (3,325.7) (3,338.1) (0.4) 60.1 (496.5) c.s. 91.1 (388.4) c.s.
Total Group 37,882.1 30,280.9 25.1 15,276.4 12,222.0 25.0 8,558.8 6,556.0 30.5
Starting third quarter 2005, Terra Networks results will be included in the Telefonica de Espana Group and Telefonica
Latinoamerica Group results. The Terra Networks Group results from the first and second quarter of 2005 and from
fiscal year 2004 will be incorporated into Other Companies in the Telefonica Group accounts.
Also starting in the third quarter of 2005, the Cesky Telecom results corresponding to the July-December 2005 period
will be incorporated as an independent business line, whose acquisition was last June.
(*) OIBDA and Operating Income exclude the variation in investment valuation allowances accounted for by Telefonica
S.A. parent company and that are eliminated in consolidation.
TELEFONICA GROUP
CAPEX BY BUSINESS LINES
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
Telefonica de Espana Group 1,406.6 1,207.5 16.5
Telefonica Latinoamerica Group 1,061.2 748.5 41.8
Cellular Business 2,330.4 1,669.0 39.6
Cesky Telecom 147.0 - n.c.
Directories Business 24.1 21.5 11.9
Atento Group 42.9 22.8 88.6
Content & Media Business 25.5 24.3 5.2
Other companies & Eliminations 321.0 73.5 n.m.
Total Group 5,358.7 3,767.1 42.3
Starting third quarter 2005, Terra Networks results will be included in the Telefonica de Espana Group and Telefonica
Latinoamerica Group results. The Terra Networks Group results from the first and second quarter of 2005 and from fiscal
year 2004 will be incorporated into Other Companies in the Telefonica Group accounts.
2004 data of Telefonica Latinoamerica Group and Total Group is adapted to the new accounting criteria (IFRS) for IRUs.
TELEFONICA GROUP
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 37,882.1 30,280.9 25.1 10,480.0 8,217.9 27.5
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets(1) 601.3 470.3 27.9 263.2 165.2 59.3
Operating expenses (23,219.3) (18,329.8) 26.7 (6,461.3) (5,116.9) 26.3
Supplies (10,065.0) (7,637.3) 31.8 (2,941.0) (2,276.1) 29.2
Personnel expenses (5,656.4) (5,095.2) 11.0 (1,441.0) (1,164.1) 23.8
Subcontracts (6,715.3) (5,072.0) 32.4 (1,827.9) (1,523.1) 20.0
Taxes (782.6) (525.3) 49.0 (251.5) (153.6) 63.7
Other net operating income (expense) (212.9) (43.6) n.m. (9.1) (4.1) 123.0
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 249.3 21.6 n.m. 71.7 2.7 n.m.
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (24.2) (177.3) (86.4) (12.5) (164.7) (92.4)
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 15,276.4 12,222.0 25.0 4,331.9 3,100.2 39.7
Depreciation and amortization (6,717.7) (5,666.0) 18.6 (1,897.6) (1,461.6) 29.8
Operating income (OI) 8,558.8 6,556.0 30.5 2,434.3 1,638.6 48.6
Profit from associated companies (128.2) (50.5) 153.9 (137.8) 1.5 c.s.
Net financial income (expense) (1,634.3) (1,639.1) (0.3) (505.1) (590.7) (14.5)
Income before taxes 6,796.2 4,866.4 39.7 1,791.4 1,049.4 70.7
Income taxes (1,969.2) (1,512.8) 30.2 (513.8) (364.0) 41.2
Income from continuing operations 4,827.1 3,353.6 43.9 1,277.5 685.4 86.4
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 132.0 n.m. 0.0 190.8 n.m.
Minority interest (381.2) (309.9) 23.0 (85.0) (89.7) (5.3)
Net income 4,445.8 3,175.7 40.0 1,192.5 786.5 51.6
Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during 4,870.9 4,987.8 (2.3) 4,813.1 4,912.2 (2.0)
the period (millions)
Basic earnings per share 0.913 0.637 43.4 0.248 0.160 54.7
(1) Including work in process.
Note: For the basic earnings per share calculation purposes, the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding
during the period have been obtained applying IFRS rule 33 'Earnings per share'. Thereby, there are not taking into
account as outstanding shares the weighted average number of shares held as treasury stock during the period nor the
shares assigned to the stock options plan for employees 'Programa TIES'. Furthermore, in line with IFRS rule 33, the
weighted average number of shares outstanding during every period, has been adjusted for these operations that had
implied a difference in the number of outstanding shares, without a variation associated in the equity, as if those
have taken place at the beginning of the first period presented. It consists on the distribution of the paid-in capital
reserve by means of delivery of shares in the proportion of 1 share to every 25 shares, approved by the AGM as of May
31, 2005.
TELEFONICA GROUP
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
December
2005 2004 % Chg
Non-current assets 59,545.0 48,954.5 21.6
Intangible assets 7,877.1 5,674.1 38.8
Goodwill 8,910.2 5,949.4 49.8
Property, plant and equipment and Investment property 28,027.4 23,221.7 20.7
Long-term financial assets and other non-current assets 6,345.6 5,152.0 23.2
Deferred tax assets 8,384.7 8,957.1 (6.4)
Current assets 13,628.8 11,124.4 22.5
Inventories 919.5 655.5 40.3
Trade and other receivables 7,515.7 5,919.8 27.0
Current tax receivable 1,448.3 1,069.5 35.4
Short-term financial investments 1,517.8 2,556.6 (40.6)
Cash and cash equivalents 2,213.2 914.3 142.1
Non-current assets classified as held for sale 14.3 8.7 64.8
Total Assets = Total Equity and Liabilities 73,173.8 60,078.9 21.8
Equity 16,158.4 12,342.5 30.9
Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent 12,733.3 10,439.8 22.0
Minority interest 3,425.1 1,902.7 80.0
Non-current liabilities 35,126.5 27,742.6 26.6
Long-term financial debt 25,167.6 17,492.2 43.9
Deferred tax liabilities 2,477.4 1,642.6 50.8
Long-term provisions 6,353.2 7,407.7 (14.2)
Other long-term liabilities 1,128.2 1,200.1 (6.0)
Current liabilities 21,888.9 19,993.8 9.5
Short-term financial debt 9,235.9 10,210.4 (9.5)
Trade and other payables 6,932.9 5,632.3 23.1
Current tax payable 2,191.6 1,824.9 20.1
Short-term provisions and other liabilities 3,528.5 2,323.5 51.9
Liabilities associated with non-current assets classified as held for sale 0.0 2.7 n.m.
Financial Data
Net Financial Debt (1) 30,067.0 23,694.4 26.9
(1) Net Financial Debt = Long term financial debt + Other long term liabilities + Short term financial debt - Short
term financial investments - Cash and cash equivalents - Long term financial assets and other non-current assets.
TELEFONICA GROUP
FREE CASH FLOW AND CHANGE IN DEBT
Unaudited figures (Euros in
millions)
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
I Cash flows from operations 13,854.3 11,706.5 18.3
II Net interest payment (1) (1,449.4) (1,235.9)
III Payment for income tax (1,233.0) (326.0)
A=I+II+III Net cash provided by operating activities 11,171.9 10,144.6 10.1
B Payment for investment in fixed and intangible assets (4,409.9) (3,457.7)
C=A+B Net free cash flow after CAPEX 6,762.0 6,686.9 1.1
D Net Cash received from sale of Real Estate 99.9 210.8
E Net payment for financial investment (5,939.8) (3,714.3)
F Net payment for dividends and treasury stock (2) (4,822.8) (4,804.4)
G=C+D+E+F Free cash flow after dividends (3,900.7) (1,621.0) 140.6
H Effects of exchange rate changes on net financial debt 1,396.1
I Effects on net financial debt of changes in consolid. and 1,075.8
others
J Net financial debt at beginning of period 23,694.4
K=J-G+H+I Net financial debt at end of period 30,067.0
(1) Including cash received from dividends paid by subsidiaries that are not under full consolidation method.
(2) Dividends paid by Telefonica S.A. and dividend payments to minoritaries from subsidiaries that are under full
consolidation method and treasury stock.
TELEFONICA GROUP
RECONCILIATIONS OF CASH FLOW AND OIBDA MINUS CAPEX
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
OIBDA 15,276.4 12,222.0 25.0
- CapEx accrued during the period (EoP exchange rate) (5,358.7) (3,767.1)
- Payments related to commitments (894.2) (916.5)
- Net interest payment (1,449.4) (1,235.9)
- Payment for income tax (1,233.0) (326.0)
- Results from the sale of fixed assets (249.3) (21.6)
- Invest. in working cap. and other deferred income and expenses 670.2 732.0
= Net Free Cash Flow after CapEx 6,762.0 6,686.9 1.1
+ Net Cash received from sale of Real Estate 99.9 210.8
- Net payment for financial investment (5,939.8) (3,714.3)
- Net payment for dividends and treasury stock (4,822.8) (4,804.4)
= Free Cash Flow after dividends (3,900.7) (1,621.0) 140.6
Note: At the Investor Conference held in October 2003, the concept expected 'Free Cash Flow' 2003-2006 was introduced
to reflect the amount of cash flow available to remunerate Telefonica S.A. Shareholders, to protect solvency levels
(financial debt and commitments), and to accomodate strategic flexibility.
The differences with the caption 'Net Free Cash Flow after CapEx' included in the table presented above, are related to
'Free Cash Flow' being calculated before payments related to commitments (workforce reductions and guarantees) and
after dividend payments to minoritaries, due to cash recirculation within the Group.
Jan-Dec 2005 Jan-Dec 2004
Net Free Cash Flow after CapEx 6,762.0 6,686.9
+ Payments related to cancellation of commitments 692.8 697.2
- Ordinary dividends payment to minoritaries (346.7) (176.1)
= Free Cash Flow 7,108.1 7,208.0
TELEFONICA GROUP
NET FINANCIAL DEBT AND
COMMITMENTS
Unaudited figures (Euros in
millions)
December
2005
Long-term debt 25,647.8
Short term debt including current 9,193.9
maturities
Cash and Banks (2,213.2)
Short and Long-term financial investments (2,561.5)
(1)
A Net Financial Debt 30,067.0
Guarantees to IPSE 2000 365.5
Guarantees to Newcomm 83.5
B Commitments related to guarantees 449.0
Gross commitments related to workforce 5,270.1
reduction (2)
Value of associated Long-term assets (3) (754.7)
Taxes receivable (4) (1,457.7)
C Net commitments related to workforce 3,057.7
reduction
A + B + C Total Debt + Commitments 33,573.7
Net Financial Debt / OIBDA (5) 1.91x
Total Debt + Commitments/ OIBDA (5) 2.13x
(1) Short term investments and certain investments in financial assets with a
maturity profile longer than one year, whose amount is included in the caption
'Investment' of the Balance Sheet.
(2) Mainly in Spain, except 91.3 million euros related to the provision of pension
fund liabilities of corporations outside Spain. This amount is detailed in the
caption 'Provisions for Contingencies and Expenses' of the Balance Sheet, and is
the result of adding the following items: 'Provision for Pre-retirement, Social
Security Expenses and Voluntary Severance', 'Group Insurance', 'Technical
Reserves', and 'Provisions for Pension Funds of Other Companies'.
(3) Amount included in the caption 'Investment' of the Balance Sheet, section
'Other Loans'. Mostly related to investments in fixed income securities and
long-term deposits that cover the materialization of technical reserves of the
Group insurance companies.
(4) Net present value of tax benefits arising from the future payments related to
workforce reduction commitments.
(5) Calculation based on annualized OIBDA. Including Cesky Telecom January-December
2005 OIBDA.
TELEFONICA GROUP
EXCHANGES RATES APPLIED
P&L (1) Balance Sheet and CapEx (2)
Jan - Dec 2005 Jan - Dec 2004 % Chg December 2005 December 2004
USA (US Dollar/Euro) 1.242 1.242 1.180 1.362
Argentina (Argentinean Peso/Euro) 3.631 3.651 3.577 4.058
Brazil (Brasilian Real/Euro) 3.002 3.632 2.761 3.616
Czech Republic (Czech Crown/Euro) 29.780 - 29.005 -
Chile (Chilean Peso/Euro) 694.444 757.576 606.061 757.576
Colombia (Colombian Peso/Euro) 2,881.844 3,257.329 2,695.418 3,257.329
El Salvador (Colon/Euro) 10.870 10.868 10.322 11.919
Guatemala (Quetzal/Euro) 9.496 9.887 8.974 10.570
Mexico (Mexican Peso/Euro) 13.517 14.017 12.715 15.344
Nicaragua (Cordoba/Euro) 20.799 19.794 20.222 22.242
Peru (Peruvian Nuevo Sol/Euro) 4.096 4.240 4.051 4.470
Uruguay (Uruguayan Peso/Euro) 30.331 35.587 28.490 35.958
Venezuela (Bolivar/Euro) 2,624.672 2,386.635 2,538.071 2,617.801
(1) These exchange rates are used to convert the P&L accounts of the Group foreign subsidiaries from local currency to
euros.
(2) Exchange rates as of 31/12/05 y 31/12/04.
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Fixed Line Business
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA GROUP
The 2005 results for Telefonica de Espana Group comfortably met forecasts
announced at the beginning of the year, which were revised upwards following the
publication of the third quarter results. Operating revenues grew 4.8% to stand
at 11,739.5 million euros and OIBDA increased by 4.5% to total 4,766.8 million
euros. Investments amounted to 1,406.6 million euros to remain within announced
levels.
In terms of operations, the ambitious objective of closing 2005 with over
200,000 Imagenio customers in service was met. This service has notably
reaffirmed the attractiveness of Telefonica's Broadband offer, both in terms of
an individual marketed product, and sold as part of a bundle in Duo and Trio
packages. This led to a record growth in broadband accesses during the last
quarter of the year.
The following broadband products are worthy of mention in terms of the latest
commercial initiatives:
• ADSL Mini Class that, with download volume-based billing and a speed of up
to 2Mb/s, focuses primarily on SMEs or Businesses.
• ADSL TOP and ADSL PREMIUM PLUS, services based on ADSL 2+ technology with
upload/download speeds of up to 10Mb/s / 800Kb/s and 20Mb/s / 800Kb/s,
respectively.
Of particular note in the traditional voice business:
• The inclusion of fixed-to-mobile traffic in the Voice Mini Flat-Rate
(Tarifa Plana de Voz Mini) and in the National Flat Rate (Tarifa Plana
Nacional), at monthly fees of 4 and 16 euros, respectively. Fixed-to-mobile
calls are billed at a single price of 0.19 euros a minute, with no set-up
fee.
• International Mini Rate (Tarifa Mini Internacional) at a monthly fee of 3
euros, implying attractive prices to different international destinations to
both fixed and mobile lines.
In relation to Wi-Fi services, particularly relevant was the agreement signed
with Telecom Italia and Portugal Telecom within the framework of the Wireless
Broadband Alliance, an international association of Wi-Fi operators of which
Telefonica is the sole Spanish member. Through this agreement, Wi-Fi Roaming has
been set up in both countries to expand coverage to 790 new Wi-Fi zones in
Portugal and 800 in Italy. These zones now form part of the ADSL Wi-Fi Zone, the
operational coverage of which is the largest in Spain with 1,555 hotspots by
December 2005.
Lastly, the agreement signed with Federacion Valenciana de Municipios y
Provincias (Valencia Federation of Municipalities and Provinces) to supply
wireless technologies to its facilities should be highlighted.
Aware of the home entertainment market's great potential for development,
Telefonica has signed an agreement with Intel, through its subsidiary Terra, to
provide the content for the new Intel home entertainment platform.
Besides of the constant launching of new services, Telefonica de Espana has
continued to make intense commercial efforts, especially during the Christmas
campaign, with the launch of new promotions. Foremost are the Duo and Trio
promotions that, for subscriptions received between November 15th and January
7th, were billed at a fee of 20.00 euros per month until the end of January for
both Duo and Trio with flat-rate national voice calls and 24-hour ADSL, compared
with the standard fees of 39.90 and 51.90 euros per month, respectively.
As a proof of the continuous commercial efforts to offer users quality and
price-competitive products and services, in a recent study the Consumers' Union
of Spain placed Telefonica de Espana as the fixed-line operator with the best
price-quality ratio in Spain, based on information regarding prices from the
Spanish Telecommunications Regulator, the CMT, and regarding quality from the
State Department of Telecommunications and Information Society (SETSI,
Secretaria de Estado para las Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Informacion).
From a regulatory viewpoint, the measures published over recent months regarding
the RIO and the 2006 price-cap must be underlined:
• Last November, the CMT published the new RIO, Reference Interconnection
Offer, in which the prices of basic services were modified, leading to an
average decrease of 1.8% in real terms. Hence, Capacity-based
Interconnection prices were maintained and the effective average price of
Time-based Interconnection fell by an average of 5.6%. Given the high
percentage of traffic processed through the Capacity-based Interconnection
model, representing almost 70% of Fixed to Fixed interconnection traffic in
2005, the measure has low financial impact. Other aspects considered in the
modification of the RIO concern are the inclusion of new services in the
Capacity-based Interconnection model, such as call interconnection at
special rates (intelligent network and subscriber number enquiry services)
and calls to short numbers, except for 112, placing effective average
interconnection prices among the cheapest in Europe.
• As a result of the measure adopted by the CMT in September to reduce
interconnection prices of mobile phone operators, Telefonica de Espana
readjusted fixed-to-mobile prices for each of the three operators in
November, to comply with the regulatory requirement forcing Telefonica to
have the same net remuneration per traffic, independent of the target mobile
phone operator. These adjustments had no impact on average prices.
• Subsequently, on February 4th 2006, Telefonica de Espana modified its
rates for local and fixed-to-mobile traffic under the provisions of the
Comision Delegada de Asuntos Economicos (Delegated Commission for Economic
Affairs). The new prices meant that monthly subscription fees for PSTN lines
remained unchanged, and voice traffic billing per second from the start of
the call was introduced, without the inclusion of franchise time. The new
rates, which modify prices per minute, increase fixed-to-mobile set-up fee
to 0.12 euros and reduce metropolitan set-up fee to 0.065 euros, while
removing the existing 160-second franchised time. These modifications have
been defined under the principle of neutrality and, therefore, will have no
impact on the average price per minute.
• However, on February 9th 2006, the CMT approved a resolution to suppress
the ex-ante control of domestic and international retail prices for the
telephone service.
Revenues of Telefonica de Espana Group amounted to 11,739.5 million euros over
2005, a year-on-year growth of 4.8%. Considering the fourth quarter
independently, revenues grew by 4.0% to total 3,010.9 million euros.
Excluding revenues from Terra business in Spain over the last half of the year,
Telefonica de Espana Group revenues for 2005 would stand at 11,717.9 million
euros (2,998.3 million euros in the last quarter of 2005), a 4.6% year-on-year
growth (+3.6% in the fourth quarter) in line with the guidance revised upward
during the publication of the results from the third quarter 2005, which set the
growth rate for 2005 revenues over 4%.
Telefonica de Espana parent company's revenues amounted to 11,250.5 million
euros, up 4.8% year on year. Revenues for the fourth quarter of the year stood
at 2,889.7 million euros, a 4.3% increase on the same period of the previous
year despite the drop in revenues from voice traffic and the slowing down in the
growth of broadband revenues.
With regard to revenue contribution by the most relevant subsidiaries in 2005,
Telyco Group reached 478.1 million euros revenues equivalent to a 10.2%
year-on-year increase, Telefonica Telecomunicaciones Publicas revenues reached
226.6 million euros falling 6.0% year on year and, finally, Terra added 21.6
million euros to the Group revenues over the last half of the year.
• Revenues from Traditional Access grew by 0.1% over the year to reach
2,826.2 million euros. The growth in revenues from subscriptions was able to
offset the drop in revenues from connection fees, affected by the free
connection fee campaigns. However, revenues from access experienced a 0.9%
decline over the last quarter of the year, essentially due to the reduction
in revenues from surcharges on calls from public payphones.
The fixed telephony accesses in Spain are estimated to have grown 0.9% over
2005, while those of Telefonica de Espana decreased 1.2% to 16.135.563, to
end the year with an estimated market share around 85% of those accesses,
after aligning historical data with latest data available from the CMT.
But this decreasing trend has been more than compensated by the 2.8% growth
of the total number of accesses of Telefonica de Espana, that by year end
stood at 21.9 millions. This growth is a result of successful broadband
marketing, and was achieved despite the loss of 199,243 fixed telephony
accesses over the year.
• Revenues from Traditional Voice services amounted to 5,161.8 million euros
during 2005, with a year-on-year reduction of 0.7%. These revenues fell by
1.9% over the fourth quarter.
Regarding analogue voice traffic originated in fixed lines, the estimated
total volume of the market in Spain, expressed in minutes, was down 3.1%
year on year, a 1.9 percentage points slowdown in relation to the decline
recorded the previous year. After aligning historical data with latest data
available from CMT, Telefonica de Espana's estimated share of the voice
market stood at 66% in December.
The estimated total volume of minutes processed by Telefonica de Espana
during 2005 amounted to 110,207 million, a 10.4% year-on-year drop. Total
outgoing traffic (including Internet) amounted to 59,418 million minutes and
fell by 13.6% with regard to the previous year. Traditional outgoing traffic
totalled 43,932 million minutes, down by 7.2% year-on-year and slowing down
the decline in comparison with the beginning of the year as a result of the
lower significant drop in the market.
In closer detail, metropolitan traffic in the January-December period
dropped by 10.9%, provincial by 10.5%, DLD by 5.5% and fixed-to-mobile by
1.6%. International traffic made very good progress over the year, 13.5% up
at the end of December, although its growth in the last quarter (+7.6%) was
slightly below than that recorded during the first three of 2005. The number
of outgoing minutes to the Internet amounted to 15,486 million and continued
to show a negative year-on-year variation (-27.8% over the year), mainly as
a result of cannibalization of switched Internet traffic by broadband ADSL
services. Finally, incoming traffic amounted to 50,789 million minutes, a
6.4% drop compared with the previous year.
With regard to service packages, it is worth noting that the total number of
plans, Combinados and flat rates amounted to 2,905,941, 34.3% more than that
reached in September 2005 primarily due to the launch of the Duo and Trio
packages that same month.
Moreover, the number of pre-selected lines stood at 2,284,590 by the end of
2005, a reduction of 78,121 lines over the quarter, as a result of
migrations to unbundled loops, the customer win-back campaigns and the
positive effect of new commercial products - particularly the Duos and
Trios.
• Internet and Broadband services, which contributed almost 79% of the
growth in Telefonica de Espana revenues, totalled 1,904.7 million euros over
2005, a 26.9% increase year on year.
Within this section, broadband revenues including both, Internet broadband
access revenues and Pay TV revenues, grew 40.2% over the year to reach
1,703.5 million euros, of which 1,297.8 million euros are from the retail
business.
Strong growth of the customer base was boosted by the new bundles of
products and by promotions, which despite its implication on ARPU reduction,
resulted in a final strong top line revenue growth.
According to our estimates, total fixed broadband Internet accesses in the
Spanish market at year end exceeded 5 million lines, with an estimated net
gain of around half a million accesses in fourth quarter of the year, being
up to date the highest quarterly net gain figure ever in Spain. The success
of Telefonica's ADSL offering has been a determining factor in this growth,
reaching 3,479,824 acceses (wholesale and retail including those accesses
providing only Imagenio service) by the end of 2005. On the other hand, the
growth of unbundling has resulted in a decline of Telefonica de Espana's
market share on ADSL down to 89%.
The offer by Telefonica de Espana of retail Internet broadband accesses
(ADSL, optical fibre, and other technologies, excluding the accesses
providing only Imagenio service) registered a net gain of 303,346 accesses
in the fourth quarter, almost doubling the net gain of same quarter 2004 and
representing more than 60% of the estimated net gain of the Spanish market.
This lead to a total number of retail Internet broadband accesses by
Telefonica de Espana of 2,719,669, representing, according to Company's
estimates, a 55% share of the Spanish market. It must be noted that this
growth has been achieved in an environment of strong commercial
aggressiveness by both our cable-modem and unbundled loop competitors.
The net gain of unbundled loops for the fourth quarter was 73,475. By year
end, the total number of unbundled loops stood at 434,759, 116,112 unbundled
lines at 2004 year end, and amounting, according to our estimates, to 8.8%
of the total number of fixed broadband Internet accesses and 11.1% of total
ADSL connections. Of these unbundled loops, 279,027, 64,2%, were shared
access loops.
The wholesale ADSL service is being affected by the migration to unbundled
loops. However, a net growth of 13,332 lines was recorded over the fourth
quarter to place the total number at 721,940.
Broadband value added services (VAS) provided by Telefonica de Espana
remained a distinguishing factor with regard to the competition's commercial
offer. 65.1% of our retail broadband customers have contracted at least one
VAS and the number of operative services now amounts to over 2.6 million
units. ADSL Solutions is noteworthy among these services, a total of 393,295
solutions being operational by the end of 2005 to give a 17,1% increase in
relation to September 2005.
As indicated, the Imagenio service met its target for 2005 with 206,572
clients, after achieving a fourth quarter net gain of 114,466 customers.
This figure is above the total net gain accumulated to September, which
shows the commercial efforts made and the operational capacity to manage
such a large number of subscriptions. With this growth, Imagenio has reached
a significant share of the Spanish Pay TV market, which we estimate at a 6%
level, compared to the 0.3% estimated market share at the end of 2004.
• Revenues from Data services grew by 5.4% over the year to reach 1,031.0
million euros. Retail data services fell by 1.1% over this period, despite
the 12.7% growth in VPN connections and as a result of the migration of
traditional network solutions towards cheaper IP products and the
replacement of circuit rental for other, cheaper products.
Fibre connections to retail customers stood at 13,810, 40.2% above the
figure reported at 2004 year end.
• Lastly, revenues from Information Technology services continued to
progress with regard to contribution to Group revenues, ending the last
quarter of the year with a contribution of 108.4 million euros, a
year-on-year growth of 69.0%. Revenues of this type over the year
represented 326.8 million euros and a 38.9% growth. This good behaviour was
due to the growth in outsourcing services of desktop positions and systems
integration.
There are currently 184 client management centres operated by Telefonica
staff, and 123 contracts with customers who are outsourcing their
communications service/information systems. These figures have grown by
52.1% and 36.7% respectively year on year.
The number servers dedicated to clients' amounted to 2,931, a 38.6% increase
on the previous year. The number of desktop positions managed stood at
87,249.
Telefonica de Espana Group's operating expenses increased by 5.0% compared with
last year to stand at 7,213.7 million euros, as a consequence of the commercial
efforts made and the development of new products that allow Telefonica de Espana
to offer the most complete and innovative portfolio of services in our market.
Expenses in the fourth quarter amounted to 1,777.7 million euros, having
increased 9.5% due to the contribution of additional expenses from the workforce
restructuring program during this period.
• Personnel expenses fell 0.8% over the year to stand at 2,695.8 million
euros. A new Redundancy Program (E.R.E.) was applied to the Telefonica Data
Espana S.A. workforce during the last quarter of the year. 68 people joined
this program, along with the 127 additional employees accepted under the
Telefonica de Espana Redundancy Program during the fourth quarter of 2005,
leading to a total figure of 1,945 redundancies by year end.
This led to an additional provision of 71.0 million euros in the fourth
quarter for workforce restructuring, increasing personnel expenses over the
quarter by 18.6% year on year to stand at 597.5 million euros.
Excluding the effect of Redundancy Program provisions in 2004 (643.5 million
euros including actuarial revision) and in 2005 (595.4 million euros),
personnel expenses would have grown by 1.3% over the year and 4.4% over the
last quarter. This latter figure was affected by the extraordinary provision
arising as a result of the salary review in line with the increase in the
2005 CPI, from the 3.3% foreseen at the end of the third quarter to the 3.7%
actually recorded at year end.
The Telefonica de Espana Parent Company workforce at the end of December was
placed at 33,279 employees, a net reduction of 1,766 employees since the
start of the year. The average Telefonica de Espana Parent Company workforce
in 2005 stood at 34.280 employees, a 4,5% reduction in comparison with the
average workforce in 2004.
• Supplies expenses grew by 8.7% over the year to reach 3,032.0 million
euros. This growth was slightly lower during the fourth quarter, standing at
7.5%, due to the lower handset sales at Telyco, the reduction in
fixed-to-mobile interconnection tariffs (mobile termination rates) and lower
fixed-to-mobile traffic processed during the last quarter of the year. The
greater expenses related to the purchase of equipment for Imagenio and new
broadband connections, and those allocated to unbundling loops by
competitors of Telefonica de Espana are the main factors following the
growth in supplies expenses over 2005. These effects were partially offset
by the slight 0,6% fall in interconnection expenses.
• External services expenses grew by 9.3% over the year to total 1,289.9
million euros, as a result of the intense commercial campaign developed by
Telefonica de Espana to face the demanding competitive environment. In fact,
Telefonica de Espana's commercial expenses increased by 12.3% over this
period in relation to the same period of the previous year.
The combined effort made by the Company with regard to the growth in revenues
and efficiency has led to an operating income before depreciation and
amortization (OIBDA) of 4,766.8 million euros, a 4.5% year-on-year growth.
However, the OIBDA in the fourth quarter of 2005 stood at 1,280.6 million euros,
a 3.8% fall year on year following the acceptance of an additional 195 employees
to join the Redundancy Plan over the last three months of the year
In order to compare this with the announced financial guidance, the effect of
including Terra assets in Spain and other exceptional revenues/expenses not
foreseen in 2005 and 2004 must be excluded from the OIBDA. Excluding the effect
of the integration of Terra, the OIBDA recorded a year-on-year growth of 3.9% in
2005 to stand at 4,739.5 million euros. Also excluding other exceptional
revenues/expenses not foreseen in 2005 and 2004, the growth of OIBDA would stand
at 5.1% to exceed the guidance announced by the company, which set the OIBDA
growth forecast at between 2% and 5% for 2005.
The OIBDA margin stood at 40.6% in 2005, remaining almost the same (-0.1
percentage points) as that recorded the previous year. Excluding the effect of
Redundancy Plan provision in 2005, the margin would have increased by 5.1
percentage points to reach 45.7%. Comparing this margin with the comparable
margin of the same period in 2004 (excluding the Redundancy Program provision
and the actuarial review for 2004), a 0.8 percentage point drop was recorded as
a result of the greater commercial and supply efforts during 2005.
The OIBDA for the Telefonica de Espana parent company amounted to 4,716.4
million euros, up 4.1% year on year.
CapEx totaled 1,406.6 million euros, a 16.5% increase in comparison with the
previous year but staying within the announced range.
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA GROUP
SELECTED OPERATING DATA
Unaudited figures (Thousands)
December
2005 2004 % Chg
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 16,135.6 16,334.8 (1.2)
Internet and data accesses 5,585.9 4,989.7 11.9
Narrowband 1,614.9 2,263.5 (28.7)
Broadband 3,441.6 2,492.7 38.1
Retail (2) 2,719.7 1,614.5 68.5
Unbundled loops (3) 434.8 116.1 n.m.
Pay TV 206.6 6.0 n.m.
Total Accesses 21,928.0 21,330.5 2.8
(1) PSTN (including Public Use Telephony) x1; ISDN Basic access x1; ISDN Primary access; 2/6 Access x30. Company's
accesses for internal use included.
(2) Includes Terra from the third quarter of 2005, Linea ADSL and satellite.
(3) Includes fully unbundled loops and shared loops.
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA PARENT COMPANY
OPERATING REVENUES
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Traditional Access (1) 2,826.2 2,823.2 0.1 704.3 710.7 (0.9)
Traditional Voice Services 5,161.8 5,199.4 (0.7) 1,298.3 1,323.4 (1.9)
Domestic Traffic (2) 1,330.8 1,467.6 (9.3) 334.7 378.3 (11.5)
Fixed to Mobile Traffic 1,151.8 1,207.4 (4.6) 281.8 303.7 (7.2)
International Traffic 474.4 410.1 15.7 120.0 115.8 3.6
Intel. Network, other cons. and bonusses (3) 309.9 237.1 30.7 87.4 65.7 33.1
Interconnection (4) 944.0 868.9 8.6 227.1 222.9 1.9
Handsets sales and others (5) 951.0 1,008.3 (5.7) 247.3 237.0 4.3
Internet Broadband Services 1,904.7 1,501.1 26.9 516.7 425.6 21.4
Narrowband 201.2 285.9 (29.6) 47.8 61.9 (22.8)
Broadband 1,703.5 1,215.2 40.2 468.9 363.7 28.9
Retail (6) 1,297.8 950.8 36.5 358.9 283.6 26.5
Wholesale (7) 405.7 264.4 53.4 110.1 80.1 37.4
Data Services 1,031.0 978.6 5.4 262.1 247.2 6.0
VPN, Leased Circuits and Broadcasting 666.9 674.1 (1.1) 169.0 176.6 (4.3)
Wholesale 364.1 304.4 19.6 93.1 70.6 31.9
IT Services 326.8 235.3 38.9 108.4 64.1 69.0
Total operating revenues 11,250.5 10,737.6 4.8 2,889.7 2,771.0 4.3
(1) Monthly and connection fees (PSTN, Public Use Telephony, ISDN and Corporate Services) and Telephone booths
surcharges.
(2) Local and domestic long distance (provincial and interprovincial) traffic.
(3) Intelligent Network Services, Special Valued Services, Information Services (118xy), bonusses and others.
(4) Includes revenues from fixed to fixed incoming traffic, fixed to mobile incoming traffic, and transit and
carrier traffic.
(5) Managed Voice Services and other businesses revenues.
(6) Retail ADSL services and other Internet Services.
(7) Includes Megabase, Megavia, GigADSL, and local loop unbundling.
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA GROUP
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 11,739.5 11,202.2 4.8 3,010.9 2,894.1 4.0
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 160.8 144.3 11.5 53.3 47.0 13.3
Operating expenses (7,213.7) (6,871.0) 5.0 (1,777.7) (1,623.5) 9.5
Other net operating income (expense) 19.6 64.1 (69.5) (12.2) 14.6 c.s.
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 70.7 43.0 64.4 10.7 9.9 8.3
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (10.0) (22.6) (55.8) (4.4) (11.1) (60.6)
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 4,766.8 4,560.0 4.5 1,280.6 1,331.1 (3.8)
Depreciation and amortization (2,139.1) (2,367.7) (9.7) (510.9) (568.7) (10.2)
Operating income (OI) 2,627.7 2,192.4 19.9 769.8 762.4 1.0
Profit from associated companies (2.1) (0.5) n.m. 0.1 (0.1) c.s.
Net financial income (expense) (393.5) (523.7) (24.9) (51.9) (147.4) (64.8)
Income before taxes 2,232.1 1,668.1 33.8 718.1 614.9 16.8
Income taxes (737.3) (554.8) 32.9 (243.8) (203.4) 19.8
Income from continuing operations 1,494.7 1,113.4 34.3 474.3 411.5 15.3
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest (0.5) (0.2) 157.5 (0.1) (0.0) n.m.
Net income 1,494.3 1,113.2 34.2 474.2 411.5 15.2
(1) Including work in process.
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Fixed Line Business
TELEFONICA LATINOAMERICA GROUP
The good progress made by the fixed telephone line operators Telefonica Empresas
America (TEA) and TIWS, and the general appreciation of all Latin American
currencies against the Euro, in particular the Brazilian real (+21.0%) have
allowed Telefonica Latinoamerica Group to record outstanding results in 2005, in
line with all the financial targets announced at the beginning of the year.
Furthermore, since July the results of Terra's Latin American operations (Terra
Latam) have been consolidated in the Telefonica Latinoamerica Group,
contributing 1.6 percentage points to the increase in revenues.
Over the year, Telefonica Latinoamerica Group generated revenues of 8,265.5
million euros, a 22.5% increase in current euros (+6.2% in constant euros and
excluding the effect of the inclusion of Terra Latam). This year-on-year growth
was achieved mainly through the growth in Telesp revenues (+7.9% in local
currency), driven by tariff increases, the good progress made by Broadband and
TUP, and, to a lesser extent, the growth of value-added services. It is also
worth noting the increase in TASA revenues (+9.3% in local currency) thanks to
the good performance of the traditional business (+7.3%), the increase in fixed
telephony accesses (+4.8%) and the good performance in the wholesale business,
as well as the positive growth of the broadband business. CTC recorded a lower
level of growth (+1.1% in local currency), thanks to the positive progress made
by the Internet business (narrowband + broadband), whose 32.5% growth in local
currency compensated for the decreased revenues from the traditional business,
which dropped by 0.9%. TdP is a similar case, with a slight growth in revenues
(+1.6% in local currency), thanks to growth in the Internet business (+38.7%),
that counteracts the 1.3% fall in traditional business, affected by the
application of the new productivity factor to its tariffs (10.07%). Telefonica
Empresas America and TIWS showed significantly increased revenues, up 8.3% and
18.9% in constant euros, respectively.
At year end, Telefonica Latinoamerica Group's operating expenses stood at
4,462.4 million euros, +22.3% in current euros compared to 2004. This growth was
reduced to 5.0% in constant euros and excluding the inclusion of Terra Latam,
1.2 percentage points below the growth in revenues. The main cost growth factor
for the operators was the increased commercial efforts, mainly sales commissions
and customer assistance expenses.
Bad debts made good progress, with a 12.3% decrease in bad debt provision in
constant euros (excluding Terra Latam), thanks to good recovery management and
the larger volume of prepaid and consumption control lines in the operators.
In 2005, Telefonica Latinoamerica Group recorded a net gain on sale of fixed
assets of 107.1 million euros, primarily corresponding to the capital gains
generated by the sale of Infonet, which took place during the first quarter of
the year, and of Telinver, in Argentina, in the last quarter.
As a result of the above, Telefonica Latinoamerica Group recorded an operating
income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) of 3,758.3 million euros,
14.1% higher year-on-year in current euros (+0.4% in constant euros and
excluding the contribution of Terra Latam). This progress was influenced by gain
on sale of fixed assets, that include the sale of the mobile telephony division
of CTC to Telefonica Moviles in 2004, and the sales in 2005 of Infonet and
Telinver in Argentina. Excluding the gain on sale of fixed assets, there was a
27.4% growth in OIBDA in current euros (+11.7% in constant euros and excluding
Terra Latam). The OIBDA margin as a percentage of revenues (excluding the gain
on sale of fixed assets) stands at 44.2% (compared with 42.5% in the previous
year).
The greater investment in broadband, which was necessary for the expansion of
this business in the region, placed Telefonica Latinoamerica Group's CapEx at
1,061.2 million euros, a year-on-year growth of 13.2% in constant terms and
excluding Terra Latam. Despite this growth, the significant OIBDA volume that
was achieved allowed to reach an operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) of
2,697.1 million euros.
At year end, Telefonica Latinoamerica Group managed 28.2 million accesses, up
7.0% year on year, mainly due to the 53.8% growth in retail Internet broadband
accesses, which have reached 2.1 million. The fixed telephone accesses reached
2.1 million, an increase of 1.5% compared to 2004, as a result of the
significant growth recorded by TASA (+4.8%) and TdP (+9.8%).
The Group's final workforce stood at 28,856 employees, an 11.4% increase
compared with 2004 year end, due essentially to the inclusion of Terra Latam
(around 1,000 employees), the takeover of Atrium in Brazil and the insourcing of
employees, mainly in Telesp and TASA.
TELESP
On December 22nd, Telesp signed the renewal of its concession contract, which
expired on 31st December 2005, for a period of 20 years. The conditions of the
new contracts were approved by Anatel in December. The main ones are the
obligation to bill local traffic in minutes instead of pulses, the new tariff
revision reference index (IST), the new productivity factor applicable to tariff
revisions, the new interconnection tariff regulation, and the provision of a new
type of service to favour access for customers with low income (AICE). On
February 23rd, Anatel announced a delay of 12 months in the implementation of
the pulses to minutes conversion.
At 2005 year end, Telesp had 15.7 million accesses, a growth of 1.7%, thanks to
the strong growth of its retail Internet broadband plant, which stands at 1.2
million accesses (+46.0% year on year), having recorded the highest net gain in
one quarter (more than 122,000 accesses in the last quarter of 2005). This
progress compensates for the slight fall in fixed telephone accesses (-0.9%, to
12.3 million accesses), although the positive change in family lines, in place
since the end of March, should be noted, meaning that lines with consumption
control represent 19% of the fixed-line telephony plant at the end of the year.
Voice traffic (57,577 million minutes) fell by 2.3% year on year, slightly
improving on the performance recorded until September (-3.6%). This decrease is
due to the greater use of mobile phones, which affects mainly long distance and
public telephony traffic, to the decline in traffic in the Intrastate Long
Distance market, and to the change in the mix of the plant, which affects
fixed-to-mobile and long distance traffic. Note, however, the improved progress
of local fixed-to-fixed traffic, which grew by 2.6%. Internet traffic fell by
12.3%, due to the migration of customers to broadband.
Revenues stood at 4,852.7 million euros, an increase of 7.9% in local currency,
thanks to 6.6% growth in revenues from traditional business, helped by the
increase in fixed-to-fixed and fixed-to-mobile tariffs, increased sales of
value-added services and sales of equipment, and also the good performance of
Internet revenues (narrowband and broadband), which increased by 27.1% in local
currency, and now represent 7.5% of the company's revenues (6.4% in 2004), due
to the good progress in numbers of Internet broadband accesses.
Throughout the year, Telesp kept control of operating costs, which grew by 6.8%
in local currency, lower than the increase in revenues. This increase is
associated with higher personnel costs (+4.3% in local currency) due to the
growth of the workforce caused by the takeover of Atrium and the insourcing of
Security and Systems employees, and also to increased interconnection costs
resulting from the rise in fixed-to-mobile tariffs, counteracted by the
increased revenues, and to higher costs for increased commercial activity,
improvement of customer care, and higher prices in some contracts. Despite this,
the good management regarding renegotiation with service providers should be
noted, managing to limit contractual readjustments.
The positive evolution of bad debt provision is also noteworthy, with an 8.4%
decrease compared with last year, thanks to good recovery management and to new
products aimed at customers' needs. The bad debt to revenues ratio thus stands
at 2.4%.
Telesp operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) in
September stood at 2,221.8 million euros, up 9.5% year on year in local
currency, in line with the growth recorded in September, mainly as a result of
the increase in revenues. The OIBDA margin stands at 45.8%, an improvement of
0.3 percentage points compared to September and 0.6 percentage points year on
year.
CapEx accumulated to December was 607.1 million euros, a growth of 25.2% with
regard to 2004 in local currency, amounting to 11.5% of revenues in local
currency. This increase is due to the sales of new products, and, mainly, to the
expansion of broadband. The operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) stood at
1,614.7 million euros (+5.0% in local currency with regard to last year).
TELEFONICA DE ARGENTINA
Management of TASA, adapted to a context of growing activity and consumption,
and of frozen tariffs, has allowed growth in fixed telephone lines and voice
traffic (+4.8% and +6.9% respectively), factors that, together with the
expansion of broadband, have contributed to the 9.3% increase in revenues.
At 2005 year end, TASA managed 5.4 million accesses (+4.7% compared to December
2004), thanks to the year-on-year increase in fixed telephone accesses (+4.8% to
stand at 4.5 million) and the extraordinary growth in retail Internet broadband
accesses (+68.1%). With 241,500 retail Internet broadband accesses, TASA remains
the leader in the broadband market in the Southern zone of the country.
Voice traffic per line grew by 3.1% year on year, driven by the strong growth in
total incoming traffic (+18.7% year-on-year) and of total fixed-to-mobile
traffic (+28.0%) in line with the strong expansion of the mobile telephony
business in the country. Narrowband Internet traffic fell by 29.4%, affected by
the migration to broadband.
The good performance of line and traffic operating variables compared with 2004
has resulted in a volume of revenues that grew to 890.9 million euros,
equivalent to a 9.3% year-on-year increase in local currency. Broken down by
business, revenues from the traditional business grew by 7.3% year on year, due
to the good performance of lines in service and voice traffic, and by the
wholesale business, while revenues from the internet business (Narrowband +
Broadband), which now contribute 9.0% of TASA revenues (+1.7 percentage points
year on year), rose 34.5% in local currency, thanks to the expansion of Internet
broadband accesses, increasing revenues for these services by 82.5% year on
year, and offsetting the decrease in the narrowband business.
The growth in TASA operating expenses is slowing down, to 7.4% year on year in
local currency, mainly due to the decrease in personnel costs (-2.4%), as a
result of the lower labor-related contingencies recorded in 2005, and also due
to the lower growth in subcontracting (+18.1%, vs. +21.9% in September), the
increase of which is associated with revenue generation (greater commercial
activity, customer assistance, increase in quality plans and infrastructure
maintenance). Supply expenses increased by 7.9%, mostly due to the expansion of
broadband.
The bad debt to revenues ratio was reduced, thanks to the good performance of
recoveries and the sales of prepaid lines and lines with consumption limits,
which now represent more than 29% of fixed telephone accesses.
The significant growth in revenues, together with the policy of rationalizing
and containing costs that is maintained, and the capital gains recorded with the
sale of Telinver in the last quarter (48.4 million euros), allowed TASA to
obtain an operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) of 542.9
million euros, a figure that is 17.0% higher, in local currency, than that for
2004. Excluding the sale of Telinver, the OIBDA shows a year-on-year growth of
6.6% in local currency (+4.7% to September), achieving a margin of 55.5% of
revenues.
In 2005, CapEx grew by 7.2% year on year in local currency, to stand at 117.3
million euros, of which approximately a third was dedicated to the development
of broadband. The increase in OIBDA, along with control over investments, led to
a growth in the operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) -excluding the capital
gain from the sale of Telinver- of 6.4% in local currency year on year, to stand
at 377.2 million euros.
TELEFONICA CTC CHILE
On January 1st 2005, the distribution of the product and customer portfolio for
the business segment between CTC and T-Empresas Chile was reviewed. As a
consequence of this, Telefonica CTC Chile's 2004 results are shown on comparable
terms with the new segmentation.
In January, CTC announced its plans to offer its employees a voluntary
retirement plan, to be carried out in 2006. As a result of this, CTC recorded an
extraordinary provision of around 2.6 million euros.
In December 2005, CTC managed 2.9 million accesses, up 0.9% on 2004, thanks to
the development of new flexible plans, and to the solid progress made by
broadband in Chile. Within traditional access, of particular note is CTC's new
commercial offer, based on the development of unregulated tariff plans (plans of
minutes and product bundling). On December 31st 2005, more than 700,000
customers had flexible plans (plans of minutes, prepaid and consumption control
solutions for those with low incomes, and bundled offers of voice and broadband
services).
Thanks to the good progress made by Internet broadband accesses sales, a 56.5%
growth in accesses was achieved in 2005. CTC thus had a total of 314,200
accesses at the end of the year (of which 289,600 are retail accesses), reaching
a 43% market share. This growth reflects the strong commercial efforts made in
the year for the expansion of broadband in the country. New variable broadband
services (Speedy Recargado) have been developed, and new broadband + voice
packages have been launched, in addition to a combined offer with satellite TV
and new distribution channels.
Total traffic carried by CTC's network continued to fall, essentially due to
significant replacement by mobile telephony and Internet. Local fixed-to-fixed
traffic dropped 10.5% in 2005, while fixed-to-mobile traffic grew 8.4%. The
total market for domestic and international long distance continues to fall
(-13.8% for DLD and -6% for ILD in the last quarter). Despite this decline, CTC
achieved better performance than the market as a whole (in the same period
-11.5% and +1.3%, respectively).
Revenues amounted to 890.0 million euros, up 1.1% over 2004 figure in local
currency, due to the good performance of broadband, whose revenues grew 46.1% in
local currency. Thus Internet revenues (narrowband + broadband) grew by 32.5% in
local currency to contribute 8.1% of CTC revenues (up 1.9 percentage points year
on year). This progress compensates for the slight fall in revenues from the
traditional business (-0.9% year on year in local currency), given that the
increased revenues from local traffic, which include plans of minutes,
interconnection and business and operator services do not offset the decreased
revenues from monthly fees, sales of equipment, public telephony and long
distance.
Accumulated operating expenses grew by 1.9% to December, in local currency.
Personnel expenses fell 6.5% year on year, as a result of the lower workforce
restructuring costs in 2005. Subcontracting expenses increased by 4.3%, mainly
due to the significant network installation and maintenance work carried out,
and commercial and customer care activity. During the fourth quarter a
significant effort was made to contain these costs (+9.5% to September).
Bad debts were contained, thanks to specific new prepaid and consumption control
products, and to the readjustment of debt recovery policies. The bad debt
provision fell by 22.2% in local currency, to stand at 3.2% of revenues.
At 2005 year end, the operating income before depreciation and amortization
(OIBDA) stood at 362.4 million euros. This result, which is around 57.2% lower
than the one recorded in the previous year in local currency, cannot be compared
with the 2004 result, since the latter includes the results of the sale of the
CTC mobile telephony subsidiary to Telefonica Moviles, which generated capital
gains of around 425 million euros for CTC. Excluding this, the fall in OIBDA in
local currency is around 4.1%. 2005 OIBDA margin as a percentage of revenues
stands at 40.7% (affected by the adjustments in the long distance business
announced in the previous quarter and the voluntary retirement programme
announced in January; excluding the effects of both, the margin would stand at
43.6%).
The aggregate CapEx to December 2005 stood at 108.5 million euros, of which
around 30% was dedicated to the expansion of broadband. This figure represents a
year-on-year growth of 11.3% in local currency. The aggregate operating free
cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) in 2005 thus amounted to 253.9 million euros.
TELEFONICA DEL PERU
In 2005, Telefonica del Peru (TdP) recorded significant growth in the number of
accesses (+13.7%) to 3.2 million, due to intense commercial activity throughout
the entire year, which resulted in a net gain of 208,735 fixed telephone
accesses in 2005. The total fixed telephony plant hence stands at 2.3 million
accesses, and in broadband the company managed to pass 340,000 retail Internet
broadband accesses (+65.7% year on year) recording a net gain of 135,011
customers in the year. Noteworthy, also, is the good performance of the Cable
Television plant (Cable Magico), which has seen year-on-year growth of 18.8%,
with 462,211 customers at the end of the year.
TdP's revenues stood at 1,031.4 million euros at 2005 end, meaning year-on-year
growth of 1.6% in local currency. Internet revenues (broadband + narrowband)
grew by 38.7%, essentially due to the good performance of the broadband plant
(+55.6% in revenues). Internet revenues continue to increase their weight in the
total revenues, to 9.7% (7.1% in 2004). Revenues from the traditional business
fell 1.3%, due to lower revenues from the basic telephone service, despite the
growth in lines, as a result of the impact of the productivity factor applied
since September 2004 (CPI-10.07%). These are compensated in part by increased
public telephony revenues, due to better management of the plant and the good
performance of cable TV revenues, which grew by 11.3% year on year thanks to the
growth of the accesses.
Total traffic carried by TdP decreased by 2.8% year on year: while voice traffic
grew 2.2%, promoted by the good performance of incoming interconnection traffic
(+14.4%), local fixed-to-fixed traffic (+1.7%) and International Long Distance
(+32.1%). Internet traffic showed a 39.9% year on year fall, due to the market
demand for faster Broadband products.
The year's operating expenses fell by 3.5% in local currency, because of savings
made on personnel expenses, which fell by 21.6%, mainly due to lower profit
sharing, and savings were also made in supply expenses (-6.6% in local currency)
as a results of the lower fixed-to-mobile tariff, despite the fact that
consumption supplies were increased, because of the significant growth of the
plant. Subcontracting expenses increased (+7.9% in local currency) due to the
higher commercial activity.
There was a fall in bad debt provision (-31.3%) as a result of better recovery
management, and the increased percentage of prepaid and consumption control
infrastructure in the total of fixed telephone lines (59% of fixed telephone
lines in December 2005, and 54% at 2004 end), which helped the bad debt
provision as a percentage of revenues to stand at 1.2%.
The operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) amounts to
437.3 million euros, around 15.1% more than in 2004 in local currency, affected
by the lower provision made for extraordinary contingencies and others. The
OIBDA margin improved by 5.0 percentage points compared with 2004, to stand at
42.4%.
CapEx stands at 117.9 million euros, 1.5% lower in local currency than that
recorded in 2004, placing the CapEx ratio as a percentage of revenues at 11.3%
in local currency. The operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) grew by 22.6% year
on year in local currency to reach 319.4 million euros, due to the growth in
OIBDA and the CapEx containment.
TELEFONICA EMPRESAS AMERICA
As in previous quarters, due to the change in the consolidation perimeter of
Telefonica Empresas America (TEA), which incorporates TLD Puerto Rico
operations, and the new segmentation of business and wholesale customers in
Telefonica Empresas Chile, 2004 results are shown on comparable terms.
In 2005, TEA aggregate revenues stood at 620.9 million euros. This figure means
16.5% year-on-year growth (+8.3% in constant euros).
Broken down by business line, revenues from Data and Internet contributed about
62% of total revenues and show solid levels of growth (+23.3%; +12.5% in
constant euros). Of particular note is the performance of data revenues in
Brazil, which reach almost 50% of the total and show a growth of 25.2% in local
currency. International Services and Telephony services for business are also
showing positive levels of growth (+14.2% and +10.2% in constant euros,
respectively.)
At 2005 year end, the operating income before depreciation and amortization
(OIBDA) stood at 93.6 million euros, achieving a growth rate of 81.7% in current
euros compared to 2004 (about 62.1% in constant euros). The accumulated OIBDA
margin as a percentage of revenues stands at 15.1%, a year-on-year improvement
of 5.4 percentage points. Aggregate investment to December stood at 72.5 million
euros, meaning 23.5% growth in constant euros compared to 2004. As a result, the
operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) amounted to 21.1 million euros, compared
with 3.6 million euros the previous year.
Telefonica Empresas Brasil continues to be the group's largest operation in
terms of revenues and OIBDA. In 2005, T-Empresas Brasil revenues stood at 245.9
million euros, showing year-on-year growth of 19.0% in local currency.
T-Empresas Brasil aggregate OIBDA was 58.7 million euros, a 47.4% increase in
local currency.
T-Empresas Argentina achieved revenues of 74.9 million euros, up 13.9% year on
year in local currency. T-Empresas Peru kept its revenue levels practically
stable compared with 2004 in 65.0 million euros (-0.1% in local currency).
T-Empresas Chile, after the aforementioned resegmentation, recorded accumulated
revenues of 124.3 million euros, a year-on-year fall of 3.1%.
In other countries where Telefonica Group is not the incumbent operator (the US,
Colombia and Mexico), the figures of T-Empresas USA are of particular note.
Having incorporated TLD operations in Puerto Rico, it achieved total revenues of
71.0 million euros, corresponding to a growth rate of 15.4% in local currency
compared with 2004.
TELEFONICA INTERNATIONAL WHOLESALE SERVICES (TIWS)
Revenues for 2005 stood at 188.0 million euros (+19.4% year on year, +18.9% in
constant euros). The business line that contributed the most to revenues was IP
Internacional (54.6%) which showed year-on-year growth of 16.7% in constant
terms. The other businesses also showed significant growth. Of particular note
is the Bandwidth Capacity which grew 25.1% in constant euros. Significant
savings were generated in terms of operating expenses, which, together with the
growth of revenues, allowed an operating income before depreciation and
amortization (OIBDA) of 58.3 million euros, equivalent to a year-on-year growth
of 30.2% (+30.1% in constant euros), achieving a margin as a percentage of
revenues of 31.0% (+2.6 percentage points compared with 2004).
TELEFONICA LATINOAMERICA GROUP
SELECTED OPERATING DATA
Unaudited figures (Thousands)
December
2005 2004 % Chg
Telesp 15,669.7 15,410.3 1.7
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 12,340.3 12,454.8 (0.9)
Internet and data accesses 3,329.4 2,955.5 12.7
Narrowband 1,986.7 1,996.7 (0.5)
Broadband 1,206.8 826.4 46.0
Retail 1,206.7 826.3 46.0
Telefonica de Argentina 5,434.4 5,192.1 4.7
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 4,532.2 4,325.4 4.8
Internet and data accesses 902.1 866.6 4.1
Narrowband 564.0 643.3 (12.3)
Broadband 303.5 190.2 59.6
Retail (2) 241.5 143.7 68.1
Telefonica CTC Chile 2,912.7 2,886.2 0.9
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 2,429.1 2,412.5 0.7
Internet and data accesses 483.6 473.7 2.1
Narrowband 130.5 239.4 (45.5)
Broadband 314.2 200.8 56.5
Retail 289.6 176.1 64.4
Telefonica del Peru 3,213.0 2,826.2 13.7
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 2,347.6 2,138.9 9.8
Internet and data accesses 403.2 298.2 35.2
Narrowband 52.5 83.0 (36.7)
Broadband (3) 340.4 205.4 65.7
Retail 340.4 205.4 65.7
Pay TV 462.2 389.2 18.8
GRUPO T. LATINOAMERICA 28,168.5 26,314.8 7.0
Fixed telephony accesses (1) 21,649.1 21,331.6 1.5
Internet and data accesses 6,057.1 4,594.1 31.8
Narrowband (4) 3,185.1 2,962.4 7.5
Broadband (3) (5) 2,652.3 1,422.8 86.4
Retail (2) 2,078.2 1,351.6 53.8
Pay TV 462.2 389.2 18.8
(1) PSTN (including Public Use Telephony) x1; ISDN Basic access x1; ISDN Primary access; 2/6 Access x30. Company's
accesses for internal use included.
(2) TASA includes ISP in the north part of the country.
(3) TdP cable modem included.
(4) Includes Narrowband ISP from Terra Brasil and Terra Colombia from the third quarter of 2005
(5) Includes Broadband ISP from Terra Brasil, Terra Mexico and Terra Guatemala from the third quarter of 2005
TELEFONICA LATINOAMERICA GROUP
SELECTED OPERATING DATA
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
Telesp Revenues 4,852.7 3,716.2 30.6
OIBDA 2,221.8 1,678.0 32.4
OIBDA margin 45.8% 45.2% 0.6 p.p.
Telefonica de Argentina Revenues 890.9 810.9 9.9
OIBDA 542.9 461.3 17.7
OIBDA margin (1) 60.9% 56.9% 4.1 p.p.
Telefonica CTC Chile Revenues 890.0 806.9 10.3
OIBDA 362.4 776.0 n.c.
OIBDA margin 40.7% n.m. n.c.
Telefonica del Peru Revenues 1,031.4 980.9 5.1
OIBDA 437.3 367.1 19.1
OIBDA margin 42.4% 37.4% 5.0 p.p.
Telefonica Empresas America Revenues 620.9 532.9 16.5
OIBDA 93.6 51.5 81.7
OIBDA margin 15.1% 9.7% 5.4 p.p.
TIWS Revenues 188.0 157.5 19.4
OIBDA 58.3 44.8 30.2
OIBDA margin 31.0% 28.4% 2.6 p.p.
Note: OIBDA before management fees. Data for Telefonica de Argentina include the ISP business of Advance, while those
of Telefonica del Peru includes CableMagico.
(1) Net of fixed to mobile interconnection.
TELEFONICA LATINOAMERICA GROUP
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 8,265.5 6,748.4 22.5 2,352.0 1,742.9 34.9
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 47.3 43.3 9.2 15.6 13.3 17.0
Operating expenses (4,462.4) (3,648.2) 22.3 (1,288.1) (961.1) 34.0
Other net operating income (expense) (205.4) (276.8) (25.8) (41.0) (140.6) (70.9)
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 107.1 428.8 (75.0) 29.6 2.0 n.m.
Impairment of goodwill and other assets 6.3 (0.7) c.s. 1.5 (1.3) c.s.
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 3,758.3 3,294.8 14.1 1,069.7 655.2 63.3
Depreciation and amortization (1,792.5) (1,578.7) 13.5 (483.9) (394.5) 22.7
Operating income (OI) 1,965.8 1,716.1 14.6 585.8 260.7 124.7
Profit from associated companies 4.4 2.6 71.1 1.3 2.5 (48.3)
Net financial income (expense) (383.6) (344.6) 11.3 (144.8) (52.7) 174.6
Income before taxes 1,586.7 1,374.1 15.5 442.2 210.4 110.2
Income taxes (319.2) (292.6) 9.1 (66.1) (86.0) (23.1)
Income from continuing operations 1,267.5 1,081.4 17.2 376.1 124.4 202.4
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest (160.8) (327.1) (50.8) (52.3) (17.1) n.m.
Net income 1,106.7 754.3 46.7 323.8 107.3 201.8
(1) Including work in process.
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Mobile Business
In a year marked by the integration of the 10 operators acquired from BellSouth
in Latin America, technological migration in 8 countries and stiff competition
in main markets of operation, Telefonica Moviles posted the highest net income
in history in 2005 of 1,918,9 million euros, a year-over-year increase of 13.4%.
Excluding the impact of the write down of the remaining value of the UMTS
license of IPSE, net income would have been over 2,000 million euros in 2005, an
increase of 18.7% over 2004.
At the same time, the Company has consolidated its position as one of the
leading operators in the industry worldwide, with over 94.4 million managed
customers by December 2005 (+26.9% vs.2004).
With over 5.4 million new customers in the fourth quarter of 2005, Telefonica
Moviles obtained net adds of 16.3 million in 2005, driven primarily by the sharp
growth in the Latin American markets.
By geographical areas, 19.9 million of the total customer base corresponded to
TME (+4.8% vs. 2004), 71 million to Latin American operators (+34%) and over 4
million corresponded to the Moroccan operator, Medi Telecom (+47%).
Among the key aspects of the full year 2005 results, we would highlight that all
the growth targets established for the Group for the year were met. We would
point out:
• Solid growth in revenues of 40.5% vs. 2004 to 16,513.5 million euros.
Organic growth10 of consolidated revenues stood at 14.2%.
By components, service revenues in 2005 rose 40.4% to 14,353.5 million
euros, while handset sales rose 41.4% to 2,160 million euros.
Consolidated revenues registered year-over-year growth of 29.1% in the
fourth quarter of 2005, compared to 45.3% in the nine first months of 2005,
affected by the consolidation of 8 of the operators acquired from BellSouth
since November 2004.
By geographical areas, Telefonica Moviles Espana registered a 7.6%
year-over-year growth in revenues in 2005, making it one of the European
operators with the highest growth in its domestic market. Service revenues
grew by 7% vs. 2004 (+8.2% excluding impact of loyalty points).
The consolidated Latin American operators recorded 116.9% growth in revenues
vs. 2004, representing 47% of the Group's total revenues11 (30% in 2004).
Organic growth10 of these operators' revenues was 23.5% year-on-year.
• Consolidated OIBDA in 2005 of 5,817 million euros, 26.8% higher than in
2004. Year-over-year growth of consolidated OIBDA in the fourth quarter of
2005 of 45%, with sharp acceleration from previous quarters (+21% in the
nine first months of 2005). Year-on-year organic growth3 in consolidated
OIBDA in 2005 was 7.5%.
Year-on-year growth of OIBDA at Telefonica Moviles Espana rebounded in the
fourth quarter of 2005 (+4.4% vs. -2.3% in the nine first months of 2005),
driven by the positive performance of service revenues and control over
commercial costs. OIBDA at Telefonica Moviles Espana in 2005 stood at
4,127.9 million euros, virtually unchanged vs. 2004, despite the increased
commercial activity and the costs related to the rebranding. The OIBDA
margin for 2005 stood at 46.7%, in line with the Company's targets.
The consolidated Latin American operators contributed 554 million euros to
Group OIBDA in the fourth quarter of 2005 and 1,755 million euros in 2005
(+218.4% vs. 2004). In organic terms12, OIBDA from these operators increased
28.6% vs. 2004 and represented 30% of total OIBDA for the Group11 (12% in
2004).
We would point out the sharp improvement in OIBDA margin at these operators
in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+11.9 p.p. vs. the fourth quarter of 2005),
mostly due to lower SACs. The OIBDA margin in 2005 stood at 22.8% vs. 15.5%
in 2004.
In all, the consolidated OIBDA margin stood at 35.6% in the fourth quarter
of 2005 (+3.9 p.p. vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and 35.2% in the full
year 2005.
Regarding the rest of the main items, we would highlight:
• The 55,9% year-over-year increase in depreciation, primarily due to
changes to the Group's consolidation perimeter and to the impact of 298
million euros of amortization of allocated intangible assets related to the
acquisition of Telefonica Movil Chile and the 10 Latin American operators
acquired from BellSouth in 2004 and early 2005.
Allocated intangible assets from these acquisitions related to customers and
software pending amortization stood at 164 million euros and 21 million
euros, respectively at the end of the year.
• Increased losses at companies consolidated by the equity method, impacted
by the write-down of the remaining value of the UMTS license of IPSE in the
fourth quarter of 2005. Excluding this effect, the contribution of these
companies to Group results would have improved, with a decline of 54% in
their losses compared to 2004, due to the improved results of Medi Telecom.
It should be noted that this asset write-down does not imply any cash
outflow.
• The 4.7% year-over-year decrease in negative net financial results,
despite the larger increase in the average net debt balance for the period
(+59.0%).
At the end of 2005 consolidated net debt stood at 8,659 million euros (vs.
8,442 million euros in 2004), 8% lower than at the end of September, thanks
to cash flow generation in the period.
Proportionate net debt at the end of the year stood at 8,759 million euros.
As it has been indicated in previous communications, if IPSE were forced to
disburse the deferred payments related with the acquisition of its UMTS
license, consolidated net debt would increase by the amount of the deposits
made by Telefonica Moviles to guarantee a part of IPSE's deferred payments
with the Italian government. This amount totaled 335 million euros at the
end of 2005.
• 33.4% effective tax rate in 2005, mainly affected by the application of
certain allowances for export activities in the second quarter of 2005,
although the fact that there is no tax consolidation in various countries in
Latin America detracts from this benefit, increasing the marginal rate. In
this regard, the Brazilian companies have begun a corporate restructuring
process (see significant events post closing) which will reduce this impact.
• Consolidated CapEx, excluding licenses, of 2,285 million euros in 2005.
45.2 million euros were recorded in 2005 for the acquisition of licenses in
Mexico.
Assuming constant exchange rates compared to 2004, total CapEx would have
been 2,023 million euros, in line with the Company's guidance.
Regarding the evolution of the Mobile Business of Telefonica Group (including
Telefonica Movil Chile since January 1st, 2004), as of December 2005, revenues
and Operating Income before D&A would have registered year-on-year increases of
38.1% and 25.4%, respectively.
SPAIN
In a year marked by stiffer competition, the Spanish wireless market reached
over 43 million lines, equivalent to 97% penetration rate.
In this context, Telefonica Moviles Espana recorded net adds of nearly 260
thousand in the fourth quarter of 2005 and almost one million lines in 2005
(+48% vs. 2004). As a result, the Company ended December with nearly 20 million
customers, a 4.8% year-over-year growth.
We would point out the strong commercial activity carried out in 2005. Including
gross adds, migrations and handset upgrades, Telefonica Moviles Espana carried
out 2.7 million commercial initiatives in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+9.4% vs.
the fourth quarter of 2004) and 10.7 million in the full year 2005 (+19% vs.
2004), marking the highest figures in the Company's history.
Against a competitive backdrop featured by a large volume of number portability
actions, Telefonica Moviles Espana's gross adds grew 23% vs. 2004, with a 41%
year-over-year increase in number portability gross adds.
In line with the Company's focus on value, especially noteworthy is the increase
in contract gross adds (+30% vs. 2004). As a result of this and with ongoing
efforts to encourage prepaid to contract migrations (nearly 1 million in 2005),
the contract segment represented nearly 54% of Telefonica Moviles Espana's total
customer base (+5p.p vs. 2004).
The commercial initiatives targeting high-value customers were also reflected in
number portability. Telefonica Moviles Espana recorded a positive net balance of
71 thousand lines in the contract segment in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+22%
vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and 180 thousand lines in the full year 2005. In
all, including prepaid and contract, the accumulated net balance in number
portability in 2005 was a loss of 116,000 lines. This was also the result of
Telefonica Moviles Espana 's greater focus on acquiring prepaid clients through
generic commercial campaigns, rather than through number portability.
Also worth highlighting are the efforts made in retention activities. The
Company launched campaigns to reward customer loyalty and offered favorable
conditions for handset upgrades to encourage greater commitment from our
customers. Handset upgrades reached nearly 1.1 million in the fourth quarter of
2005 and more than 4.5 million in 2005 (+23.2% vs. 2004).
These activities and commercial initiatives such as 'Ya te llamo yo' or the
'100x1' promotion have proven to be important loyalty tools, enabling TME to
contain the churn rate at a 1.8% level in 2005 despite competitors' commercial
aggressiveness.
The new commercial offers have also boosted customer usage. The Company carried
more than 13,000 million minutes of traffic in the fourth quarter of 2005
(+21.5% vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and more than 50,000 million minutes in
the full year 2005 (+20.3% vs. 2004). Despite the increase, Telefonica Moviles
Espana networks' quality indices improved relative to previous years.
Particularly significant is the growth of on-net traffic (+30% vs. 2004), which
now represents 43% of total traffic. MOU reached 152 minutes in the fourth
quarter of 2005 (+12.6% vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and 150 minutes in the
full year 2005 (+15.9% vs. 2004).
We would also highlight the launch in December 2005 of 'Mundo Movistar'
(Movistar world), the first multi-country product and service distribution
scheme. It complements the 'Mi Favorito Internacional' (My favourite
international number) and 'Mis Cinco Internacional' (My five international
numbers) products already offered by the Company. The Mundo Movistar service,
which sets Telefonica Moviles Espana apart from competitors, allows customers to
buy a handset and a prepaid card at any sales point in the movistar network in
Spain and have them available for pickup by a customer in Ecuador or Colombia
the following day. Plans are to extend this service gradually to other markets
in Latin America and Morocco.
Thanks to the positive performance of MOU and despite price cuts and lower
termination rates, Telefonica Moviles Espana posted voice ARPU (excluding the
impact of promotions) of 28.5 euros in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+0.8% vs. the
fourth quarter of 2004) and 28.7 euros for the full year 2005 (+2.6% vs. 2004).
Moreover, throughout the fourth quarter of 2005 Telefonica Moviles Espana
introduced new data transmission price schemes, with concepts similar to flat
rate plans, enabling the Company to boast the most comprehensive and competitive
offer in the data transmission market, with prices of 30 euros/month for 1 Giga
and 58 euros/month for 5 Gigas.
TME's data ARPU (excluding the impact of promotions) stood at 4.7 euros in the
fourth quarter of 2005 (+7.1% vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and 4.4 euros in
2005 (+7.6% vs. 2004). Non-traditional SMS data services were the main growth
driver. Revenues from these services increased to represent 38% of the Company's
total data revenues vs. 29% in 2004.
As a result, Telefonica Moviles Espana's total ARPU stood at 33.2 euros in the
fourth quarter of 2005 (+1.6% vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and 33.1 euros in
2005 (+3.3% vs. 2004).
Highlights of Telefonica Moviles Espana's financial results include:
• Revenues of 2,213 million euros in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+5.8% vs.
the fourth quarter of 2004) and 8,834.2 million euros in the full year 2005
(+7.6% vs. 2004).
The sharp growth in revenues, which should be seen in the European context
and despite substantial cuts in prices, was driven by the positive
performance of service revenues, which totaled 1,975 million euros in the
fourth quarter of 2005 (+6.8% vs. the fourth quarter of 2004) and 7,794
million euros in the full year 2005 (+7.0% vs. 2004).
Revenues from handset sales totaled 1,040 million euros in 2005, up 11.8%
year-over-year vs. 2004 and to represent 11.8% of total revenues.
• Given the sharp increase in Telefonica Moviles Espana 's commercial
activity throughout the year, the weight of commercial costs (including SAC,
SRC and advertising) over service revenues ex-loyalty points stood at 15.4%
in 2005 (11.7% in 2004). These figures include the rebranding costs incurred
in the second quarter of 2005.
• Year-on-year growth of OIBDA at Telefonica Moviles Espana rebounded in the
fourth quarter of 2005 (+4.4% vs. -2.3% in the nine first months of 2005),
driven by the positive performance of service revenues and control over
commercial costs. OIBDA for the full year 2005 stood at 4,127.9 million
euros, virtually unchanged vs. 2004 despite the increased commercial
activity and the costs related to rebranding. The OIBDA margin in 2005 stood
at 46.7%, in line with the Company's targets.
• Telefonica Moviles Espana continued with the deployment of its UMTS
network and investment to increase network capacity in order to meet the
sharp growth in usage during 2005. CapEx in 2005 totaled 727 million euros
(+15.8%. vs. 2004). At the end of 2005, Telefonica Moviles Espana's UMTS
network had more than 5,000 base stations, providing coverage to areas in
which over 70% of the population lives.
MOROCCO
At the end of 2005 Medi Telecom's customer base stood at 4.023.3 million (+47.4%
vs. 2004). Net adds in the fourth quarter of 2005 stood at 185 thousand, 17%
more than in the fourth quarter of 2004.
Regarding financial results, revenues in 2005 totaled 397 million euros (+21%
vs. 2004), driven by growth in the customer base throughout the year.
OBIDA stood at 153 million euros while the OIBDA margin for the year was 39%
(46% in 2004), impacted by the higher commercial activity (+40.4% vs. 2004).
OIBDA increased by 2% vs. 2004.
LATIN AMERICA
Brazil
In the last quarter of the year, the Brazilian market continued showing a solid
performance despite slowing its pace of growth. At the end of 2005 the total
market stood at 86.2 million customers (+31.4% vs. 2004), equivalent to a
penetration rate of 46.6% (49.6% in Vivo's areas of operation).
In the fourth quarter of 2005, against a backdrop of intense competition, less
commercial pressure was seen in the prepaid segment, with the main operators
targeting their commercial initiatives at high-value segments. In this context,
Vivo's customer base stood at 29.8 million at the end of December (+12.3% vs.
the fourth quarter of 2004), with net adds in the fourth quarter of 2005 of
nearly 1 million.
Vivo continues to target its commercial initiatives at the acquisition and
retention of high-value customers and fostering prepaid to contract migration.
In terms of customer usage and traffic, MOU in the fourth quarter of 2005 was 74
minutes, while ARPU in the fourth quarter of 2005 was 29.0 reais, an increase of
2.5% compared to the third quarter of 2005, driven by higher contract ARPU.
Regarding Vivo's financial results, service revenues grew 5% in local currency
vs. 2004, fuelled by higher outgoing revenues (+17%) in both the prepaid and
contract segments, which in part offset the decline in incoming revenues (-7%).
The decrease in commercial activity led to a 2% year-over-year fall in revenues
from handset sales vs. 2004, leading to a 4% increase in total revenues.
Higher entry barriers compared to the 2004 Christmas campaign and the decrease
in commercial activity led to lower commercial costs (SAC, SRC and advertising)
in the fourth quarter of 2005 compared to the fourth quarter of 2004, although
higher provisions related to communications not attributable to customers (33
million euros in the fourth quarter of 2005) caused the OIBDA margin after
management fees to fall to 21.0% in the fourth quarter of 2005 and to 26.3% in
2005. The Company is implanting detection systems in the short term to limit
this risk. Excluding the impact of these provisions in 2005, the OIBDA margin
would be 26.9% in the fourth quarter of 2005 and 28.8% in the full year 2005.
Finally, CapEx in 2005 totaled 400 million euros, driven primarily by the
increased capacity of Vivo's networks.
Northern region
Mexico
In the fourth quarter of 2005 Telefonica Moviles Mexico continued to focus on
developing a quality distribution network and enhancing its processes, making
changes to its commercial offering, reinforcing customer care and the quality of
its services.
In this context, in a quarter marked by higher commercial activity, Telefonica
Moviles Mexico posted net adds in the fourth quarter of 2005 of 392 thousand,
compared to 129 thousand in the third quarter of 2005, bringing the total
customer base at the end of December 2005 to 6.37 million (+12.9% vs. the fourth
quarter of 2004).
This commercial effort should be seen in the context of the reshaping of the
distribution network, with 190 distributors contracts cancelled in the year and
47 new ones incorporated, in order to increase the quality of gross adds.
MOU in the fourth quarter of 2005 stood at 50 minutes while ARPU was 124 Mexican
pesos, unchanged compared to the third quarter of 2005. MOU in the full year
2005 was 51 minutes and ARPU was 136 Mexican pesos.
Regarding financial results, revenues grew by 9.9% year-over-year in 2005 in
local currency. In the fourth quarter of 2005, revenues grew 10.2% vs. the third
quarter of 2005, driven by higher revenues from handset sales and 6.7% growth in
service revenues. Data revenues continued to show stronger growth, accounting
for 12.3% of service revenues in the fourth quarter of 2005.
Y-o-y revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2005 was affected by lower handset
sales (-7% in local currency), as well as by the impact in service revenues of
the 10% reduction in interconnection rates and the mandatory charge information
on voice mail service introduced by the regulator in April.
Despite the increase in commercial activity in the fourth quarter of 2005
compared to the third quarter of 2005, the higher revenues in the quarter have
reduced OIBDA losses to 28.5 million euros in the fourth quarter of 2005 (vs.
33.6 million euros in the third quarter of 2005) and stand at 159 million euros
in the full year 2005, in line with the level of 2004, in local currency terms.
By the end of December 2005, the coverage of Telefonica Moviles Mexico's GSM
network reached 90% of the urban population. CapEx in 2005, in local currency,
declined by 54% year-over-year, leading to a sharp reduction in negative
operating cash flow (-39% vs. 2004).
The auction of additional spectrum in the 1900 MHz band, which took place in
April, was recorded as investment in licenses in the amount of 45.2 million
euros
Andean Region
Venezuela
Commercial activity in the Venezuelan wireless market remained intense in the
fourth quarter of 2005, leading to solid growth and an estimated penetration
rate at the end of 2005 of 48%, 17 p.p. higher than in 2004.
Telefonica Moviles Venezuela's customer base reached 6.2 million in 2005 (+42.4%
vs. 2004), with net adds of 841 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2005 (doubling
the amount in the fourth quarter of 2004) and nearly 1.8 million new lines in
2005.
As for financial results, the strong growth in the customer base, coupled with
higher traffic and steady improvement in data revenues led to a 21.3% growth in
service revenues in the fourth quarter of 2005 vs. the third quarter of 2005 in
local currency, and a 22.1% increase in total revenues, which in the full year
2005 stood at 1,438 million euros.
We would point out the performance of OIBDA, which totaled 178 million euros in
the fourth quarter of 2005 (+14% vs. the third quarter of 2005 in local currency
terms) and 585 million euros in the full year. This led to a solid OIBDA margin
of 40.7% in 2005, despite the increase in commercial activity.
Finally, the Company's innovation in the Venezuelan market led to the commercial
launch of EV-DO services and of new mobile e-mail services. CapEx in 2005
reached 145.7 million euros.
Colombia
The Colombian wireless market showed the strongest growth in the region in 2005,
with an increase of almost 25 p.p. in the estimated penetration rate to 48% in
December 2005.
Following the commercial launch of its GSM service in the third quarter of 2005,
Telefonica Moviles Colombia accelerated again its rate of growth in commercial
activity, with net adds of over 862 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2005,
double the figure in the third quarter of 2005. At the end of 2005 its customer
base stood was over 6 million, an increase of 83.0% compared to 2004.
The success of the Christmas campaign, targeting GSM customer acquisition, led
to a high percentage of GSM gross adds (88% over total gross adds in the fourth
quarter of 2005). In just 5 months after its launch, the GSM customer base
surpassed 1.6 million (27% of the total customer base).
Regarding financial results, revenues totaled 750 million euros in 2005. The
growth in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2005 vs. the third quarter of 2005
in local currency was due to higher revenues from handset sales as a result of
stronger commercial activity in the fourth quarter of 2005 and to the positive
performance of service revenues (+7.3% vs. the third quarter of 2005).
Against a backdrop of high commercial activity, we would point out the positive
evolution in the OIBDA margin in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+0.4 p.p. vs. the
third quarter of 2005) due to control over commercial costs and growth in
revenues. The OIBDA margin in 2005 was 14.7%, but in the fourth quarter of 2005
reached 23.4%, leading to an OIBDA of 50 million euros in the fourth quarter of
2005 and of 110 million euros in full year 2005.
Total CapEx in the year was over 272 million euros, reflecting the rollout of
the GSM network, with coverage of 68% of the population as of December.
Peru
The Peruvian market saw tougher competition in the fourth quarter of 2005. In
this context, Telefonica Moviles Peru's customer base stood at 3.5 million at
the end of December (+20.4% vs. December 2004). Net adds recorded a sharp
increase in the fourth quarter of 2005 to 256 thousand (+82% vs. the third
quarter of 2005), reaching 585 thousand in full year 2005.
Regarding financial results, quarterly growth in revenues in local currency
remained solid (+13.2% vs. the third quarter of 2005), driven by the growth in
customers and outgoing traffic, which offset the impact of lower incoming
traffic and the 19% reduction in interconnection rates in the third quarter of
2005.
We would point out the solid performance of the OIBDA margin, which remained at
32% in the fourth quarter of 2005 despite the increased commercial activity.
OIBDA stood at 33 million euros in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+12% vs. the
third quarter of 2005 in local currency) and 118 million euros in 2005.
We would also highlight that Telefonica Moviles Peru began the deployment of its
GSM network in the fourth quarter of 2005, recording its first GSM gross add at
the beginning of February 2006.
Southern Cone Region
Argentina
The strong advance of the Argentine wireless market continued in the fourth
quarter of 2005, with the pace of growth accelerating throughout 2005 thanks to
the favorable macroeconomic situation in the country and an increasingly
competitive environment. The estimated penetration rate at the end of 2005 stood
at 55%, nearly 21 p.p. higher than at the end of 2004.
In this context, Telefonica Moviles Argentina's commercial efforts have been
positive, leading customer base to 8.34 million clients at the end of December.
GSM customers now represent 51% of the total. Net adds were over 940 thousand in
the fourth quarter of 2005.
Regarding financial results, we would highlight the solid growth of service
revenues in local currency (+11.1% in the fourth quarter of 2005 vs. the third
quarter of 2005), driven by the increase in the customer base (+12.7% vs. the
third quarter of 2005) and ARPU. Also worth highlighting is the increasing
contribution of data revenues, which in 2005 represented 15% of service revenues
(18% in the fourth quarter of 2005).
In line with the strong commercial activity in the quarter, which featured the
year's two most important campaigns (Mother's Day and Christmas), the OIBDA
margin declined vs. the third quarter of 2005. In 2005 the OIBDA margin stood at
15%.
As for the rollout of the GSM network, coverage at the end of the year stood at
95% of the population, with CapEx in 2005 totaling 132 million euros. In spite
of the strong investment effort, the operator posted positive operating cash
flow, with OIBDA for the full year totaling 151 million euros.
Chile
Despite the penetration levels at the beginning of the year, the Chilean
wireless market remained extremely buoyant in 2005, with an increase of 10 p.p.
in the estimated penetration rate to over 71%.
In this context, Telefonica Moviles Chile ended December with 5.28 million
customers, recording net adds in 2005 of 525 thousand. GSM customers now
represent 51% of the total.
With regard to financial results, revenues totaled 661 million euros in 2005 and
202 million euros in the fourth quarter of 2005 (+11.3% vs. the third quarter of
2005 in local currency), driven by a positive performance in service revenues
(+12.9% in the fourth quarter of 2005 vs. the third quarter of 2005). OIBDA
margin in 2005 reached 35.5% in 2005.
Total CapEx in 2005 was 177 million euros, boosted by the deployment of the GSM
network, with coverage of 96% of the population as of December.
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10 Organic growth includes the consolidation of Telefonica Movil Chile and Latin
American assets acquired from BellSouth in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela since 1 January 2004;
and assuming constant exchange rates. 11 Consolidated revenues before Rest and
intergroup eliminations
12 Organic growth includes the consolidation of Telefonica Movil Chile and Latin
American assets acquired from BellSouth in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela since 1 January 2004;
and assuming constant exchange rates.
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CELLULAR BUSINESS
SELECTED OPERATING DATA: CELLULAR CUSTOMERS
Unaudited figures (Thousands)
December December
2005 % Chg 05/04 2005 % Chg 05/04
Telefonica Moviles Espana 19,889.9 4.8% TEM Guatemala 1,040.7 38.7%
Contract 10,703.5 15.6% Contract 69.9 (12.6%)
Prepaid 9,186.4 (5.5%) Prepaid 864.4 53.8%
Medi Telecom 4,023.3 47.4% Fixed Wireless 106.3 (2.0%)
Contract 149.9 36.4% TEM Mexico 6,368.1 12.9%
Prepaid 3,873.4 47.8% Contract 319.9 6.1%
Brasilcel 29,804.6 12.3% Prepaid 6,047.7 13.3%
Contract 5,743.8 10.8% Fixed Wireless 0.6 n.c.
Prepaid 24,060.8 12.7% TEM Venezuela 6,160.3 42.4%
TEM Argentina 8,335.0 147.3% Contract 347.8 20.6%
Contract 3,119.2 151.5% Prepaid 5,203.7 47.1%
Prepaid 5,035.8 136.4% Fixed Wireless 608.8 21.9%
Fixed Wireless 179.9 n.c. TEM Ecuador 1,884.6 67.9%
TEM Peru 3,455.0 20.4% Contract 364.7 59.2%
Contract 579.5 16.5% Prepaid 1,517.5 70.4%
Prepaid 2,804.3 21.5% Fixed Wireless 2.4 (12.6%)
Fixed Wireless 71.1 10.2% TEM Panama 849.4 35.8%
TEM El Salvador 537.8 39.9% Contract 67.9 19.1%
Contract 79.0 1.5% Prepaid 781.5 37.5%
Prepaid 435.3 48.0% TEM Nicaragua 371.6 29.8%
Fixed Wireless 23.5 88.6% Contract 45.3 15.4%
TEM Chile 5,275.8 59.0% Prepaid 310.4 33.9%
Contract 891.7 84.3% Fixed Wireless 15.9 4.8%
Prepaid 4,384.1 54.7% TEM Uruguay 418.9 106.3%
TEM Colombia 6,033.0 83.0% Contract 62.4 16.8%
Contract 1,375.1 44.2% Prepaid 356.5 138.3%
Prepaid 4,657.9 98.8%
Total Managed 94,447.9 26.9%
Note: The comparison is affected by the incorporation of BellSouth's Latam mobile operators in Colombia, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela from November 2004 and Argentina and Chile from January 2005.
December 2005 figures include the adjustment of 300,000 inactive prepaid lines in Mexico not longer considered in the
reported customer base.
TELEFONICA MOVILES GROUP
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
Spain Revenues 8,834.2 8,213.8 7.6
OIBDA 4,127.9 4,158.2 (0.7)
OIBDA margin 46.7% 50.6% (3.9 p.p.)
Latin America Revenues 7,704.5 3,552.4 116.9
OIBDA 1,754.6 551.2 n.m.
OIBDA margin 22.8% 15.5% 7.3 p.p.
Brazil Revenues 1,889.3 1,502.3 25.8
OIBDA 496.5 491.0 1.1
OIBDA margin 26.3% 32.7% (6.4 p.p.)
Northern Region Revenues 1,263.6 912.3 38.5
OIBDA (1.2) (118.7) (99.0)
OIBDA margin -0.1% -13.0% 12.9 p.p.
Andean Region Revenues 2,837.4 607.7 n.c.
OIBDA 866.2 116.4 n.c.
OIBDA margin 30.5% 19.2% 11.4 p.p.
Southern Cone Revenues 1,714.2 530.1 n.c.
OIBDA 393.1 62.5 n.c.
OIBDA margin 22.9% 11.8% 11.1 p.p.
Rest and intragroup Revenues (25.3) (12.3) 105.1
OIBDA (65.5) (121.5) (46.1)
OIBDA margin n.m. n.m. n.m.
TOTAL Revenues 16,513.5 11,753.9 40.5
OIBDA 5,817.0 4,587.9 26.8
OIBDA margin 35.2% 39.0% (3.8 p.p.)
Note: The comparison is affected by the incorporation of TM Chile from August 2004, of BellSouth's Latam mobile
operators in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela from November 2004 and
Argentina and Chile from January 2005.
TELEFONICA MOVILES GROUP
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 16,513.5 11,753.9 40.5 4,463.5 3,458.7 29.1
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 123.6 89.5 38.1 37.8 40.7 (7.0)
Operating expenses (10,634.2) (7,178.9) 48.1 (2,848.9) (2,371.4) 20.1
Other net operating income (expense) (174.8) (15.5) n.m. (52.1) 25.6 c.s.
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 0.2 (57.2) c.s. 1.4 (49.6) c.s.
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (11.2) (3.9) 183.7 (11.2) (6.4) 74.6
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 5,817.0 4,587.9 26.8 1,590.5 1,097.6 44.9
Depreciation and amortization (2,374.0) (1,522.9) 55.9 (694.2) (467.9) 48.4
Operating income (OI) 3,443.0 3,064.9 12.3 896.3 629.7 42.3
Profit from associated companies (154.2) (38.1) n.m. (143.8) (6.9) n.m.
Net financial income (expense) (459.1) (481.9) (4.7) (158.9) (241.0) (34.1)
Income before taxes 2,829.7 2,544.9 11.2 593.6 381.8 55.5
Income taxes (946.0) (868.5) 8.9 (236.5) (126.5) 86.9
Income from continuing operations 1,883.7 1,676.4 12.4 357.1 255.2 39.9
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest 35.2 15.2 131.2 19.1 18.0 6.1
Net income 1,918.9 1,691.7 13.4 376.2 273.3 37.7
(1) Including work in process.
CELLULAR BUSINESS
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 16,513.5 11,961.4 38.1 4,463.5 3,457.1 29.1
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 123.6 90.7 36.3 37.8 40.7 (7.1)
Operating expenses (10,634.2) (7,335.8) 45.0 (2,848.9) (2,370.2) 20.2
Other net operating income (expense) (174.8) (17.5) n.m. (52.1) 25.6 c.s.
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 0.2 (57.2) c.s. 1.4 (49.6) c.s.
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (11.2) (3.9) 183.7 (11.2) (6.4) 74.6
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 5,817.0 4,637.6 25.4 1,590.5 1,097.1 45.0
Depreciation and amortization (2,374.0) (1,580.1) 50.2 (694.2) (471.8) 47.1
Operating income (OI) 3,443.0 3,057.5 12.6 896.3 625.3 43.3
Profit from associated companies (154.2) (39.5) n.m. (143.8) (7.1) n.m.
Net financial income (expense) (459.1) (496.1) (7.5) (158.9) (245.7) (35.3)
Income before taxes 2,829.7 2,521.9 12.2 593.6 372.4 59.4
Income taxes (946.0) (864.4) 9.4 (236.5) (124.3) 90.2
Income from continuing operations 1,883.7 1,657.4 13.6 357.1 248.1 43.9
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest 35.2 25.2 39.7 19.1 21.9 (12.6)
Net income 1,918.9 1,682.7 14.0 376.2 270.0 39.4
Note: Cellular Bussines included Telefonica Movil Chile in 2004.
(1) Including work in process.
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Cesky Telecom
Telefonica Group consolidates Cesky Telecom financial statements for the second
half of 2005, with a contribution of 1,035.2 million euros to Telefonica's
revenues for the financial year with OIBDA accounting for 456.7 million euros
and OI for 164.8 million euros, respectively.
Within the process to bring Cesky Telecom Group accounting practices and
financial statements reporting in line with Telefonica Group, in December the
following accounting adjustments, which fundamentally affected the Cesky Telecom
fixed telephony business, have taken place:
• Deferral of connection fees revenues over the average period of expected
economic life of the customers, i.e. expected lifetime of the fixed line
subscribed by the customer, for new and past subscriptions (since 1996).
These revenues were previously entirely recorded in the period corresponding
to the time of the line activation.
• Traffic revenues and expenses related to payments to premium content
providers for value added telephone services (known as 'color lines'), which
were previously recognized separately as revenues and expenses and which are
now accounted for as their net value in revenues.
The impact of these two adjustments on the annual results of Cesky Telecom gave
rise to an increase in revenues of 353 million Czech korunas and 606 million
Czech korunas in OIBDA, leading to a decrease in retained earnings of around
1,400 million Czech korunas. In order to give a true and fair view of this
business' evolution, all year-on-year variations (in local currency) will be
related to pro forma fiscal year 2004, adjusted by the two aforementioned
effects.
Cesky Telekom total revenues in 2005 amounted to 2,049 million euros, a 6.3%
increase year-on-year in euros and a 0.8% decrease in local currency. The growth
rate recorded in the fourth quarter alone was 1.0% in local currency, reflecting
the better performance of the mobile telephony business and the progress of
broadband within the Group's fixed telephony business.
In 2005, consolidated operating expenses showed a slight increase in local
currency of +0.2% increase year-on-year, mostly thanks to the cost discipline in
the fixed telephony business that partially offset the greater expenses recorded
in the mobile subsidiary.
Hence, the Group's operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA)
amounted to 916 million euros, showing a decrease of 0.3% increase year-on-year
(-6.9% in local currency). The drop in the company's OIBDA would have been
reduced to 2.6% in local currency if we had excluded the impairment charge
(non-recurrent) of 1,251 million korunas from OIBDA calculation. As a result,
the OIBDA margin amounted to 44.9% in 2005, compared with the 48.1% margin
obtained in 2004. If the 2005 OIBDA were adjusted by the aforementioned
non-recurrent expenses, the margin would have reached 47.0%.
Operating income (OI) increased by 11.0% year-on-year in local currency to reach
318 million euros as a result of lower amortization and depreciation charges
arising from lower investments in recent years and changes in the amortization
of goodwill and of certain intangible assets.
Total CapEx for Cesky Telecom Group amounted to 209.3 million euros, having
increased by 5.5% in local currency compared to the previous year, on the back
of higher investments in the growth areas of the business.
Operating free cash flow (OIBDA-CapEx) up to December 2005 stood at 706.7
million euros, showing a 9.9% year-on-year decrease in local currency as a
result of the drop in OIBDA and the rise in CapEx, as indicated above.
Fixed Line Business
Total revenues in the fixed line business totaled 1,083.5 million euros for the
year, a 4.5% drop in local currency year-on-year in a continuous shift from the
traditional telephony services to broadband internet access, data and other
value added services.
Revenues from traditional access fell by 3.7% year-on-year in local currency,
primarily due to the 7.2% decline in the number of fixed telephony lines, which
dropped to 3.1 million lines at year end 2005.
Total traffic generated by Cesky Telecom customers showed a 14.8% year-on-year
decline as a result of the loss of lines and the increase in competition
together with the ongoing fixed-to-mobile traffic substitution. Thus, revenues
from voice services fell by 19.5% year-on-year in local currency, whereas those
from interconnection traffic increased by 23.2%, mainly due to the extension of
international traffic services within the Central and Eastern Europe market
space. Revenues from traditional voice services therefore fell 5.2%
year-on-year.
Revenues from Internet and Broadband services registered a year-on-year decrease
of 3.1% in local currency due to the significant migration of customers from
narrowband to broadband Internet access. Hence, revenues from narrowband
Internet services fell by 44.9% in local currency whereas those from broadband
services increased by 84.9%.
The total number of Internet broadband accesses at December 2005 amounted to
274,000 (approx. 80% retail), leading to a net gain of 173,000 connections over
the year. Approximately two thirds of these were made during the second half of
the year.
Revenues from data services showed a 0.9% year-on-year decrease in local
currency due to the fact that the decrease in revenues from leased lines (-4.5%)
was not fully offset by the increase in revenues from virtual private networks
and IP connectivity solutions (+5.2%).
Operating expenses of the fixed line business fell by 4.6% year-on-year in local
currency, having declined by 6.0% year-on-year in local currency in the fourth
quarter alone. Supplies expenses increased by 2.4% in local currency, primarily
due to the increase in international interconnection expenses, whereas personnel
expenses, including headcount reduction costs, fell by 0.9%. External services
expenses recorded a 7.0% year-on-year decrease, with the 10.3% drop in network
operating and maintenance expenses being particularly noteworthy under this
item.
OIBDA in the fixed line business amounted to 477 million euros, an 8.9%
year-on-year drop in local currency to reach a 44.5% margin at year end, 2.8
percentage points down on that recorded at the end of 2004.
CapEx for the Cesky Telecom fixed line business in 2005 amounted to 77.5 million
euros, showing an 11.6% year-on-year decrease in local currency.
Mobile Business (Eurotel)
Eurotel's total revenues for 2005 increased by 2.0% year-on-year in local
currency to reach 1,008 million euros. The 4% growth in operating revenues
recorded in the fourth quarter alone reflected the strong positioning of Eurotel
in the Czech cellular market, recovering the first position in terms of the
number of customers by year end.
The total number of Eurotel customers increased by 6.4% year-on-year to reach
4.7 million by year end. The successful migration of prepaid customers to
postpaid tariffs led to a 46% increase in the number of contract customers who
at the end of the year amounted to 1.5 million, a 33% of the total customer base
in comparison with the 24% figure recorded in December 2004.
Revenues from voice services (monthly fees, customer and interconnection
traffic) increased over the year by 0.2% in local currency, mostly due to the
combined effect of the increase in revenues from monthly fees (+10.6%) as a
result of the aforementioned larger contract customer base and to the drop in
revenues from traffic (-3%), due to the greater number of contract customers
purchasing minute packages, which explains the 10% year-on-year increase in
traffic recorded in 2005.
As a result of the continuous increase in the number of customers with multiple
SIM cards and the decrease in ARPU generated by new customers, the average ARPU
recorded a 3.0% year-on-year decline in local currency, although 1.4% up on that
recorded over the first half of the year as a result of the successful
acquisition of contract customers.
The number of customers from the Eurotel Data Express service (CDMA-based
broadband internet access service) exceeded 70,000, leading to a net gain of
more than 40,000 customers over the year. This, together with the 14% increase
in the number of customers from the Eurotel Data Nonstop service (GPRS-based
internet access service), which stood at 67,000 in December 2005, led to
revenues from Internet and Data nearly doubling compared to the previous year.
Revenues from equipment sales dropped by 9.5% year-on-year in local currency due
to the increased number of clients to whom the Company offered lower rates in
exchange for permanency agreements over a certain period of time.
Eurotel's operating expenses increased by 4.8% over the year in local currency,
with a 6.9% year-on-year increase in the fourth quarter alone due to greater
commercial activity during that period.
Personnel expenses were the major contributor to the increase in the operating
expenses, growing by 27.2% year-on-year in local currency throughout the year as
a result of one-off items that were already recorded in the second quarter.
Eurotel's operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) totaled
431.6 million euros for the year, a 5.5% decrease in local currency with its
margin having dropped by 3.4 percentage points year-on-year to 42.8%.
CapEx for the mobile line business amounted to 131.5 million euros for the year,
a 19.0% year-on-year increase in local currency, primarily due to the
investments in the rollout of the UMTS network.
CESKY TELECOM
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
July - December October - December
2005 2005
Revenues 1,035.2 525.8
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 11.5 6.4
Operating expenses (566.6) (285.1)
Other net operating income (expense) 17.2 (7.6)
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 1.4 0.7
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (42.1) (36.3)
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 456.7 204.0
Depreciation and amortization (291.9) (149.2)
Operating income (OI) 164.8 54.8
Profit from associated companies 0.0 0.0
Net financial income (expense) (10.8) (6.1)
Income before taxes 154.0 48.7
Income taxes (36.0) (10.0)
Income from continuing operations 118.0 38.7
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0
Minority interest 0.0 0.0
Net income 118.0 38.7
(1) Including work in process.
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Other businesses
DIRECTORIES BUSINESS
TPI Group 2005 results include those of Telinver, the leader directory company
acquired in Argentina for a firm value of 74 million dollar, which consolidates
with Group figures from November 2005, and also, those coming from DA operation
in Italy, from the moment it started operations on October 1st 2005.
The performance of the business in Italy in its first three months showed a
satisfactory number of calls received, reflecting the successful advertising
campaign.
TPI Group revenues rose 9.7% to 651.6 million euros. OIBDA was 219.3 million
euros, showing an increase of 8.7% vs. 2004 Net income rose 10.3% to 126.93
million euros. These results are explained by:
• Advertising revenues increased 6.9% to 544.3 million euros.
• Strong performance of telephony traffic revenues, which grew 39.3% to 65.3
million euros, helped by the positive evolution of the business in Spain and
the traffic coming from Italy.
• Positive evolution of operator revenues, with a 6.3% increase to 39.9
million euros.
Europe13 decreased its contribution to group revenues by 2 percentage points to
79%. This is the result of the combined effect of the positive performance of
currency exchange rates in Latam, together with the acquisition of Telinver in
Argentina. Geographical contribution to Group OIBDA, remained unchanged, with
87% and 13% for Europe and Latam, respectively.
Revenues in Europe went up 6.1% to 515.1 million euros, which was driven by:
• Growth of 2.4% in advertising revenues to 421.3 million euros.
• Internet revenues reached 34.0 million euros with an increase of 20.1%,
while those related to telephone information service went up 14.6% to 4.8
million euros.
• The strong rise achieved by traffic revenues, which went up 39.3% to 64.8
million euros.
The rise in revenues, along with the good results obtained from the group's
cost-cutting, fed through to a 9.0% increase in the European OIBDA14 to 190.6
million euros. The OIBDA margin grew 1.0 percentage points to 37.0%.
Latin America performance, that contributes to 21% of revenues and 13% of OIBDA
was driven by:
• Publiguias total revenues fell 4.4% in local currency, (+4.2% in euros).
This is a result of both increased competition and the write-off of default
customers begun in January to improve bad debts.
• TPI Peru increased revenues by 6.8% in local currency to 33.9 million
euros, and contributes 7.6 million euros to total Group OIBDA.
• Advertising revenues coming from TPI Brazil grew 10.3% in local currency
to 17.2 million euros, and OIBDA improves 56.9% to -2.5 million euros.
• Telinver in Argentina contributed 17.45 million euros to Group revenues
and 5.2 million euros to OIBDA through November and December 2005. These
results cannot be extrapolated to the full year as directories published
along the year in Telinver have different margins. They also do not include
the new contract framework with TASA, which was applied from the beginning
of 2006.
With these results, the TPI Group outperformed the revenue guidance (+5.5%/6.5%)
and met the upper part of the range of the OIBDA guidance (7%/8%). At constant
exchange rates, Group revenues and OIBDA increased 7.8% both.
The Board of Directors will propose the Annual General Shareholders Meeting the
payment of a dividend of 40 cents of an euro per share, representing an increase
of 33.3% compared to 2004. This dividend amounts to 114% of the Group's net
income and to 123% of that of Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion, S.A. This
would give a dividend yield of 4.8%15.
In turn, the directories business of the Telefonica Group, which includes the
Argentinean company Telinver in the whole twelve months of both 2004 and 2005,
recorded 660.5 million euros in revenues, a 7.1% year-over-year increase. OIBDA,
on the other hand, improves in a 7.4% in the fiscal year, reaching 220.0 million
euros.
TPI - PAGINAS AMARILLAS GROUP
SELECTED OPERATING DATA IN EUROPE
Unaudited figures
January - December
2005 2004 % Chg
Books Published
Yellow Pages* 124 110
White Pages 58 60
(Euros in millions)
Revenue Breakdown (1) 515.1 485.3 6.1
Advertising 421.3 411.3 2.4
Publishing 378.5 374.6 1.1
Yellow Pages 296.0 296.3 (0.1)
White Pages 70.6 69.1 2.2
Others paper revenues 11.9 9.2 29.6
Internet 34.0 28.3 20.1
Operator Assisted Yellow Pages 4.8 4.2 14.6
Others 4.1 4.3 (4.9)
Telephony Traffic 64.8 46.6 39.3
Operator 26.0 24.9 4.4
Others 2.9 2.6 13.7
* Includes a breakdown by residential/business services and pocket guides.
(1) TPI Europa includes the results of the companies Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion S.A., TPI Edita, TPI Direct
and Edinet Europa, 11888 Servicio de Consulta Telefonica S.A.U., Servizio di Consultaziones Telefonica, S.R.L.
TPI - PAGINAS AMARILLAS GROUP
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 651.6 594.2 9.7 188.9 151.4 24.8
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 0.5 0.0 n.m. 0.5 0.0 n.m.
Operating expenses (405.5) (360.7) 12.4 (122.1) (98.9) 23.4
Other net operating income (expense) (26.2) (29.2) (10.4) (8.0) (8.9) (10.1)
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets (0.3) (0.4) (41.4) (0.0) (0.0) (33.3)
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (0.9) (2.1) (59.0) (1.4) 0.0 n.m.
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 219.3 201.8 8.7 57.8 43.5 32.9
Depreciation and amortization (23.6) (23.2) 1.4 (6.2) (7.5) (17.0)
Operating income (OI) 195.7 178.6 9.6 51.6 36.0 43.3
Profit from associated companies (0.0) (0.4) (87.7) 0.0 (0.1) c.s.
Net financial income (expense) (5.3) (2.0) 162.4 (2.0) (0.9) 116.1
Income before taxes 190.4 176.2 8.0 49.7 35.0 41.8
Income taxes (63.4) (61.7) 2.9 (17.6) (15.6) 13.2
Income from continuing operations 126.9 114.5 10.8 32.0 19.5 64.6
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest 0.0 0.5 n.m. 0.0 (0.0) n.m.
Net income 126.9 115.1 10.3 32.0 19.5 64.6
(1) Including work in process.
DIRECTORIES BUSINESS
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 660.5 616.4 7.1 190.1 166.5 14.2
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 0.5 0.0 n.m. 0.5 0.0 n.m.
Operating expenses (413.4) (375.4) 10.1 (123.2) (108.8) 13.2
Other net operating income (expense) (26.4) (33.7) (21.7) (8.0) (11.7) (31.3)
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets (0.3) (0.4) (41.4) (0.0) (0.0) (33.3)
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (0.9) (2.1) (59.0) (1.4) 0.0 n.m.
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 220.0 204.8 7.4 57.9 46.0 25.9
Depreciation and amortization (24.0) (23.8) 0.8 (6.3) (7.5) (16.4)
Operating income (OI) 196.0 181.0 8.3 51.7 38.5 34.1
Profit from associated companies (0.0) (0.4) (87.7) 0.0 (0.1) c.s.
Net financial income (expense) (6.7) (5.7) 17.8 (2.0) (1.7) 17.9
Income before taxes 189.3 175.0 8.2 49.7 36.7 35.2
Income taxes (63.4) (60.2) 5.5 (17.6) (14.1) 25.2
Income from continuing operations 125.8 114.8 9.6 32.0 22.7 41.3
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest 0.0 0.5 n.m. (0.0) (0.1) (66.1)
Net income 125.8 115.3 9.1 32.0 22.6 41.6
(1) Including work in process.
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13 Europe includes TPI, S.A., TPI Edita, TPI Direct, Edinet Europa, 11888 SCT
and 1288 SCT.
14 Adjusted OIBDA does not include impairment of financial assets for its
subsidiaries nor the results obtained by their capital operations.
15 Taking the price at the close of trading on February 20th 2006 of 8.33 euros
per share.
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RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Other businesses
ATENTO GROUP
2005 was a year of strong growth in some of the Atento Group's business lines,
with an increase in the net income. The following customers contributed the most
to this increase, over the financial year as a whole:
• In Brazil, the increase in sales with Vivo, Sera, Speedy, Atento ao
Cliente, the start of operations with Banco IBI and growth of customers in
the financial sector (UBB, Bradesco, Redecard, Losango).
• In Spain, the services with Gas Natural, and the increase in the activity
with Telefonica.
• In Mexico, the growth in business with BBVA and US Airways.
• In Chile, the increase in business with Telefonica CTC, Movistar, VTR and
Interamericana.
• In Argentina, with the start of operations with Movistar.
• In Puerto Rico, growth with SunCom.
• In Venezuela, increase in sales with CANTV and Movistar.
Operating revenues grew by 41.2% year-on-year, to stand at 856.5 million euros.
In this year, all Atento operations have increased sales, except for Atento
Morocco. It is important to highlight Atento Brazil, with a 52.7% growth in
revenues over 2005. Its sales in euros make it the group's largest operation,
with a weight of 35.5% over total Atento Group revenues. Sales in Spain
represent 34.2% of the total, having grown by 22.2% compared with 2004. Revenues
in other countries, such as Argentina, Central America, Colombia, Mexico and
Venezuela have grown by more than 50%.
Customers outside the Telefonica Group have once again increased their
contribution to Atento total revenues, to stand at 44.8%, up 0.7 percentage
points more than a year ago. By 2005 end, the Atento Group was the service
provider to more than 400 companies, and had continued to diversify and
specialize in the financial, telecommunications, mass market, energy, transport
and tourism sectors, and government bodies.
Operating costs grew by 42.0% year on year, to stand at 741.5 million euros.
Personnel expenses had the greatest impact on this increase (+44%), as a result
of the year's increased activity.
The Atento Group OIBDA for 2005 rose to 116.4 million euros, a 36.7% increase on
the 85.1 million euros for 2004. The downward pressure on pricing throughout the
2005 financial year resulted in a general reduction in operating margins in the
sector, which Atento was able to face up to thanks to better optimization of
costs and to the increase in the scale, placing the OIBDA margin at 13.6%, just
0.4 percentage points lower than 2004.
Operating income amounted to 88.5 million euros, up 72.1% year on year,
supported by the downward trend in depreciation, as a result of the degree of
maturity achieved in operations.
Atento Group net income was again positive, for the second year in a row,
standing at 48.2 million euros, 15.9 million more than last year.
At operating level, Atento Group had 39,705 positions in place as of 31st
December 2005, up 29.9% on 2004. The average number of occupied positions for
the 2004 financial year was 30,247. This was a significant improvement on the
level of occupation achieved in 2004 (80% vs. 75% in 2004).
CapEx in the 2005 financial year reached 42.9 million euros, compared with 22.8
million euros in 2004, and the operating free cash flow grew by 17.7%, to 73.4
million euros.
ATENTO GROUP
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 856.5 606.5 41.2 247.9 174.3 42.2
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Operating expenses (741.5) (522.3) 42.0 (213.6) (150.4) 42.0
Other net operating income (expense) 1.4 1.1 23.6 (0.6) 0.3 c.s.
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 0.0 (0.3) c.s. 0.0 0.1 (73.1)
Impairment of goodwill and other assets 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 116.4 85.1 36.7 33.8 24.3 38.8
Depreciation and amortization (27.9) (33.7) (17.3) (7.2) (7.6) (5.0)
Operating income (OI) 88.5 51.4 72.1 26.6 16.8 58.5
Profit from associated companies 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Net financial income (expense) (20.2) (10.5) 93.0 (7.1) (4.3) 65.9
Income before taxes 68.2 40.9 66.7 19.5 12.5 55.9
Income taxes (16.6) (6.8) 143.5 (1.8) (4.5) (60.1)
Income from continuing operations 51.6 34.1 51.3 17.7 8.0 120.2
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 (0.1) n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest (3.4) (1.7) 99.4 (1.1) (0.6) 92.0
Net income 48.2 32.3 49.3 16.6 7.5 122.3
(1) Including work in process.
RESULTS BY BUSINESS LINES
Other businesses
CONTENT AND MEDIA BUSINESS
The Contents and Media business ended the last quarter of 2005 with revenues of
1,269.1 million euros, 4.1% higher of the figure reached in the same period of
the previous year. This increase was basically due to the better performance of
Endemol and the ATCO Group in this fourth quarter, fully offsetting the lower
revenues from changes to the consolidation perimeter.
The consolidated operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA)
over the year amounted to 269.2 million euros, compared with the 185.0 million
euros obtained over 2004. This represents a 45.5% year-on-year growth, primarily
thanks to the positive progress of the results from all business lines, revenues
obtained from the floating of 25% of Endemol, N.V. on the stock exchange and the
sale of the radio business in ATCO.
Endemol NV
The company, floated on the Amsterdam exchange, recorded a 5.8% growth in
revenues to total 900.1 million euros. Revenues from acquisitions amounted to
10.5 million euros of this figure and the remainder growth is organic.
The growth in revenues was reflected in all countries in which Endemol NV
operates, with a particularly significant performance on the Spanish and British
markets and Rest of the World (ROW), contributing towards the greater
diversification of the Group's revenues and a greater relative weight of
revenues from formats other than non-scripted (scripted and digital) that
accounted for 23.3% of the total compared with the 21.4% represented in 2004.
The reported EBITDA of Endemol NV stood at 152.8 million euros, a 15.4% increase
on the previous year and leading to a 17% margin, 1.4 percentage points up on
2004. The positive operational progress of the Company is explained by the
growth in its revenues and the good performance of production costs in the US
following the syndication of the four series of Fear Factor, offset by the lower
operational profitability of some markets in the rest of the world in which the
Company has most grown proportionally.
ATCO
The advertising market in Argentina (Capital and Gran Buenos Aires regions) grew
by 21% over the year with respect to the previous year. This growth can be
compared with the 39% recorded in 2004, which reflected the market recovery
recorded over that year.
In this favorable market context, Telefe reaffirmed its position as leader,
obtaining 37.9% of the total audience by 2005 year end - very similar to the
figure recorded over the previous year - followed by Canal 13, its main
competitor, with an average share of 24.9%. The market share accumulated by
Telefe by the end of 2005 stood at 41.2%, 3.7 percentage points lower than in
2004, once again, followed by Canal 13 with 32.1%.
Thus, ATCO recorded an improvement in its financial results in comparison with
the previous year thanks to the growth in the Capital and Gran Buenos Aires
advertising markets over the year, the good results regarding total audience
obtained by Telefe that enabled it to increase its revenues and to the profits
obtained from the sale of Radio Continental and Radio Estereo.
CONTENT AND MEDIA BUSINESS
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
Unaudited figures (Euros in millions)
January - December October - December
2005 2004 % Chg 2005 2004 % Chg
Revenues 1,269.1 1,219.1 4.1 390.3 387.2 0.8
Internal expenditure capitalized in fixed assets (1) 0.0 0.2 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Operating expenses (1,052.2) (1,049.1) 0.3 (324.8) (344.0) (5.6)
Other net operating income (expense) 5.7 10.5 (45.7) (2.7) 11.6 c.s.
Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 47.5 6.9 n.m. 40.0 1.9 n.m.
Impairment of goodwill and other assets (0.8) (2.6) (69.0) (0.7) (0.1) n.m.
Operating income before D&A (OIBDA) 269.2 185.0 45.5 102.1 56.6 80.2
Depreciation and amortization (28.9) (28.9) 0.1 (8.4) (9.3) (9.6)
Operating income (OI) 240.3 156.2 53.9 93.7 47.3 97.8
Profit from associated companies (6.4) (34.2) (81.2) (1.3) (10.8) (87.6)
Net financial income (expense) (96.7) (121.6) (20.5) (93.0) (96.7) (3.9)
Income before taxes 137.2 0.4 n.m. (0.6) (60.2) (99.0)
Income taxes (49.2) (35.9) 37.0 (2.9) 20.4 c.s.
Income from continuing operations 88.0 (35.6) n.m. (3.5) (39.8) (91.2)
Income (Loss) from discontinued operations 0.0 0.0 n.m. 0.0 0.0 n.m.
Minority interest (9.1) (5.0) 82.8 (4.9) (1.6) 197.3
Net income 78.8 (40.6) c.s. (8.4) (41.5) (79.8)
(1) Including work in process.
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