Result of Meetings
Telefonica SA
6 October 2000
THIS COMMUNICATION 1S NOT INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES
JOSE MARIA PALLETE LOPEZ
Corporate General Manager of Finance and Control
TELEFONICA, S.A.
TELEFONICA, S.A., in accordance with that stated in article 82 of the Spanish
Stock Market Law and that set forth in the Circular Letter 14/1998 of December
28th, hereby informs the Spanish Securities Commission of the following:
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Due to the floating of Telefonica Moviles, on October 2nd and 3rd 2000, meetings
have been held in Madrid with analysts from the banks that form part of the
syndicate. The most important aspects of the content of these meetings are
outlined below:
Details on the operation: Telefonica Moviles intends to launch a Public
Tender Offer as soon as possible, and before the close of 2000. As yet neither
the tranche of the offer nor the valuation of the company has taken place;
nevertheless the amount of the placement will adhere to the minimum amount
needed to cover the financing of the commitments recently undertaken. To date,
the Company has not yet decided on the size of the transaction, BBVA,
Invercaixa, CSFB, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are the operation's global co
ordinators.
Purpose of funds: Telefonica Moviles has stated that it foresees that the funds
derived from the tender offer will be used to address the German UMTS licence,
the possible participation in the Italian UMTS, and the enhancing of the
expansion of its businesses through acquisitions or the purchasing of new
licences.
Composition of Telefonica Moviles Group: the operators that will initially
form part of the Telefonica Moviles Group are Telefonica Moviles Espana Group 3G
(the Consortium that was awarded the UMTS licence in Germany); TeleSudeste
Celular Participacoes, Celular CRT and TeleLeste Celular Participacoes, that
operate in Brazil; Telefonica Moviles El Salvador; Telefonica, Centroamerica de
Guatemala; and Medi Telecom, responsible for the provision of cellular telephony
in Morocco. Likewise, and subsequent to the close of the aforementioned Tender
Offer, it is foreseen that Telefonica S.A. will transfer its cellular telephony
businesses Telefonica de Argentina and Telefonica del Peru to Telefonica Moviles
and therefore the financial statements corresponding to these two companies will
be included in the offer in pro forma format. The terms of this transfer will be
set prior to the launching of the Public Tender Offer. Telefonica Moviles will
also be the beneficiary of the convertible notes issued by the Puerto Rican
operator NewComm Wireless Services and currently held by Telefonica
Internacional.
At the same time, other horizontal businesses will also form part of the
Telefonica Moviles Group such as Terra Mobile - a joint venture with Terra
Networks and the company responsible for the development of the Telefonica
Group's global mobile portal, MovilPago, which will offer a new form of payment
using mobile handsets; and m-Solutions, a wholly-owned Telefonica Moviles
subsidiary, responsible for the implementing of the necessary mechanisms to take
maximum advantage of the Group's synergies and to offer engineering services and
corporate solutions to the Group's operators and third parties.
Should new acquisitions or licences be purchased, the Group's composition may
vary at the time of its floating.
The economic participation held by Telefonica Moviles in each of these companies
varies in each case, although all the companies are managed by Telefonica
Moviles.
At the end of June, the aforementioned companies within the Telefonica Moviles
Group had a total of 18.2 million customers in Europe, Latin America and the
Mediterranean basin and provided services over a geographic area with more than
271 million inhabitants.
- European expansion: Telefonica Moviles underlined that one of the basic
strategies that makes up its outlook for the future is that of broadening its
horizons within the European market. With this in mind, the Company intends to
participate or analyse the possibility of its participation in the bidding
processes for UMTS licences in several European countries, with their priority
being those that are shortly to be awarded in Italy - foreseen for mid-November
- and France - foreseen for mid-June 2001. The strategy to be applied
by Telefonica Moviles includes the formation of consortia with other
large companies with significant European presence.
- Entrance in the Mexican market: The Company stated that it has signed
a memorandum of understanding with Motorola aimed at the acquisition of the
latter's cellular telephony subsidiaries in Mexico, subject to the satisfactory
outcome of the due diligence process. Telefonica Moviles will shortly announce
the details of this operation, once it has been finalised and registered. Within
the framework of this agreement, the possibility also exists that the interests
that Motorola holds in Brazil, Israel, the Dominican Republic, Honduras and
Lithuania could be included, although this is be no means definite.
- Expansion in other geographic areas as part of its growth strategy,
Telefonica Moviles continuously analyses new investment opportunities and
development in different geographic areas, placing particular importance on the
consolidation and development of those areas in which it is already present
(Europe and Latin America), and selecting particular projects within the
Mediterranean basin.
- Telefonica Moviles de Espana's customers: at the end of September,
Telefonica Moviles de Espana's customer base stood at around 12.8 million,
reflecting significant growth compared with the same period of 1999.
- Capital structure: within the framework of the Telefonica Moviles
Group's creation, and in order to create a liability structure in line with the
Group's credit rating, a dividend settlement has been made with its sole
holder Telefonica, SA. resulting in a payment of Ptas 133,109 million.
'Telefonica, S.A.' is, as always, at the entire disposal of the
Spanish Securities Commission to provide it with any further information it
should need.
Madrid, October 5th, 2000
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of
an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction
in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction