2. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
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4. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Three Years in Few: Accelerating Growth and Profitability
Customer Base Expansion Revenues growth
Mln Lines R$ Bln
3x +18%
13.1
Net Adds +5% Fastest
9.9 0% growing
Revenues Company
4.7 Growth YoY
64.1 17.1
51.0 13.7 14.5
41.1
Customer Total
+56% +25%
Base Revenues
2009 2010 2011 2009 2010 2011
Market share EBITDA , EBIT , EBITDA-CAPEX
% lines R$ Bln
34% 33% Leading 4x
Incremental growth for
2,1
market 20% the 2nd year 1.2
share 1.64
26.5% EBIT 0.5
1.36
Market 25.1% 0.82
Back to #2
share EBITDA-CAPEX
23.6% 2x
2009 2010 2011
2009 2010 2011
EBITDA 3.5 4.2 4.6
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5. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Two Markets, One approach: Simplicity
“Voice is Good” “Internet for All”
Total Voice Traffic Volume Example: Infinity Web
Billion Minutes
Push on Daily Internet unique
>15mln unique users per
FMS users - Pre paid (Mln) month (Pre+Post)
2x 86.7
9x 2.7
62.5
38.1
0.3
2009 2010 2011 Aug 10 Dec 11
“Ride the
Voice Revenues Simplicity” Data Revenues
Voice Outgoing Revenues Data Revenues +49% data
R$ Billion R$ Billion growth in Q4
+34% 13.4 +67% 3.2
11.3 2.2
10.0 1.9
2009 2010 2011 2009 2010 2011
Leading the Voice Market with just 2 concepts: Infinity and Liberty (voice and internet)
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8. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Continuous Reshaping of the Brazilian TLC Market
Market Transformation
R$ Billion 106 115 126 134 Pure Mobile Advantage
55 53
Fixed
59 60
(43%) (40%) Mobile over Fixed” :
(56%) (52%) towards 60/40 split
Force Fixed-Mobile
71 81 substitution (voice)
47 55 (60%)
Mobile (57%)
(44%) (48%) Mobile Internet
competitive vs <2 Mbps
2009 2011 2014 2016
wireline BB accesses
96
82 Capital Allocation
Fixed 51 29
Voice is Good 2G Capacity
(Push the FMS) Mobile 45 53
Intelig Acquisition
2009 2016
52
24 3G Coverage
Internet for All TIM Fiber Acquisition
Fixed 10 28 (AES Atimus)
Mobile 2 8
2009 2016 7
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Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Limited BB capabilities from incumbents create 3 opportunities
for TIM
% of fixed accesses
1. FMS Voice
Price per minute Fixed
100%
Mobile
~70%
30%
80% 24%~
~6%
20%
Total wireline Voice only BB <2Mbps >2Mbps
market accesses nominal speed nominal speed
2. FMS Data 3. TIM Fiber
Mln clients 13,2
Selective attack of the Adsl
TIM monthly 6,7
incumbents via Naked VDSL ultra BB
unique users
(Pre-paid) powered by the 5.500km Optical Fiber
Dic/10 Dic/11 in RJ/SP
Smartphone
penetration 10% 27%
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10. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Internet Booming (“Internet for All”)
A large potential market With high willingness to use/to buy Huge frustration from fixed lines
Mln of Brazilian Internet Users 195 Brazilian Households Mln Subscribers
Exposed to 15.5
% of Households that Don’t Have
Fresh Best fit to Broadband C+D FMS even
Market 100% Mobile
on Data
117
80%
Existing 80%
Fix C+D
Market
60%
24 40%
Mobile C+D
Broadband
54 A+B 20%
20% Concentrated
in main cities
(RJ+SP) BroadBand Narrowband Total
Posses Use but Not use Total
own
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% (>2 Mbps) (< 2Mbps) Wireline
not (up to Users
access % of Households that Have Intention To Buy Accesses
posses now)
AES Atimus acquisition allows TIM to offer a “Internet for All” experience:
… the Ultimate Mobile Data … Ultra BB experience for
…Internet Café Substitution
Experience (powered by Residential and Corporate
to target Class C Potential
FTTS) (Fixed)
Liberty Web Infinity Web TIM Fiber
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11. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
The New Integrate Network Approach
(“Leveraging AES Atimus Fiber Optic based”)
Fiber To The Site/Antenna (3G+ Evolution) MBB Overlay
3 Carriers per antenna
Fiber to the Site in top 42 Cities (high 3 sub-carriers of 21 MB
each*
capacity) Total Available = 360MB
3 Carriers per antenna (spectrum
optimization)
Upgrade to 21 Mbps (HSPA+) of existing
Node-B
Liberty Web SIM Based
Identification/Billing
Single SIM to identify
Copper or
and bill
Fiber
Drop
WiFi Underlay
Wi-Fi offload (e.g. Rocinha) 300 Mb 100MB 200
ports
10 thousand hot spots semi public 50 Mb
Rocinha example and 5 main airports
Roadmap to extend over 10,000 hot
spots by YE 2012 and 25,000 by ‘14 <R$500/Household
Infinity Web
High Capillarity of the aerial fiber based
network (~250 meters to the Home)
Flexibility: fast drop at the building
Use of existing internal network
TIM Fiber
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12. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
WiFi Off-load supporting the “Internet for All” - Rocinha results
Option 1: Add One Additional Base Station Option 2: Cover With WiFi
One additional BTS 25 Access points
Throughout : 201 Mbps Average distance:
200m
TIM BTS TIM BTS Throughput: 5Ghz
Performances: 5,000
TIM BTS simultaneous
TIM BTS
connections
TIM BTS 1-2 Mbps per user
Capex Results Achieved
R$ and R$ per MBps
~ 1’500 Mbps
~ 300 K ‐54% Reduced capex
Reduced time to market
Reduced operating costs
7X Increased customer experience/speed
~ 137 K
Executed Internet for All – LAN Houses
already reduced by 25%
~ 200 Mbps
Gained company brand image with local
and federal government
Alternative 1: BTS Alternative 2: WiFi Alternative 1: Alternative 2:
BTS WiFi
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14. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
2012-14 Drivers of Growth CAGR ‘11 – ’14
3 Ways of Growth Revenue Growth
R$ Billion
Double
17.1 Digit %
Total 13.8 14.5
Revenue
13.6
15.3 Fixed
12.8
0.7 0.8
0.6
Services
Revenues 12.2 12.9 14.5 Mobile
90 25% VAS
200 mou
mln lines Incidence
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Community Expansion FMS (Voice) Internet for All
Mobile Customer Base FMS – Voice (MOU) Internet for All (Mobile Data)
Million of lines Minute of usage per line Data as % of Service Revenue
~200 ~25%
90
129 14%
116
64 11% 12%
83
51 Double Double
41 Digit % Digit % Double
Outgoing Voice Revenues Digit %
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
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Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Network Continuous Evolution
Network roadmap 2G (TRX Installed) 3G roll out
000 TRX Pop %
2G Managing the growth 253 >80%
157
64%
Speed up the roll-out in
3G
HSPA mode
2011 2014 2011 2014
WiFi >10,000 hot spots by YE2012
FTTS Backbone
FTTS Deployment in Top 42 cities % of total traffic 000 km
49.0
50%
24.0
FTTH ~1 Mln households by 2015 42 Cities
14 Cities
25.0
Efficiency ~50,000 km in fiber optic 2011 Swap + 2014
2012 2014 built out
2G (TRX Installed) TIM Fiber – non capital intensive
Metropolitan Street Internal
Installation Modem
Tim Fiber: a “no Capex intensive” network equipment network
approach to offer Residential Ultra BB Aerial
~500 ~2,400
in SP/RJ network
Underground
~1,700
+ ~250 + ~125 + ~200 + ~125 = ~500
network
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16. Telecom Italia Conference Call
Full‐Year 2011 Preliminary Results and 2012‐14 Plan Outline
Take-aways on main TIM Brasil trends
Revenues (New vs Old Plan)
Bln R$
New
MTR glide path (-20% real term) as of feb’12
Old impacts approx. 250 bp in Revenues and EBITDA
17.1 Growth resulting from further CB, voice MOU and
Revenues internet browsing
14.5 For 2012, revenues growth at >10% YoY (vs.
15.5
14.5 R$17.1Bn in 2011)
1yr in advance
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Network sinergies from AES Integration
Continuous efficiency in Go2Market (no subsidy,
SAC/bad debt)
Organic CAPEX (as % of Sales) Ebitda Absorbing MTR cut and TIM Fiber start-up
Bln R$ For 2012, Ebitda growth at >10% YoY (vs.
19.6 R$4.6Bn in 2011)
% of 17.5
Revenues ˜14%
3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Expanding 2G capacity and 3G coverage
2.8 Accelerate FTTS in Top 42 Cities and Wi-fi
CAPEX
offloading
Capex Tim Fiber start-up
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
CAPEX flat at 3 bn/year; R$9bn in 3 Years
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