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Orange Polska S.A.

Earnings Release Oct 28, 2020

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Current Report (26/2020) Orange Polska S.A., Warsaw, Poland 28 October, 2020

Pursuant to Article 17(1) of the Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC, the Management Board of Orange Polska S.A. hereby provides selected financial and operating data related to the activities of the Orange Polska Capital Group ("the Group", "Orange Polska") for 3Q and 9M 2020.

Disclosures on performance measures, including information on data restatements for the year 2019 in connection with changes in accounting policies, have been presented in the Notes 2 and 3 to Condensed IFRS Quarterly Consolidated Financial Statements of the Orange Polska Group for the 3 months ended 30 September 2020 (available at http://orange-ir.pl/results-center/results/2020).

key figures
(PLN million)
3Q 2020 3Q 2019**
restated
Change 9M 2020** 9M 2019**
restated
Change
Revenue 2,793 2,870 -2.7% 8,425 8,407 +0.2%
EBITDAaL* 742 739 +0.4% 2,143 2,036 +5.3%
EBITDAaL margin* 26.6% 25.7% +0.9 p.p. 25.4% 24.2% +1.2 p.p.
operating income 150 378 -60.3% 347 591 -41.3%
net income 53 222 -76.1% 67 269 -75.1%
eCapex* 387 58 +567% 1,206 1,006 +19.9%
organic cash flow 58 419 -361 418 403 +15

In 3Q 2020 Orange Polska reports strong commercial performance and solid financial results. Full-year EBITDAaL growth guidance maintained

* From 2020 we have revised definitions of capex and EBITDAaL alternative performance measures. Capex is now presented net of the accrued proceeds from asset disposals and is named economic capex (eCapex). Consequently, EBITDAaL excludes gains on asset disposals. This change reflects better transformation of Orange Polska fixed asset base which has been rapidly evolving over the past few years and will do so in the future. We invest in assets essential for our future value creation (fibre and mobile network) and dispose assets no longer necessary for our core operations. Economic benefits of this transformation have been shifted from EBITDAaL to Capex. ** In 2Q 2020 data for 2019 and 1Q 2020 have been retrospectively restated for the additional impact of the IFRS16 scope as described in the Financial Statements in Note 3

KPI ('000) 3Q 2020 3Q 2019 Change
convergent customers (B2C) 1,441 1,331 +8.3%
mobile accesses (SIM cards) 15,669 15,140 +3.5%
post-paid 10,749 10,128 +6.1%
pre-paid 4,920 5,012 -1.8%
fixed broadband accesses (retail) 2,662 2,589 +2.8%
o/w fibre 662 473 +40.0%
fixed voice lines (retail) 2,941 3,186 -7.7%

3Q 2020 Highlights:

  • EBITDAaL (EBITDA after Leases) flat year-on-year reflecting:
    • strong performance of core telecom services,
    • negative impact of the pandemic (lower roaming and IT/IS revenues, additional risk provisions)
    • ongoing cost optimisation (indirect costs down 5% year-on-year)
  • Full-year 2020 EBITDAaL growth guidance maintained

▪ Revenues down 2.7% year-on-year reflecting:

  • revenues from core telecom services (convergence, mono mobile and mono broadband) up 2.3% yoy reflecting positive impact of value strategy and negative impact from roaming
  • 17% yoy decrease of IT/IS as a result of market slowdown (due to the pandemic) and higher comparable base
  • 7% yoy growth of mobile wholesale resulting from surge in traffic related to pandemic
  • equipment revenues down 9% yoy as demand for smartphones has not fully recovered

▪ Very strong commercial performance in fibre and mobile services:

  • +8% year-on-year growth of B2C convergent customers, +31k net adds in 3Q ▪ Convergence ARPO +2.0% year-on-year
  • +3% year-on-year growth of total fixed broadband customers, +24k net adds in 3Q
    • FBB mono ARPO +6.3% year-on-year
  • +40% year-on-year growth of fibre customers, +54k net adds in 3Q (the highest quarterly result ever)
  • +4% year-on-year growth of post-paid mobile handset customers, +110k net adds in 3Q
  • eCapex (economic capex) at PLN 387 million, in line with full-year plans
  • 4.8 million households connectable with fibre at the end of September (191k added in 3Q)
  • Organic Cash Flow at PLN 58 million reflects good outcome on working capital, some slowdown of investments and much lower yoy proceeds from sale of assets

Commenting on 3Q 2020 performance, Julien Ducarroz, Chief Executive Officer, said:

"Our commercial results in the third quarter were particularly strong both in fixed and mobile postpaid. Customer net additions in fixed broadband were the highest in almost two years driven by robust performance in fibre. Fibre net additions at 54,000 were by far the highest in any quarter so far. This is a consequence of strong customer demand but also our improved selling skills and investment process. Fibre already accounts for a quarter of our total broadband customer base. We are convinced that there is much more room for fibre in Poland and we are considering a different model for its further deployment through our FiberCo project. Our net customer additions in post-paid handset mobile offers at 110,000 were the highest in many quarters which combined strong performance in both consumer and business markets fuelled by both good customer demand and low churn.

I am even more pleased that our strong customer volumes are accompanied by good ARPO trend in different services even if in mobile it was affected by much lower roaming revenues, due to the pandemic. In this context it is important to note that Orange continues to be the most recommended operator on the Polish market: we maintained number one position in NPS (Net Promoter Score) in the third quarter. In addition the quality of our mobile network has been confirmed by our first position in the September speedtest.pl ranking. All this indicates that our 'more-for-more' value strategy is working and is being well received by our customers.

Over the past few years Orange Polska has made an enormous effort to deliver turnaround and return to growth. I am happy to take the lead in this exciting journey and I am very determined to sustain these positive trends. At the same time we remain cautious for the future due to the potential economic impact of the prolonged pandemic. Update of our strategy is under preparation and we are looking forward to announce it in 2Q of next year."

Financial Review

Revenue decline reflects slowdown in IT/IS while good performance of core telecom services was maintained

Revenues totalled PLN 2,793 million in 3Q 2020 and were down 2.7% year-on-year or PLN 77 million. There were four main factors influencing this revenue trend.

Firstly, combined revenues of our core telecom services: convergence, mobile-only and fixedbroadband were up 2.3% year-on-year. This performance was mainly driven by continued growth in convergence ARPO (up 2.0% year-on-year) and turnaround in fixed broadband only ARPO (up 6.3% year-on-year), an outcome of our 'more for more' strategy. Trend in mobile only service revenue reflected further improvement in the underlying trend (driven by growing customer base and our value strategy) but also, similarly to the previous quarter, 50% year-on-year drop in roaming revenues as a consequence of the pandemic.

Secondly, IT and integration services, after many quarters of consecutive growth recorded 17% year-on-year revenue decrease. That resulted from market slowdown related to the pandemic and different phasing of sales between the two years.

Thirdly, mobile wholesale revenues were up 7% year-on-year reflecting higher voice traffic as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourthly, revenues from equipment sales were down 9% yearon-year due to high comparable base of last year and gradual return of customer demand as a result of the pandemic.

Strong commercial performance in fixed broadband and mobile services

Our commercial activity is mainly focused on delivering a package of mobile and fixed services, which we define as convergence. It is our competitive edge, it increases customer loyalty and allows us to upsell more services, winning a higher share of household media and telecom budgets.

In 3Q 2020 our B2C convergent customer base increased by 31,000 which was the highest gain since 4Q 2019. Total convergence customer base reached 1,441,000 and grew 8.3% year-on-year. At the end of September, 64% of our B2C broadband customers were convergent versus 61% a year ago. ARPO from convergent customers continued to grow and was up 2.0% year-on-year increasing to PLN 105.5. This was largely due to our value strategy, increasing share of fibre and TV services, and upsell of additional services.

Total fixed broadband customer base increased in 3Q 2020 by 24,000 and 2.8% year-on-year. It was the highest quarterly increase in almost 2 years. This performance was driven by strong growth of fibre customer base which expanded 40% year-on-year, adding 54,000 in 3Q (by far the highest ever quarterly result). Fibre already reached 25% of our total broadband customer base. The copper broadband customer base continued to decrease and was lower by 41,000 versus previous quarter. The ARPO from broadband-only services continued to grow and was up as much as 6.3% yearon-year and 1.2% quarter-on-quarter. The key contributors of this strong performance were last year's price increases and growing share of fibre customers. Fibre customers generate the highest ARPO which is mainly fuelled by high share of TV services and increasing share of customers in single family houses (who pay higher price to cover higher network rollout cost).

Total mobile post-paid customer base increased by 245,000 in 3Q 2020, or by 6.1% year-on-year. In handset offers, net customer additions were 110,000, which was the highest growth in many quarters. This resulted both from good new sales and lower churn (post-paid churn in 3Q stood at 2.2% compared to 2.1% in 2Q and to 2.5% 1Q). ARPO from mobile-only handset offers was down 4.5% year-on-year, compared to 5.2% decline in 2Q 2020. However the decline entirely stemmed from significantly lower roaming revenues. Excluding roaming this ARPO was up 0.7% year-onyear.

Number of our reported pre-paid services shrunk by 62,000 or 1.8% in 3Q mainly due to lower activations of new pre-paid cards. This was a consequence of pandemic-related reduced tourism activity during summer months and lower sales to foreign residents.

In fixed voice, 3Q net loss of lines stood at 57,000 compared to 36,000 in 2Q 2020 and 73,000 in 3Q 2019. The churn level was still positively impacted by the lockdown period.

3Q EBITDAaL flat yoy reflecting underlying turnaround, negative impact of the pandemic and further cost savings

EBITDAaL for 3Q 2020 came in at PLN 742 million and was up 0.4% year-on-year. Direct margin (a difference between revenues and direct costs) was down PLN 42 million year-on-year as positive impact of strong performance of core service revenue lines was more than offset by pandemicrelated lower roaming revenues and additional provisions. This decline was fully compensated by further optimisation of indirect costs, which decreased 5% year-on-year, mainly due to lower labour cost (execution of Social Plan and lower salaries increase) and cost freeze initiatives including significant savings in advertising & promotion, CRM and general expenses.

Bottom line decline reflects last year's record high gains on real estate disposals

Net income for 3Q 2020 stood at PLN 53 million versus net income of PLN 222 million generated in 3Q 2019. Significant year-on-year decline is due to last year's record high gains on real estate disposals (PLN 218 million driven by sale of Nowogrodzka/Barbary complex). On the positive side, net finance costs were PLN 24 million lower than last year due to higher negative FX differences in 3Q 2019.

Organic Cash Flow reflects good outcome on working capital, some slowdown of investments and much lower yoy proceeds from sale of assets

Organic cash flow for 3Q 2020 was PLN 58 million, as compared to PLN 419 million generated in 3Q 2019. A significant year-on-year decrease resulted solely from record high (PLN 355 million) proceeds from real estate disposal last year. Working capital was slightly better than last year despite shift of social security payments from the second quarter (c.PLN 120 million) and much lower year-on-year support from sale of instalment receivables. The improvement stemmed mainly from good receivables collection, lower growth of instalment receivables and different timing of some settlements. Capital expenditure cash outflows were PLN 37 million lower year-on-year and reflected some slowdown of investments introduced to offset more difficult property market due to the pandemic.

Commenting on 3Q 2020 results, Jacek Kunicki, Chief Financial Officer, said:

"Our 3Q financial results were solid and in line with our expectations. After many quarters of consecutive growth our top line dynamics turned negative. Firstly, revenues from roaming, ICT and equipment were affected by the pandemic. Secondly, decrease in ICT area reflected also much higher comparable base as BlueSoft was already included in our figures in 3Q 2019. However underlying performance of our high-margin core telecom services remained strong (best visible in ARPO improvement and strong growth of fibre) underscoring our relative resilience to the economic situation. Our exceptional effort with respect to cost savings this year was continued in 3Q which helped to offset lower revenues and deliver flat EBITDAaL. Year-on-year dynamics of net income and cash generation reflected record high real estate sales last year. With 5% year-on-year EBITDAaL growth over 9 months achieved with significant support of mitigating measures we maintain our full-year growth guidance. However we carefully monitor the situation with respect to the economic impact of the pandemic especially in the light of recent tightening of restrictions."

Reconciliation of operating performance measure to financial statements

Disclosures on performance measures, including information on data restatements for the year 2019 in connection with changes in accounting policies, have been presented in the Notes 2 and 3 to Condensed IFRS Quaterly Consolidated Financial Statements of the Orange Polska Group for the 3 months ended 30 September 2020 (available at http://orange-ir.pl/results-center/results/2020).

in PLNm 30 2020 30 2019 9M 2020 9M 2019
Operating income 150 378 347 591
Less gains on disposal of assets -6 -218 -21 -266
Add-back of depreciation, amortisation and impairment of property, plant
and equipment and intangible assets
618 592 1,862 1,750
Interest expense on lease liabilities -15 -18 -47 -51
Adjustment for the impact of employment termination programs -9 1 -g 5
Adjustment for the costs related to acquisition and integration of new
subsidiaries
4 4 11 7
EBITDAaL (EBITDA after Leases) 742 739 2,143 2,036

Forward-looking statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding anticipated future events and financial performance with respect to our operations. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They often include words like 'believe', 'expect', 'anticipate', 'estimated', 'project', 'plan', 'adjusted' and 'intend' or future or conditional verbs such as 'will,' 'would,' or 'may.' Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results include, but are not limited to, those set forth in our Registration Statement, as filed with the Polish securities and exchange commission, the competitive environment in which we operate, changes in general economic conditions and changes in the Polish and/or global financial and/or capital markets. Forward-looking statements represent management's views as of the date they are made, and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements for actual events occurring after that date. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements.

Orange Polska's Management Board are pleased to invite you to the Company's 3Q 2020 results presentation.

29th October 2020 Start: 11.00 CET

The presentation will be available via a live webcasthttp://infostrefa.tv/orange and via a live conference call

Time:

11:00 (Warsaw) 10:00 (London) 05:00 (New York)

Dial in numbers: Conference Code: 411064

Poland: 48 22 124 49 59 Canada: 1 587 855 1318 Germany: 49 30 25 555 323 Russia: 7 495 283 98 58 United Kingdom: 44 203 984 9844 United States: 1 718 866 4614

Orange Polska Group Consolidated

amounts in PLN millions 2019 2020
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q FY 1Q 2Q 3Q
Income statement restated
(IFRS16)*
restated
(IFRS16)*
restated
(IFRS16)*
restated
(IFRS16)*
restated
(IFRS16)*
restated
(IFRS16)*
IFRS16 IFRS16
Revenues
Mobile services only 640 646 660 652 2,598 638 630 645
Fixed services only 569 552 540 531 2,192 523 527 518
Narrowband 244 233 224 216 917 208 206 194
Broadband 219 213 211 211 854 211 214 216
B2B Network Solutions 106 106 105 104 421 104 107 108
Convergent services B2C 369 384 399 406 1,558 419 428 438
Equipment sales 367 352 359 477 1,555 306 308 325
IT and integration services 147 163 224 269 803 233 238 186
Wholesale 560 568 585 565 2,278 601 613 590
Mobile wholesale 310 324 323 330 1,287 349 366 345
Fixed wholesale 177 169 186 157 689 171 165 162
Other 73 75 76 78 302 81 82 83
Other revenues 126 94 103 99 422 84 84 91
Total revenues 2,778 2,759 2,870 2,999 11,406 2,804 2,828 2,793
Labour expenses** (403) (377) (361) (349) (1,490) (402) (287) (320)
External purchases (1,554) (1,533) (1,567) (1,763) (6,417) (1,550) (1,597) (1,537)
- Interconnect expenses (446) (461) (478) (442) (1,827) (482) (507) (489)
- Network and IT expenses (148) (152) (142) (148) (590) (151) (162) (161)
- Commercial expenses (583) (578) (589) (764) (2,514) (546) (552) (519)
- Other external purchases (377) (342) (358) (409) (1,486) (371) (376) (368)
Other operating incomes & expenses** (43) (51) (44) (47) (185) (21) (42) (39)
Impairment of receivables and contract assets (32) (27) (39) (40) (138) (36) (50) (30)
Amortization and impairment of right-of-use assets (95) (92) (102) (103) (392) (106) (108) (110)
Interest expense on lease liabilities (16) (17) (18) (15) (66) (16) (16) (15)
EBITDAaL (EBITDA after Leases) 635 662 739 682 2,718 673 728 742
% of revenues 22.9% 24.0% 25.7% 22.7% 23.8% 24.0% 25.7% 26.6%
Gains on disposal of assets*** 5 44 218 4 271 10 5 6
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment of property, plant and equipment and
intangibles assets
(583) (575) (592) (698) (2,448) (608) (636) (618)
Add-back of interest expense on lease liabilities 16 17 18 15 66 16 16 15
Adjustment for the impact of employment termination programs** 2 (6) (1) (176) (181) 0 0 9
Adjustment for the costs related to acquisition and integration of new subsidiaries** 0 (3) (4) (3) (10) (3) (4) (4)
Adjustment for the impact of deconsolidation of subsidiaries*** (1) 0 0 0 (1) 0 0 0
Operting income / (loss) 74 139 378 (176) 415 88 109 150
% of revenues 2.7% 5.0% 13.2% -5.9% 3.6% 3.1% 3.9% 5.4%
Finance costs, net (80) (73) (107) (48) (308) (132) (49) (83)
- Interest expense on lease liabilities (16) (17) (18) (15) (66) (16) (16) (15)
- Other Interest expenses, net (excl. Interest expense on lease liabilities) (50) (48) (49) (49) (196) (51) (45) (43)
- Discounting expense (14) (11) (20) (3) (48) (23) 0 (11)
- Foreign exchange losses 0 3 (20) 19 2 (42) 12 (14)
Income tax 1 (14) (49) 37 (25) 6 (8) (14)
Consolidated net income / (loss) (5) 52 222 (187) 82 (38) 52 53

* In Q2 2020 retrospective additional impact of the IFRS 16 scope was recognised as described in Financial Statement in Note 3 and 4

** Labour expenses and other operating incomes & expenses exclude adjustment due to employment termination program and some costs related to acquisition and integration of new subsidiaries

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*** Gains on disposal of assets exclude impact of deconsolidation of subsidiaries

Orange Polska Group key performance indicators

2019 2020
Customer base (in thousands) 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q
B2C convergent customers 1,276 1,307 1,331 1,369 1,387 1,410 1,441
Fixed telephony accesses
PSTN 2,322 2,228 2,140 2,046 1,962 1,900 1,831
VoIP 1,006 1,031 1,046 1,063 1,072 1,099 1,110
Total retail main lines 3,328 3,259 3,186 3,109 3,034 2,998 2,941
o/w B2C convergent 778 800 807 825 830 833 839
o/w B2C PSTN convergent 44 38 31 27 23 21 18
o/w B2C VoIP convergent 734 762 776 799 807 813 822
Fixed broadband access
ADSL 1,098 1,056 1,017 958 923 896 864
VHBB (VDSL+Fibre) 921 961 998 1,063 1,101 1,139 1,184
o/w VDSL 522 527 525 543 537 531 522
o/w Fibre 399 434 473 520 564 608 662
Wireless for fixed 557 565 574 586 592 603 614
Retail broadband - total 2,576 2,582 2,589 2,607 2,616 2,638 2,662
o/w B2C convergent 1,276 1,307 1,331 1,369 1,387 1,410 1,441
TV client base
IPTV 455 476 495 521 539 554 575
DTH (TV over Satellite) 503 496 484 473 456 442 425
TV client base - total 958 972 979 994 994 996 1001
o/w B2C convergent 758 788 802 828 836 842 851
Mobile accesses
Post-paid
Mobile Handset 7,553 7,611 7,672 7,748 7,810 7,875 7,985
Mobile Broadband 934 895 865 831 822 806 777
M2M 1,483 1,534 1,591 1,658 1,710 1,823 1,987
Total post-paid 9,970 10,040 10,128 10,237 10,342 10,504 10,749
o/w B2C convergent 2,434 2,486 2,528 2,589 2,612 2,651 2,713
Total pre-paid 4,867 4,924 5,012 5,047 5,095 4,982 4,920
Total 14,837 14,964 15,140 15,284 15,436 15,487 15,669
Wholesale customers
WLR 408 381 354 328 310 299 287
Bitstream access 137 133 129 128 128 129 130
LLU 73 69 66 63 60 58 55
Quarterly ARPO in PLN per month 2019 2020
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q
Convergent services B2C 101.4 101.9 103.4 102.8 104.8 105.4 105.5
Fixed services only - voice 36.3 36.2 36.2 36.3 36.5 37.4 36.8
Fixed services only - broadband 55.5 54.9 55.2 56.0 56.7 58.0 58.7
Mobile services only 20.0 20.1 20.3 20.0 19.5 19.3 19.9
Post-paid excl M2M 26.9 27.0 27.1 26.7 26.3 25.5 25.9
Mobile Handset 28.6 28.7 28.9 28.5 28.0 27.2 27.6
Mobile Broadband 16.4 15.9 15.4 14.3 13.6 13.3 12.9
Pre-paid 11.4 11.6 12.1 11.9 11.6 11.9 12.5
Mobile wholesale (convergent + mono) 7.1 7.5 7.4 7.5 8.0 8.4 7.9
Other mobile operating statistics 2019 2020
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q
Number of smartphones (thousands) 7,521 7,658 7,778 7,857 7,857 7,907 8,112
AUPU (in minutes)
post-paid 357.9 356.6 349.5 354.3 397.3 441.5 386.7
pre-paid 161.9 163.0 158.8 158.6 173.2 193.3 175.7
blended 286.5 285.8 279.3 281.8 314.2 350.2 310.4
Quarterly mobile customer churn rate (%)
post-paid 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.8 2.5 2.1 2.2
pre-paid 10.8 10.2 10.7 10.2 9.1 10.4 11.4
SAC post-paid (PLN) 82.4 99.1 94.8 116.6 82.1 78.3 77.5
SRC post-paid (PLN) 43.9 43.1 45.7 60.9 48.0 59.8 59.1
Employment structure of Group as reported 2019 2020
Active full time equivalents (end of period) 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q
Orange Polska 13,077 12,429 12,219 12,034 11,885 11,219 11,047
50% of Networks 355 353 351 342 330 330 335

Total 13,432 12,782 12,570 12,376 12,215 11,549 11,382

Terms used:

ARPO – average revenue per offer

Average Usage per User (AUPU) – The average monthly total usage of minutes divided by the average number of SIM cards (excluding M2M) in a given period.

Churn rate – the number of customers who disconnect from a network divided by the weighted average number of customers in a given period.

Convergent services – Revenues from B2C convergent offers (excluding equipment sales). A convergent offer is defined as an offer combining at least a broadband access (xDSL, FTTx, cable or wireless for fixed) and a mobile voice contract (excluding MVNOs) with a financial benefit. Convergent services revenues do not include incoming and visitor roaming revenues.

Convergent services B2C ARPO – The average monthly revenues from convergent services generated by retail customers (B2C) divided by the average number of B2C convergent customers in a given period.

Fixed broadband-only services – Revenues from fixed broadband offers (excluding B2C convergent offers and equipment sales), including TV and VoIP services.

Fixed broadband-only services ARPO – The average monthly revenues from fixed broadband only services divided by the average number of accesses in a given period.

Household connectable with fibre - an apartment in multi-family building or a single family house within the reach of our fibre to the home service that allows to provide service with a speed of at least 100Mb/s

Mobile-only services – Revenues from mobile offers (excluding consumer market convergent offers) and Machine to Machine (M2M) connectivity. Mobile-only services revenues do not include equipment sales and incoming and visitor roaming revenues.

Mobile-only services ARPO – The average monthly retail revenues from mobile only services excluding M2M connectivity, divided by the average number of SIM cards (excluding M2M) in a given period.

Mobile-only broadband ARPO – The average monthly retail revenues from SIM cards dedicated to mobile broadband access (excluding B2C convergent offers and equipment sales) divided by the average number of these SIM cards in a given period.

Mobile-only handset ARPO – The average monthly retail revenues from SIM cards dedicated to mobile handset access (excluding B2C convergent offers and equipment sales) divided by the average number of these SIM cards in a given period.

Subscriber Acquisition Cost (SAC) – Customer acquisition costs divided by the number of gross customers added during the respective period. Customer acquisition costs comprise commissions paid to distributors and net subsidies resulting from the sale of the handset.

Subscriber Retention Cost (SRC) – Customer retention costs divided by the number of customers retained during the respective period. Customer retention costs comprise commissions paid to distributors and net subsidies resulting from the sale of the handset.

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