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Telefonica S.A. Investor Presentation 2014

Dec 31, 2014

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Results 2014 & Outlook 2015-2016

Back to profitable growth

Razón Social Telefónica, S.A. Investor Relations

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Our journey

2012-14 TRANSFORMING THE BUSINESS IN ORDER TO…

2015-16E …RETURN TO SUSTAINABLE PROFITABLE GROWTH

  • Investing to set the foundation for growth
  • Monetising data opportunity
  • Growing digital revenues
  • Simplifying the business
  • Extracting value from scale
  • Proactively managing regulation
  • Focusing portfolio
  • Recovering financial flexibility
  • De-risking the balance sheet
  • Displaying clear proof points

  • Accelerate growth

  • Monetise booming data reality
  • Invest further to grow (2017 to revert)
  • Continue to simplify & transform
  • Deliver synergies from consolidation (Germany, Brazil)
  • Maintain leading profitability
  • Continue to strengthen portfolio
  • Maintain financial flexibility to support sustainable growth
  • Grow cash dividend (Post proposed O2 UK sale closing)

Clear proof points already evident in 2014

Consistent improvement in our fundamentals: top line acceleration, with a strong performance in Q4 14…

Investor Relations Telefónica, S.A.

…while improving OIBDA & EPS trends

2014 guidance met on strong execution

Guidance 2014 (organic and excluding Venezuela) FY 14
Positive revenue growth
OIBDA margin towards stabilisation
(erosion around 1
p.p. y-o-y)
CapEx/Sales: 15.5%-16%
+0.7%
-0.8 p.p.

15.9%
Reported Net Financial Debt < €43bn €43.9bn pre-VZ
adjustment
€45.1bn post-VZ
adjustment

€31.7bn post-VZ adjustment
& proposed O2 UK sale
Mid-term commitment Net Debt/OIBDA 2.35x 2.15x post-VZ
adjustment & proposed
02 UK sale
€/sh.
0.75
€0.35 voluntary
scrip Nov-14
(84% take-up)
€/sh. 0.83 0.93
DPS Cash/Scrip
Cash dividend outflow
€0.45/share
€0.40 cash
Q2 15
FCFS
55% cash dividend
payout
Underlying EPS

2015 and beyond: positioned for growth acceleration

1 Returning to growth in Spain
Strong macroeconomic outlook

Positive market trends: appetite for higher value services and market rationalisation

Key differentiation assets /infrastructure (fiber, Pay TV, LTE)
2 Fuelling data monetisation
Higher data adoption (LTE across markets; prepaid smartphone penetration in BZ & Hispam)

Monetising beyond the allowances and connecting everything

Capturing digital opportunities: video, cloud, M2M & security
3 Continued network & IT
transformation

Steady roll-out of a differential future-proof network

Accelerating the transformation of the business leveraging Full Stacks

Continue to optimise legacy
4 Delivering synergies from
acquisitions

Germany: >€5bn NPV

Brazil: >€4.7bn NPV

Additional revenue streams from upselling / cross-selling
5 Sustainable efficiency gains
Delivering >€1.8bn savings in 2017E from simplification across markets and synergies from
acquisitions

External factors: from headwinds to tailwinds

Improved Market structure

Consolidation in Spain, Germany, Brazil, Mexico & Colombia:

  • From a price deflationary competitive model (no differentiation)
  • To a quality of service model based on infrastructure

(1) Internal calculations & Consensus Forecast

Driving a fair policy framework in the digital ecosystem

Capital discipline: financial priorities 2015-16E

Robust Balance Sheet

  • Financial Flexibility recovered
  • Ratings stabilisation
  • Capital increase in connection to the acquisition of GVT: rights issue up to €3bn
  • Balance sheet de-risked (Venezuela FX adjusted)

Growing cash dividend(1) ND/OIBDA <2.35x

Support sustainable operating growth

  • Organic growth fuelled by temporary increase in CapEx intensity
  • Inorganic opportunities: Portfolio strengthening strategy remains in place

Attractive shareholder remuneration

  • Sustainable Dividend
  • Tactical buybacks & share cancellations to mitigate scrip dividend dilution

(1) Post proposed O2 UK divestment execution

2015 guidance & 2016 ambition

Base 2014
(Ex-UK; Ex-VZ;
incl. 3M E-Plus
and 6M Ireland)
2015 Guidance & 2016 Ambition
(Constant FX 2014; ex-UK; ex-VZ; incl. 12M E-Plus and 6M
GVT in 2015 and 12M in 2016
Guidance 2015E Ambition
2016E
42,853 Revenues >7% >5%
CAGR 2014-16E
32.6% OIBDA margin Limited margin
erosion around 1 p.p.
(to allow for commercial
flexibility if needed)
Stabilising
in 2016
16.7% CapEx/Sales Around 17% Around 17%

Revert in 2017E: -2 p.p. vs 2016E

<2.35x <2.35x
€0.75/sh. Post proposed O2
UK sale Closing:

€0.35/sh. voluntary scrip
Q4 15

€0.40/sh. Cash Q2 16
€0.75/sh. cash
1.5% 1.5%
Up to €3bn

1. 2014 Results

2014: Highlights

1

Built a solid platform; already clear proof points

Inflection point to organic growth

  • Recovered robust Revenue growth (+2.6% y-o-y in FY); further improving trends in Q4 to +5.0% (+1.7% ex-VZ; but +8.0% ex-Spain which is turning to positive)
  • Picked-up commercial momentum on high-quality services
  • Increasing customer value (Avg. Revenue/Access +2.6% vs Q4 13)
  • Monetising booming mobile data
  • Integrated tariff bundles; tiered pricing
  • Simplify the operations through a new operating model & synergies
  • Robust profitability; Return to FY organic OIBDA growth y-o-y and margin decline contained at 0.8 p.p.
  • Run-rate synergies from simplification: €0.3Bn in FY 14
  • CapEx intensity; speed-up network modernisation & differentiation
  • Consistent investments in growth & transformation activities (15m FTTH premises passed; >20k LTE sites; TV accesses x1.5)

2 Enhanced Balance sheet strength

  • Solid FCF generation (FY 14: €3.8bn)
  • Net Debt /OIBDA 2.15x incl. proposed O2 UK sale; financial flexibility recovered

Superior asset portfolio with a focused footprint

  • Active in-market consolidation with value enhancing deals
  • Inorganic movements to strengthen position in key markets (Brazil, Germany, Spain)
  • Delivered 2014 operating guidance; confirmed 2014 DPS

4

3

Financial summary

2014 Q4 14

in millions
Reported Reported
y-o-y
Organic
y-o-y
Reported Reported
y-o-y
Organic
y-o-y
Revenue 50,377 (11.7%) 2.6% 12,399 (14.1%) 5.0%
OIBDA 15,515 (18.7%) 0.2% 3,190 (35.9%) 0.0%
OIBDA Margin 30.8% (2.6 p.p.) (0.8 p.p.) 25.7% (8.7 p.p.) (1.6 p.p.)
OpCF
(ex-spectrum)
7,361 (32.5%) (12.7%) 582 (68.2%) (3.9%)
Net Income 3,001 (34.7%) --- 152 (89.5%) ---
EPS 0.61 (38.1%) --- 0.02 (93.1%) ---
Underlying
EPS
0.93 (21.2%) --- 0.25 (32.0%) ---
FCF 3,817 (29.2%) --- 978 (50.9%) ---
Net financial
debt
45,087 (0.6%) --- 45,087 (0.6%) ---

Q4 results strongly impacted by non-recurrent/non-cash effects

  • Adjustment in Venezuela from SICAD I 12 VZ/\$ to SICAD II 50VZ/\$ (-€915m in OIBDA; -€399m in net income)
  • Venezuela contribution reduced to 1% of revenues & €390m net cash position. Minimising the impact of any further potential adjustment
  • Venezuela adjusted from 6.3VZ/\$ to 50VZ/\$ in 2014
  • Restructuring costs to further enhance efficiency (-€644m in OIBDA; -€405m in net income)
  • Telco value adjustment (-€257m in net income)
  • Asset sales (+€179m in OIBDA)

Q4 results impacted by non-recurrent, non-cash effects

Perimeter: E-Plus in Q4 14

Perimeter impact revenue (y-o-y)

Q4 non-recurrent impacts in OIBDA (€1.4bn) Q4 non-recurrent impacts in Net Income (€1.1Bn)

Investor Relations Telefónica, S.A.

Consistent improvement in growth profile

Revenues (organic y-o-y)

OIBDA (organic y-o-y)

Organic OIBDA margin (y-o-y)

Strong top line acceleration in Q4 (+220 bps vs Q3 y-o-y)

  • Focused commercial activity on value
  • Mobile Contract customers (+11% y-o-y); Smartphones +39%
  • Fiber connected customers 2.1x y-o-y; record net adds in Q4 14
  • Pay TV customers surpass the 5m mark (x1.5 y-o-y organic)
  • FY Churn stable y-o-y

High-class diversification; better revenue mix

  • Robust mobile data in Q4 (+10.6% y-o-y)
  • Progressive improvement of T. España in Q4 (+1.7 p.p. q-o-q); +7p.p. in last 4 quarters
  • T. Hispam key driver of growth

Towards sustainable OIBDA growth

Positive OIBDA growth in FY

Revenue flow, efficiency gains and organisational simplification leading to a contained margin erosion

FY OpEx up 3.8% y-o-y

  • Gaining differentiation on higher content and commercial costs (+5.5% y-o-y): Foster competitiveness (i.e. Brazil), regain leadership (i.e. Spain)
  • Network and IT costs (+9.3% y-o-y): More data Co + data traffic expansion

Strong and clear progress on mobile data

Booming data traffic

The sweet spot: increased penetration + increased usage

  • Traffic growth accelerating in all regions
  • Huge opportunities in Hispam: 18% prepay smartphone penetration in Dec-14
  • LTE as the main trigger to foster growth
  • 13m LTE customers(1) in Dec-14; 5% penetration

Strong Q4 y-o-y growth in average smartphone consumption (Mbytes/month)

Spain: +43%; Germany: +48%; UK: +79%; Brazil: +21%; Hispam: +44%

Monetising the opportunity

Breaking the decoupling between traffic and revenues

Monetising beyond the allowance:

  • "Bundle breakage" in ~1/3 of customers, using more data than they initially subscribed to in their data plan
  • 1/3 of them enjoying best experience by subscribing to additional "data snacks"

  • Plenty room to upsell
  • ~1/3 of customers >1Gb plans

Mobile data revenue

FY 13 FY 14

(1) LTE devices with data plan attached, except Brazil (devices)

Capital intensity to structurally change the Company

CapEx ex-spectrum 2014 (€ in millions)

CapEx 2014 (organic y-o-y)

Organic growth y-o-y

Increased investments to grow

  • Technological transformation and modernization
  • Stimulate revenue opportunity & differentiation
  • Addressing data traffic boom
  • Built differential spectrum (Brazil, Hispam)

Deep network transformation; Increasing differentiation

  • Developing high-speed networks (LTE & FTTH)
  • Better quality and customer experience
  • Global platforms accelerating time to market

Benefits on investments from efficiencies

  • Lower maintenance CapEx vs. 2013
  • Savings & operational efficiency coming from simplification, homogenisation and standartisation

Spain: Rebuilt a superior franchise

Net adds ('000)

2013 2014

Fiber 100 Mb IPTV

High value in "Fusión"

FTTH New premises passed (m)

Total Premises Passed

Becoming market leader in Pay TV Gaining scale in high value; base growing

  • 1.9m customers (x3 y-o-y); 36%E market share
  • FTTH base: 1.3 m (>x2 y-o-y); 22% of FBB base
  • 1m Fiber 100 Mb (10€ premium; churn 0.5x lower vs. DSL)
  • Mobile contract growth (+0.5% y-o-y), first time since 2011
  • Portability loss significantly improved (-30% y-o-y in FY)
  • Churn declining across services

Enhanced convergent offer fostering loyalty and upselling

  • Differential assets: Competitive TV and Fiber
  • Improved content, MBB data volumes, VAS
  • 3.7m "Fusión" customers (+27% y-o-y); 1.4m mobile add-ons
  • Highly satisfied customers: Q4 "Fusión" churn 1.1%
  • Longer lifetime vs. stand-alone: 2.2x FBB & 2.5x mobile contract
  • Q4 "Fusion" ARPU virtually stable q-o-q at 69.3 euros
  • Seasonal extra consumption out of bundle in Q3 (summer)

Leading network coverage

  • FTTH 2014 target met; ~10m premises passed
  • LTE coverage: 58% pop. in Dec-14
  • 800 MHz availability in Q2 15
  • 1.8m LTE customers, driving usage and ARPU up

Investor Relations Telefónica, S.A.

Spain: Improved revenue trend on solid fundamentals 24% of Group revenue

Revenue y-o-y (%)

Positioned for the upcoming revenue growth

  • Consistent revenue improvement along the year
  • Revenue y-o-y drop halved in 2014
  • Quarterly revenue stabilised: ~€3bn in the last 4Qs
  • Structural changes supporting performance
  • Commercial turnaround on restored competiveness
  • Backbook reducing impact (high convergent base)
  • Price deflation stabilised / consolidation to drive more sustainable dynamics
  • Higher demand for quality (macro recovery)

OIBDA Margin (%)

y-o-y organic

Top line improvement flowing to OIBDA
Cost control
(OpEx
-1.1% y-o-y in FY; -0.1% in Q4)
Efficiencies offsetting higher commercial costs
Content and handsets costs up
Insourcing, retail stores optimisation

Q4 OIBDA improvement q-o-q (-7.8% y-o-y organic)
Q4 14: tower sales (€136m); real state sale (€41m)
FY 14: tower sales €191m

14.0% CapEx/Sales (+2.7 p.p. organic vs FY 13) to
support structural transformation/differentiation

Germany: a solid start from a new leading position

UK: Strong customer growth & improving trends

Mobile contract net adds ('000)

Mobile Service Revenues (y-o-y)

MSR MSR ex-"O2 Refresh"

OIBDA margin

Solid trading performance continued

  • Mobile base growth at 4% y-o-y (24.5m)
  • Strongest net adds in 6 years: (394 k in Q4)
  • Sustained expansion of contract (+6% y-o-y); 56% of total
    • o Sustained leadership in contract loyalty in Q4 (1.0%; -0.1 p.p. y-o-y)
    • o LTE penetration at 19% over total base
  • Continued LTE roll-out (58% outdoor coverage at Dec-14)

Improved ARPU trends

  • Successful commercial proposition leading to price stabilisation
  • Data monetisation (LTE usage 3x vs 3G; high single digit ARPU uplift)

Robust set of financials

  • Revenue growth (ex-"O2 Refresh") accelerated in Q4 to +5.4% y-o-y (+0.6% y-o-y in FY)
  • Ongoing MSR improvement on solid operating performance
  • Handset revenues up on high-end strong trading devices (FY: +28.4%)
  • FY OIBDA grew 1.1% y-o-y on efficiencies execution (OpEx:-0.9% y-o-y)
  • "O2 Refresh" adds 3.7 p.p. to OIBDA margin in FY 14
  • Broadly flat impact of "O2 Refresh" to y-o-y growth

Brazil: Capturing the best customers

Mobile accesses penetration

Strengthening mobile leadership

  • New contract portfolio offer launched in December, reaching new monthly gross adds record
  • Contract market share increased to 41.8% (+2.0 p.p. y-o-y) on best network (quality and coverage) and brand perception
  • Strong outgoing ARPU y-o-y (Q4: +5.9%; FY: +5.3%)
  • LTE leadership (140 cities covered; accesses market share: 38.9%)

FTTH New premises passed (m)

Transformation into a fiber Co.

  • 375k fiber accesses at Dec-14 (+84% y-o-y): ~3x customer value vs. average FBB
  • Strong Pay TV performance (Q4: 43k net adds, FY:131k)
  • Growing IPTV net adds delivering higher ARPU
  • Reshaped commercial proposal fostering DTH gross adds volume

22% of Group Brazil: OIBDA returning to growth in 2014 revenue

OIBDA (organic y-o-y)

Ex €58m one-off in Q4 13 and ex-restructuring costs in Q4 14 and Q4 13

Consistent organic revenue y-o-y growth trends

  • Outperforming the market: 68% of incremental MSR market share captured in the last 12 months
  • MSR accelerating to 5.7% y-o-y in Q4 excluding one-offs (ICMS tax reversal in Q4 13)
  • Data revenues: 34% of MSR in FY 14
  • Steady non-SMS mobile data revenue performance (+35.5% in Q4: +38.5% y-o-y in FY)
  • Fixed revenue improved its trend in 2014 (-4.2% y-o-y vs. 6.8% FY 13)
  • Negative impact of regulation (-3.2 p.p. in Q4 and -3.4 p.p. in FY)

Increased profitability on better OpEx evolution

  • Strong efficiency efforts (i.e. restructuring costs in Q4: €68m) despite intense commercial activity, network costs and inflationary pressure
  • Strong CapEx effort (FY: +15.0% y-o-y; 26% CapEx/Revenues) to enlarge quality gap vs peers

Hispam: Increased FY profitability amid strong trading 26% of Group revenue

Revenue (organic y-o-y)

Hispam Hispam ex-Venezuela

OIBDA (organic y-o-y)

Hispam Hispam ex-Venezuela

Commercial traction underpinning double-digit revenue growth

  • Accesses growing by 3% y-o-y:
  • Mobile contract (+4%); FBB (+6%); Pay TV (+14%)
  • Higher traffic volumes driving mobile ARPU y-o-y growth (+10.6% FY; +14.3% Q4)
  • Voice traffic up +16% y-o-y in FY
  • Data traffic +65% y-o-y in FY 14 on increased smartphone penetration & average usage (+44% y-o-y in Q4)
  • Data revenues main growth driver; 32% MSR (+2 p.p. y-o-y)
  • Non-SMS data growing by 43.4% y-o-y in FY (+41.1% in Q4)

Improved profitability in most markets

  • FY organic margin (+0.5 p.p. y-o-y) returning to 2012 levels despite stronger commercial activity
  • Increased profitability in all countries but Venezuela and Uruguay in FY (y-o-y organic)
  • Main contributors to margin y-o-y: Mexico (FY: +4.3 p.p.; Q4: +11.7 p.p.); Colombia (+2.7 p.p.; +4.4 p.p.) and Chile (+1.5 p.p.; +2.5 p.p.)
  • Restructuring costs (€99m in Hispam in Q4) negatively impacting reported margin in Q4 by 4.4 p.p.

Mexico: Increasing momentum; accelerating growth

Mobile gross adds

Revenue (organic y-o-y)

OIBDA (organic y-o-y)

Commercial repositioning driving business turnaround

  • Mobile accesses up 7% y-o-y; Smartphones +82% y-o-y
  • Record-high gross adds in Q4 14
  • Commercial offers adapting to new competitive environment
  • New LTE offer launched (Oct-14)
  • New Federal Telecommunications Law continued advancing

Rest of Hispam: Solid top line growth boosting OIBDA

OIBDA (organic y-o-y)

Q3 14 Q4 14

Increased profitability across the board (except VZ+CA)

Colombia:

  • Mobile data (FY: +15.0% y-o-y), FBB and Pay TV (+9.1% y-o-y) driving revenue increase
  • Q4 OIBDA: +18.9% organic y-o-y on revenue acceleration and increased efficiency. FY Margin: 36.5% (39.0% in Q4)

Peru:

  • Revenue performance led by high-value accesses growth: mobile contract (+14% y-o-y); Pay TV (+6%) and FBB (+6%)
  • Strong commercial activity in Q4

Argentina:

  • Commercial trading ramped-up in Q4 (mobile gross adds +16% y-o-y) on successful campaigns
  • Q4 OIBDA margin stable organic y-o-y despite inflation and FX pressures

Chile:

  • Focus on high-value customers underpinned enhanced revenue & OIBDA performance
  • Accelerated network deployment: LTE (64% pop coverage) & fiber (288k premises passed)

Venezuela & Central America:

  • Strong traffic growth: voice (FY: +16%) on higher MOU (+8%); data (+58%) on smartphone penetration & higher usage per access
  • CapEx increase (+64.8% y-o-y organic) to foster network quality differentiation. 60 MHz LTE spectrum acquired in Q4

Strong FCF and net debt reduced ahead of O2 UK sale

Net Financial Debt

€ in millions

Robust liquidity and ample diversified financing

Investor Relations Telefónica, S.A.

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2. 2015-16 Back to profitable growth

Continue transforming the business

Transforming the business mix

From selling minutes to selling Gigabytes

  • From variable voice & fixed data consumption
  • To voice bundled & variable data

Transforming the portfolio: Diversified growth profile with bigger local scale

Improving position in Key Markets: Spain, Brazil and Germany

  • FY 14 57% of Revenue
  • FY 16E ~2/3 of Revenue

Maintaining Global Scale & Increasing Focus in Key Markets

  • 6 worldwide by accesses in 2012

  • #6 in 2014 but with fewer operations

Monetising the new mobile data & video wave

Non-SMS Mobile Data Revenues ~+20% CAGR 2014-16E Video revenues >+30% CAGR 2014-16E

TGR: Differential future-proof network & IT ready by 2016

Major network transformation to be in place by 2016

Leaner Co: Simplification program enabling growth & transformation

  • Structure simplification to adapt to the new operating model (from regional to global model and lower local layers)
  • SG&A global policies driving further cost reductions
  • Outsourcing of support functions (i.e. Brazil: 1k FTEs)
  • Provision for restructuring costs & others (Germany, Brazil, Hispam and Other companies)
  • Q4 14 impact (-€644m) on Group OIBDA
  • Restructuring plan affecting ~ 4.5k FTEs

2014 gross savings €0.3 bn run rate Gross savings (OpEx+CapEx) 2015-17E

  • Personnel cost savings related to restructuring
  • Offer simplification & channel optimisation
  • Customer driven simplification initiatives (i.e.: increase selfcare, e-billing…)
  • Efficiencies through support functions (full transformation and further outsourcing)
  • Demand based deployment leveraged on Analytics
  • Network automation and global processes
  • Germany & Brazil synergies related to fixed costs

Simplification Scope: ~55% of OpEx & CapEx (ex-spectrum)

Spain: Strengthening differentiation

environment to fuel unparalleled CapEx effort (subject to adequate regulation)

Up to €3.5Bn CapEx in 2015-16E(1)

A profitable growing Co. focused on value

CapEx(1) 2017E to return to 2013 level

FTTH premises passed (m) 5.2 10.3 Dec-13 Dec-14 Dec-16E LTE Coverage (% pop.) 40% 58% >85% Dec-13 Dec-14 Dec-16E "Fusión" customers (m) 2.9 +27% y-o-y 3.7 >5 CAGR 14-16E >15% Mid-single digit ARPU "Fusión" CAGR 14-16E

Dec-13 Dec-14 Dec-16

(1) Subject to adequate regulation

Every business unit contributing to accelerate growth

Digital Services: Capturing Digital growth opportunity

Germany: keep momentum, integrate quickly and transform the Co.

Brazil: Strengthening market leadership

HispAm: Consolidating revenue growth & further efficiency

  • Accelerating on digital services capabilities (Cloud, Security, M2M, eHealth)
  • Strong focus on SMEs with refreshed portfolio

Service Revenue drivers

  • Setting market trends
  • Leading monetisation on LTE

Smart upselling path

  • Leading Digital Telco
  • Best high-speed access experience
  • Commercial focus on mobile data boosted by superior network quality (Smartphone penetration in prepaid >55% at 2016E)
  • Fiber leadership in Sao Paulo; nationwide exposure post GVT

  • Strong growth potential across prepay & contract mobile

  • Optimal market structure leading to large structural opportunities
  • Further smartphone penetration opportunity
  • Mobile data main growth opportunity
  • Bundling fixed services at the core of our strategy

  • Driving emerging Digital Services

  • Financial Services: Consolidate insurance & microcredits and deploy new services
  • Accelerating advertising revenues
  • Confirmed >€5Bn NPV synergies
  • Integration completed by 2019:
  • o €800m run-rate of OpCF synergies
  • o ~30% of run-rate synergies by 2015
  • o ~80% of run-rate synergies by 2018
  • Strong synergies extracted from GVT acquisition: >€4.7Bn with net savings from 2015
  • Annual run-rate of operating and revenue synergies of at least €450m; c70% of run-rate synergies by year 2017
  • Efficiency improvement IT, network and shared services
  • LTE available in all markets from 2015
  • Differential spectrum holdings

Up to 90% LTE coverage 2016E

Closing remarks

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