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Telefonica S.A. Investor Presentation 2015

Dec 31, 2015

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January - December 2015

Disclaimer

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2016 Outlook

Mr. César Alierta Chairman & CEO

Unprecedented wealth creation ahead of us

Digitalisation will foster growth and innovation

  • Digitalisation and Big Data will transform all the productive models
  • Industrial Internet is a huge opportunity to unleash all the potential of the Digital Economy
  • Digital Single Market in Europe is a clear step in the right direction to foster digitalisation

An era of exponential growth

3G 10 GPS 4G 5G 25 MBPS 5 MBPS Exponential speeds Exponential growth in connections Source: Huawei and Telefónica

Source: Ericsson

Exponential traffic growth

(EB/month estimated in TEF networks) (Data/month)

Exponential information volume

Source: Alcatel-Lucent

5

The Digital Economy opens up a new growth wave

Telefónica's ongoing transformation

2012-2015: Positive proof points; returning to growth

  • Data monetisation underway (smartphones x2; double digit ARPU uplift), driving revenue growth
  • Back to growth in Spain, expanding profitability in Germany and widening leadership in Brazil
  • Building a solid set of differential assets
  • Active portfolio management & record debt reduction
  • Outstanding shareholder returns

2016: Step forward in accelerating growth

  • Increase data monetisation to foster revenue acceleration
  • Enhance Big Data & Innovation capabilities
  • Massive value from synergies (integration & simplification)
  • Maintain financial flexibility & continue portfolio optimisation (improve ROCE)
  • Full cash dividend (post-O2 UK sale)

Positive 2015, better prospects for 2016 and further upside potential from Data revolution

2015 Highlights: A profitable & growing Company

Accelerating revenue growth Clear progress on OIBDA growth

8

2015 Main financials: a year of return to growth

FY 15

in millions
Reported Organic
y-o-y
Revenues 47,219 4.0%
OIBDA 11,414 3.6%
OIBDA Margin 24.2% (0.1 p.p.)
OpCF
(ex-spectrum)
3,420 1.9%
Net Income 2,745
EPS 0.51
FCF 3,514
FCF pre-spectrum 4,821
Net Financial
Debt
49,921
FY 15

in millions
Underlying
OIBDA 14,926
OIBDA Margin 31.3%
OpCF
(ex-spectrum)
6,872
Underlying Underlying
y-o-y
Net Income (€
millions)
5,787 29.7%
EPS (€) 1.12 23.9%

Non-cash effects

• Mainly €3.2bn Restructuring charges to improve profitability & productivity going forward

Delivering on our commitments

2015 Guidance
(Constant FX 2014; ex-UK; ex-VZ; incl. 12M E-Plus, 8M GVT, 8M DTS)
UPGRADED
Guidance 2015
FY 15
Revenues Growth >9.5% 12.3%
OIBDA margin Limited margin erosion
around 1.2 p.p.
(to allow for commercial
flexibility if needed)
(1.1 p.p)
CapEx/Sales Around 17% 16.9%
Net Financial Debt/OIBDA (adjusted for O2 UK sale) <2.35x 2.38x
Dividend €0.75/sh.

€0.35/sh. voluntary
scrip Q4 15

€0.40/sh. Cash Q2 16
First Tranche
Scrip dividend:
€0.35/sh. Nov-15
Share buyback: % share capital cancelled (treasury) 1.5% Executed in
Jun-15

2016 Outlook

Base 2015
(Ex-VZ; incl. 8M GVT &
DTS)
Guidance
(Constant
FX 2015; Ex-VZ)
2016E
46,757 Revenues >4%
31.5% OIBDA margin Stabilising
vs. 2015
16.8% CapEx/Sales Around 17%

€0.75/sh. Full Cash Dividend (subject to the closing of O2 UK sale) €0.75/sh. 1.5% Share buyback: % share capital cancelled (treasury; subject to the closing of O2 UK sale) 1.5% Net Financial Debt/OIBDA (adjusted for O2 UK sale) <2.35x

Better than 2yr outlook guided in Feb- 15

2016 Priorities

Mr. José María Alvarez-Pallete COO

2015 Highlights: A profitable & growing Company

Strong year of commercial performance/ accelerating revenue growth

Benefitting from consolidation in key markets/ Simplifying to transform

Healthy FCF generation/ Robust Balance Sheet

  • Focus on value customers (Fiber, LTE, Pay TV, …) rather than volumes
  • o Increasing customer lifetime value
  • Several assets delivering organic growth
  • Focused level of investments to build outstanding connectivity
  • o CapEx/Sales ex-spectrum 16.9%

Focus on value customers

FY 14 FY 15
Smartphone penetration 34% 48%
Fiber connections 1.8m 6.1m
Pay TV 5.1m 8.3m
  • Enhancing competitive position via in-market consolidation
  • Spain recovering top line traction; Germany accelerating profitability; Brazil continuing leadership expansion
  • E-Plus, GVT & DTS integration on track and ramping-up
  • Driving profitability; advancing in simplification
  • FCF of €4.8bn pre-spectrum, up nearly 2% y-o-y
  • o Enabled shareholder returns and high investments (network, systems and financial)
  • Leverage progressing towards post-O2 UK sale target (2.38x as of Dec-15)
  • Substantial diversified financing reinforcing credit quality
  • Managing asset portfolio to improve ROCE

Delivering on operating guidance in all metrics

Revenue & OIBDA growth with margin stabilisation

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Revenue 2015 (organic y-o-y growth)

Strong organic revenue increase in 2015

Engines of organic growth

  • o Mobile data: Q4 15 +18.7% y-o-y (FY 15 +16.9%)
  • o T. Hispam: Q4 15 +8.1% y-o-y (FY 15 +10.1%)

Revenue mix improvement

  • o BB Connectivity & SoC: 43% o/total; +5 p.p. y-o-y
  • o Access & Voice: <50% o/total for the first time ever (47%)

Improving OIBDA growth in 2015

  • Positive, meaningful operating leverage
  • o Revenue flow-through
  • o Execution in synergies & simplification initiatives
  • Maintaining cost control: FY +4.6% y-o-y organic
  • Good momentum in organic OIBDA margin: ongoing expansion in absolute level and y-o-y stabilisation

Capturing value for Revenue per Access expansion

Quality platform

Accesses (y-o-y organic; LTE reported) Accesses base

Strengthened customer value

Average Revenue / Access (organic y-o-y) Accesses y-o-y organic

Profitable growth driven by high quality connections

Strong momentum in KPIs

  • o Added 6.1m LTE devices in Q4; +42% y-o-y; +22% q-o-q
  • o 271k fiber connections net adds in Q4
  • o Pay-TV take-up gaining traction to 8.3m accesses
  • o Record mobile contract net adds in the last 6 Qs (1.7m)
  • T. Hispam delivered accesses growth (42% o/total): +2% y-o-y

Excellent customer retention

  • Continued churn reduction across regions coupled with higher commercial activity (growth and quality services)
  • Enhancing customer experience
  • o Customer knowledge embedded in every decision taken

Data monetisation: Accelerating data growth

2015 revenue (y-o-y organic)

Data Non-SMS data

Strong mobile data performance

LTE: Outstanding dynamics

  • o LTE traffic (4x y-o-y) is 20% of mobile data traffic in Q4
  • o Double digit LTE ARPU uplift
  • Continued smartphone growth: 48% penetration (+15 p.p. y-o-y)
  • o Q4 avg. usage per smartphone +27% y-o-y (643 MB/month)
  • o Capturing the prepay data opportunity in Brazil & T. Hispam
    • o T. Hispam prepay penetration: 29% (+11 p.p. y-o-y)
    • o Double digit prepay ARPU uplift once client uses data
  • o Roaming initiative to foster usage and improve experience

Continued monetisation data usage

  • o Mobile data traffic up 45% vs. Q4 14
  • o ~30% of customers run-out of data
  • o >40% of customer hitting caps buy extra data
  • o Further usage & monetisation through data test drive

Connectivity & data monetisation is starting; but it is just the first wave

Digital Services: Driving innovation and value

  • M2M (€169m; +16.5%): future-proofing solutions. 4G-LTE IoT: new "Smart m2m" solutions
  • LTE supporting surge in data usage: 56% of purchased smartphones were LTE. Joint Procurement Program w/ China Unicom
  • Big Data: consolidating worldwide reach. China Unicom JV: "Smart Steps" technology in China

Investor Relations Telefónica, S.A.

Combining partnerships with in-house capabilities to support open ecosystems

TGR: Creating value through transformation

All-IP Transformation

All IP & Network Innovation

  • All-IP Architecture: Starting to shutdown legacy Copper COs
  • VoLTE launched in Germany
  • LTE-A with 2 carriers available
  • R&D 5G lab to develop and test 5G technologies
  • Automatised Virtual Network Functions deployment trials

Transforming Operations

  • 4 Global Centers launched, delivering results
  • o E2E diagnosis and integrated field force management
  • o Home Gateway Unit (ONT+router+video bridge)
    • o Up to 300Mbps speed
  • o >60% new home devices designed by Devices Global Center

  • Full Stack Acceleration: 15 countries

  • Digitalisation capabilities:
  • o Boosting Big Data and Real Time Decision
  • Maintained Record IT Service Delivery -40%

13% Full Stack Customers

Telxius: A global infrastructure Company

Optimising TEF's asset portfolio & improving ROCE by bringing together best-in-class infrastructure assets

  • Specialised and focused management of the telecommunications infrastructure
  • Targeting to increase services provided to other operators
  • More active participation in growth opportunities of the industry, including the possibility of acquiring third party assets
  • More of TEF's assets expected to be progressively incorporated (towers, DAS, Small Cells, Backhaul)

Tower business

  • ~15k telecommunication towers out of ~62k total owned by Telefónica
  • o ~11k towers in Spain; ~4k in other countries
  • Primary functions include to build, maintain and operate passive tower infrastructure

Cable Business Submarine cable business

  • Extensive international network with over 65k km of which 31k km of proprietary submarine fiber optic cable
  • o SAM-1 (25k km) the largest submarine cable connecting the US with LatAm
  • o PCCS (6k km) linking Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, the Caribbean and the US
  • o Unisur (0.2k km) linking Argentina and Uruguay
  • Capacity & IP businesses
  • o Capacity: >3.5Tbps of lit capacity on submarine systems
  • o IP: >4.5Tbps of IP traffic delivered during peak hours
  • o Non-TEF clients representing approx. 50% of revs
  • International Tier 1 Network
  • o Reduce traffic costs and improve sustainability on peering agreements; maximise content access quality

Considering different strategic alternatives

CapEx is paying off

2015 OpCF

CapEx intensity in technology leadership

Driving competitive advantage

  • o Transforming networks and systems (Fiber, LTE, Full Stacks…)
  • o CapEx/Sales 13-14% in Germany & Spain and 19% in LatAm
  • Reinforcing our network position and securing future growth through spectrum acquisition
  • o Passing peak investment for spectrum, expected to be lower in the coming years

Back to growth in OpCF

  • Investment boost enabled us to become a stronger Co.
  • Improved trends throughout the year led by enhanced profitability and targeted efficiencies (CapEx+OpEx)
  • Simplification, CapEx optimisation and prioritisation

Mr. Angel Vilá CSFO

Key financials

FY 15 Q4 15

in millions
Reported Organic
y-o-y
Reported Organic
y-o-y
Revenues 47,219 4.0% 11,881 3.3%
OIBDA 11,414 3.6% 401 3.8%
OIBDA Margin 24.2% (0.1 p.p.) 3.4% 0.2 p.p.
OpCF
(ex-spectrum)
3,420 1.9% (2,078) 17.6%
Net Income 2,745 (1,832)
EPS 0.51 (0.38)
FCF 3,514 2,307
FCF pre-spectrum 4,821
Net Financial
Debt
49,921
FY 15 Q4 15

in millions
Underlying Underlying
OIBDA 14,926 3,781
OIBDA Margin 31.3% 31.8%
OpCF
(ex-spectrum)
6,872 1,302
FY 15
Underlying Underlying
y-o-y
Net Income (€
in millions)
5,787 29.7%
EPS (€) 1.12 23.9%

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

  • TOTAL Personnel reorganisation: -€3,122m in OIBDA in Q4 (T. España Voluntary Employment Suspension Plan: -€2,896m, Other Companies: -€227m, mainly Telefónica Headquarters)
  • Additionally, Q4 includes, among others, commitments in the following years relating to TEF's Foundation: -€325m in OIBDA

Reported Q4 reflects non-recurrent & FX

Maintaining a solid FCF generation

Spain: Sustained momentum, new market dynamics

Net adds FY 15 (000)

FY 14 FY 15 Q4 15

Reinforced leadership based on value

  • Excellent trading balance: higher loyalty and gross adds
  • o Solid Q4 net adds improving q-o-q
  • o Churn decline y-o-y despite eliminating retention
  • "Fusión" ARPU uplift: +7.3% y-o-y to €74.4 in Q4
  • o 4.2m base (+13% y-o-y); 36% with mobile add-ons
  • Largest Pay TV platform
  • o 3.7m customers (+10% y-o-y organic)
  • o "TV Premium" promo reached ~700K customers in Q4
  • Largest FTTH in Europe: 14.3m premises passed (+4.0m y-o-y)
  • LTE expansion: 75% pop. coverage (+17 p.p. y-o-y)

"More for more": further commercial upgrades

  • New tariff repositioning from Q1 16
  • o "Fusión", mobile contract, FBB non convergent
  • Best content guaranteed until 2018/19

Spain: Strong revenue recovery in 2015

Revenue ex-DTS 2015 (y-o-y)

Including DTS since May (y-o-y organic)

OIBDA including DTS 2015

(since May, ex non-recurrent)

y-o-y

Solid start from a leading position

Second consecutive quarter of revenue growth (ex-DTS)

  • o Strong performance in IT and handset sales in Q4
  • o Growth y-o-y decelerated vs. Q3 partly due to TV promo
  • FY Revenue including DTS (May 1st) €12.4Bn: -2.1% y-o-y organic
  • Successful TV add-ons uptake post promo
  • o ~€30m incremental revenue (Q1 16E vs. Q4 15)
  • o Pay TV penetration still at 30%

Profitability reflecting TV promo

  • Non-recurrent: Restructuring costs, tower and real estate sales gains and adjustment in DTS supplies in Q3
  • OIBDA (ex -DTS) non-representative due to content cost allocation
  • FY organic margin incl. DTS: 42.1% (-1.0 p.p. y-o-y)
  • Q4 net content cost including DTS: -8.1% y-o-y organic
  • o Q4 net content cost/Pay TV sub: -16.8% y-o-y organic

Spain: A reference in efficiency; new plan 16-17

Voluntary Employment Suspension Plan Impacts

  • Adapt the organization to the new competitive, economic and technological reality
  • Conditions
  • o 2 year plan (2016-2017)
  • o Minimum age: 53 years old before YE 17 with at least 15 year in the Co.
  • o 68% of salary until age of 65 + social security + social benefits fully covered by TEF
  • o Periods to join: Jan-Mar 16; Jan-Mar 17. Acceptance so far in line with expectations
  • o Will leave no later than Dec-17
  • Agreed with largest unions
  • Other agreements
  • o Salary increases: +1.9% in 2016; +1.5% in 2017
  • o Job creation through the incorporation of young talent

Speeding up transformation to improve profitability in a new growth cycle

Germany: Successfully maintained momentum

Contract net adds 2015 ('000)

Ex-adjustments: 400k in Q4 15; 428k in Q4 14

Solid commercial performance

  • Rational and dynamic market
  • Contract delivers growth & loyalty
  • o Solid LTE demand: 7.9m base (+13% q-o-q) to 19% penetration
  • o LTE coverage at 75% (+13 p.p. y-o-y)
  • o Contract churn improved 0.2 p.p. to 1.7% in Q4
  • VDSL drives fixed performance
  • o Strong VDSL net adds in Q4: 73k (+12% y-o-y)

2015 Revenue (y-o-y organic)

Slight MSR market share increase

Sequential top line improvement

  • o Strong handset sales (Q4 +17.9% y-o-y vs. Q3 +2.7%) on Christmas promotions
  • o Better fixed trends (Q4: -3.2% y-o-y vs. Q3: -9.5%)

Continued data monetisation

  • o 40% of new O2 Blue opting for a tariff with >1GB
  • MSR (+0.1% vs. FY14) meets outlook; higher contribution from partners

Germany: Anticipated synergies drive growth

OIBDA 2015

OIBDA margin 2015

Organic ex non-recurrent y-o-y

Strong profitability

  • Better OIBDA growth trends throughout 2015 (+35.5% in Q4)
  • Synergies & commercial efficiencies drive exceptional OIBDA growth
  • o Synergies: >50% of Q4 OIBDA growth; successful execution in first full year of integration
  • o Leavers programme: 50% of total target
  • o Shop footprint reduction: 80% of target
  • o In-city consolidation of facilities: 30% of target
  • o 3G National roaming
  • o Focused subsidy approach based on retention of value base
  • Continued OIBDA margin expansion to 23.9% in Q4
  • FY 15 OpCF at €826m (>2x vs 2014)
  • o Rev & OpEx synergies of €140m
  • o CapEx synergies of €140m
  • Reported OIBDA (2015: €1,858m; Q4: €586m) affected by
  • o Final agreement on E-Plus purchase price (Q4: +€102 m)
  • o Restructuring expenses (2015: €73m; Q4: €7m)
  • 2015 OIBDA & synergies meet upgraded outlook

Brazil: Capturing value across segments

Outstanding commercial results

  • 97m customers in a market of >200m people
  • New portfolio of mobile tariffs launched in Nov-15 to further push market outperformance
  • o 69% Q4 contract net adds share (50% in FY 15)
  • o 100% of 2015 MSR market growth
  • Data ARPU: 52% of total (+15 p.p. vs. Q4 14) boosted by LTE
  • o LTE 15% penetration (+11 p.p. y-o-y)

Increased uptake of UBB & Pay TV

Growing share of UBB & Pay TV

  • o Capturing 100% of Pay TV market growth in 2015
  • o 52% UBB net adds share in 2015
  • 16.6m FTTx premises passed as of Dec-15 (4.7m FTTH ex. GVT)
  • o Increasing take-up ratio (3.8m HH connected vs 3.3m a year ago)

1.8m 3.8m

Brazil: Sustained market outperformance

Robust revenue performance

Balanced mobile & fixed growth

  • o Q4 MSR +2.7% y-o-y (+5.3% FY)
  • o Mobile revenue market share +5p.p. in 2015
  • o 2 nd consecutive Q leading fixed revenue growth
  • o Negative impact of regulation y-o-y (-2.5 p.p. Q4 15; -2.7 p.p. FY)
  • Accelerating mobile data trends (Q4 +37.6% y-o-y; FY +34.5%)
  • o Mobile data 49% o/MSR in Q4
  • o New data monetisation initiatives

Accelerating OIBDA growth despite macro

  • Outstanding OIBDA performance: +7.3% y-o-y in Q4; +2.9% in FY
  • o OpEx y-o-y well below inflation (Q4 15: +5.6%; FY: +6.1%)
  • o Better sequential costs trend; bad debt reduction standing out
  • Synergy initiatives aligned with Best case scenario
  • Organisation fully integrated and operating as a single Co.

Hispam: Sound performance on quality growth

Revenue 2015 (organic growth y-o-y)

Total Revenue Rev ex-handset

OIBDA Margin 2015

Organic margin y-o-y

Increase adoption of value services

  • Contract mobile consolidates improving trend in Q4
  • o Highest-ever net adds (732k; >3x y-o-y)
  • o Booming Smartphone & LTE penetration (+10 p.p. y-o-y & +6 p.p.)
  • Enhanced capabilities pushing bundled fixed services
  • o FBB speeds >4Mb: 54%; +4 p.p. y-o-y
  • o Growing Pay TV: best-ever net adds (380k in 2015; +27% y-o-y)

Solid top line growth & profitability over the year

Sequential revenue growth deceleration

  • o Lower handset sales y-o-y (Q4: -5.0%; Q3: +13.7%)
  • o Tariffs promotions & repositioning in MEX / different seasonality on tariffs update in ARG
  • o Strong Pay TV & FBB top line expansion
  • Solid OIBDA increase (Q4: +4.0% y-o-y; FY: +7.2%)
  • o Efficiency measures and cost rationalisation offsetting FX impact and higher commercial expenses

Hispam: Commercial momentum; solid performance

Revenue (organic y-o-y)

Q4 15 FY 15
  • Mexico
  • o Strengthening market position with Q4 best-ever net adds (postpay and prepay); LTE coverage of 45m POPs at Dec-15
  • o Sound FY Rev, OIBDA & OpCF increase; Q4 deceleration on intense tariff promotions and higher commercial costs

Colombia:

  • o Continued momentum on value segments: highest quarterly net adds of last 2 years (72k) in contract mobile
  • o Sequential OIBDA margin improvement (Q4 36.3% vs. Q3 34.3%) despite commercial intensity
  • Peru:
  • o Robust accesses (contract mobile +13%; FBB +8%; Pay TV +27%) driving revenue & profitability improvement
  • o Data promotions underpinned traffic (2.5x vs. Q4 14)
  • Argentina:
  • o Rev & OIBDA y-o-y trends affected by seasonality of tariffs update & higher commercial expenses
  • Chile:
  • o Steady growth of contract mobile (+4%), FBB (+6%) and Pay TV (+7%)
  • o Lower handset sales & regulation dragging revenue y-o-y
  • VZ & CA:
  • o Handset availability limiting commercial trading and leading y-o-y margin expansion in Q4

UK: Gaining market value

Substantial progress in commercial momentum

Strongest quarterly contract net adds in 2015

  • o Solid gross adds on successful propositions
  • o O2 had the most satisfied customers in the mobile market for the 7th year in a row (Ofcom)

LTE as main lever of growth

  • o LTE Penetration: 35% (+5 p.p. q-o-q)
  • o 80% outdoor coverage at Dec-15

Continued revenue growth

  • Total revenue up 4.6% y-o-y in FY ex "O2 Refresh"
  • o Ongoing customer appetite for high-value tariffs
  • o Q4 growth decelerating y-o-y
    • Primarily due to slowdown of high-end handset sales
  • Strong OIBDA margin on top-line progress and cost control
  • 2015 OIBDA grew 2.2% y-o-y ex non-recurrent
  • o Q4 OIBDA maintained similar growth to Q3

Leverage in line for reaching the target

Effective interest cost below guidance

Sources of financing

€ in billions

Chairman & CEO

Summary

2016 Maintain revenue momentum; Significant data monetisation
potential
2016 Accelerate in transformation, Synergies & Simplification
2016 Ongoing investments & Attractive shareholder remuneration

GROW PROFITABLY; MAINTAINING FINANCIAL FLEXIBILITY

Investor Relations Telefónica, S.A.

For further information: Investor Relations Tel. +34 94 482 87 00 [email protected] www.telefonica.com/investors