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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 6-K

 

 

REPORT OF A FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of February 2020

Commission File Number: 1-16269

 

 

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.

(Exact Name of the Registrant as Specified in the Charter)

 

 

America Mobile

(Translation of Registrant’s Name into English)

 

 

Lago Zurich 245

Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel, Piso 16

Colonia Ampliación Granada, Miguel Hidalgo

11529 Mexico City, Mexico

(Address of Principal Executive Office)

 

 

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América Móvil’s fourth quarter of

2019 financial and operating report

 

 

Mexico City, February 11th, 2020 - América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (“América Móvil”) [BMV: AMX] [NYSE: AMX, AMOV], announced today its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter of 2019.

 

 

We added 1.9 million mobile postpaid subscribers in the fourth quarter, including 1.2 million in Brazil, 242 thousand in Mexico and 101 thousand in Colombia. On the fixed-line platform we obtained 181 thousand fixed-broadband clients.

 

 

Mobile postpaid and fixed-broadband remain the main drivers of access growth at 8.1% and 4.2% year-on-year respectively, while mobile prepaid subs declined 2.3% and fixed-voice accesses and PayTV units were down 2.2% and 2.8%.

 

 

Revenues of 263 billion pesos were flat year-on-year in Mexican peso terms on account of the appreciation of the Mexican peso vs. all other operating currencies.

 

 

At constant exchange rates (excluding Argentina, given that it is subject to inflation-adjusted accounting) service revenues accelerated to 3.2% from 2.5% in the prior quarter with those on the mobile platform growing 5.7% year-over-year—15.6% in Brazil, 8.5% in Colombia, 7.6% in Mexico and 5.7% in our European operations—and those on the fixed one practically flat.

 

 

Under IFRS16 our EBITDA came in at 81.7 billion pesos in the fourth quarter and was equivalent to 31.1% of revenues. Under comparable accounting standards, and at constant exchange rates ex-Argentina, EBITDA shot up 7.6% after adjusting for extraordinary items in Brazil, Austria and Mexico.

 

 

EBITDA growth accelerated in Peru to 22%; Central America to 17.8%, the U.S. to 16.3%; Colombia to 14.5%, Mexico to 5.9% (organic) and Brazil to 4.7% after adjusting for extraordinary items.

 

 

Our 44.6 billion pesos operating profit and 8.0 billion pesos in comprehensive financing costs resulted in a net profit of 21.2 billion in the quarter, 63.4% more than in the year-earlier quarter.

 

 

Including capitalized obligations, our net debt ended the year at 677 billion pesos. Under IAS17 our net debt to EBITDA ratio stood at 1.95x.

 

 

Acquisitions came in at 24.9 billion pesos, principally accounted for by Nextel Brazil. In addition we reduced pension obligations by 20.2 billion pesos, mainly in Telmex and covered shareholder distributions of 22.9 billion pesos, mostly by way of dividends.


América Móvil Fundamentals

 

 
     4Q19                                                   4Q18  

 

 

Earnings per Share (Mex$)(1)

     0.32        0.20  

 

 

Earning per ADR (US$)(2)

     0.33        0.20  

 

 

EBITDA per Share (Mex$)(3)

     1.24        1.09  

 

 

EBITDA per ADR (US$)

     1.28        1.10  

 

 

Net Income (millions of Mex$)

     21,194        12,971  

 

 

Average Shares Outstanding (billion)

     66.01        66.04  

 

 

(1) Net Income / Average Shares outstanding

(2) 20 shares per ADR

(3) EBITDA/ Average Shares Outstanding

América Móvil’s Subsidiaries as of December 2019    

 

 
Country    Brand    Business   

Equity

Participation

 

 

 

Mexico

  

Telcel

  

wireless

     100.0%  

 

 
  

Telmex

  

wireline

     98.8%  

 

 
  

Sección Amarilla(1)

  

other

     100.0%  

 

 
  

Telvista

  

other

     90.0%

 

 

Argentina

  

Claro

  

wireless

     100.0%  

 

 
  

Telmex

  

wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Brazil

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     98.5%

 

 

Chile

  

Claro

  

wireless

     100.0%  

 

 
  

Telmex(1)

  

wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Colombia

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     99.4%  

 

 

Costa Rica

  

Claro

  

wireless

     100.0%  

 

 

Dominicana

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Ecuador

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

El Salvador

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     95.8%  

 

 

Guatemala

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     99.3%  

 

 

Honduras

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Nicaragua

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     99.6%  

 

 

Panama

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Paraguay

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Peru

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Puerto Rico

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

Uruguay

  

Claro

  

wireless/wireline

     100.0%  

 

 

USA

  

Tracfone

  

wireless

     100.0%  

 

 

Netherlands

  

KPN

  

wireless/wireline

     16.1%  

 

 

Austria

  

Telekom Austria

  

wireless/wireline

     51.0%  

 

 

(1) Equity Participation of TELINT of which América Móvil owns 100%.


Beginning January 1st, 2019 we implemented IFRS 16 accounting standards. The information presented in this report was prepared in a prospective basis; comparable information is provided in the appendix.

The reported figures for Argentina corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2019 and the period January-December 2019 are presented in accordance with a) IAS29 reflecting the effects of the adoption of inflationary accounting that became mandatory after the Argentinean economy was deemed to be hyperinflationary in the third quarter of 2018 and b) IAS21 translated to Mexican pesos using the end-of-period exchange rate.

All comparisons at constant exchange rates for América Móvil’s consolidated figures will exclude Argentina to ensure consistency.

Relevant Events

 

 

On December 18th, we completed the acquisition of 100% of Nextel Brazil from NII Holdings. With this transaction, AMX consolidates its operations as one of the leading telecommunication service providers in Brazil, strengthening its mobile network capacity, spectrum portfolio and market position in the postpaid segment, particularly in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

On January 27th,Teléfonos del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V. (“Telnor”), was notified of a fine imposed by the IFT for an amount of MXP$1,311.8 million derived from a proceeding with respect to the alleged breach to the availability of information of certain passive infrastructure (post, duct) in the management electronic system used for the request of wholesale services from Telnor. Due to the lack of a due process, América Móvil and Telnor do not share the way the proceeding was conducted, nor the resolution approved by the IFT’s commissioners and will exercise all legal remedies to challenge it. This arbitrary, illegal and disproportionate fine affects the legal certainty in a sector that requires important investments for its development.

Access Lines

 

 

We finished the year with 278 million wireless subscribers after net disconnections of 689 thousand. This figure comprises 1.9 million postpaid net gains and 2.6 million prepaid disconnections. Our postpaid base was up 8.1% to 89 million subs. Brazil led the way in terms of postpaid growth after adding 1.2 million subs, followed by Mexico with 242 thousand and Colombia with 101 thousand. The prepaid base ended the quarter with 189.1 million subs, 2.3% below last year.

On the fixed-line segment we had nearly 84 million RGUs, after disconnections of 333 thousand units as new broadband accesses could not compensate for the disconnections of voice and PayTV units. We had 31 million fixed broadband connections at the end of December, 4.2% more than a year before with our main markets Brazil and Mexico, similar in size, growing 1.9% and 0.7%, respectively. Several markets including the Central America block, Argentina, Peru and Ecuador observed double digit growth.

Mobile postpaid and fixed-broadband continued to be the main drivers of access growth at 8.1% and 4.2%, respectively with mobile overtaking fixed broadband for the first time in several quarters. Mobile prepaid and PayTV accesses declined 2.3% and 2.8%, respectively, while fixed-voice accesses were down 2.2% from a year before.


Wireless Subscribers as of December 2019

     Total(1) (Thousands)  

 

 
Country    Dec ’19      Sep ’19      Var.%      Dec ’18      Var.%    

 

 

Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

     24,634        24,536        0.4%        24,264        1.5%    

 

 

Austria & CEE

     21,296        21,520        -1.0%        21,029        1.3%    

 

 

Brazil

     54,488        56,451        -3.5%        56,416        -3.4%    

 

 

Central America

     15,488        15,290        1.3%        14,364        7.8%    

 

 

Caribbean

     6,244        6,139        1.7%        5,887        6.1%    

 

 

Chile

     6,873        6,779        1.4%        6,707        2.5%    

 

 

Colombia

     31,104        30,577        1.7%        29,681        4.8%    

 

 

Ecuador

     8,493        8,422        0.8%        8,246        3.0%    

 

 

Mexico

     76,918        76,150        1.0%        75,448        1.9%    

 

 

Peru

     11,611        11,623        -0.1%        12,098        -4.0%    

 

 

USA

     20,876        21,229        -1.7%        21,688        -3.7%    

 

 

Total Wireless Lines

     278,027        278,716        -0.2%        275,827        0.8%    

 

 

(1) Includes total subscribers of all companies in which América Móvil holds an economic interest; does not consider the date in which the companies started being consolidated.

Fixed-Line and Other Accesses (RGUs) as of December 2019

                                                                                                        
     Total(1) (Thousands)  

 

 
Country    Dec ’19      Sep ’19      Var.%      Dec ’18      Var.%    

 

 

Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

     1,114        1,023        8.9%        775        43.8%    

 

 

Austria & CEE

     6,143        6,135        0.1%        6,203        -1.0%    

 

 

Brazil

     34,048        34,448        -1.2%        35,285        -3.5%    

 

 

Central America

     7,095        7,031        0.9%        6,465        9.7%    

 

 

Caribbean

     2,528        2,537        -0.4%        2,546        -0.7%    

 

 

Chile

     1,400        1,418        -1.3%        1,424        -1.7%    

 

 

Colombia

     7,613        7,555        0.8%        7,171        6.2%    

 

 

Ecuador

     446        431        3.3%        384        15.9%    

 

 

Mexico

     21,992        22,158        -0.8%        22,337        -1.5%    

 

 

Peru

     1,603        1,578        1.6%        1,472        8.9%    

 

 

Total RGUs

     83,983        84,315        -0.4%        84,062        -0.1%    

 

 

(1) Fixed Line, Broadband and Television (Cable & DTH).

América Móvil Consolidated Results

 

 

With U.S. long-term interest rates stabilizing in the fourth quarter after a sharp decline that began in February 2019 and the stock market reaching all-time highs on the back of sustained economic momentum and the said reduction in interest rates, the year ended on an improving note on the U.S. economic front. In this context, coupled with weak but improving levels of economic activity in Latin America’s larger countries, the currencies in the region generally strengthened or were stable throughout the quarter with the noted exception of the Chilean peso that depreciated as a result of the social unrest in last November.

Our fourth quarter revenues totaled 263 billion pesos, including “other revenues”, of 2.6 billion pesos derived from the restructuring of certain amounts owed under equipment lease agreements in Mexico. In Mexican peso terms our revenues were flat year-on-year, reflecting the depreciation of our currencies vs. the Mexican peso that appreciated 11.3% against the Brazilean real, 10.6% vs. the Colombian peso, 14.3% vs. the Chilean peso, 6.0% vs. the euro and 3.0% vs. the dollar. At constant exchange rates service revenues actually accelerated to a pace of 3.2% year-on-year from 2.5% the prior quarter (excluding Argentina because of its hyperinflationary situation) with continued strong performance in the mobile platform and improving trends on the fixed one. Three of our top four operations posted positive revenue growth on both fixed and mobile platforms; a year ago only one did.


Mobile service revenues kept picking up, with their annual rate of growth hitting 5.7% from 4.6% in the third quarter whereas our fixed revenues were practically flat, marking their best showing in 2019 as fixed-broadband growth roughly made up for revenue losses in voice and PayTV.

On the mobile platform, our Brazilian operations posted a 15.6% increase, aided by continued market share gains in the postpaid segment: in fact, mobile postpaid revenues soared 21%. In the Dominican Republic mobile service revenues were up 8.9%; in Colombia 8.5%; in Mexico 7.6% and in our European operations 5.7%. Save for Mexico, all the countries mentioned before posted their best performances in more than a year—if not ever. As for fixed-service revenue growth, it reached nearly 14% in Paraguay; 8.6% in Colombia; 7.8% in Ecuador and 4.0% in Peru.

Postpaid mobile services became our most dynamic business segment, with growth accelerating to nearly 8% from 5.8% the prior quarter, overtaking fixed broadband services, at 7.1%. Mobile prepaid services and corporate networks followed, with revenue growth of 3.8% and 1.3%, respectively.

Under IFRS16 our EBITDA came in at 81.7 billion pesos in the fourth quarter, corresponding to a 31.1% EBITDA margin. At constant exchange rates, our organic EBITDA (IAS17) was up 7.6% adjusting for extraordinary items in Mexico, Austria and in Brazil in the fourth quarter of 2018, reflecting greater operating leverage.

We observed double-digit EBITDA growth in several countries—Peru, 22%; Central America 17.8%; the U.S. 16.3%, Colombia, 14.5%, México, 5.9% (organic)—with Brazil expanding 4.7% after the above-mentioned adjustment. The EBITDA margins increased approximately 1 percentage point in each of Mexico, Telekom Austria (excluding restructuring costs), Argentina, the U.S. and Colombia, with Central America and Peru presenting margin increases of 4 to 5 percentage points.


América Móvil’s Income Statement Millions of Mexican pesos

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)      Jan - Dec 18(2)      Var.%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     209,055        213,694        -2.2%        829,831        860,985        -3.6%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     50,980        49,332        3.3%        172,983        174,560        -0.9%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     263,187        263,310        0.0%        1,007,348        1,038,208        -3.0%  

 

 

Cost of Service

     74,042        81,944        -9.6%        297,193        328,808        -9.6%  

 

 

Cost of Equipment

     50,969        52,101        -2.2%        174,544        180,014        -3.0%  

 

 

Selling, General & Administrative Expenses

     54,504        57,620        -5.4%        215,994        227,192        -4.9%  

 

 

Others

     1,923        -137        n.m.        5,862        6,923        -15.3%  

 

 

Total Costs and Expenses

     181,438        191,528        -5.3%        693,592        742,938        -6.6%  

 

 

EBITDA

     81,749        71,783        13.9%(3)        313,756        295,270        6.3%(3)  

 

 

% of Total Revenues

     31.1%        27.3%           31.1%        28.4%     

 

 

Depreciation & Amortization

     37,126        35,877        3.5%        158,915        155,713        2.1%  

 

 

EBIT

     44,622        35,906        24.3%(3)        154,841        139,557        11.0%(3)  

 

 

% of Total Revenues

     17.0%        13.6%           15.4%        13.4%     

 

 

Net Interest Expense

     5,204        1,387        275.2%        31,627        21,125        49.7%  

 

 

Other Financial Expenses

     4,528        -8,111        155.8%        7,075        10,176        -30.5%  

 

 

Foreign Exchange Loss

     -1,686        16,036        -110.5%        -5,226        7,262        -172.0%  

 

 

Comprehensive Financing Cost (Income)

     8,045        9,311        -13.6%(3)        33,476        38,564        -13.2%(3)  

 

 

Income & Deferred Taxes

     15,317        13,363        14.6%        51,034        46,477        9.8%  

 

 

Net Income before Minority

                 

Interest and Equity Participation in Results

of Affiliates

     21,260        13,232        60.7%        70,331        54,517        29.0%  

 

 

Equity Participation in Results of Affiliates

     -24        11        -319.8%        -18        0        n.m.  

 

 

Minority Interest

     -41        -272        84.8%        -2,583        -1,951        -32.4%  

 

 

Net Income

     21,194        12,971        63.4%(3)        67,731        52,566        28.8%(3)  

 

 

(1)  Under IFRS 16.

(2)  Under IAS 17.

(3)  The comparison is for reference only. It is not meaningful given figures were obtained with different methodologies. Comparable information is provided in the appendix 1.

*Total revenues include Other Revenues.

n.m. Not meaningful.

We obtained a 44.6 billion pesos operating profit that, after factoring in 8.0 billion pesos in comprehensive financing costs, helped bring about a 21.2 billion net profit in the period, a 63.4% increase from the year-earlier quarter. Our net profit was equivalent to 32 peso cents per share or 33 dollar cents per ADR.

Including capitalized obligations, our net debt ended the year at 677 billion pesos, 7.2 billion pesos lower than at the end of 2018. Under IAS17, excluding capitalized obligations from the debt and substracting lease payments from our EBITDA, our net debt to EBITDA ratio stood at 1.95 times. In cash flow terms we increased our net debt by 16.3 billion pesos in 2019.

Shareholder distributions totaled 22.9 billion pesos, mostly by way of dividends, while acquisitions came in at 24.9 billion pesos, principally having to do with Nextel Brazil. In addition we reduced pension obligations by 20.2 billion pesos, mainly in Telmex.


Balance Sheet - América Móvil Consolidated Millions of Mexican Pesos

 

     Dec ‘19*    Dec ‘18    Var.%           Dec ‘19*    Dec ‘18    Var.%

 

Current Assets

            Current Liabilities         

 

Cash, Marketable Securities & Other Short Term Ivestments

   67,464    70,676      -4.5    Short Term Debt*    129,172    96,231    34.2%

 

Accounts Receivable

   211,532    221,514      -4.5    Lease-Related Debt    25,895      

 

Other Current Assets

   10,747    16,560      -35.1    Accounts Payable    272,556    278,391    -2.1%

 

Inventories

   41,102    40,305      2.0    Other Current Liabilities    97,777    92,469    5.7%

 

   330,844    349,056      -5.2       525,400    467,091    12.5%

 

                    

 

Non Current Assets

            Non Current Liabilities         

 

Plant & Equipment

   639,343    640,001      -0.1    Long Term Debt    495,082    542,692    -8.8%

 

Rights of Use

   118,003          Lease-Related Debt    94,702      

 

Investments in Affiliates

   2,474    3,133      -21.0    Other Liabilities    189,843    173,568    9.4%

 

               779,627    716,260    8.8%

 

Deferred Assets

                    

 

Goodwill (Net)

   152,900    145,566      5.0            

 

Intangible Assets

   125,169    122,138      2.5    Shareholder’s Equity    226,907    245,872    -7.7%

 

Deferred Assets

   163,199    169,330      -3.6            

 

Total Assets

   1,531,934    1,429,223      7.2    Total Liabilities and Equity    1,531,934    1,429,223    7.2%

 

Includes current portion of Long Term Debt.

*Includes Nextel Brazil.

Financial Debt of América Móvil* Millions

 

 
                 Dec -19     

 

            Dec -18

 

 

 

Peso - denominated debt (MxP)

     80,129        72,501  

 

 

Bonds and other securities

     58,129        68,001  

 

 

Banks and others

     22,000        4,500  

 

 

U.S. Dollar - denominated debt (USD)

     9,472        9,947  

 

 

Bonds and other securities

     8,975        9,353  

 

 

Banks and others

     497        594  

 

 

Euro - denominated Debt (EUR)

     11,165        11,281  

 

 

Bonds and other securities

     11,065        11,036  

 

 

Banks and others

     100        245  

 

 

Sterling - denominated Debt (GBP)

     2,750        2,750  

 

 

Bonds and other securities

     2,750        2,750  

 

 

Reais - denominated Debt (BRL)

     7,475        6,480  

 

 

Bonds and other securities

     7,475        6,475  

 

 

Banks and others

     0        5  

 

 

Debt denominated in other currencies (MxP)

     26,045        14,203  

 

 

Bonds and other securities

     5,818        6,240  

 

 

Banks and others

     20,227        7,963  

 

 

Total Debt (MxP)

     624,254        638,922  

 

 

Cash, Marketable Securities and Short Term Financial Investments (MxP)

     67,464        70,676  

 

 

Net Debt (MxP)

     556,790        568,246  

 

 

*This table does not include the effect of forwards and derivatives used to hedge our foreign exchange exposure.


Mexico

 

We gained 242 thousand new postpaid clients in Mexico in the fourth quarter and 526 thousand prepaids to finish the year with nearly 77 million wireless subscribers, 1.9% more than we had at the end of 2018. Altogether we added almost 1.5 million subscribers throughout the year. On the fixed-line platform we disconnected 166 thousand accesses in the quarter, substantially all of them fixed-voice, ending the year with 22 million accesses, 1.5% less than a year before.

At 81.7 billion pesos, our revenues were up 6.4% from the year-earlier quarter, which includes under “other revenues”, 2.6 billion pesos derived from the restructuring of certain amounts owed under equipment lease agreements.

Service revenues expanded 5.0% with mobile service revenues increasing 7.6% on the back of strong prepaid-revenue growth, 10.7%. ARPUs kept on rising to 154 pesos, a 5.8% year-on-year increase, driven by continued advances in data-services usage per client.

Fixed-line service revenues increased 0.8% after several quarters of declines mostly on the back of broadband revenue growth and corporate networks.

EBITDA totaled 30.1 billion pesos under IFRS 16. Under comparable financial standards it rose 12.7% from the prior year, but adjusting for one-off items it was up 5.9% on the strength of service revenue growth on both fixed and mobile platforms.

We have been expanding wireless coverage to reach smaller towns and rural areas. On the fixed platform we have also been more active in building fiber to the home and upgrading our network to provide greater speeds.

INCOME STATEMENT - Mexico Millions of MxP

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19 (1)     

 

Jan - Dec 18(2)

     Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     81,710        76,788        6.4%        295,184        284,512        3.8%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     54,508        51,889        5.0%        212,062        203,026        4.5%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     58,382        54,377        7.4%        210,319        197,073        6.7%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     35,110        32,635        7.6%        135,573        126,164        7.5%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     23,272        21,742        7.0%        74,746        70,908        5.4%  

 

 

Fixed Line Service Revenues

     19,398        19,253        0.8%        76,489        76,862        -0.5%  

 

 

EBITDA

     30,149        24,582           109,370        94,001     

 

 

% total revenues

     36.9%        32.0%           37.1%        33.0%     

 

 

EBIT

     23,243        17,854           76,252        64,839     

 

 

%

     28.4%        23.3%           25.8%        22.8%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions.

Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16.

(2) Under IAS 17.

Mexico Operating Data

 

 
    

 

                4Q19

                     4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     76,918        75,448        1.9%  

 

 

Postpaid

     14,350        13,512        6.2%  

 

 

Prepaid

     62,569        61,936        1.0%  

 

 

MOU

     535        526        1.9%  

 

 

ARPU (MxP)(1)

     154        145        5.8%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     4.4%        4.4%        (0.0)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     21,992        22,337        -1.5%  

 

 

Fixed Lines

     12,299        12,715        -3.3%  

 

 

Broadband

     9,693        9,622        0.7%  

 

 

*Fixed Line and Broadband.

(1) Under IFRS 15.


Argentina

 

For comparison purposes all comments in this section related to annual variations of the presented period for Argentina refer to figures in constant peso terms, that is, adjusted for inflation in accordance to NIC 29. Information for Uruguay and Paraguay is not presented in the table.

Revenues in Argentina declined 4.9% annually at constant pesos to 24.8 billion Argentinean pesos. Mobile service revenues were down 5.8% with those of the prepaid segment falling 0.6% and postpaid coming down 8.4% somewhat more than in the prior quarter as we became more promotional in the holiday season. Fixed service revenues fell 5.8%, we are offering discounts in the aim to gain scale in the fixed market.

In an effort to maintain profitability, we have been able to reduce costs and expenses by 8.9% year-on-year. EBITDA (under IFRS16) was 10.1 billion Argentinean pesos, and the EBITDA margin stood at 40.9% of revenues. Under comparable accounting standards, it declined only 2.2% in real terms, but the margin expanded 1.1 percentage points.

INCOME STATEMENT - Argentina Millions of Constant ARS of December 2019

 

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)     

 

Jan - Dec  18(2)

     Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     24,770        26,033        -4.9%        100,738        108,662        -7.3%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     19,551        20,762        -5.8%        81,199        86,538        -6.2%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     22,449        23,851        -5.9%        92,416        101,702        -9.1%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     19,551        20,762        -5.8%        81,199        86,538        -6.2%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     5,059        5,193        -2.6%        19,218        21,959        -12.5%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     2,160        2,104        2.7%        8,001        6,795        17.8%  

 

 

EBITDA

     10,121        9,947           41,622        41,969     

 

 

% total revenues

     40.9%        38.2%           41.3%        38.6%     

 

 

EBIT

     8,377        8,383           33,826        35,151     

 

 

%

     33.8%        32.2%           33.6%        32.3%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions.

Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16.

(2) Under IAS 17.

Argentina Operating Data

 

 
    

 

                4Q19

                     4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)(1)

     21,894        21,820        0.3%  

 

 

Postpaid

     8,448        8,381        0.8%  

 

 

Prepaid

     13,446        13,440        0.0%  

 

 

MOU

     77        80        -3.5%  

 

 

ARPU (ARP)(2)

     257        181        42.0%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     1.9%        1.9%        (0.0)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     781        465        68.0%  

 

 

*Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) Hybrid subscribers are now included in our postpaid figures

(2) Under IFRS 15.

Brazil

 

We added 1.2 million postpaid subscribers in the fourth quarter for a total of four million in the full year. We ended the year with a total of 54.5 million mobile customers, leading the portability net balance, with a record addition of customers that migrated their number to Claro.

As for the fixed-line platform, we added 22.4 thousand broadband accesses in the fourth quarter, maintaining our leadership in the market. We reached 5.9 million ultrabroadband accesses (connections faster than 34 Mbps). With the expansion to 52 new cities in 2019, our FTTH footprint reached 68 new cities. We are improving our market share position on these geographies and leading ultrabroadband adoption in Brazil.


Total revenues were up 3.1% year-on-year to 9.3 billion reais, with service revenues rising 3.2%. Mobile service revenues showed solid growth of 15.6%—its best showing ever—driven by outstanding growth in postpaid revenues that were up 21.0%.

On the fixed-line platform revenues declined 3.1%. Broadband revenues rose 9.5% but voice and PayTV revenues were off 16.5% and 8.2%. We added 15.6 thousand new broadband accesses and 843.1 thousand new M2M/IOT accesses in the fourth quarter of 2019.

EBITDA was 3.5 billion reais under IFRS16, representing an EBITDA margin of 37.4% of revenues. Under the prior accounting standards, and adjusting for the extraordinary booking last year of a profit derived from having won certain legal proceedings involving taxes, EBITDA was up 4.7% from a year before, with the EBITDA margin rising 50 basis points. For the full year, our EBITDA margin rose 1.1 percentage points in spite of record postpaid net adds.

In December, we completed the acquisition of Nextel in Brazil by virtue of which we will be adding approximately 3.5 million subscribers. Most of the clients are concentrated in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in which we will be adding three points to our postpaid share to reach 28% in the former, and seven points to get to 37% in the latter. Additionally, this transaction will strengthen Claro’s spectrum position.

INCOME STATEMENT - Brazil Millions of BrL

 

 

 
    

 

4Q19(1)

     4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)      Jan - Dec 18(2)      Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     9,298        9,021        3.1%        36,331        35,660        1.9%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     8,954        8,674        3.2%        35,146        34,505        1.9%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     3,734        3,275        14.0%        13,886        12,653        9.7%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     3,402        2,943        15.6%        12,763        11,549        10.5%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     332        332        0.0%        1,123        1,104        1.7%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     5,552        5,731        -3.1%        22,383        22,957        -2.5%  

 

 

EBITDA

     3,481        3,085           13,527        12,096     

 

 

% total revenues

     37.4%        34.2%           37.2%        33.9%     

 

 

EBIT

     1,423        1,362           5,501        4,044     

 

 

%

     15.3%        15.1%           15.1%        11.3%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions. Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16.

(2) Under IAS 17.

Brazil Operating Data

 

 
                     4Q19                      4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     54,488        56,416        -3.4%  

 

 

Postpaid

     27,491        23,506        17.0%  

 

 

Prepaid

     26,997        32,910        -18.0%  

 

 

MOU(1)

     161        118        35.7%  

 

 

ARPU (BrL)(2)

     20        17        20.5%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     5.7%        5.7%        (0.0)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     34,048        35,285        -3.5%  

 

 

*Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) We modified the methodology for calculating MOUs. We no longer include M2M subscribers.

Colombia

 

 

We added 101 thousand postpaid subscribers and 426 thousand prepaid subscribers in the quarter. Total net gains in 2019 of 1.4 million were four times greater than in the prior year. On the fixed-line platform, we obtained 58 thousand new RGUs.

Total revenues were 3.4 billion Colombian Pesos, with service revenue growth accelerating to 8.5% year-on-year—the best performance since 2Q18—and equipment revenues growing 25%.


Mobile service revenues of 1.6 billion Colombian pesos were up 8.5% from the year before, as prepaid revenue growth accelerated sharply to 11.2% from 4.8% in the prior quarter, while postpaid revenues grew 7.1% compared to 4.6% in the third quarter. Fixed-line service revenues increased 8.6%. Broadband is the single most important component of fixed service revenues it was up 12.2% in the fourth quarter, followed by PayTV that rose 5.8% year-on-year. At nearly 20%, corporate services is the fastest growing business line.

Under IFRS16 our EBITDA was 1.4 billion Colombian pesos, equivalent to 43.1%. On comparable standards, EBITDA grew 14.5%—the fastest pace in over a year.

In a spectrum auction that took place in the first days of January, we were granted the use of 20MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz frequency and 3 blocks of 10MHz each in the 2500 MHz band.

INCOME STATEMENT - Colombia Billions of COP

                                                                                                                                         

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)      Jan - Dec 18(2)      Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     3,354        2,998        11.9%        12,655        11,580        9.3%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     2,533        2,334        8.5%        9,752        9,210        5.9%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     2,374        2,081        14.1%        8,826        8,071        9.4%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     1,584        1,460        8.5%        6,072        5,820        4.3%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     790        621        27.2%        2,755        2,251        22.4%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     962        895        7.5%        3,756        3,457        8.7%  

 

 

EBITDA

     1,446        1,211           5,497        4,747     

 

 

%

     43.1%        40.4%           43.4%        41.0%     

 

 

EBIT

     901        678           3,235        2,700     

 

 

%

     26.9%        22.6%           25.6%        23.3%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions.

Total revenues include other income.

1) Under IFRS 16. (2) Under IAS 17.

 

Colombia Operating Data

                    

 

 
                 4Q19                  4Q18                  Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers* (thousands)

     31,104        29,681        4.8%  

 

 

Postpaid

     7,351        6,937        6.0%  

 

 

Prepaid

     23,753        22,744        4.4%  

 

 

MOU(1)

     293        225        30.4%  

 

 

ARPU (COP)(2)

     17,252        18,920        -8.8%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     4.8%        4.9%        (0.1)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)**

     7,613        7,171        6.2%  

 

 

*Due to differences in the policy for accounting active subscribers, the figures in this report are different from those published by the Ministry of Communications of Colombia (MinTIC). **Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) We modified the methodology for calculating MOUs. We no longer include M2M subscribers. (2) Under IFRS 15.

(2) Under IFRS 15.


Chile

 

 

Revenues of 211 billion Chilean pesos were 2.6% lower than those obtained in the prior year with service revenues declining 4.1%. On the mobile platform they were down 3.8% due to a mobile termination rate cut; however, revenues net of interconnection charges actually rose 3.7%. On the fixed platform, service revenues came down 4.4%.

Under IFRS16 EBITDA came in at 58.6 billion Chilean pesos, equivalent to 27.8% of revenues. Under the prior accounting methodology, EBITDA was 1.3% lower than that of the prior year.

INCOME STATEMENT - Chile Millions of ChPL

 

     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)     

 

Jan - Dec 18(2)

     Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     211,071        216,779        -2.6%        835,024        835,603        -0.1%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     171,730        178,998        -4.1%        682,766        713,874        -4.4%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     136,939        139,289        -1.7%        530,056        535,954        -1.1%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     97,648        101,509        -3.8%        379,221        414,301        -8.5%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     39,291        37,780        4.0%        150,835        121,653        24.0%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     74,082        77,489        -4.4%        303,545        299,573        1.3%  

 

 

EBITDA

     58,644        37,311           190,154        152,810     

 

 

% total revenues

     27.8%        17.2%           22.8%        18.3%     

 

 

EBIT

     6,874        -19,176           -79,078        -73,958     

 

 

%

     3.3%        -8.8%           -9.5%        -8.9%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions. Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16.

(2) Under lAS 17.

Chile Operating Data

 

 
    

 

                4Q19

                     4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     6,873        6,707        2.5%  

 

 

Postpaid

     2,246        2,080        8.0%  

 

 

Prepaid

     4,627        4,627        0.0%  

 

 

MOU

     171        176        -2.4%  

 

 

ARPU (ChP)(1)

     5,690        5,127        11.0%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     6.6%        6.8%        (0.2)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs) *

     1,400        1,424        -1.7%  

 

 

*Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) Under IFRS 15.

Ecuador

 

 

We generated total revenue of 334 million dollars, up 1.2% year-on-year, with fixed-line service revenues rising 7.8% driven by broadband revenue growth of 16.3%. Mobile service revenues were down 2.1% dragged down by prepaid service revenues, off 4.4%, on account of strong competition and promotions for data usage.

Under IFRS16 fourth quarter EBITDA came in at 146 million dollars. Organically, it was up 1.7%.


                                                                                                                                         

INCOME STATEMENT - Ecuador Millions of Dollars

                             

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)      Jan - Dec 18(2)      Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     334        330        1.2%        1,321        1,309        0.9%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     272        275        -1.3%        1,098        1,104        -0.5%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     305        308        -0.9%        1,222        1,222        0.0%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     249        254        -2.1%        1,010        1,021        -1.1%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     56        53        4.8%        212        200        6.0%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     23        22        7.2%        92        87        6.2%  

 

 

EBITDA

     146        135           573        516     

 

 

% total revenues

     43.8%        41.1%           43.4%        39.4%     

 

 

EBIT

     90        85           347        310     

 

 

%

     27.1%        25.6%           26.2%        23.7%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions. Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16. (2) Under IAS 17.

 

                                                                                                                             

Ecuador Operating Data

                    

 

 
                 4Q19                  4Q18                  Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     8,493        8,246        3.0%  

 

 

Postpaid

     2,675        2,622        2.0%  

 

 

Prepaid

     5,818        5,624        3.4%  

 

 

MOU

     433        437        -1.0%  

 

 

ARPU (US$)(1)

     10        10        -5.0%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     4.2%        4.3%        (0.2)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs) *

     446        384        15.9%  

 

 

*Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) Under IFRS 15.

Peru

 

 

Fourth quarter revenues of 1.4 billion soles were up 4.1% with equipment revenues shooting up 34.1%, and service revenues declining 4.0%. Mobile service revenues were down 6.1%, but adjusting for the reduction in termination rates and other one-off items, the decline would have been 2.2%. Fixed service revenues, 23% of the total, were up 4.0% on the back of broadband revenues that rose 18.3% compensating for the contraction of voice revenues.

EBITDA under IFRS16 reached 409 million soles. Under comparable accounting standards, EBITDA rose 22.0%.

We had positive trends in mobile number portability throughout 2019 as we managed to improve overall customer experience while keeping a competitive offer.


INCOME STATEMENT - Peru Millions of Soles

                                                                                                                                         

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)      Jan - Dec 18(2)      Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     1,367        1,314        4.1%        5,200        5,202        0.0%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     949        989        -4.0%        3,737        3,985        -6.2%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     1,139        1,083        5.2%        4,316        4,321        -0.1%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     730        778        -6.1%        2,891        3,148        -8.1%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     408        305        34.1%        1,425        1,173        21.4%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     219        210        4.0%        846        839        0.8%  

 

 

EBITDA

     409        312           1,510        1,209     

 

 

% total revenues

     29.9%        23.8%           29.0%        23.2%     

 

 

EBIT

     134        86           488        433     

 

 

%

     9.8%        6.5%           9.4%        8.3%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions. Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16. (2) Under lAS 17.

Peru Operating Data

                                                                                                                             

 

 
    

 

        4Q19

             4Q18              Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     11,611        12,098        -4.0%  

 

 

Postpaid

     4,149        4,093        1.4%  

 

 

Prepaid

     7,462        8,005        -6.8%  

 

 

MOU

     287        249        15.0%  

 

 

ARPU (Sol)(1)

     21        21        0.3%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     5.0%        7.3%        (2.3)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     1,603        1,472        8.9%  

 

 

*Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) Under IFRS 15.

Central America

 

 

Revenues of 610 million dollars were down 1.0% on a pro-forma basis with service revenues expanding 1.7%. Mobile service revenues showed good recovery in the last quarter growing 3.7%, up from 0.7% the prior one, whereas fixed-line service revenues dropped 1.8%, when they had been down 4.0% the prior quarter.

In local currency terms, service revenues expanded in all markets other than Nicaragua. They were up 6.9% and 5.8% in Costa Rica and Honduras, respectively, and more than 4% in each Panama and El Salvador. In Guatemala they rose 1.8% pro-forma, with mobile service revenues rising 6% and fixed service revenues declining 5.4%.

EBITDA under IFRS16 totaled 218 million dollars. Organically, under a comparable basis, EBITDA rose 17.8% and the margin expanded 4.9 percentage points. Except for Nicaragua and Panama, our operations in Central America exhibited EBITDA expansion in local currency terms.


INCOME STATEMENT - Central America Pro forma Millions of Dollars

 

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)     

 

Jan - Dec 18(2)

     Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     610        616        -1.0%        2,435        2,532        -3.8%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     525        516        1.7%        2,098        2,123        -1.2%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     415        415        -0.1%        1,655        1,712        -3.4%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     344        332        3.7%        1,368        1,374        -0.5%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     71        83        -15.0%        287        338        -15.0%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     189        192        -1.6%        760        783        -3.0%  

 

 

EBITDA

     218        161           907        769     

 

 

% total revenues

     35.8%        26.1%           37.3%        30.4%     

 

 

EBIT

     98        38           333        260     

 

 

%

     16.1%        6.2%           13.7%        10.3%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions. Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16. (2) Under lAS 17.

Central America Operating Data

 

 
    

 

                4Q19

                     4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     15,488        14,364        7.8%  

 

 

Postpaid

     2,529        2,364        7.0%  

 

 

Prepaid

     12,959        12,000        8.0%  

 

 

MOU(1)

     168        157        7.1%  

 

 

ARPU (US$)(2)

     8        7        13.2%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     6.6%        9.1%        (25)  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     7,095        6,465        9.7%  

 

 

* Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) We modified the methodology for calculating MOUs. We no longer include M2M subscribers. (2) Under IFRS 15.

Caribbean

 

 

In the Dominican Republic revenues increased 6.1%, with service revenues rising 5.6%. Mobile service revenue growth continued to accelerate, rising to 8.9% in the fourth quarter from 8.4% in the third one and 6.9% in the second one. Prepaid revenues kept on expanding at a double-digit pace, 14.4%, for the fifth quarter in a row. EBITDA was up 6.7% under comparable standards, with a margin that climbed 30 basis points to 45.5%.

In Puerto Rico fourth quarter revenues declined 1.0% adjusting for extraordinary revenues booked in year-earlier quarter, with service revenues falling 3.8%. Under IFRS16 EBITDA came in at 24 million dollars and the margin at 11.5% of revenues.

INCOME STATEMENT - Caribbean Millions of Dollars

 

 

 
     4Q19(1)      4Q18(2)      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19(1)     

 

Jan - Dec 18(2)

     Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues*

     453        473        -4.3%        1,795        1,893        -5.2%  

 

 

Total Service Revenues

     389        415        -6.3%        1,581        1,627        -2.8%  

 

 

Wireless Revenues

     279        257        8.3%        1,069        1,032        3.6%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     215        213        0.7%        855        834        2.5%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     64        44        45.3%        214        198        8.2%  

 

 

Fixed Line Revenues

     177        205        -13.6%        737        805        -8.5%  

 

 

EBITDA

     138        146           579        564     

 

 

% total revenues

     30.5%        30.9%           32.2%        29.8%     

 

 

EBIT

     55        85           252        306     

 

 

%

     12.1%        18.0%           14.1%        16.2%     

 

 

*Revenues reflect eliminations derived from both the overlap of fixed and mobile operations as well as international intercompany transactions. Total revenues include other income.

(1) Under IFRS 16. (2) Under lAS 17.


Caribbean Operating Data

 

 
    

 

                4Q19

                     4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     6,244        5,887        6.1%  

 

 

Postpaid

     2,028        1,935        4.8%  

 

 

Prepaid

     4,216        3,952        6.7%  

 

 

MOU(1)

     203        255        -20.4%  

 

 

ARPU (US$)(2)

     12        12        -5.1%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     3.5%        3.5%        0.0  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     2,528        2,546        -0.7%  

 

 

• Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) We modified the methodology for calculating MOUs. We no longer include M2M subscribers. (2) Under IJRS 15.

United States

 

 

Fourth quarter revenues rose 3.5% year-on-year to 2.1 billion dollars, with service revenues increasing 1.4%. Our ARPU was up 4.6% to 27 dollars, as the mix of clients continued to shift in favor of our higher-spend brands: StraightTalk and Total Wireless.

Our EBITDA climbed 16.3% from the year-earlier quarter—up from 9.5% in the third quarter and 8.2% in the second one—to 186 million dollars, with the EBITDA margin rising one percentage point to 9.0%, as airtime costs continued to fall in line with retail prices.

INCOME STATEMENT - United States Millions of Dollars

 

 

 
     4Q19      4Q18      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19     

 

Jan - Dec 18

     Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues

     2,071        2,000        3.5%        8,091        7,967        1.6%  

 

 

Service Revenues

     1,718        1,694        1.4%        6,821        6,747        1.1%  

 

 

Equipment Revenues

     352        306        15.3%        1,269        1,219        4.1%  

 

 

EBITDA

     186        160        16.3%        646        622        4.0%  

 

 

% total revenues

     9.0%        8.0%           8.0%        7.8%     

 

 

EBIT

     169        140        20.7%        574        541        6.0%  

 

 

%

     8.2%        7.0%           7.1%        6.8%     

 

 

United States Operating Data

 

 
    

 

                4Q19

                     4Q18                      Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     20,876        21,688        -3.7%  

 

 

Straight Talk

     9,382        9,176        2.2%  

 

 

Safelink

     2,173        2,871        -24.3%  

 

 

Other Brands

     9,321        9,641        -3.3%  

 

 

MOU

     594        555        7.0%  

 

 

ARPU (US$)

     27        26        4.6%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     4.2%        4.0%        0.2  

 

 

Telekom Austria Group

 

 

In the fourth quarter our European operations posted service-revenue and EBITDA growth in all the markets. Service revenues increased 3.6% with mobile service revenues expanding 5.7% and fixed service revenues rising 1.1% driven by our solutions and connectivity business, mostly in Austria and Bulgaria.


In Austria, service revenues were slightly off from the year-earlier quarter, -0.3%, with mobile service revenues rising slightly, 0.6% and fixed service revenues declining 0.9%.

In our Eastern European operations we saw strong service revenue growth, 8.8% with mobile service revenues jumping 9.1%, followed closely by fixed service revenue, up 7.8%.

The group’s EBITDA—excluding restructuring charges—was up 8.2% over the year driven by higher service revenue growth and focus on cost controls in all markets. In Austria, EBITDA ex-restructuring charges was roughly flat from the year before whereas in our Eastern European operations we saw all markets posting positive EBITDA contributions—especially Belarus, Serbia and Croatia—with EBITDA rising 18.2%.

On January 27th, we officially launched our first 5G network in Austria. We developed a top of the line 5G platform with the broadest coverage in the country by a wide margin. Our “5Giga” premium tariff portfolio for mobile and Internet@Home segments features unlimited data usage, network priority to guarantee bandwidth and speeds, premium customer care and the latest devices.

INCOME STATEMENT (In accordance with IFRS 16) - A1 Telekom Austria Group

Millions of Euros

 

 
     4Q19      4Q18      Var.%      Jan - Dec 19      Jan - Dec 18      Var.%  

 

 

Total Revenues

     1,200        1,153        4.1%        4,565        4,435      2.9%  

 

 

Total service revenues

     963        929        3.6%        3,805        3,681        3.4%  

 

 

Wireless service revenues

     520        492        5.7%        2,075        2,004        3.6%  

 

 

Fixed-line service revenues

     442        438        1.1%        1,730        1,677        3.2%  

 

 

Equipment revenues

     213        202        5.3%        664        662        0.2%  

 

 

Other operating income

     25        21        15.4%        96        92        4.2%  

 

 

EBITDA

     355        334        6.4%        1,561        1,549        0.8%  

 

 

% total revenues

     29.6%        29.0%           34.2%        34.9%     

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA(1)

     377        348        8.2%        1,645        1,571        4.7%  

 

 

% total revenues

     31.4%        30.2%           36.0%        35.4%     

 

 

EBIT

     118        95        23.9%        615        446        37.9%  

 

 

% total revenues

     9.8%        8.3%           13.5%        10.1%     

 

 

For further detail please visit www.a1.group/en/investor-relations

(1) Does not include restructuring charges in Austria.

A1 Telekom Austria Group Operating Data

 

 
                 4Q19                             4Q18                        Var.%  

 

 

Wireless Subscribers (thousands)

     21,296        21,029        1.3%  

 

 

Postpaid

     16,963        16,245        4.4%  

 

 

Prepaid

     4,334        4,784        -9.4%  

 

 

MOU(1)

     370        357        3.6%  

 

 

ARPU (Euros)

     8        8        4.1%  

 

 

Churn (%)

     2.0%        2.0%        0.0  

 

 

Revenue Generating Units (RGUs)*

     6,143        6,203        -1.0%  

 

 

*Fixed Line, Broadband and Television.

(1) We modified the methodology for calculating MOUs. We no longer include M2M subscribers.


Exchange Rates Local Currency Units per MxP

               
     

4Q19

    

4Q18

    

Var.%

    

Jan-Dec 19

    

Jan-Dec 18

    

Var.%

Euro

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

0.0473

 

  

 

0.0443

 

  

 

6.8%

 

  

 

0.0473

 

  

 

0.0443

 

  

6.8%

Average

  

 

0.0468

 

  

 

0.0442

 

  

 

5.9%

 

  

 

0.0464

 

  

 

0.0440

 

  

5.4%

U.S.

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

0.0531

 

  

 

0.0508

 

  

 

4.4%

 

  

 

0.0531

 

  

 

0.0508

 

  

4.4%

Average

  

 

0.0518

 

  

 

0.0504

 

  

 

2.8%

 

  

 

0.0519

 

  

 

0.0520

 

  

-0.1%

Brazilean Real

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

0.2139

 

  

 

0.1969

 

  

 

8.6%

 

  

 

0.2139

 

  

 

0.1969

 

  

8.6%

Average

  

 

0.2133

 

  

 

0.1919

 

  

 

11.2%

 

  

 

0.2047

 

  

 

0.1898

 

  

7.8%

Argentinean Peso

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

3.1780

 

  

 

1.9154

 

  

 

65.9%

 

  

 

3.1780

 

  

 

1.9154

 

  

65.9%

Average

  

 

3.0777

 

  

 

1.8698

 

  

 

64.6%

 

  

 

2.5015

 

  

 

1.4591

 

  

71.4%

Chilean Peso

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

39.7311

 

  

 

35.2982

 

  

 

12.6%

 

  

 

39.7311

 

  

 

35.2982

 

  

12.6%

Average

  

 

39.1008

 

  

 

34.2996

 

  

 

14.0%

 

  

 

36.4754

 

  

 

33.3396

 

  

9.4%

Colombian Peso

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

173.8979

 

  

 

165.1052

 

  

 

5.3%

 

  

 

173.8979

 

  

 

165.1052

 

  

5.3%

Average

  

 

176.6557

 

  

 

159.6187

 

  

 

10.7%

 

  

 

170.3195

 

  

 

153.5992

 

  

10.9%

Guatemalan Quetzal

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

0.4085

 

  

 

0.3931

 

  

 

3.9%

 

  

 

0.4085

 

  

 

0.3931

 

  

3.9%

Average

  

 

0.4001

 

  

 

0.3892

 

  

 

2.8%

 

  

 

0.3996

 

  

 

0.3908

 

  

2.3%

Peruvian Sol

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

0.1760

 

  

 

0.1712

 

  

 

2.8%

 

  

 

0.1760

 

  

 

0.1712

 

  

2.8%

Average

  

 

0.1743

 

  

 

0.1694

 

  

 

2.9%

 

  

 

0.1733

 

  

 

0.1709

 

  

1.4%

Dominican Republic Peso

                                                 

End of Period

  

 

2.8235

 

  

 

2.5657

 

  

 

10.1%

 

  

 

2.8235

 

  

 

2.5657

 

  

10.1%

Average

  

 

2.7428

 

  

 

2.5402

 

  

 

8.0%

 

  

 

2.6765

 

  

 

2.5799

 

  

3.7%


Exchange Rates Local Currency Units per USD

                         
     

4Q19

    

4Q18

    

Var.%

    

Jan-Dec 19

    

Jan-Dec 18

    

Var.%

 

Euro

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

0.8918

 

  

 

0.8725

 

  

 

2.2%

 

  

 

0.8918

 

  

 

0.8725

 

  

 

2.2%

 

Average

  

 

0.9031

 

  

 

0.8766

 

  

 

3.0%

 

  

 

0.8933

 

  

 

0.8466

 

  

 

5.5%

 

Mexican Peso

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

18.8452

 

  

 

19.6829

 

  

 

-4.3%

 

  

 

18.8452

 

  

 

19.6829

 

  

 

-4.3%

 

Average

  

 

19.2926

 

  

 

19.8302

 

  

 

-2.7%

 

  

 

19.2641

 

  

 

19.2397

 

  

 

0.1%

 

Brazilean Real

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

4.0307

 

  

 

3.8748

 

  

 

4.0%

 

  

 

4.0307

 

  

 

3.8748

 

  

 

4.0%

 

Average

  

 

4.1148

 

  

 

3.8049

 

  

 

8.1%

 

  

 

3.9438

 

  

 

3.6525

 

  

 

8.0%

 

Argentinean Peso

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

59.8900

 

  

 

37.7000

 

  

 

58.9%

 

  

 

59.8900

 

  

 

37.7000

 

  

 

58.9%

 

Average

  

 

59.3759

 

  

 

37.0782

 

  

 

60.1%

 

  

 

48.1899

 

  

 

28.0735

 

  

 

71.7%

 

Chilean Peso

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

748.7400

 

  

 

694.7700

 

  

 

7.8%

 

  

 

748.7400

 

  

 

694.7700

 

  

 

7.8%

 

Average

  

 

754.3568

 

  

 

680.1687

 

  

 

10.9%

 

  

 

702.6654

 

  

 

641.4428

 

  

 

9.5%

 

Colombian Peso

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

3,277.1400

 

  

 

3,249.7500

 

  

 

0.8%

 

  

 

3,277.1400

 

  

 

3,249.7500

 

  

 

0.8%

 

Average

  

 

3,408.1473

 

  

 

3,165.2714

 

  

 

7.7%

 

  

 

3,281.0504

 

  

 

2,955.1968

 

  

 

11.0%

 

Guatemalan Quetzal

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

7.6988

 

  

 

7.7370

 

  

 

-0.5%

 

  

 

7.6988

 

  

 

7.7370

 

  

 

-0.5%

 

Average

  

 

7.7186

 

  

 

7.7183

 

  

 

0.0%

 

  

 

7.6986

 

  

 

7.5182

 

  

 

2.4%

 

Peruvian Sol

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

3.3170

 

  

 

3.3700

 

  

 

-1.6%

 

  

 

3.3170

 

  

 

3.3700

 

  

 

-1.6%

 

Average

  

 

3.3628

 

  

 

3.3586

 

  

 

0.1%

 

  

 

3.3382

 

  

 

3.2875

 

  

 

1.5%

 

Dominican Republic Peso

                                                     

End of Period

  

 

53.2100

 

  

 

50.5000

 

  

 

5.4%

 

  

 

53.2100

 

  

 

50.5000

 

  

 

5.4%

 

Average

  

 

52.9148

 

  

 

50.3726

 

  

 

5.0%

 

  

 

51.5599

 

  

 

49.6372

 

  

 

3.9%

 


Appendix 1: Income Statement Reconciliation from IAS 17 to IFRS 16

 

 

América Móvil’s Income Statement

 

 

 
    Millions of Mexican pesos   

 

Jan - Dec 19
IAS 17

     Changes brought
about by IFRS 16
             Jan - Dec 19
IFRS 16
     Var.%  

 

 

Total Costs and Expenses

     722,512        (28,920)        693,592        -2.7%  

EBITDA

     284,836        28,920        313,756        -3.5%  

 

 

Depreciation & Amortization

     135,322        23,594        158,915        -13.1%  

 

 

EBIT

     149,514        5,326        154,841        7.1%  

 

 

Net Interest Expense

     23,687        7,940        31,627        12.1%  

 

 

Other Financial Expenses

     7,075           7,075        -30.5%  

 

 

Foreign Exchange Loss

     (5,226)           (5,226)        -172.0%  

 

 

Comprehensive Financing Cost (Income)

     25,536        7,940        33,476        -33.8%  

 

 

Income & Deferred Taxes

     51,878        (844)        51,034        11.6%  

 

 

Net Income before Minority

Interest and Equity Participation in Results of Affiliates

     72,100        (1,769)        70,331        32.3%  

 

 

Equity Participation in Results of Affiliates

     (18)           (18)        n.m.  

 

 

Minority Interest

     (2,583)           (2,583)        32.4%  

 

 

Net Income

     69,500        (1,769)        67,731        32.2%  

 

 

n.m Not meaningful.


Appendix 2: Balance Sheet Reconciliation from IAS 17 to IFRS 16

 

 

Balance Sheet - América Móvil Consolidated

 

 

      Millions of Mexican

      Pesos

  

Dec ‘19

IAS 17

     Changes
brought
about by
IFRS 16
     Dec ‘19
IFRS 16
         

Dec ‘19

IAS 17

     Changes
brought
about by
IFRS 16
     Dec ‘19
IFRS 16
 

 

 

Current Assets

     330,844           330,844      Current Liabilities         

 

 
            Short Term Debt*      129,172           129,172  

 

 
            Lease-Related Debt         25,895        25,895  

 

 
           

Other Current

Liabilities

     370,303        30        370,333  

 

 
                

 

499,475

 

 

 

    

 

25,924

 

 

 

    

 

525,400

 

 

 

 

 

Non Current Assets

     1,083,086        118,003        1,201,089      Non Current Liabilities         

 

 
            Long Term Debt      495,082           495,082  

 

 
            Lease-Related Debt         94,702        94,702  

 

 
            Other Liabilities      190,621        -779        189,843  

 

 
                 685,704        93,923        779,627  

 

 
            Shareholder’s Equity      228,752        -1,845        226,907  

 

 

Total Assets

     1,413,930        118,003        1,531,934     

Total Liabilities

and Equity

     1,413,930        118,003        1,531,934  

 

 


Appendix 3: EBITDA under IAS 17

 

 

EBITDA (IAS 17) Millions in Local Currency

 

 

 
     4Q19      4Q18      Var.%      Jan-Dec 19      Jan-Dec 18      Var.%  

 

 

Mexico

                 

EBITDA

     27,704        24,582        12.7%        100,258        94,001        6.7%  

% of Total Revenues

     33.9%        32.0%           34.0%        33.0%     

 

 

Argentina(1)

                 

EBITDA

     9,727        9,947        -2.2%        40,229        41,969        -4.1%  

% of Total Revenues

     39.3%        38.2%           39.9%        38.6%     

 

 

Brazil

                 

EBITDA

     3,094        3,085        0.3%        12,057        12,096        -0.3%  

% of Total Revenues

     33.3%        34.2%           33.2%        33.9%     

Adjusted EBITDA(2)

     3,094        2,956        4.7%        12,057        11,450        5.3%  

% Total Revenues

     33.3%        32.8%           33.2%        32.1%     

 

 

Chile

                 

EBITDA

     36,834        37,311        -1.3%        137,391        152,810        -10.1%  

% of Total Revenues

     17.5%        17.2%           16.5%        18.3%     

 

 

Colombia

                 

EBITDA

     1,386        1,211        14.5%        5,253        4,747        10.7%  

% of Total Revenues

     41.3%        40.4%           41.5%        41.0%     

 

 

Ecuador

                 

EBITDA

     138        135        1.7%        540        516        4.6%  

% of Total Revenues

     41.2%        41.1%           40.9%        39.4%     

 

 

Perú

                 

EBITDA

     381        312        22.0%        1,364        1,209        12.8%  

% of Total Revenues

     27.9%        23.8%           26.2%        23.2%     

 

 

Central America

                 

EBITDA Pro Forma

     189        161        17.8%        774        769        0.7%  

% of Total Revenues

     31.0%        26.1%           31.8%        30.4%     

 

 

Caribbean

                 

EBITDA

     124        146        -15.4%        526        564        -6.7%  

% of Total Revenues

     27.3%        30.9%           29.3%        29.8%     

 

 

(1) EBITDA in millions of constant ARP of December 2019.

(2) Adjusted EBITDA does not include the effects of one-off items.


Glossary of Terms

ARPU   

Average Revenue per User. The ratio of service revenues in a given period to the average number of wireless subscribers in the same period. It is presented on a monthly basis.

ARPM   

Average Revenue per Minute. The ratio of service revenues to airtime traffic.

Capex   

Capital Expenditure. Accrued capital expenditures related to the expansion of the telecommunications infrastructure.

Chum   

Disconnection Rate. The ratio of wireless subscribers disconnected during a given period to the number of wireless subscribers at the beginning of that period.

EBIT   

Earnings Before Interest and Taxes, also known as Operating Profit.

EBIT margin   

The ratio of EBIT to total operating revenue.

EBITDA   

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.

EBITDA margin   

The ratio of EBITDA to total operating revenue.

EPS (Mexican pesos)   

Earnings per share. Total earnings in Mexican pesos divided by total shares.

Earnings per ADR (US$)   

Total earnings in U.S. dollars divided by total ADRs equivalent.

Gross additions   

Total number of subscribers acquired during the period.

Licensed pops   

Licensed population. Population covered by the licenses that each of the companies manage.

LTE   

Long-term evolution is a 4th generation standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals.

Market share   

A company’s subscriber base divided by the total number of subscribers in that country.

MBOU   

Megabytes of Use per subscriber. The ratio of wireless data in a given period to the average number of wireless subscribers in that same period. It is presented on a monthly basis.

MOU   

Minutes of Use per subscriber. The ratio of wireless traffic in a given period to the average number of wireless subscribers in that same period. It is presented on a monthly basis.

Net subscriber additions   

The difference in the subscriber base from one period to another. It is the different between gross additions and disconnections.

Net debt   

Total short and long term debt minus cash and marketable securities.

Net debt / EBITDA   

The ratio of total short and long term debt minus cash and securities to trailing 12-month income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Prepaid   

Subscriber that may purchase airtime to recharge a cellular phone. The client does not hold a contract with the company for voice and data services.

Postpaid   

Subscriber that has a contract for the use of airtime. The client has no need of activating airtime, it is done so immediately.

SMS   

Short Message Service.

SAC   

Subscriber Acquisition Cost. The sum of handset subsidies, marketing expenses and commissions to distributors for handset activation. Handset subsidy is calculated as the difference between equipment cost and equipment revenues.

Wireless penetration   

The ratio of total wireless subscribers in any given country divided by the total population in that country.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: February 13, 2020     AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.
    By:  

/s/ Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo

    Name:   Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo
    Title:   Chief Financial Officer