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Carlos García-Moreno Chief Financial Officer [email protected] Daniela Lecuona Torras Investor Relations Office [email protected] Highlights AMÉRICA MÓVIL’S FOURTH QUARTER OF 2008 Relevant FINANCIAL AND OPERATING REPORT Events Mexico City, February 5, 2009 - América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (“América Móvil”) Subscribers [BMV: AMX] [NYSE: AMX] [NASDAQ: AMOV] [LATIBEX: XAMXL], announced today its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter of 2008. América Móvil Record of • We added 10.1 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, making it our best quarter Consolidated 10.1M net ever, with Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador showing strong performances with respect adds in 4Q to the year-earlier quarter. Mexican Operations 29.3M net • Through 2008 we gained 29.3 million subscribers, 2.3% more than a year before. We adds in '08 ended the year with 182.7 million wireless subscribers and 3.8 million fixed lines, for a total of 186.6 million lines. Mexico Telcel 3M net adds • In Brazil we obtained 3 million subs in the quarter and in each of Mexico and Colom- in Brazil bia 2 million. Tracfone, in the U.S. gained 743 thousand clients whereas Argentina, International Peru, Ecuador and the Caribbean each registered approximately half a million net Operations additions in the period. Mercosur Service • In annual terms, our fourth quarter revenues were up 11.6% to 94.4 billion pesos, Claro Argentina revenues up with service revenues rising 14.7% on the back of strong subscriber and data rev- Claro Paraguay 15% YoY; enue growth. At 37.0% year-on-year, data-revenue growth more than doubled that of data +37% Claro Uruguay service revenues. In 2008 revenues totaled 346 billion pesos, having increased 13.6% Claro Chile from the year before. Brazil 4Q EBITDA • Fourth quarter EBITDA was up 7.3% year-on-year to 34.9 billion pesos, with the mar- up 7.3% YoY Claro gin declining to 37.0% from 38.5% the previous year, mostly on account of strong subscriber growth. EBITDA rose 11.8% in 2008 to 138 billion pesos. Andeans Op. profit up • We obtained an operating profit of 23.6 billion pesos in the quarter to finish the year Comcel Colombia 15.2% YoY with 96.7 billion pesos, 15.2% more than the previous year. Conecel Ecuador Claro Peru 4Q Net profit • Our net income stood at 16.3 billion pesos in the quarter and 60.1 billion pesos in the of MxP year as a whole. The quarter’s net income represented 49 peso cents per share or 74 Central America 16.3Bn dollar cents per ADR. Claro Guatemala Claro El Salvador ClaroNicaragua Capex of • Our capital expenditures topped 68 billion pesos in 2008 whereas our distributions Claro Honduras MxP 68Bn & to shareholders (via both share buybacks and dividends) reached nearly 52 billion distributions pesos, for a combined total of 120 billion pesos. Except for 11.5 billion pesos that we of MxP 52Bn financed in the market, the rest of the above-mentioned outlays was covered by our Caribbean cash flow. Claro Dominicana Claro Puerto Rico Net debt of Miphone Jamaica • At the end of the year our net debt stood at 121.5 billion pesos equivalent, which MxP 121.5Bn represented 0.88 times EBITDA (last twelve months). Our cash position represented approximately 85% of our short term debt at the time. USA TracFone Highlights América Móvil Fundamentals Relevant Mexican Pesos Events 4Q08 4Q07 Var. % Jan-Dec’08 Jan-Dec’07 Var. % EPS (Mex$)* 0.49 0.41 19.8% 1.76 1.49 18.4% Subscribers Earning per ADR (US$)** 0.74 0.75 -1.8% 3.15 2.72 16.1% Net Income (millions of Mex$ ) 16,273 14,213 14.5% 60,112 52,301 14.9% EBITDA (millions of Mex$) 34,947 32,574 7.3% 138,441 123,821 11.8% América Móvil EBIT (millions of Mex$) 23,571 21,155 11.4% 96,651 83,908 15.2% Consolidated Shares Outstanding (billion) 33.43 34.99 -4.5% 34.14 35.18 -3.0% ADRs Outstanding (millions) 745 642 16.1% 745 642 16.1% Mexican Operations Relevant Events Mexico Telcel Funding from In November and December we closed on three new financing facilities where the ECAs funding is provided or guaranteed by several Export Credit Agencies. In all, these International facilities amount to 1.8 billion dollars. For the most part these facilities have not been Operations drawn on. They will allow América Móvil to finance substantially all of its imports of infrastructure equipment in the coming year. Mercosur Claro Argentina On November 14 the Mexican Antitrust Commission (Comisión Federal de Compe- Claro Paraguay tencia) issued its preliminary findings according to which the Commission deems Claro Uruguay Telcel to be dominant in the end-user segment of the wireless market. These findings Claro Chile are being disputed by Telcel. Brazil Claro América Móvil’s Subsidiaries & Affiliates as of December 2008 Equity Country Company Business Consolidation Method Andeans Participation Comcel Colombia Subsidiaries - Mexico Telcel wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Conecel Ecuador - Argentina Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Claro Peru - Brazil Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method - Chile Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method - Colombia Comcel wireless 99.4% Global Consolidation Method - Dominicana Claro wireless, wireline 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Central America - Ecuador Conecel wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Claro Guatemala - El Salvador Claro wireless, wireline 95.8% Global Consolidation Method Claro El Salvador - Guatemala Claro wireless, wireline 99.2% Global Consolidation Method ClaroNicaragua - Honduras Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Claro Honduras - Jamaica Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method - Nicaragua Claro wireless, wireline 99.3% Global Consolidation Method - Paraguay Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method - Peru Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Caribbean - Puerto Rico Claro wireless, wireline 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Claro Dominicana - Uruguay Claro wireless 100.0% Global Consolidation Method Claro Puerto Rico - U.S.A. Tracfone wireless 98.2% Global Consolidation Method Affiliate Miphone Jamaica - Mexico Telvista other 45.0% Equity Method USA TracFone Subscribers Record of 10.1 América Móvil added 10.1 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, the most we have M net adds recorded for a given quarter. Net additions were 3.5% higher than those of the same in 4Q period of last year. In Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador net additions were up by 87%, 36% and 34%, respectively relative to the previous year. In the latter two countries, as in Mexico and Brazil, our postpaid base has been growing more rapidly than the prepaid one. 2 Highlights 182.7 million Altogether we gained 29.3 million wireless subscribers in 2008—2.3% more than in subs in the 2007—and finished the year with 182.7 million subscribers, 19.1% more than a year Relevant Americas Events before. Together with 3.8 million fixed lines in Central America and the Caribbean, we had a total of 186.6 million lines at the end of 2008. Subscribers 56.4M subs In Mexico net additions in the fourth quarter were just shy of two million bringing in Mexico, to 6.4 million the total figure for 2008. Our subscriber base finished the year at 56.4 +12.7% YoY América Móvil million clients. It was up 3.7% sequentially and 12.7% year-on-year. Consolidated 4Q net adds Claro Brazil added three million subscribers to end December with 38.7 million, 28.1% of 3M in more than a year before. At 8.5 million, net additions in 2008 were 34% higher than in Mexican Brazil Operations 2007. They represented 28.7% of the total net adds of the market, making Claro the leader in subscriber growth for the year, both in the Brazilian market. Mexico 2M net adds Telcel Colombia followed Brazil with just over two million net subscriber gains in the quar- in Colombia ter—87.2% more than in the same period of 2007—and 5.1 million subs in the year, closing December with 27.4 million clients, 22.6% more than a year before. International Operations 553K net adds Argentina obtained 553 thousand new clients in the fourth quarter, bringing to 1.9 in Argentina million the year’s total. Wireless penetration in the country has reached an estimated Mercosur 113% and is the highest in Latin America. Claro Argentina Claro Paraguay Claro Uruguay 455K net Peru and Ecuador each obtained 455 thousand net additions each in the fourth Claro Chile adds each in quarter, to finish December with 7.2 and 8.3 million clients, respectively. In Chile we Ecuador and almost doubled our net additions from a year before—to 214 thousand—taking our Peru subscriber base to three million. Brazil Claro 9.2M subs In Central America we obtained slightly more than one million net additions in 2008, in Central of which 110 thousand were added in the fourth quarter. Our combined subscriber Andeans America base in the region ended December with 9.2 million, 12.3% more than in 2007. Comcel Colombia Conecel Ecuador Claro Peru Subscribers as of December 2008 Thousands Central America Total(1) Claro Guatemala Claro El Salvador Country Dec’08 Sep’08 Var.% Dec’07 Var.% ClaroNicaragua Mexico 56,371 54,381 3.7% 50,011 12.7% Claro Honduras Brazil 38,731 35,668 8.6% 30,228 28.1% Chile 3,002 2,787 7.7% 2,672 12.3% Caribbean Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay 16,589 16,044 3.4% 14,618 13.5% Claro Dominicana Colombia 27,390 25,373 7.9% 22,335 22.6% Claro Puerto Rico Miphone Jamaica Ecuador 8,304 7,849 5.8% 6,936 19.7% Peru 7,178 6,722 6.8% 5,455 31.6% Central America 9,158 9,048 1.2% 8,157 12.3% USA TracFone Caribbean 4,809 4,255 13.0% 3,496 37.6% USA 11,192 10,449 7.1% 9,514 17.6% Total Wireless 182,724 172,577 5.9% 153,422 19.1% Central America 2,240 2,234 0.3% 2,197 1.9% Caribbean 1,605 1,620 -0.9% 1,669 -3.8% Total Fixed 3,844 3,854 -0.2% 3,866 -0.6% Total Lines 186,568 176,431 5.7% 157,287 18.6% (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.