Us Mobile Market: Is the growth over?

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Mobile US market at a glance, as seen by a non US resident. Mobile subscribers growth is slowing down, but there are still large opportunities to catch. Mobile Carriers are rolling out 4G network in order to provide the best service to the customers, increasing data usage, loyalty and ARPU. Competition on services, such as Video, contents and Communication with OTT can provide further revenues. The Prepaid segment is the fastest growing, and catch attention of all the carriers. Carriers exploits all smartphone and tablet potential, waiting for an explosive growth of Internet of Things. Any comment is welcome.

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U S M O B I L E M A R K E T

Augu

st 2

013

I S T H E G R O W T H O V E R ?

335 million mobile subscribers

317 million

Source: elaboration Carriers investors 31 December 2013 - Difference is due to multi SIM owner, 3G/4G tablets and modems, and M2M internet of things

US Demographics

A traditional business model

Carriers

NetworkSupplier

DistributionBrandPeople

Service plans (Data, Min, SMS) Devices

$$$ Revenues from

plans/deviceCarrier

reinvestment

US market $200B

Customers 335M

Sprint lost subscribers because of the Nextel network shutdown

T-Mobile boost subscribers in 2013 as result of merge with MetroPCS

110

Customers by Carrier (million)

103 4754

Source: elaboration Carriers investors 31 December 2013 - figure includes MVNO and M2M SIM Cards

4 Carriers provide nationwide service

4 Carriers control +95% of the market

Source: ISTAT 2011, Source: AGCOM Quarterly Telecommunication Markets Observatory 31 December 2013

Market share by Carrier, Q4 2013

335M

Source: elaboration Carriers investors 31 December 2013

customers

32%

17%

14%

34%

Carrier Revenues continue to growTotal revenue +7% YoY, with T-Mobile +24% YoY

0

63

125

188

250

2011 2012 2013

242021 323230

817670

706763

ATT Verizon Sprint T-Mobile

+5%

+7%

+0%

+24%

YoY

Source: elaboration Carriers investors 31 December 2013

Creating new mobile subscribers is becoming more and more difficult:

carriers are stealing customers from one another

Source: elaboration on Carriers investors 31 December 2013

4G !LTE

SERVICES & LTE

PREPAY DEVICE

but there are still opportunities to grow

an important driver to increase ARPU

4G !LTE

SERVICES & LTE

One of the most advanced LTE markets

50%US users on LTE plans

11.5MbpsAverage download speed on T-Mobile

83.2%Network coverage with Verizon

Source: data from opensignal.com , in the picture: T-Mobile 4G coverage

Carriers offering more services

VOICE & MESSAGING DATA VIDEO

SERVICES

Better experience, better network, video services to increase data usage and ARPU

FIXED BROADBAND

INCREASE ARPU

But only a part of the value is capturedCarriers, competing with OTT, offering owned and 3rd parties services in

order to capture more value in the chain

CONTENT

PORTALS

CONNECTIVITY

DEVICES

DISTRIBUTIONe-com

Ads

Software

Network

Device

Ads

video

denote core business

over the top

a new way to look at Prepaid Market

PREPAY

Cheaper option for price-sensitive target

!

More flexibility

Postpaid market saturated

!

Subsidy reduction

Growing popularity of Prepaid plans

We can't keep doing big subsidies on phones !

Randall Stephenson AT&T Chairman & CEO

Source: AT&T conference December 10, 2013

Prepaid is the fastest growing segmentPrepaid plans account now 17% of the Market with +30% YoY

0

68

135

203

270

2011 2012 2013

443432

222215212

Postpay Prepay

+3%

+30%

Source: elaboration Carriers investors 31 December 2013

We are going to redefine a stupid, broken, arrogant business !

John Legere T-Mobile US President & CEO

Source: T-Mobile conference March 2013

T-Mobile reshaping Prepaid MarketCarrier offering plans without annual contract, with simple, pricing and

optional device (“Un-Carrier” program, March 2013)

Service Fee Prepaid / PostpaidDevice Upfront + Installment Fee (24 mo)

“Un-Carrier” way

Upfront + Monthly Fee (24 mo)

Industry norm

POSTPAID PLAN DEVICE SUBSIDIZED

CONTRACT TERM 24mo

SERVICE PLAN AND DEVICE SEPARATED BRING / BUY / FINANCE YOUR DEVICE

NO CONTRACT

+*

*

DEVICE

smartphone market still healthy… while waiting for Internet of Things

65% of customers own a Smartphone

87% of new phones are Smartphones

Source: COMSCORE reports December 2013 US, eMarketer statista.com

140 Mln Smartphone sold in 2013There is still market left for new and for upgrade (cycle 18-24 month)

Source: Counterpoint market research, Q1 2014

Apple leader in the MarketThere is still market left for new and for upgrade (cycle 18-24 month)

Apple Samsung Motorola LG HTC Other

42% iPhone market share

Apple dominates in 3 Carriers over 4SMP market share by Carrier, Q1 2014

Apple Samsung Other

Source: Counterpoint market research, Q1 2014

Family plans and shared data with cellular tablets and other devices show

positive results but explosive growth takes time for the IoT ecosystem to build out

and prices to go down

Source: Chetan Sharma Consulting market research, Q3 2014

Early Upgrade plans to reduce churnT-Mobile early upgrade plane JUMP!, followed by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, drove incremental postpaid customers and reduced churn

1. Buy a phone and finance it through T-Mobile 2. Enroll in JUMP! for $10/mo3. Trade in your eligible device at any time 4. Select a new device

Source: elaboration Carriers investors 31 December 2013

T-Mobile upgrade program

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