T-MOBILE IN Q1 2020: ON YOUR SIDE

• A number of services and benefits helping citizens and companies to cope with new life and working conditions
• Stable financial results, significantly higher traffic  
• Fibre roll-out continued with record numbers

Prague, May 14, 2020 – The first quarter 2020 has been challenging for all of us due to corona crisis.  T-Mobile CZ focused on supporting both residential and business customers by its reliable services, offering unlimited data for free, enhanced TV offers, s or supporting NGOs or social services with connectivity and hardware. Moreover, the operator managed to keep the track and maintain the positive economic trajectory set in the last year, while proving how crucial, not only in such challenging times, integrated and highly reliable telecommunication services are. However, more essential impact of corona pandemic can be expected in following months.

“The crisis shows how much our society is dependent on high quality telecommunication services, we are very proud of the effort put by each one of our employees and suppliers to support the customers,” says Jose Perdomo Lorenzo, CEO T-Mobile CZ and Slovak Telekom, adding: “Despite the significant impact that the new situation has brought to our business trends, we are committed to continue investing in the country, in the networks and in the improvement of our services. We are a more resilient business branch compared to other sectors and we recognize the importance to stay focused on investment continuity.”

Despite the emergency state, T-Mobile also continued in deployment of the nation-wide fiber network and reached monthly record in number of FTTH connections in March. In total operator connected 10,300 households in Q1, mainly in Prague, Mělník, Ústí nad Labem or Šumperk.

Customers

Mobile services: As of 31 March 2020, T-Mobile’s mobile services were being used by almost 6.3 million customers; 57% of the base are contract customers and 35% prepaid ones. The number of machine-to-machine SIM cards presents 8% of the base, growing y/y by 14% to 512,000.

Fixed broadband: In first quarter of 2020, fixed services, including xDSL, Pevný internet vzduchem (Fixed Internet over the Air), or Pevný internet do zásuvky (Plug-in Fixed Line Internet), were used by 350,000 customers; i.e. by 27.7% more than in the same period of 2019.

TV: T-Mobile TVs on IPTV or satellite platforms are used by almost 171,000 customers, (plus 69.3% compared to Q1 2019).

Operational results

The operational results have been heavily influenced by the emergency state: people were using telecommunication services more intensively, to be in contact with their families and friends, to access the information needed, or to work and study remotely. The number of called minutes increased y/y by 9.9%, the number of SMS by 45.8% to 1.4 billion. The overall volume of data transmitted grew even more significantly: the data traffic using convergent services grew by nearly 60% y/y, the amount of the data transmitted only in mobile network more than doubled, compared to the same period 2019.

_{Mobile data traffic includes: Mobile data tariffs + Internet bez drátu.
Mobile and fix data traffic includes: Mobile data tariffs + Internet bez drátu + Pevný internet vzduchem + Pevný internet do zásuvky.} 

Financial indicators

Despite the corona crisis, total revenues from mobile and fixed-line services including hardware sales totaled over CZK 6.8 billion which represents 3.1% year-on-year increase, in Q1 2020. The results confirm the company’s good performance and its position as the number-one operator on the Czech market.

_{Total revenues reported without ICSS – separate part of DT international business. EBITDA according new IFRS 16 standard. The numbers retrospectively adjusted.}