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JOHN J. LEGERE (Twitter @JohnLegere)
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| Tweet: What. A. Great. Quarter. Again! I cannot wait for what well do for US wireless as New @TMobile! Key info: http://newtmobile.com [link to Geekwire article below] |
NEVILLE RAY (Twitter @NevilleRay)
| Tweet: Every update we make now, be it lighting up 600 or installing LTE-Advanced features, lays the groundwork for 5G. And with New @TMobiles combined resources, a new kind of network w/ game-changing capabilities is coming to America! Key Info: http://newtmobile.com |
T-Mobile adds another 1.6M customers, tops profit expectations with Sprint deal pending
By Todd Bishop, GeekWire, August 1, 2018
T-Mobile added another 1.6 million customers in the second quarter, topping 75 million customers for the first time, and reporting its 21st consecutive quarter with more than 1 million net customers.
Its earnings of 92 cents per share beat Wall Streets expectations by 6 cents, and total quarterly revenues rose 4 percent to $10.6 billion for the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless company.
But the big question mark looming remains regulatory approval of the companys pending $26 billion merger with Sprint.
We are optimistic and confident that regulators will recognize the significant pro competitive benefits of this combination, said T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Wednesdays earnings call.
Earlier in the day, Sprint made its own pitch for the deal as it reported its own modest subscriber growth.
The combined company will put America first and force the competition to invest, Sprint CEO Michael Combes said in a conference call, making the case for the merger.
T-Mobile is starting to invest heavily in 5G, the next generation of wireless technology, and earlier this week announced a new $3.5 billion 5G alliance with Nokia.
On the call Wednesday, Legere teased T-Mobiles next industry shaking Un-Carrier move coming in two weeks. Legere was cryptic but said to look out for the announcement August 15.
Important Additional Information
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Excerpts from Q2 2018 T-Mobile US Inc. Earnings Call Transcript
August 1, 2018 | 8:30 PM GMT
CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
David R. Carey T-Mobile US, Inc. Executive VP of Corporate Services
G. Michael Sievert T-Mobile US, Inc. President & COO
J. Braxton Carter T-Mobile US, Inc. Executive VP & CFO
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. CEO
Neville R. Ray T-Mobile US, Inc. Executive VP & CTO
Nils Paellmann T-Mobile US, Inc. VP, IR
CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS
Amy Yong Macquarie Research - Analyst
Brett Feldman Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Equity Analyst
Craig Moffett MoffettNathanson LLC Founding Partner
Jonathan Chaplin New Street Research LLP US Team Head
Michael Rollins Citigroup Inc, Research Division MD and U.S. Telecoms Analyst
Philip Cusick JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division MD and Senior Analyst
Simon Flannery Morgan Stanley, Research Division MD
Walt Piecyk BTIG, LLC, Research Division Co-Head of Research and MD
PRESENTATION
Operator
Good afternoon. Welcome to the T-Mobile US Second Quarter 2018 Earnings Call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Nils Paellmann, Head of Investor Relations for T-Mobile US. Please go ahead, sir.
Nils Paellmann T-Mobile US, Inc. - VP IR
Yes. Thank you very much. Welcome to our second quarter 2018 earnings call.
With me today are John Legere, our CEO; Mike Sievert, our President and COO; Braxton Carter, our CFO; and other members of the senior leadership team.
Let me read the disclaimer.
During this call, we will make forward-looking statements that include projections and statements about our future financial and operating results, our plans, the benefits we expect to receive from the proposed merger with Sprint and other statements that are not historical facts.
Such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of our management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties outside of our control that could cause our actual results to differ materially, including the risk factors set forth in our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
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Reconciliations between GAAP and the non-GAAP results we discuss on this call can be found in the Quarterly Results section of the Investor Relations page of our website.
In addition, in connection with the proposed transaction on July 30, we filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 that contains important information about T-Mobile and Sprint, the merger and related matters. The registration statement has not yet become effective.
So with that, let me turn it over to John Legere.
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
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Let me also give you a brief update on the progress of our pending merger with Sprint. While we still have a number of steps remaining in the regulatory approval process, we are optimistic and confident that regulators will recognize the significant procompetitive benefits of this combination and grant regulatory approval. I think we made it clear that this merger is pro-consumer and all about supercharging the Un-carrier and about bringing broad and deep nationwide 5G to Americans as fast as possible.
On top of that, the new T-Mobile will increase competition and create American jobs.
A few milestones to note. Our public interest statement was filed with the FCC on June 18. On June 27, Marcelo Claure and I had the opportunity to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. The FCC put out its public notice on July 18, starting their nonbinding 180-day transaction clock. Our preliminary S-4 was filed with the SEC on Monday, July 30.
So were making great progress and look forward to continuing to tell the story about how this merger will be good for consumers and good for the country.
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J. Braxton Carter T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CFO
Before we get to your questions, let me briefly address the preliminary S-4 for the merger with Sprint. The S-4 contains disclosures regarding the transaction, including certain stand-alone and pro forma combined financial projections, which have been prepared on the basis and subject to the qualifications described in the S-4. The prospective financial information in the S-4 reflects what we believe is a conservative case, does not include the impacts of the revenue recognition standard and is not necessarily our current view on the outlook for the upcoming years. We encourage you to read the disclosure in the S-4 for additional information. The S-4 has not yet become effective, and the purpose of todays call is to discuss our second quarter. So Id ask that you focus your questions on our earnings.
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Michael Rollins Citigroup Inc, Research Division - MD and U.S. Telecoms Analyst
And if I could just follow up on your comments on the regulatory side. Are there some incremental learnings that the management team had, had over the last few months in your conversations and engagement with regulators that you want to share with the audience today?
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Yes. I think I wouldnt say new learnings. Weve been very, very pleased from day 1 with the story that were providing as to why the coming together with Sprint is pro-competition, pro-consumer, pro-America, very critical from many aspects, especially the deployment of 5G capability. And the whole story together has been something that weve been telling and working on, and were very confident that with that story and the details of why these 2 companies coming together makes tremendous sense for competition, for the country, the learning is that its a story that we need to keep telling, and its a story that with the aspects associated with the people were competing against, has been very well received. But as you know, this is a process where all I can say is were in a process, were in multiple processes that we greatly respect, and we have committed to playing continuous and not necessarily in the public eye. But as its going, I would say we feel very good that if we continue to tell this story to the associated regulatory groups that they will see why this is a deal that should be approved.
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Brett Feldman Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division - Equity Analyst
Obviously, another quarter of strong service revenue growth. Some of your peers started to show some better service revenue growth, but in their case, it was ARPU driven where you guys are still doing it by winning customers. It does look like the pricing ceilings moving up a bit in the industry, and so I was hoping you could share your thoughts on sort of the trade-offs between figuring out ways to get people to maybe pay a bit more for the service to get more value versus keeping your pricing well below peers to make sure that you can drive higher customer growth.
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J. Braxton Carter T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CFO
Yes, and Brett, let me just add a couple things. When you really deep dive some of these ARPU changes and trajectory with the competitors, youve got to remember that theyre doing it by screwing the customer. Administrative fees are a huge part of whats happening there, and youre taking that out of the pockets of existing customers. You know our strategy has been that when we model all permutations of how we could manage the business, and were very balanced in the way that we do it, we can create a lot more terminal value by unlocking the scale benefits of the network thats in place. And were doing that with a generally stable ARPU, which has been down just slightly over the last 2 years. And thats a situation that were going to do on a stand-alone basis, and it gets really exciting the competition that we can bring with all the network capacity with the new T-Mobile that will be formed in the future. And thats our philosophy. Thats the way we run the business, and were here to create shareholder value.
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO The experience weve had not just this quarter, but if you go back since we started the Un-carrier moves, you go back to 2013, our customers have enjoyed a 12-fold increase in the data that they can use with about an 11% decline in price but also a significant expansion in our EBITDA and EBITDA margin. Thats the history. Our history with MetroPCS is even greater. Since we merged and acquired MetroPCS, we have twice as many customers, 3x as many employees. We cover 5x as many markets, and MetroPCS customers have gotten greater than tenfold the amount of data. And theyve enjoyed in their various plans between 17% and 25% lower-priced plans. And by the way, they use more data than the rest of our customer base. So when you click ahead to what were talking about and coming together with Sprint and the significant expansion in available capacity that were going to have, thats where you can clearly see competition will definitely go up. Service offerings will expand, and prices, customers will be the beneficiary of lower prices while well be able to drive the profitability because of the significant decrease in cost structure. So thats our game plan in the past. Weve proved it. Its our game plan going forward as well as into the new T-Mobile. If I see one on coming in, you want to grab?
Operator
Our next question comes from Simon Flannery with Morgan Stanley.
Simon Flannery Morgan Stanley, Research Division - MD
Great. I was wondering, John, if you could update us on Layer3 TV, and I think, Braxton, you talked about the adjacencies. But what do you see in the ability to take the Un-carrier model beyond your current offerings?
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Yes, Mike, why dont you start with an update on Layer3 TV and maybe we can segue into not just through Layer3 but in the new T-Mobile, what were thinking about and why its critical for the industry and for the country.
G. Michael Sievert T-Mobile US, Inc. - President & COO
Well, as we said when we announced the acquisition of Layer3, this is a market that if there ever was one that needs to be Un-carrier-ed, and we see a lot of opportunity. Were doing a few things. Number
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one, we have our heads down kind of quietly expanding what we have and as a test bed while simultaneously developing the product that we intend to bring to market. And youre going to see a lot of firsts in that product because customers have a lot of needs. Theyre sick and tired of these outdated systems that the legacy cable companies have been bringing them with their outdated program guides and the technology island that your TV represents as opposed to your highly connected social media-fueled life that you live in your mobile phones. So were really excited about what we can do there. We continue to plan it for this year during 2018 as our initial launch, and our teams doing a fantastic job. Whats really interesting and we went into Layer3 with the idea in the back of our heads of the new T-Mobile. Whats really interesting is what component it could become when the 5G network of the new company starts to unfold because this 5G network is a network where we intend to plunge into broadband, not just mobile connections like today, but into in-home broadband because this network has the depth and breadth of 5G thats simply unprecedented in the market. We see the opportunity to offer broadband during in huge swaths of the market, which will bring competition benefits to customers, even those who dont choose us. But we think about 10 million will choose us over the first few years because well be offering a better-priced broadband offering and by the way, an offering to parts of the market that have literally no competition today. Like half of Americans today have 1 or 0 high-speed broadband offers. Thats crazy. Its the definition of uncompetitive. Once we do that, now all of a sudden, the TV is even more interesting because youre offering the broadband, and you can offer the TV on top of it. So thats a big piece of the future of the new T-Mobile.
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Yes, I think one of the exciting there was a question previously about any learnings since we announced the transaction. Amongst the things that Im watching happening in the industry in various announcements is when you see whats happening in the cable industry, for example, and what broadband access is driving for their value, and you realize the speeds that theyre giving, what people havent really connected to until recently is that with the new T-Mobile, by 2021, 2/3 of the country will have greater than 100 megabits speed. So when you think about it in the context of broadband, by 2024, it will be 90%. And very importantly, in the underserved rural America segment, when you get out to 2024, well have 74% of them covered with greater than 10 megs but with home CP and in-broadband distribution opportunity that we see, youll have 84% that can get greater than 25 megabits. Now thats a big learning because I dont think people have really thought through whats going to come with the network capabilities that the wireless players like us will bring and what its impact is going to be on, amongst other things, in-home broadband. Well, we expect to serve close to 10 million customers out by 2024, and 20% to 25% of them will be in rural America. And these are the things that I dont think people have double clicked on yet with what happens when network speeds get to be 150, 450 megabits and certainly greater in hard areas.
Simon Flannery Morgan Stanley, Research Division - MD
And you can support several hundred gigs per customer in that environment?
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Thats right.
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David R. Carey T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP of Corporate Services
Some people including Mike Dano are bringing up the topic of millimeter wave and FCC auction. Maybe thats an opportunity for Neville just to comment on that.
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Neville?
Neville R. Ray T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CTO
Yes, so Bills question, thanks, Dave, was where is it? View on millimeter wave or mid-band, not 2.5 gig, is foundational future complement to skinny 600 megahertz. I think Mike Dano from Fierce had a question here too, which is along the same lines. Will you participate in the upcoming FCC millimeter wave spectrum auction? So real quick, I think we can claim, and I dont think it would be disputed, that weve been the most vocal company probably globally around the need for spectrum in all bands for 5G, be that low, mid or high. And so weve had a lot of passion about that in the regulatory environments with across the technical community and standardization. And today, obviously, everybody talks about 5G being used across mid, low and high band. So thats a different discussion than the one that was happening 12 to 18 months ago. So thats a good thing. Were very encouraged by the actions of the FCC on millimeter wave, their efforts and work on mid-band spectrum, be that CBRS or the C-band. Theres timing challenges on especially on C-band. Thats going to take maybe several years to realize, but millimeter wave auctions are planned for this year and into 19. And yes, for sure, we have material interest in participating in those auctions. Its something thats of keen interest to us at T-Mobile. We obviously have to work through the process in light of our transaction with pending transaction with Sprint with the FCC, and were currently doing that. And we look forward to participating in the auctions later this year. I think from a mid-band perspective, CBRS probably 19, and then when we look at C-band and some of the other opportunities, its going to be into the next decade. But yes, 5G across all bands, a key priority for us and will continue to be so.
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Neville, I think the topic that youre covering is great. So going to the end, yes, we are interested. Weve made that very clear from the beginning. We have some processes that we have to work through with the FCC that were clearly driving ahead, and we have nothing to report, but our interest is high. I would also say never confuse our attacks on the millimeter wave strategy of our competitors with us not believing that theres a place for millimeter wave spectrum in the 5G portfolio of what you need to create. Its just not a stand-alone way to drive what this nation needs for coverage in 5G. And very importantly, what weve said is with the breadth and the depth that you can get with the new T-Mobiles network of T-Mobiles low band and Sprints 2.5, we can deliver something that is truly one of a kind in the world from a standpoint of 5G. And the millimeter wave component is something were very interested in, and well put it in the portfolio. We have some spectrum already that well be deploying, but this nationwide, deep, broad network is what this country needs, and thats kind of not something you get purely by hotspots in 3 or 4 geographic locations. But good question. And, by the way, along with millimeter wave, Neville has never met any spectrum yet on this planet that he wasnt interested in. So okay.
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Operator
Well take our next question from Phil Cusick with JPMorgan.
Philip Cusick JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division - MD and Senior Analyst
Maybe for Mike. Can you talk about the performance in the new geographies youve launched in the last few years? I know thats coming in sort of cohorts, but where are we in terms of markets that are launched in with flat distribution? And where does that go in the next couple of years?
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J. Braxton Carter T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CFO
Phil, I think youre on to a really important piece of the confidence that we have that there is tremendous future growth opportunity with this geographical expansion across the U.S. and even when we combine with Sprint, we just take that up on steroids. And the other growth adjacency that Mike was talking about earlier that gives us extreme confidence for multiple years of high growth is what were seeing in the business channel. Were still tremendously under-indexed but have incredible momentum going in that channel, and Mike threw out some of those stats earlier. Were just really excited about these 2 areas.
Craig Moffett MoffettNathanson LLC - Founding Partner
A question for Neville, I guess. In the public interest statement, Sprint obviously revealed a lot of struggles putting its 2.5 gigahertz spectrum to work. Im wondering whats different about what you can do other than just having more financial resources to put to work to densify that network? Are there things that, as you look back, Sprint could have done differently that you think make the 2.5 spectrum seem so important to the combined entity strategy or if you could just talk about that a bit.
Neville R. Ray T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CTO
Yes, happy to. Thanks for the question on it, Craig. If you think back to T-Mobiles history and even more recently with the combination with MetroPCS, we built the most dense network in the United States, hands down. I think others have talked about densifying away from their initial low-band footprints. AT&T and Verizon continue that struggle and battle. Sprint has done less densification, some. But when you look at network status today and you look at who has the most dense network in the U.S., macro, small cell, its T-Mobile. And so what we can do with this transaction is take that to the next level, and we would obviously combine key sites and add to the T-Mobile network with Sprint sites in key areas for coverage and primarily capacity. But put down a network that will be incredibly difficult for others to match, and its going to be very, very well suited to 2.5 gigahertz. So this is round peg, square holes story. I mean, even today, our network is more suited for 2.5 gig deployment than anybody else is because of
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its metro density. And so when you think about a combined T-Mobile and Sprint, the incremental density capability, and you put a 2.5 layer on that, its going to perform incredibly well, along the lines of John and Mikes statements about what we can offer, the capacity that we can generate. Its pretty mind blowing and very exciting when you think about the capability when you finally put the right spectrum assets together with the right network architecture that T-Mobile has.
Craig Moffett MoffettNathanson LLC - Founding Partner
And if I could just sorry, just to follow-on for a second. Can you just talk about the indoor propagation issues? Is that densification that youre talking about sufficient to solve the indoor propagation problems that Sprint has had with the spectrum?
Neville R. Ray T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CTO
Yes, it certainly helps, Craig, right. And even today, I mean, if you deploy 2.5 on our dense network in key urban areas, then youd see pretty strong performance. But its important again we mentioned this earlier on the call, you need low band, and you need low band to get deep into those building calls. You need a good, strong mid-band layer, and mid-band in 5G includes 2.5 gigahertz, the spectrum band that Sprint has the most of. And so yes, I mean, the whole plan here, and if you think about statements Mike made about broadband and what we can do, the intent here is to lay down a layer of wireless capability for not just macro and on street but also to penetrate the home. And the 2.5 gigahertz spectrum with the right network architecture and layout can absolutely help us achieve that.
J. Braxton Carter T-Mobile US, Inc. - Executive VP & CFO
Mike, theres a good one from Kyle Romanoff.
G. Michael Sievert T-Mobile US, Inc. - President & COO
With respect to continuing to lower churn numbers, does T-Mobile have new initiatives that could add on to this? Or is the plan to continue customer current customer loyalty techniques? Yes, we havent talked much about churn. Kyle, thanks for the question. Ill tell you what. Our team should just feel so proud today that we bust through this 1.0 barrier for the first time ever and delivered 0.95% churn. And it really shows that 2 things are working incredibly well for this business. Number one, Americans are finally realizing that our network has caught up and beaten Verizons and AT&Ts. There may be some coverage differences around the margins in a couple of square miles in the rural areas, but where we all live and work, our network is the best, bar none. And Americans are finally figuring that out, mostly through word-of-mouth, which gets to the second piece, which is that our brand is firing on all cylinders. Were experiencing the highest Net Promoter Scores right now in the history of this industry. And that means that people are telling other people about T-Mobile, and those 2 things are working together to bring more customers to us and drive our churn down. And to your question, Kyle, yes, thats something we thinks sustainable, and it will only be taken to the next level when we come together and create the new T-Mobile. But that element of an ever-improving network and an ever-improving brand is core to who we are.
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Operator
The next question comes from Amy Yong with Macquarie.
Amy Yong Macquarie Research - Analyst
I guess just following up on your comments on broadband. Maybe if you can elaborate a little bit more on your fixed wireless strategy, timing, market size. Verizons obviously talking about a 30 million market opportunity but being very selective on which cities theyre going after. Can you talk about how yours might compare with Verizons? And then I know you addressed cable competition in your comments, but maybe some early thoughts on Charter and Comcasts price point and strategy thus far.
John J. Legere T-Mobile US, Inc. - CEO
Okay. Do you want to start?
G. Michael Sievert T-Mobile US, Inc. - President & COO
Yes, a couple of things, Amy. I think our competition is talking about it as a way of justifying getting going with millimeter wave because theyre kind of quickly realizing that millimeter wave, as John was saying, as a stand-alone 5G mobility strategy really isnt a strategy. And so theyre pivoting now their story to fixed wireless in the homes. So thats what theyre doing. What were doing is building a broad and deep 5G network thats a combination of spectrum low, mid- and high, and that allows us to address big sections of the country with the new T-Mobile and bring broadband. And as John said, we will be in a place in just 3 years into this where 66% of the country, 2/3 of the country have 100 megabit per second service or better. And thats going to allow us to support about 10 million customers that use home broadband-type capacities like a 0.5-terabyte a month types of capacities, and so were going after this market. Were not going to get into right now what markets or where. But were going to bring a level of competition to this market thats very serious and that the industrys not seen, and its a market that needs competition very badly.
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