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| Initiatives to accelerate revenue growth in the individual segment include offer that increased usage and velocity, rationalization of packages, the launching of innovations such as prepaid eSIMs and online retail channels as well as more efficient and experiential trade operations |
| The upcoming 30 megawatts, you expect that when it launches already revenue generating? Unidentified Company Representative We obviously have -- we still have to fully sell out the 30 backwards, but we have a very exciting pipeline of opportunities for our 11 data center |
| So the first 2 months showed that an improvement -- significant improvement in their -- in certain financial metrics |
| We have seen a healthier retention of customers ending at over 58 million last year combined for both repaid and postpaid |
| That's making sure that the lines that we provide actually get the best network experience and making sure we service our customers as best as we can |
| The combined increase in service revenues and decline in operating expenses resulted in a 4% rise in EBITDA to PHP 104.3 billion, a new all-time record high with EBITDA margin at 52% |
| Our consumer ARPU posted a remarkable 80% year-on-year growth in 2023 |
| On the enterprise front, we solidified our leadership as the payments backbone of the Philippines by empowering more and more businesses to accept various payment methods seamlessly |
| We are making significant breakthroughs towards growth as we leverage our strong ecosystem to build the number one digital bank in less than 2 years |
| The combined effect of higher revenues and lower costs resulted in a 4% improvement in EBITDA to PHP 104.3 billion, another record high with EBITDA margin at 52% |
| Our enterprise business has also achieved preferred partner status with Cisco, Fortinet, Microsoft and Google demonstrating strong solution capabilities and a robust partner ecosystem |
| Full capacity is expected to be a year ahead of competition with ePLDT well positioned to serve the existing robust demand from hyperscalers |
| PLDT continues to enjoy strong brand equity and superior network quality, making it a formidable competitor in the market |
| While home broadband revenues rose by only 1%, fiber-only revenues, which now account for 88% of the total home revenues improved by 9% or PHP 4.5 billion versus last year |
| We achieved this on the back of a very creative and innovative banking services delivered to our payment customer base, consisting of consumers and enterprises |
| The number of unique 5G devices and 5G data traffic continued to show growth |
| We feel that's a good start in |
| Our high engagement banking strategy resulted in the doubling of our depositor base to $3 million, as mentioned earlier, and boosted our deposit balances to PHP 25 billion as of December 2023 |
| Against an improving backdrop and an early signs of market repair, individual revenues grew by 2% to PHP 81.8 billion |
| So we're actually seeing an improvement in terms of market share there |
| The Home and Enterprise segments registered new record highs |
| Mobile data revenues underpinned the growth with a 6% rise to PHP 71.1 billion |
| I think it will enhance our capability if you bring in somebody who is a major data center player internationally |
| Home revenues grew by 1% to PHP 60.4 billion, with fiber-only revenues having added 9% to PHP 53 billion |
| Enterprise revenues gained by 1% to PHP 47.1 billion |
| The segmented EBITDA turn positive for the first 2 months compared to the loss last year |
| Unique to PLDT is the ability to leverage on both fiber and fixed wireless technologies to serve a broader market segment |
| Another example of leveraging on our integrated network is our industry-first always on broadband service, which is able to deliver seamless ultra-high-speed connection ensuring customers uninterrupted access for work, study and entertainment |
| The next slide shows that while the headline revenue growth ranges from 1% to 2%, there are underlying data revenue streams growing more strongly in line, if not stronger than the Philippine GDP growth |
| Corporate data climbed by 4% due to higher fiber and managed IT services, ePLDT or ICT recorded a 15% rise in revenues, mainly from data center and cloud services |
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| So obviously, we saw a decline in our overall subscriber base |
| On the total fixed broadband momentum, that seems to be quite soft for the last 2 quarters |
| In fact, we're seeing fixed wireless subscriber numbers quite substantially declined year-on-year |
| You did mention that fourth quarter was weighed down by seasonal issues |
| In addition, the CapEx of PHP 85.1 billion is PHP 19.2 billion lower than the EBITDA of PHP 104.3 billion |
| We foresee continued increases in data broadband revenues attenuated somewhat by the legacy services legacy products that are negative, which continue to show negative as they replaced by the new data and broadband services |
| If you take into account the corporate overhead, it's still negative EBITDA, but 50% roughly of what it was of the loss that they showed in the first 2 months last year |
| That is actually a really -- in the past, has actually been quite a large business for us but has been undergoing a lot of decline |
| Note that our share in losses from Maya stood at PHP 2.2 billion or PHP 1 billion lower than last year, in line with our expectation of Maya's breakeven by the fourth quarter of this year |
| If you look at that, that itself was actually negative PHP 3.1 billion or a decline of 35% year-on-year |
| Additions in the segment slowed |
| We've been very cautious about how we've actually deployed that |
| A lot of concerns, though, on experience, I think it's already been mentioned that we're restarting our network build, and we're intensifying investments and improving capabilities to deliver product lines that are going to be on value and really to the customer |
| Moreover, CapEx intensity for year stood at 42% lower than 50% in 2022 |
| And that's what's actually dragging down the overall home performance if you look at our overall number |
| When you're only isolating out the fiber business, right? So obviously, we still have some of the legacy to go that actually weighs down our number |
| Now many of you would know in the market, we have actually seen a correction and a change in that |
| Since the customers have already led us, there is a need to write down costs associated with the service |
| We want to make sure that we use prepaid fiber to target areas where we have excess capacity as opposed to other players in the market, which actually have significantly lower utilization levels |
| So a lot of the issues regarding sales and after sales are obviously revolving around social and digital media |
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