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order to achieve these targets, we are continuing to focus on further developing our customer base and product offering, as<br />

well as implementing initiatives with the objective of improving profitability, maximizing liquidity and reducing leverage:<br />

• Provide the best internet service in the market. Our strategy is to position ourselves as a high-quality,<br />

innovative service provider with competitive prices, taking advantage of our own state-of-the-art network. We<br />

strive for high quality of service and believe we compare favorably to competitors. The steps we have taken to<br />

implement this strategy include the delivery of “real” (i.e., as advertised) internet speeds and the Docsis 3.0<br />

system upgrade which was completed in February 2012. The upgrade enables us to provide faster and more<br />

reliable internet services with speeds significantly higher than our currently commercialised speeds of<br />

100 Mbps for residential customers and 200 Mbps for SMEs (we are currently the only provider in Spain to<br />

offer this speed on a nation-wide basis). As of March 31, 2012, over 530 thousand customers subscribed to our<br />

high-speed internet packages (30 Mbps and higher), representing approximately 37% of our residential<br />

broadband customer base, which we believe makes us the leading provider of ultra-high speed internet in<br />

Spain. We intend to continue focusing on marketing and deriving the commercial benefits from this service.<br />

• Provide the best TV experience in the market. In June 2010, we established an alliance with U.S. digital video<br />

company TiVo in order to offer a next generation TV service, using set-top boxes manufactured by Cisco, which<br />

we believe provides a seamless convergence between internet and traditional television content. In October<br />

2011, we officially launched our next generation TV service (TiVo) to customers in Madrid and Barcelona. We<br />

have made this service available in regions that represent almost 62% of our network as of March 31, 2012. We<br />

expect to further extend this innovative TV service to the remaining regions within our network coverage areas<br />

in the coming quarters. As of March 31, 2012, this product had been available for five months, and during this<br />

period we gained over 16 thousand customers. We believe this innovative TV product will help us to grow our<br />

TV customer base, strengthen customer loyalty and increase revenues. We also believe it differentiates and<br />

significantly upgrades our television offerings compared to others in the market by providing users with a<br />

“best-in-class” experience and a wide variety of content that integrates broadcast and broadband television in a<br />

way that goes beyond the confines of traditional pay television.<br />

• Increase the number of high-quality customers. We are undertaking a more focused customer acquisition<br />

strategy while at the same time protecting our customer base with loyalty initiatives. Our main strategy is to<br />

grow market share of our residential services, but we are particularly focused on higher-quality customers,<br />

which we believe can help us achieve higher ARPUs and lower net churn. Actions to implement this strategy<br />

include the use of credit scoring, the implementation of activation and installation fees, selective application of<br />

customer acquisition promotions and a change in marketing strategy to focus on more targeted campaigns. Our<br />

advertising highlights the quality of our products in addition to the competitive prices at which we offer them.<br />

• Expand up-selling and cross-selling initiatives. We seek to sell additional products and services to our<br />

existing customers, a practice to which we refer as cross-selling, or transfer them to higher value services, a<br />

practice to which we refer as up-selling. In particular, we intend to encourage our customers to subscribe for<br />

additional services by offering bundled services, at prices lower than those provided by our competitors or by<br />

us on an individual basis, or to transfer customers to higher broadband speeds and broader TV packages,<br />

including our recently launched TiVo product, at similar or slightly higher prices. We believe that providing<br />

existing customers with a variety of new and enhanced services with tiered pricing options encourages them to<br />

take more than one of our services. Bundling and new pricing options are expected to increase the number of<br />

our double- and triple-play customers and thereby increase our RGUs per customer and protect ARPU stability.<br />

We also intend to continue developing customer loyalty by offering value-added services such as mobile voice<br />

and broadband internet and internet security software.<br />

• Grow our mobile voice and broadband customer base. We believe there is opportunity to grow our mobile<br />

voice and broadband customer base which comprises mostly customers taking triple and quadruple-play<br />

services from us. As of March 31, 2012, we had 189 thousand mobile residential lines and 13 thousand mobile<br />

SME lines, which represents a relatively low penetration rate compared to our overall customer base. We<br />

would like to grow our mobile services customer base because we believe that mobile services contribute to<br />

greater customer loyalty and lower churn levels, contributing to higher revenues.<br />

• Grow our SME business. We believe there is opportunity to grow our SME business and gain market share in<br />

this business area. Different types of SME customers have different telecommunications service needs and<br />

respond to different sales and marketing approaches. Quality is of paramount importance for SME customers<br />

and we believe that we are well-positioned to deliver a quality service by utilizing our established proprietary<br />

state-of-the-art network and by offering competitive solutions.<br />

• Maintain cost discipline and maximize cash generation. We achieved positive free cash flow for the first time<br />

in 2009. We increased our free cash flow by €89 million between 2009 and 2011, and we aim to continue to<br />

improve free cash flow generation through the marketing and product development initiatives described above<br />

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