EX-1 2 d938832dex1.htm EX-1 EX-1

Exhibit 1

Oi S.A.

Condensed Consolidated Interim

Financial Information

March 31, 2015


Report on the review on condensed consolidated interim financial information

To

The Board of Directors and Shareholders of

Oi S.A.

Rio de Janeiro—RJ

Introduction

We have reviewed the condensed consolidated interim financial information of Oi S.A. (“Company”) for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, comprising the balance sheet as of March 31, 2015 and the related statements of operations and comprehensive income and of changes in shareholders’ equity and statements of cash flows for the three-month period then ended, including the explanatory notes.

Management is responsible for the preparation of the interim financial information in accordance with the Accounting Pronouncement CPC 21(R1)—Interim Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express our conclusion on this interim financial information based on our review.

Scope of the review

We conducted our review in accordance with Brazilian and International Interim Information Review Standards (NBC TR 2410 – Revisão de Informações Intermediárias Executada pelo Auditor da Entidade and ISRE 2410 – Review of Interim Financial Information Performed by the Independent Auditor of the Entity, respectively). A review of interim financial information consists of making inquiries primarily of the management responsible for financial and accounting matters and applying analytical procedures and other review procedures. The scope of a review is significantly less than an audit conducted in accordance with Brazilian and International auditing standards and consequently does not enable us to obtain assurance that we would become aware of all significant matters that would have been identified in an audit. Therefore, we do not express an audit opinion.

Conclusion on the interim financial information

Based on our review, nothing has come to our attention that cause us to believe that the condensed consolidated interim financial information aforementioned has not been prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with CPC 21(R1) applicable to the preparation of interim financial information.

 

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Emphasis

Investment in Unitel S.A.

The investment in Unitel S.A. in the amount of R$4,571 million as of March 31, 2015 (R$4,157 million as of December 31, 2014), which includes the dividends receivable from that entity in the amount of R$1,140 million (R$944 million as of December 31, 2014), was determined by Management according to a business valuation performed to reflect the best estimate of its fair value. We call the attention to the uncertainties disclosed in notes 1 and 26 to the condensed consolidated interim financial information, since the realizable value of that investment depends on the occurrence of the assumptions made in the mentioned valuation and to the disposal conditions of the interest in Unitel S.A. Our conclusion is not qualified due to this matter.

Other matters

Statements of added value

We have also reviewed the consolidated statement of added value for the three-month period ended March 31, 2015, prepared under the responsibility of the Company’s management, for which presentation is required in the interim information in accordance with the standards issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission – CVM applicable to the preparation of quarterly information – ITR, and considered as supplementary information by IFRS, which does not require the presentation of the statements of added value. This statement was submitted to the same review procedures described previously and, based on our review, nothing has come to our attention that cause us to believe that it has not been prepared, in all material respects, in relation to the condensed consolidated interim financial information, taken as a whole.

Rio de Janeiro, May 6, 2015

/s/ KPMG Auditores Independentes

KPMG Auditores Independentes

CRC SP-014428/O-6 F-RJ

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets as at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

     Note    03/31/2015     12/31/2014  

Current assets

       

Cash and cash equivalents

   8      1,821,839        2,449,206   

Cash investments

   8      142,013        171,415   

Derivative financial instruments

   18      649,553        340,558   

Trade receivable, net

   9      8,091,631        7,450,040   

Inventories, net

        458,078        478,499   

Current recoverable taxes

   10      535,558        1,097,189   

Other taxes

   11      961,538        1,054,255   

Judicial deposits

   12      1,162,528        1,133,639   

Pension plan assets

   23      5,902        1,744   

Held-for-sale assets

   26      35,531,063        33,926,592   

Other assets

        1,715,433        1,183,658   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

  51,075,136      49,286,795   

Non-current assets

Long-term investments

8   115,637      111,285   

Derivative financial instruments

18   4,599,597      2,880,923   

Deferred taxes

10   8,228,121      7,625,772   

Other taxes

11   723,835      741,911   

Judicial deposits

12   12,560,229      12,260,028   

Pension plan assets

23   46,157      45,752   

Prepaid expenses

  98,004      104,398   

Other assets

  224,922      222,843   

Investments

13   145,522      148,411   

Property, plant and equipment, net

14   25,556,789      25,670,026   

Intangible assets, net

15   3,609,771      3,690,978   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total non-current assets

  55,908,584      53,502,327   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

  106,983,720      102,789,122   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Current liabilities

Payroll, related taxes and benefits

  666,685      744,439   

Trade payables

16   4,347,318      4,336,566   

Loans and financing

17   4,909,588      4,463,728   

Derivative financial instruments

18   708,729      523,951   

Current income taxes payable

10   194,359      477,282   

Taxes other than income tax

11   1,509,315      1,667,599   

Dividends and interest on capital

  183,932      185,138   

Licenses and concessions payable

19   763,282      675,965   

Tax financing program

20   94,695      94,041   

Provision for pension plan

24   150,153      129,662   

Liabilities associated to held-for-sale assets

26   28,276,306      27,178,221   

Provisions

21   1,038,403      1,058,521   

Other payables

  991,806      1,021,719   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

  43,834,571      42,556,832   

Non-Current liabilities

Loans and financing

17   34,052,414      31,385,667   

Derivative financial instruments

18   215,139      142,971   

Taxes other than income tax

11   896,645      874,727   

Licenses and concessions payable

19   726,109      685,975   

Tax financing program

20   896,229      896,189   

Provision for pension plan

23   334,263      346,873   

Provisions

21   4,096,679      4,073,247   

Other payables

  2,542,116      2,515,152   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

  43,759,594      40,920,801   

Equity attributable to controlling shareholders

22

Share capital

  21,438,374      21,438,220   

Share issue costs

  (309,592   (309,592

Capital reserves

  5,910,823      3,977,623   

Income reserves

  1,933,354   

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets as at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

Treasury shares

  (5,531,092   (2,367,552

Obligations in equity instruments

  (2,894,619

Other comprehensive income

  799,712      45,126   

Change in equity interest’s

  3,916      3,916   

Accumulated losses

  (4,425,501   (4,024,184
     

 

 

   

 

 

 
  17,886,640      17,802,292   

Equity attributable to noncontrolling shareholders

  1,502,915      1,509,197   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total equity

  19,389,555      19,311,489   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total equity and liabilities

  106,983,720      102,789,122   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

     Note   03/31/15     03/31/14  

Net operating revenue

   4 and 5     7,039,935        6,876,503   

Cost of sales and services

   5     (3,794,762     (3,761,476
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

  3,245,173      3,115,027   
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income (expenses)

Share of profits of subsidiaries

5 and 13   432      (2,611

Selling expenses

5   (1,147,766   (1,356,485

General and administrative expenses

5   (949,395   (895,587

Other operating income

5   184,778      1,511,569   

Other operating expenses

5   (540,351   (562,983
    

 

 

   

 

 

 
  (2,452,302   (1,306,097
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Profit before financial income (expenses) and taxes

  792,871      1,808,930   

Financial income

5 and 6   306,921      279,015   

Financial expenses

5 and 6   (1,576,008   (1,472,858
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Financial income (expenses)

5 and 6   (1,269,087   (1,193,843
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before taxes

  (476,216   615,087   

Income tax and social contribution

Current

7   (271,043   (397,635

Deferred

7   333,163      10,061   
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Profit from continuing operations

  (414,096   227,513   
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Discontinued operations

Loss for the year from discontinued operations, net (net of taxes)

26   (32,445

Profit (loss) for the year

  (446,541   227,513   
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Profit (loss) attributable to owners of the Company

  (401,317   227,513   

Profit (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests

  (45,224

Basic and diluted earnings per share

22(h)

Common shares – basic and diluted (R$)

  (0.48   1.39   

Preferred shares – basic and diluted (R$)

  (0.48   1.39   

Basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share - continuing operations:

Common shares – basic and diluted (R$)

  (0.44   1.39   

Preferred shares – basic and diluted (R$)

  (0.44   1.39   

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Comprehensive Income for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/15     03/31/14  

Continuing operations

    

Profit (loss) for the year

     (446,541     227,513   

Increase due to corporate reorganization

    

Hedge accounting gains (losses)

     3,010        127,797   

Actuarial gains (losses)

     11,724     

Exchange gains on investment abroad

     494,160     

Comprehensive income (loss) – continuing operations

     62,353        355,310   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Discontinued operations

Comprehensive income of discontinued operations

  245,692   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income (loss) for the year

  308,045      355,310   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive income attributable to owners of the Company

  353,269      355,310   

Comprehensive income attributable to non-controlling interests

  (45,224

Statement of comprehensive income (loss) items are carried net of taxes

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

 

    Paid-in
capital
    Share issue
costs
    Capital
reserves
    Profit
reserves
    Obligations
in equity
instruments
    Treasury
shares
    Accumulated
losses
    Change in
equity
interest’s
    Other
comprehensive
income
    Equity     Non-
controlling
interests
    Consolidated
equity
 

Balance at December 31, 2014

    21,438,220        (309,592     3,977,623        1,933,354        (2,894,619     (2,367,552     (4,024,184     3,916        45,126        17,802,292        1,509,197        19,311,489   

Capital increases

    154          1,933,200        (1,933,354                

Obligations in equity instruments

            (268,921             (268,921       (268,921

Exchange of treasury shares

            3,163,540        (3,163,540            

Profit for the period

                (401,317         (401,317     (45,224     (446,541

Other comprehensive income

                       

Hedge accounting gain

                    17,192        17,192          17,192   

Subsidiaries’ hedge accounting losses

                    (14,182     (14,182       (14,182

Actuarial gain

                    11,724        11,724          11,724   

Subsidiaries’ actuarial gains

                    8,202        8,202          8,202   

Exchange gains on investment abroad

                    460,214        460,214        38,942        499,156   

Exchange gains on subsidiaries’ investment abroad

                    130,325        130,325          130,325   

Other comprehensive income

                    141,111        141,111          141,111   

Balance at March 31, 2015

    21,438,374        (309,592     5,910,823            (5,531,092     (4,425,501     3,916        799,712        17,886,640        1,502,915        19,389,555   
    Paid-in
capital
    Share issue
costs
    Capital
reserves
    Profit
reserves
    Obligations
in equity
instruments
    Treasury
shares
    Retained
earnings
    Change in
equity
interest’s
    Other
comprehensive
income
    Equity     Non-
controlling
interests
    Consolidated
equity
 

Balance at December 31, 2013

    7,471,209        (56,547     3,977,623        2,323,992          (2,104,524       3,916        (91,531     11,524,138          11,524,138   

Profit for the period

                227,513            227,513          227,513   

Other comprehensive income

                       

Hedge accounting gain

                    102,182        102,182          102,182   

Subsidiaries’ hedge accounting gain

                    25,615        25,615          25,615   

Balance at March 31, 2014

    7,471,209        (56,547     3,977,623        2,323,992          (2,104,524     227,513        3,916        36,266        11,879,448          11,879,448   

 

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/15     03/31/14  

Cash flows from operating activities– continuing operations

    

Income before income tax and social contribution

     (476,216     615,087   

Non-cash items

    

Charges, interest income, and inflation adjustment (i)

     3,716,355        183,935   

Depreciation and amortization

     1,218,388        1,144,450   

Losses on receivables

     169,276        203,226   

Provisions

     223,144        169,565   

Provision for pension plans

     2,271        2,224   

Share of profits of subsidiaries

     (432     2,611   

Loss on write-off of permanent assets

     1,298        619   

Concession Agreement Extension Fee—ANATEL

     28,596        31,405   

Employee and management profit sharing

     3,350        78,901   

Derivative financial instrument transactions

     (2,563,395     730,011   

Inflation adjustment to provisions (ii)

     52,576        98,673   

Inflation adjustment to tax refinancing program (iii)

     23,780        26,009   

Expired dividends

       (4,150

Other

     257,263        (1,005,738
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
  2,656,254      2,276,828   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Changes in assets and liabilities

Accounts receivable

  (794,650   (644,033

Inventories

  23,249      (13,315

Taxes

  (345,477   71,438   

Held-for-trading cash investments

  (661,484   (1,427,422

Redemption of held-for-trading cash investments

  687,891      1,499,717   

Trade payables

  (2,258   (82,072

Payroll, related taxes and benefits

  (81,104   (204,013

Provisions

  (190,324   (161,032

Provision for pension plans

  (131,156

Other assets and liabilities

  (783,930   (344,168
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
  (2,148,087   (1,436,056
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Financial charges paid

  (701,338   (841,791

Income tax and social contribution paid—Company

  (3,320   (101,623

Income tax and social contribution paid—third parties

  (65,097   (73,764
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
  (769,755   (1,017,178
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from operating activities—continuing operations

  (261,588   (176,406
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from operating activities—discontinued operations

  485,342   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash generated by operating activities

  223,754      (176,406
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(In thousands of Brazilian reais - R$, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/15     03/31/14  

Cash flows from investing activities – continuing operations

    

Purchase of tangibles and intangibles

     (970,017     (1,358,650

Due from related parties and debentures - disbursements

    

Proceeds from the sale of investments, tangibles and intangibles

     3,698        3,282,850   

Judicial deposits

     (466,813     (305,789

Redemption of judicial deposits

     154,288        127,610   

Change in cash and cash equivalents

     201,591     

Increase/(decrease) in permanent investments

     (5     (1,163
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities—continuing operations

  (1,077,258   1,744,858   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities—discontinued operations

  (194,739
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

  (1,271,997   1,744,858   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities—continuing operations

Borrowings net of costs

  531,343      297,982   

Repayment of principal of borrowings, financing, and derivatives

  (397,853   (544,818

Proceeds from derivative financial instruments transactions

  839,773      136,774   

Licenses and concessions

  (203,449

Tax refinancing program

  (22,978   (46,234

Payment of dividends and interest on capital

  (1,206   (1,213
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities—continuing operations

  949,079      (360,958
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities—discontinued operations

  (492,194
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in / originated from financing activities

  456,885      (360,958
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Foreign exchange differences on cash equivalents

  (36,009   2,803   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows for the year

  (627,367   1,210,297   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

Closing balance

  1,821,839      3,635,127   

Opening balance

  2,449,206      2,424,830   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Changes in the year

  (627,367   1,210,297   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(i) Includes: (1) inflation adjustment on provision for pension plans that are adjusted by estimated inflation rate based on actuarial assumptions (see note 24) and (2) inflation adjustment on licenses and concessions payable that are adjusted by Telecommunications Service Index (IST) plus 1% p.m. and General Price Index—Domestic Availability (IGP-DI) plus 1% p.m.;
(ii) Adjusted for inflation in accordance with the specific indexes defined by the respective courts or legislation in force;
(iii) Adjusted for inflation by Special System for Settlement and Custody Rate – Selic.

Additional disclosures relating to the statement of cash flows

Non-cash transactions

 

     03/31/15      03/31/14  

Acquisition of Property, Plant and Equipment and Intangible assets (incurring liabilities)

     51,646         35,293   

Offset of judicial deposits against provisions

     82,082         81,242   

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

1 GENERAL INFORMATION

Oi S.A. (“Company” or “Oi”), is a Switched Fixed-line Telephony Services (“STFC”) concessionaire, operating since July 1998 in Region II of the General Concession Plan (“PGO”), which covers the Brazilian states of Acre, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Tocantins, Goiás, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, and the Federal District, in the provision of STFC as a local and intraregional long-distance carrier. Since January 2004, the Company also provides domestic and international long-distance services in all Regions and local services outside Region II started to be provided in January 2005. These services are provided under concessions granted by Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações—ANATEL (National Telecommunications Agency), the regulator of the Brazilian telecommunications industry.

The Company is headquartered in Brazil, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at Rua do Lavradio, 71—2º andar.

The Company also holds: (i) through its wholly-owned subsidiary Telemar Norte Leste S.A. (“TMAR”) a concession to provide fixed telephone services in Region I and nationwide International Long-distance services; and (ii) through its indirect subsidiary Oi Móvel S.A. (“Oi Móvel”) a license to provide mobile telephony services in Region I, II and III.

The local and nationwide STFC long-distance concession agreements entered into by the Company and its subsidiary TMAR with the ANATEL are effective until December 31, 2025. These concession agreements provide for reviews on a five-year basis and in general have a higher degree of intervention in the management of the business than the licenses to provide private services, and also include several consumer protection provisions, as perceived by the regulator.

The Company is registered with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Its shares are traded on the São Paulo Mercantile and Stock Exchange (“BM&FBOVESPA”) and its American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).

In May 2014, in accordance with the business combination plan between the Company and Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. (“PT SGPS” or “PT”), the Company’s capital increase was approved through the payment by Portugal Telecom of all the shares of PT Portugal SGPS, S.A. (“PT Portugal”).

On November 18, 2014, the Company approved a 10 for 1 reverse share split of all Company common shares and preferred shares. i.e., consolidating 10 shares into a single common or preferred share, as applicable. The Company’s shares traded on the NYSE as ADSs were also be subject to this reverse share slip, following the same reverse share slip ratio used in Brazil, so that these ADSs continued to be traded at the ratio of one ADS per each share.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

PT Portugal and its subsidiaries operate basically in the telecommunications and multimedia industries, in Portugal and in other countries in Africa and in Asia. In Portugal, fixed telephony services are provided by MEO—Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia (“MEO”), previously called PT Comunicações, S.A., which also provides pay TV services, through the IPTV, FTTH and DTH platforms, Internet services to residential customers and small and medium-sized entities, data transmission and Internet services to large customers, and mobile telephony services using the platforms Global System for Mobile Communications (“GSM”), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (“UMTS”), and Long Term Evolution (“LTE”).

In Africa, the Group provides fixed and mobile telecommunications services indirectly through Africatel Holding BV (“Africatel”). The Group provides services in Namibia, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São Tomé, among other countries, especially through its subsidiaries Mobile Telecommunications Limited (“MTC”), LTM—Listas Telefónicas de Moçambique (“LTM”), Cabo Verde Telecom, and CST—Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicações, SARL (“CST”). Additionally, the Group holds a 25% stake in Unitel S.A. (“Unitel”), which provides telecommunications services in Angola.

In Asia, the Group provides fixed and mobile telecommunications services basically through its subsidiary Timor Telecom.

As referred to in Note 26, after the due approval by its Board of Directors, on December 9, 2014 the Company entered into an agreement with Portugal S.A. (“Altice PT”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altice S.A., (“Altice”), for the purpose of selling all the shares of PT Portugal and basically involving the operations conducted by PT Portugal in Portugal and in Hungary.

The actual sale of PT Portugal shares is still subject to the completion of the corporate reorganization actions in order to segregate the businesses that will be sold, and on April 20, 2015 the regulatory permit required according to information provided by the buyer, was obtained.

The Board of Directors authorized the completion of these quarterly information at the meeting held on May 6, 2015, after being reviewed at the Board of Directors’ meeting held on May 6, 2015.

Merger of the activities of Oi and PT

On October 2, 2013 Oi published a Material Fact Notice informing that Oi, PT, AG Telecom Participações S.A. (“AG”), LF Tel. S.A. (“LF”), PASA Participações S.A. (“PASA”), EDSP75 Participações S.A. (“EDSP75”), Bratel Brasil S.A. (“Bratel Brasil”), Avistar, SGPS, S.A. (“BES”), and Nivalis Holding B.V. (“OnGoing”) entered into a memorandum of understanding that lays down the bases and the principles that would govern the negotiations for a potential transaction involving PT, Oi, and some of their controlling shareholders to incorporate a company (“CorpCo”) that would gather the shareholders of Oi, PT, and Telemar Participações S.A. (“TelPart”) and combine the activities businesses undertaken by Oi in Brazil and PT in Portugal, Africa, and Asia aimed at consolidating the industrial alliance between Oi and PT (“Transaction”).

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

On February 19, 2014, following the memorandum entered into on October 1, 2013, Oi and PT signed the definitive contractual agreements that described the stages necessary to implement the Transaction (“Definitive Agreements”). These Definitive Agreements establish that TelPart would be the company that would gather the shareholders of Oi and PT, and provide for the different stages of the Transaction, including the following:

 

(a) Increase of Oi’s capital through a public offering of Oi shares, approved at the Board of Directors’ meetings held on April 28, 2014, April 30, 2014, and May 5, 2014;

 

(b) Capitalization of AG, LF and TelPart with the funds required to repay their debts, completed in May 2014;

 

(c) A corporate reorganization involving the companies PASA, AG, EDSP75, LF, Bratel Brasil, and TelPart to streamline their corporate structure. After this step, TelPart would become the holder of Oi shares only and will not have any debt or have sufficient cash or cash equivalents to repay its debt;

 

(d) Listing of TelPart on the Novo Mercado segment of the BM&FBOVESPA and termination of AG’s, LF’s and TelPart’s shareholders’ agreements; and

 

(e) Merger of Oi shares into TelPart, causing Oi to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of TelPart (“Share Merger”).

On the Share Merger, each Oi common share would be exchanged for a CorpCo share and each Oi preferred share would be exchanged for 0.9211 CorpCo shares. The exchange ratios have been determined based on the quotations of Oi common shares and preferred shares over the 30-day period prior to the publication of the Material Fact Notice that disclosed the transaction and the direct or indirect stakes held by the companies involved in the transaction in Oi, under the premise that such companies would not have any liabilities or assets or would have sufficient cash or cash equivalents to fully settle their debts.

Initially the Definitive Agreements also provided for the merger of PT with and into TelPart, and a result of this merger PT’s shareholders would receive a number of TelPart shares equivalent to the number of TelPart shares held by PT, immediately before the merger.

After the transaction is completed, TelPart shares would be listed for trading on the Novo Mercado segment of the BM&FBOVESPA and on the NYSE Euronext Lisbon and the NYSE.

On January 14, 2014, the Transaction’s approval by the Brazilian Antitrust Agency (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, or CADE) was published on the Federal Official Gazette and on January 29, 2014 was the deadline for third parties to file any appeals against this agency’s decision or file proceedings with the CADE Court. No appeals or proceedings against the decision were filed. Accordingly, CADE’s decision, published on January 14, 2014, was confirmed in all other respects.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Due to the negotiations between Oi and PT related to the short-term investments made by PT in Rio Forte Investments S.A. (“Rio Forte”) securities, as described in further detail in Note 26, Other Information, the merger of PT with and into CorpCo will no longer be implemented as part of the Transaction, without prejudice to PT potentially adopting an alternative structure to reach the same purpose of combining the share bases of Oi and PT.

As described in further detail in Note 26, the Company disclosed a Material Fact on March 31, 2015 to report the disclosure of a TmarPart Material Fact informing the approval by TmarPart’s shareholders of a set of actions that would allow anticipating the main purposes of the Transaction, as a result of the barriers encountered for TmarPart’s registrations with the SEC, necessary to allow the Share Merger, as stated in the Company’s Material Fact of March 26, 2015.

Company’s capital increase through the payment by PT of all PT Portugal shares

In accordance with the Definitive Agreements executed on February 19, 2014, the Company’s Board of Directors decided at the meetings held on April 28 and 30, 2014, to increase capital by R$13,217,865 though the issue of 2,142,279,524 common shares for public subscription, including 396,589,982 common shares in the form of American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), and 4,284,559,049 preferred shares, including 828,881,795 preferred shares in the form of ADSs.

On May 5, 2014, Banco BTG Pactual S.A., as Public Offering Stabilizing Underwriter, exercised, under Article 24 of CVM Instruction 400, part of the distribution option for 120,265,046 Oi common shares and 240,530,092 Oi preferred shares (“Overallotment Shares”), amounting to R$742,035. As a result, on said date the Company capital increased to R$21,431,109.

The shares were issued at the price of R$2.17 per common share and R$2.00 per preferred share. The common shares in the form of ADSs (“ADSs ON”, each representing one common share) were issued at the price of US$0.970 per ADS ON, and the preferred shares in the form of ADSs (“ADSs PN”, each representing one preferred share) were issued at the price of US$0.894 per ADS PN.

Finally, the issued shares were paid in (i) by Portugal Telecom in assets, though the assignment to the Company of all PT Portugal shares, which holds all the (i.a) operating assets of Portugal Telecom, except its direct or indirect interests in the Company and in Contax Participações S.A., and (i.b) liabilities of Portugal Telecom at the assignment date, as determined in the Valuation Report prepared by Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. (“PT Assets”), approved at the Company’s Shareholders’ Meeting held on March 27, 2014; and (ii) in cash, on the subscription date, in local legal tender. Accordingly, the Company’s capital increase totaled the gross amount of R$13.96 billion, including PT’s assets valued at R$5.71 billion.

Acquisition PT Portugal assets and liabilities

The acquisition of PT Portugal assets and liabilities has been recognized using the acquisition method, as prescribed by CPC 15 (R1), based on the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed. The net assets acquired on the transaction date are broken down as follows:

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     (In millions of Brazilian reais - R$)  
     Carrying
amount
     Fair value
adjustments (i)
     Fair value
at May 5, 2014
(revised)
 

Assets

        

Cash and cash equivalents

     1,088            1,088   

Cash investments

     2,870         (2,763      107   

Accounts receivable

     2,371            2,371   

Inventories

     285            285   

Current recoverable taxes

     266            266   

Prepaid expenses

     214            214   

Available-for-sale financial asset (ii)

     4,089            4,089   

Intangible assets

     2,346         3,147         5,493   

Property, plant and equipment

     10,432         608         11,040   

Deferred taxes recoverable

     556            556   

Assets related to pension plans

     6            6   

Other assets (iii)

     2,021         2,763         4,784   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets acquired

  26,544      3,755      30,299   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

Borrowings and financing—current

  6,209      6,209   

Borrowings and financing—non-current

  19,026      19,026   

Trade payables

  1,795      1,795   

Current taxes payable

  229      229   

Provisions

  142      142   

Provisions for pension plans

  2,688      2,688   

Deferred taxes recoverable

  258      1,012      1,270   

Other payables

  1,756      1,756   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities assumed

  32,103      1,012      33,115   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets acquired and liabilities assumed

  (5,559   2,743      (2,816
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(i) The nature of the adjustments to market value is detailed below.
(ii) Corresponds to the fair value of the investment in Unitel, based on a report prepared by Banco Santander on the valuation of PT’s operating assets and used as basis for the valuation of the capital increase. Note that as at March 31, 2015 this investment is classified as a held-for-sale asset (Note 26).
(iii) This line item includes R$2,763 million (€897 million) corresponding to the rights to compensation receivable from PT SGPS. The Company revised the recognition and the measurement of the identifiable assets and liabilities at the date of acquisition on May 5, 2014.

Based on the additional material information resulting from the non-settlement of the commercial papers by Rio Forte Investments, S.A., as described in further detail in Note 26, Other Information, and based on the exception rules on the recognition and measurement of a business combination (paragraph 27 of CPC 15), the Company recognized on the same date the write-off of all these papers totaling R$2,763 million and the recognition in line item Other assets of a right to compensation receivable from the underwriting shareholder, measured on the same bases as the Rio Forte commercial papers. This right to compensation was settled by PT SGPS on March 30, 2015 with the delivery of Oi shares as part of the compliance with the share exchange agreement (Note 26).

The nature of the adjustments to market value made in the context of the allocation of the fair values of identifiable assets and liabilities is as follows:

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     (In millions of Brazilian reais - R$)  
     Carrying
amount
     Fair value
adjustments
     Fair value  

List of residential segment customers (i)

     40         738         778   

List of personal mobile segment customers (i)

     94         1,642         1,736   

List of corporate segment customers (i)

     37         665         701   

Mobile licenses of the operations in Portugal (ii)

     1,037         103         1,140   

Market value adjustments to intangible assets

     1,208         3,147         4,355   

Property, plant and equipment of operations in Portugal (iii)

        608      

Market value adjustments before taxes

        3,755      

Taxation

        (1,012   
     

 

 

    

Total market value adjustments, net of taxes

  2,743   
     

 

 

    

 

(i) The fair values of the customer lists have been determined under the Revenue Approach, more specifically, the Surplus Profit Method. Under the Revenue Approach, fair value is determined based on the cash flows (discounted) that an asset should generate during its remaining useful life. The Surplus Profit Method is a variation of the Revenue Approach that considers the use of other assets to generate the projected cash flows of a specific asset to isolate the economic benefit generated by an intangible asset. These assets’ contribution is estimated based on the capital cost of the different contributive assets. In calculating the customer-related fair value, in addition to the future cash flows, the ARPU estimates and the customer churning rates have also been taken into account. These intangible assets will be amortized over the estimated customer retention, which varied from 7 to 13 years, depending on the customer segment.
(ii) The fair value of the mobile operations licenses in Portugal has been determined based on the Market Approach, using the analysis of different band auctions comparable to the radiofrequency auctions in which PT participated, in terms of (a) bandwidth, (b) geography (Western Europe), and (c) valuation date. The fair value was calculated as the average price per MHz of the selected auctions. These licenses are being amortized through their termination dates.
(iii) The fair value of property, plant and equipment was determined based on a Cost Approach, using the Replacement Cost Method. The New Replacement Cost was estimated by using cost indices, per year, which were applied to the historic costs of the property, plant and equipment items. Subsequently, depletion, obsolescence, and other forms of amortization that affect the assets, taking into consideration useful life estimates and the residual value of several asset classes.

The table below shows the total acquisition price, and the goodwill arising on the acquisition of PT Portugal’s assets and liabilities:

 

     (In millions of Brazilian reais - R$)  

Capital instruments issued

     5,710   

Fair value of the stake previously held by the Company in PT

     571   

Non-controlling interests

     1,478   

Less: Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed

     (2,816

Goodwill determined on May 5, 2014 May 2014

     10,575   

In business combinations it is common to exist a portion of the acquisition price that is not possible to attribute in accounting terms to the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, which are therefore recognized as goodwill. In the case of the acquisition of PT Portugal, goodwill is related to several components that cannot be individually reliably quantified and separated from each other, including skilled labor, technologic capacities, and established market reputation.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

The foreign exchange differences arising on translating the goodwill are recognized as a contra entry to other comprehensive income.

The acquisition price allocation process was completed on December 31, 2014.

Due to the signature of the sale agreement of PT Portugal operations and the offer for sale of the operations in Africa and Asia, the assets and liabilities related to these operations were classified in the balance sheet as available-for-sale assets and liabilities. Additionally, in the case of PT Portugal the corresponding revenue and expenses are presented in the income statement as discontinued operations (Note 26).

Risks related to our African and Asian operations

We may be unable to dispose of our interest in Africatel for a consideration that exceeds its carrying value in our financial statements or at all. Any impairment of the fair market value of at which we record our indirect investment in Unitel in our financial statements would have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position and performance.

On September 16, 2014, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the Company to take the necessary actions to sell our Africatel shares, representing 75% of the latter’s capital. The stake in Africatel is recognized in the financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 as held for sale. The Company engaged a financial advisor to assist in the sale of its stake in Africatel.

As at March 31, 2015, the Company recognized in the consolidated interim financial information as held-for-sale assets R$8,051 million related to its stake in the businesses in Africa and Timor, including R$1,520 million in accumulated dividends due to the Company by Unitel and R$4,575 million representing the fair value of Africatel’s 25% stake in Unitel at the time of Oi’s capital increase and recognized as held-for-sale liabilities amounting to R$780 million related to the Company’s stake in Africatel.

We may not be able to sell our interest in Africatel for consideration that exceeds the book value of our interest in Africatel, or at all. The carrying amount of the indirect investment in Unitel is tested for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the value of this indirect investment in Unitel may be lower than the fair market value at which we carry this investment. Any impairment of our indirect investment in Unitel may result in a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position and performance.

We cannot assure you as to when PT Ventures will receive the amount with respect to the declared and unpaid dividends owed to PT Ventures by Unitel or when PT Ventures will receive dividends that may be declared with respect to FY 2014 and subsequent years.

Since November 2012, PT Ventures has not received any payments for outstanding amounts owed to it by Unitel with respect to dividends declared by Unitel for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010. Based on the dividends declared by Unitel for those fiscal years, PT Ventures is entitled to receive the total amounts of US$190.0 million (R$608 million) with respect to fiscal year 2012, US$190.0 million (R$608 million ) with respect to fiscal year 2011, and US$157.5 million (R$504 million ) with respect to fiscal year 2010. By the date of this report, PT Ventures had only received US$63.7 million (R$204 million) of its dividends declared by Unitel, for 2010, and did not receive any other amount of the dividends declared for 2011 and 2012.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

At Unitel’s shareholders’ meeting held on November 4, 2014, the other shareholders reviewed the financial statements and the payment of dividends for 2013. PT Ventures requested the postponement of the shareholders’ meeting because the financial statements and other material information about the meeting had not been included in the shareholders’ meeting summon or made available to PT Ventures, event though PT Ventures had requested these materials on several occasions. The postponement request was not accepted and PT Ventures did not attend this meeting, which could not have been held without PT Ventures since Clause 8.2 of the Shareholders’ Agreement establishes that general meetings can only be held in a first summon with the presence of all shareholders. Additionally, PT Ventures did not receive the meeting minutes or was informed about the decisions made, even though it requested such minutes several times.

By the date of issue of this Note, Unitel had not declared dividends for the year ended December 31, 2014.

On March 25, 2014, Unitel issued a statement claiming that PT Ventures is not listed on the shareholders’ register of Unitel, and that the board of directors of Unitel had notified PT SGPS about the existence of an irregularity, which purportedly resulted in Unitel being unable to distribute dividends to PT Ventures until the resolution of this irregularity. In June 2014, PT Ventures (formerly known as Portugal Telecom Internacional, SGPS, S.A.) resolved the alleged irregularity with the Angolan Foreign Investment Institute. On June 3, 2014, the Angolan National Foreign Investment Agency endorsed the updating of PT Ventures’ name in its Foreign Investment Certificate, confirming the current corporate name of the PT Ventures.

PT Ventures requested, on several occasions, explanations to Unitel regarding the nonpayment of its share of the declared dividends. By the date of this report, PT Ventures had not received any credible explanation about the nonpayment or reliable indication of the payment timing of the accumulated dividends. We cannot assure as to the timing of the payment of the accrued dividends to PT Ventures or whether PT Ventures will be able to receive dividends that may be declared by Unitel in the future. The Company’s inability to receive such dividends could have an adverse impact on the fair value of its investment in Unitel, or its financial position and performance.

The other shareholders of Unitel have indicated to PT Ventures that they believe that PT SGPS’ sale of a non-controlling interest in Africatel did not comply with the Unitel shareholders’ agreement.

The Unitel shareholders’ agreement provides a right of first refusal to the other shareholders of Unitel if any shareholder desires to transfer any or all of its shares of Unitel, other than transfers to certain affiliates. This agreement also provides that if any shareholder breaches a material obligation under such agreement, the other shareholders will have a right to purchase the breaching shareholder’s stake in Unitel at its net book value.

The other shareholders of Unitel have asserted to PT Ventures that they believe that PT SGPS’s sale of a non-controlling interest in Africatel to Samba Luxco in 2007 constituted a breach the Unitel shareholders’ agreement. PT Ventures disputes this interpretation of the relevant provisions of the Unitel shareholders’ agreement and believes that such provisions apply only to a transfer of Unitel shares by PT Ventures itself.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

By the date of this report, the Company had not been notified of any proceedings initiated with respect to PT SGPS’s sale of a non-controlling stake in Africatel to Samba Luxco. Should the other shareholders of Unitel challenge this sale in a competent body and if a binding decision by an appropriate forum to this effect were to be rendered in favor of those shareholders, PT Ventures could be required to sell its interest in Unitel for a value significantly lower than the amount that recognized by the Company in its financial statements with respect to our indirect investment in Unitel. The sale of PT Ventures’ stake in Unitel, in these circumstances could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position and performance.

The other shareholders of Unitel may claim that, as a result of PT SGPS’s failure to offer its indirect interest in Unitel to such shareholders prior to the acquisition of PT Portugal by the Company, these shareholders have the right to acquire the shares of Unitel held by PT Ventures at their net book value.

On March 25, 2014, Unitel issued a public statement in which Unitel informs that its shareholders had a right of first refusal in case of the sale of PT SGPS’s indirect stake in Unitel to another entity. Subsequently, the other shareholders of Unitel delivered a notice to PT SGPS in which they claimed that our indirect acquisition of PT Ventures’s interest in Unitel as part of the Oi capital increase had trigger this right. The Company believes that the relevant provisions of the Unitel shareholders’ agreement would apply only to a transfer of Unitel shares by PT Ventures itself.

By the date of this report, the Company had not been notified of any proceedings initiated with respect to PT SGPS’s failure to offer its indirect interest in Unitel to the other shareholders of Unitel prior to our acquisition of PT Portugal. Should the other shareholders of Unitel claim that PT SGPS’s failure to offer its indirect interest in Unitel to the shareholders resulted in a breach of the Unitel shareholders’ agreement, and if a binding decision by an appropriate forum to this effect is be rendered in favor of those shareholders, PT Ventures could be required to sell its interest in Unitel for its net book value, which is significantly lower than the amount that the Company recognizes in its financial statements with respect to its indirect investment in Unitel. The sale of PT Ventures’ stake in Unitel, in these circumstances could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position and performance.

The other Unitel shareholders have prevented PT Ventures from exercising its rights to appoint the chief executive officer and a majority of the Board of Directors of Unitel.

Under the Unitel shareholders’ agreement, PT Ventures is entitled to appoint three of the five members of Unitel’s Board of Directors and its chief executive officer. Under the Unitel shareholders’ agreement, the appointment of the chief executive officer of Unitel is subject to the approval of the holders of 75% of Unitel’s shares. However, the other shareholders of Unitel did not vote to elect the directors appointed by PT Ventures at Unitel’s shareholders’ meetings, and as a result, PT Ventures’ representation on Unitel’s Board of Directors was reduced to a single director in June 2006, and the chief executive officer of Unitel has not been a PT Ventures’ appointee since June 2006.

On July 22, 2014, the only member of Unitel’s Board of directors That had been appointed by PT Ventures resigned and the other shareholders of Unitel have not permitted PT Ventures to appoint a replacement. In November 2014, the other shareholders of Unitel notified PT

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Ventures that its rights as a shareholder of Unitel had been suspended in October 2012, even though these shareholders these other shareholders have not indicated any legal basis for this suspension. At a general shareholders meeting on Unitel held on December 15, 2014, an election of members of the board of directors of Unitel was held. At this meeting, Unitel’s other shareholders claimed that PT Ventures was not entitled to vote as a result of the suspension of its rights as a shareholder of Unitel in October 2012, and they refused to elect the member nominated by PT Ventures to Unitel’s Board of Directors.

PT Ventures has filed a suit with an Angolan court to annul the election of members of the Unitel Board of Directors on December 15, 2014. By the date of this report, no director nominated by PT Ventures is part of Unitel’s Board of Directors.

Unitel has granted loans to a related party and entered into a management contract with a third-party without the approval of PT Ventures.

Under the Unitel shareholders’ agreement, the shareholders of Unitel and their affiliates are not permitted to enter into any contracts with Unitel unless the contracts are approved by a resolution of Unitel’s Board of Directors adopted by at least four members of its Board of Directors. As a result of the inability of PT Ventures to appoint members of the Unitel Board of Directors, PT Ventures is unable to effectively exercise its implied veto right over related party transactions of Unitel.

From May to October 2012, Unitel made disbursements to Unitel International Holdings B.V. totaling €178.9 million (R$616 million) and US$35.0 million (R$112 million) under a “Facility Agreement” entered into between Unitel and Unitel International Holdings B.V. (Unitel Holdings), an entity that competes with Africatel in Cabo Verde and in São Tomé and Principe. Unitel Holdings is controlled by Mrs. Isabel dos Santos, an indirect shareholder of Unitel, and according to public information disclosed by NOS, one of the indirect controlling shareholders of ZOPT, SGPS, S.A. (which holds a majority of the voting and total share capital of NOS). PT Ventures’ representative on Unitel’s Board of Directors voted against these transactions proposed by Unitel, and PT Ventures abstained when the consolidated financial statements of Unitel that included these transactions were approved by the other Unitel shareholders at a shareholders’ meeting.

Unitel made additional loans to related parties in 2013. We were not able to obtain information with regard to the existence of similar transactions conducted in 2014 and 2015.

Any failure by Unitel Holdings to make timely payment under this Facility Agreement could have a material adverse impact on Unitel’s financial position and performance and, therefore, on the value of the Company’s investment in Unitel.

In addition, Unitel has recognized the payment of a management fee of US$155.7 million payable to a third-party in its individual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2013 prepared in accordance with Angolan GAAP. This management fee was not submitted to Unitel’s Board of Directors or shareholders’ meeting for approval and was not approved by PT Ventures. The payment of a management fee by Unitel could have a material adverse impact on Unitel’s financial position and performance and, therefore, on the value of the Company’s investment in Unitel.

We cannot assure that we will be able to prevent Unitel from taking actions that should require the approval of the members of the Unitel Board of Directors nominated by PT Ventures, including approving related party transactions with the other shareholders of Unitel that we believe are detrimental to Unitel’s financial position and performance. The use of the resources of Unitel in this manner could have a material adverse impact on Unitel’s financial position and performance and, therefore, on the value of the Company’s investment in Unitel.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

The other shareholders of Unitel have attempted to dilute the Company’s indirect ownership of Unitel through a capital increase that would be technically unable the Company to participate, and have called shareholders’ meetings at which they have indicated the desire to unilaterally amend the bylaws of Unitel and the Unitel shareholders’ agreement.

At the Unitel’s shareholders’ meeting held on December 15, 2014, the other shareholders of Unitel voted to increase Unitel’s share capital and alter the par value of its shares. Even though PT Ventures has requested several times that the proposal and other material information regarding this and other matters in the meeting’s agenda were sent in advance, PT Ventures never received such documentation and information.

The details of this capital increase are obscure as they were not included in the prior notice for this meeting nor were they discussed in detail during this meeting. Additional details of this capital increase have been included in draft minutes of this meeting provided to PT Ventures and it appears that, although PT Ventures has decided to subscribe to its pro rata share of this capital increase to avoid dilution of its interest in Unitel, payment of the subscription price will be due on an accelerated timetable that would not permit PT Ventures to obtain the necessary foreign exchange approvals prior to the date on which payment would be due. PT Ventures filed a lawsuit with an Angolan court to annul the approval of Unitel’s capital increase at his shareholders’ meeting.

The agenda of this general shareholders’ meeting of Unitel included amendments to Unitel’s by-laws and possible amendments to the Unitel shareholders’ agreement, in addition to other matters that may have been raised at the shareholders’ meeting itself. Under the item sundry matters in the agenda, the meeting discussed the investments by Unitel in Zimbabwe and a study in order to implement a corporate reorganization of Unitel. PT Ventures has filed a lawsuit with an Angolan court to annul the approval of investments by Unitel in Zimbabwe and a study in order to implement a corporate reorganization of Unitel.

As for the amendments to Unitel’s bylaws and the Unitel shareholders’ agreement, PT Ventures did not receive the details of the proposals, despite the several requests made before, during, and after the meeting. The December 15, 2014 meeting was suspended without any action taken with respect to these matters.

Subsequently, a new shareholders’ agreement was called for May 13, 2015 and its agenda not only includes the amendments to Unitel’s bylaws and the Unitel shareholders’ agreement but also the analyses of the financial statements, the allocation of profits, and the performance of Unitel’s management and oversight in 2014. PT Ventures once again requested the details of the proposals to be submitted for shareholder decision, but to date no access to this information was granted.

We cannot assess the impact on Unitel or the Company of the matters discussed at the December 15, 2014 general shareholders’ meeting of Unitel or the proposed amendments to Unitel’s bylaws and the Unitel shareholders’ agreement as we have not been provided with sufficient information to appropriately analyze these matters. In addition, note that the other shareholders of Unitel have no legal authority to amend the Unitel shareholders’ agreement

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

through actions taken at a shareholders’ meeting as this agreement is an agreement among the parties thereto. Should the other shareholders approve actions detrimental to Unitel or the Company’s investment therein, these actions could have a material adverse impact on Unitel’s financial position and performance and, therefore, on the value of the Company’s investment in Unitel.

Unitel’s concession to operate in Angola has expired and has not yet been renewed.

Unitel’s concession to provide mobile telecommunications services in Angola expired in April 2012. We cannot provide any assurance regarding the terms under which the Angolan National Institute of Telecommunications (Instituto Angolano das Comunicações) would grant a renewal of this concession, if at all. A failure of Unitel to obtain a renewal of this concession could have a material adverse impact on Unitel’s ability to continue to provide mobile telecommunications services in Angola, which would have a material adverse impact on Unitel’s financial position and performance and the value of the Company’s investment in Unitel.

Adverse political, economic and legal conditions in the African and Asian countries in which the Company has acquired investments may hinder our ability to receive dividends from our African and Asian subsidiaries and investments.

The governments of many of the African and Asian countries in which we have investments have historically exercised, and continue to exercise, significant influence over their respective economies and legal systems. Countries in which the Company has investments may enact legal or regulatory measures that restrict the ability of its subsidiaries and investees to make dividend payments. Similarly, adverse political or economic conditions in these countries may hinder the Company’s ability to receive dividends from its subsidiaries and investees. Historically, PT SGPS has received dividends from the African and Asian subsidiaries and investees that we have acquired, however, a limitation on the Company’s ability to receive a material portion of those dividends could adversely affect the Company’s cash flows and liquidity.

In addition, the Company’s investments in these regions are exposed to political and economic risks that include, but are not limited to, exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations, inflation and restrictive economic policies and regulatory risks that include, but are not limited to, the process for the renewal of licenses and the evolution of regulated retail and wholesale tariffs. In addition, the Company’s ventures in African and Asian markets face risks associated with increasing competition, including due to the entrance of new competitors and the rapid development of new technologies.

The development of partnerships in these markets raises risks related to the ability of the partners to jointly operate the assets. Any inability of the Company and our partners to operate these assets may have a negative impact on our strategy and all of these risks may have material effects on our results of operations.

The acquisition of PT Portugal may have triggered claims of our other joint venture partners or may otherwise lead to an unwinding of those joint ventures.

Some of the agreements governing our joint ventures in Africa and Asia, other than Unitel, contain provisions that may confer certain rights, including call and put rights, on our joint venture parties in the event of a change of control or merger of PT SGPS. If these rights are triggered, the Company could be forced to exit one or more profitable joint ventures and sell its shares to our joint venture partners at a price significantly lower than the fair market value of

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

the interests in these joint ventures. Alternatively, the Company could be required to use cash to purchase the joint venture interests of our partners in one or more joint ventures. Any such event could have a material adverse impact on our investment strategy for Africa and Asia, our growth prospects and/or our liquidity and cash flow.

Even if no contractual provision is triggered by any step in the business combination, our relationship with these joint venture partners could change or worsen as a result of the business combination for political, commercial or other reasons. The Company does not own a controlling stake in most of these joint ventures, and any challenges that arise with our joint venture partners as a result of the business combination or otherwise could lead to costly and time-consuming negotiations, arbitration or litigation or potentially to the unwinding of the Company’s investment in those ventures at a price significantly lower that the fair market value of our investment.

The Company is a party to joint ventures and partnerships that may not be successful and may expose our company to future costs.

The Company is a party to joint ventures and partnerships in Africa and Asia. The partnering arrangements may fail to perform as expected for various reasons, including an incorrect assessment of our needs or the capabilities or financial stability of our strategic partners. The Company’s share of any losses from or commitments to contribute additional capital to such partnerships may have an adverse impact on the Company’s performance and financial position.

Our ability to work with these partners or develop new products and solutions may become constrained, which could harm our competitive position in the markets served by these joint ventures and partnerships. The Company may have disputes with our partners in these joint ventures, and we may have difficulty agreeing with our partners on actions that we believe would be beneficial to those joint ventures and partnerships. In addition, the joint ventures and partnerships in African and Asian countries are typically governed by the laws of those countries, and our partners are often established participants in those markets and may have greater influence in those economies than we will. To the extent the Company experiences difficulties with our joint venture partners, we may encounter difficulties in protecting our investments in those countries.

Any of these factors could cause these joint ventures and partnerships not to be profitable and could cause us to lose all or part of the value of the Company’s investments in those ventures.

Africatel’s non-controlling shareholder stated that the business combination triggered the right to force the Company to acquire Africatel shares under the shareholders’ agreement. If the Company is forced to acquire this stake in Africatel, we will use resources that could be used for any other purpose, e.g., to reduce our debt or make investments in PT Portugal’s business plan. If such acquisition were financed by additional debt, this would have a material adverse impact on the Company’s consolidated leverage.

The Company indirectly owns 75% of the share capital of Africatel. Samba Luxco S.à.r.l., an affiliate of Helios Investors LP, owns the remaining 25%. Africatel holds all of our interests in telecommunications companies in sub-Saharan Africa, including our interests in Unitel in Angola, Cabo Verde Telecom, S.A. in Cape Verde, Mobile Telecommunications Limited in Namibia, and CST Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicações S.A.R.L. in São Tomé and Príncipe, among others. PT SGPS, subsidiaries Africatel GmbH & Co. KG, or Africatel GmbH, and PT Ventures, and Samba Luxco are parties to the Africatel shareholders’ agreement.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

On September 16, 2014, subsidiary, Africatel GmbH, which directly holds our interest in Africatel, received a letter from Samba Luxco in which Samba Luxco claimed that Oi’s acquisition of PT Portugal was deemed a change of control of PT SGPS under the Africatel shareholders’ agreement, and that this change of control entitled Samba Luxco to exercise a put right under the Africatel shareholders’ agreement at the fair market book value of Samba Luxco’s Africatel shares. In the letter, Samba Luxco purported to exercise the alleged put right and thereby require Africatel GmbH to acquire its shares in Africatel.

On the same date, the Company issued a Material Fact disclosing Samba Luxco’s purported exercise of the put option, our understanding that the exercise of the put option is not applicable, and that our board of directors had authorized our management to take the necessary actions to sell the Company’s interest in Africatel.

On September 26, 2014, Africatel GmbH responded to Samba Luxco stating that there had not been any action or event that would trigger the right to exercise the put option under the Africatel’s shareholders’ agreement and that Africatel GmbH intended to challenge Samba Luxco’s purported exercise of the put option.

On November 12, 2014, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce notified Africatel GmbH that Samba Luxco had commenced arbitral proceedings against Africatel GmbH to enforce its purported put right or, in the alternative, certain ancillary rights and claims. Africatel GmbH presented its answer to Samba Luxco’s request for arbitration on December 15, 2014. The arbitral tribunal was constituted on March 12, 2015. The Company intend to vigorously defend Africatel GmbH in these proceedings.

If the Company is forced to acquire the interest of Samba Luxco in Africatel as a result of the exercise of Samba Luxco’s purported put right under the Africatel shareholders’ agreement, the acquisition of this interest would reduce the resources that would be available to us to reduce our outstanding indebtedness or pursue other investment opportunities. If any such purchase were to be funded through our incurrence of additional debt, the consolidated leverage of our company could increase materially, which could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position and performance.

Corporate reorganization of the Oi Internet Group

On February 2, 2015, as part of the corporate and asset reorganization process of the Oi’s direct or indirect subsidiaries, Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings were held to decide on the mergers of the following companies with and into Oi Internet:

 

(i) Merger of BrTI and its liquidation; and

 

(ii) Merger of Telemar Internet and its liquidation.

The combination of BrTI and Telemar Internet operations with Oi Internet, through the consolidation of the activities carried out by these companies will generate considerable administrative and economic benefits, through cost cuts and the generation of synergy gains.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

2 SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The accounting policies detailed below have been consistently applied in all fiscal years presented in these interim financial information, and have been consistently applied both by the Company and its subsidiaries.

 

a. Reporting basis

The Company’s quarterly information have been prepared for the period ended March 31, 2015, in accordance with CPC 21 (R1) issued by the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC), which addresses interim financial reporting.

CPC 21 (R1) requires that management use certain accounting estimates. The quarterly information has been prepared based on the historical cost, except for certain financial assets and financial liabilities measured at their fair values.

This quarterly information do not include all the information and disclosures required in annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, which have been prepared in accordance with the accounting practices adopted in Brazil. There were no changes in the accounting policies adopted in the period ended March 31, 2015 as compared to those applicable in the year ended December 31, 2014, and there are no significant differences in the accounting policies adopted by PT Portugal as compared to those adopted by the Company.

For the purpose improving its financial reporting, the Company made the following changes in its financial information: (i) presentation of revenue and expenses by nature in a single note; (ii) presentation of expenses on employee and officer profit sharing in line item personnel expenses. In order to ensure the comparability with current year, some 2014 figures have been restated or reclassified.

Functional and presentation currency

The Company and its subsidiaries operate mainly as telecommunications industry operators in Brazil and Portugal, and engage in activities typical of this industry. The items included in the financial statements of each group company are measured using the currency of the main economic environment where it operates (“functional currency”). The individual and consolidated financial statements are presented in Brazilian reais (R$), which is the Company’s functional and presentation currency.

To define its functional currency, management considered the currency that influences:

 

    The sales prices of its goods and services;

 

    The costs of services and sales;

 

    The cash flows arising from receipts from customers and payments to suppliers;

 

    Interest, investments and financing.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Transactions and balances

Foreign currency-denominated transactions are translated into the functional currency using the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Foreign exchange gains and losses arising on the settlement of the transaction and the translation at the exchange rates prevailing at period-end, related foreign currency-denominated monetary assets and liabilities are recognized in the income statement, except when qualified as hedge accounting and, therefore, deferred in equity as cash flow hedges and met investment hedges.

Group companies with a different functional currency

The profit or loss and the financial position of all Group entities, none of which uses a currency from a hyperinflationary economy, whose functional currency is different from the presentation currency are translated into the presentation currency as follows:

 

    Assets and liabilities are translating at the rate prevailing at the end of the reporting period;

 

    Revenue and expenses disclosed in the income statement are translated using the average exchange rate;

 

    All resulting foreign exchange differences are recognized as a separate component of equity, in line item ‘Carrying value adjustments’;

 

    The exchanges differences arising on translating the net investment in foreign operations and loans and other foreign currency instruments designated as hedges of these investments are recognized in equity. when a foreign transaction is partially disposed of or sold, the foreign exchange differences previously recognized in equity are recognized in the income statement as part of the gain or loss from the sale; and

 

    Goodwill and fair value adjustments, arising from the acquisition of a foreign entity are treated as assets and liabilities of the foreign entity and translated at the closing exchange rate.

Consolidation method

As a result of the corporate events that occurred in Cabo Verde Telecom in 2015, the Company ceased to exercise all its rights provided for in the shareholders’ agreements, notably the right to elect the majority of the members of the Board of Directors. For accounting purposes, the Company believes that the criteria for the existence of control in Cabo Verde Telecom no longer and this investment is now recognized in the consolidated subsidiary under the equity method of accounting instead of full consolidation.

 

b. Critical estimates and accounting judgments

In preparing the quarterly information, the Company’s management uses estimates and assumptions based on historical experience and other factors, including expected future events, which are considered reasonable and relevant. The use of estimates and assumptions frequently requires judgments related to matters that are uncertain with respect to the outcomes of

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

transactions and the amount of assets and liabilities. Actual results of operations and the financial position may differ from these estimates. The estimates that represent a significant risk of causing material adjustments to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities were disclosed in the Company’s financial annual statements referred to above. In the period ended March 31, 2015, there was no material change in the accounting estimates adopted by the Company and its subsidiaries.

The consolidated interim financial information is presented in Brazilian reais, which is the functional currency of Oi and a significant portion of the Group’s operations. The financial statements of the subsidiaries presented in a foreign currency have been translated into Brazilian reais using the exchange rates prevailing at the end of the reporting period to translated assets and liabilities, the average exchange rates for the period to translate the income statement and the statement of cash flows, and the historic exchange rates to translate capital line items.

 

3 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND RISK ANALYSIS

 

3.1. Overview

The table below summarizes our financial assets and financial liabilities carried at fair value at March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014.

 

     Accounting
measurement
   03/31/2015  
        Carrying
amount
     Fair value  

Assets

        

Cash equivalents

   Fair value      1,396,188         1,396,188   

Cash investments

   Fair value      257,650         257,650   

Derivative financial instruments

   Fair value      5,249,150         5,249,150   

Due from related parties

   Amortized cost      

Accounts receivable (i)

   Amortized cost      8,091,631         8,091,631   

Dividends and interest on capital receivable

   Amortized cost      

Held-for-sale assets

   Fair value      35,531,063         35,531,063   

Liabilities

        

Trade payables (i)

   Amortized cost      4,347,318         4,347,318   

Borrowings and financing

        

Borrowings and financing (ii)

   Amortized cost      31,221,781         29,541,236   

Debentures

   Amortized cost      7,740,221         7,448,559   

Derivative financial instruments

   Fair value      923,868         923,868   

Dividends and interest on capital

   Amortized cost      183,932         183,932   

Licenses and concessions payable (iii)

   Amortized cost      1,489,391         1,489,391   

Tax refinancing program (iii)

   Amortized cost      990,924         990,924   

Other payables (payable for the acquisition of equity interest) (iii)

   Amortized cost      421,765         421,765   
     Accounting
measurement
   12/31/2014  
        Carrying
amount
     Fair value  

Assets

        

Cash equivalents

   Fair value      1,916,921         1,916,921   

Cash investments

   Fair value      282,700         282,700   

Derivative financial instruments

   Fair value      3,221,481         3,221,481   

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Due from related parties

Amortized cost

Accounts receivable (i)

Amortized cost   7,455,687      7,455,687   

Dividends and interest on capital receivable

Amortized cost

Held-for-sale assets

Fair value   33,926,592      33,926,592   

Liabilities

Trade payables (i)

Amortized cost   4,331,286      4,331,286   

Borrowings and financing

Borrowings and financing (ii)

Amortized cost   28,072,519      27,534,247   

Debentures

Amortized cost   7,776,876      7,513,867   

Derivative financial instruments

Fair value   666,922      666,922   

Dividends and interest on capital

Amortized cost   185,138      185,138   

Licenses and concessions payable (iii)

Amortized cost   1,361,940      1,361,940   

Tax refinancing program (iii)

Amortized cost   990,230      990,230   

Other payables (payable for the acquisition of equity interest) (iii)

Amortized cost   408,978      408,978   

 

(i) The balances of accounts receivables and trade payables have near terms and, therefore, they are not adjusted to fair value.
(ii) A significant portion of this balance consists of borrowings and financing granted by the BNDES, export credit agencies, and other related parties, which correspond to exclusive markets and, therefore, their fair values is similar to their carrying amounts.
(iii) There is no active market for licenses and concessions payable, the tax refinancing program, and other payables (payable for the acquisition of equity interest); therefore, they are not adjusted to fair value.

 

3.2. Fair value of financial instruments

The Company and its subsidiaries have measured their financial assets and financial liabilities at their market or actual realizable values (fair value) using available market inputs and valuation techniques appropriate for each situation. The interpretation of market inputs for the selection of such techniques requires considerable judgment and the preparation of estimates to obtain an amount considered appropriate for each situation. Accordingly, the estimates presented may not necessarily be indicative of the amounts that could be obtained in an active market. The use of different assumptions for the calculation of the fair value may have a material impact on the amounts obtained.

 

a. Derivative financial instruments

The method used for calculation of the fair value of derivative instruments was the future cash flows associated to each instrument contracted, discounted at market rates prevailing at March 31, 2015.

 

b. Non-derivative financial instruments measured at fair value

The fair value of securities traded in active markets is equivalent to the amount of the last closing quotation available at the end of the reporting period, multiplied by the number of outstanding securities.

For the remaining contracts, the Company carries out an analysis comparing the current contractual terms and conditions with the terms and conditions effective for the contract when they were originated. When terms and conditions are dissimilar, fair value is calculated by discounting future cash flows at the market rates prevailing at the end of the period, and when similar, fair value is similar to the carrying amount on the reporting date.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

c. Fair value measurement hierarchy

CPC 46 defines fair value as the price for which an asset could be exchanged, or a liability settled, between knowledgeable, willing parties, in an arm’s length transaction on measurement date. The standard clarifies that the fair value must be based on the assumptions that market participants would consider in pricing an asset or a liability, and establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes the information used to build such assumptions. The fair value measurement hierarchy attaches more importance to available market inputs (i.e., observable data) and a less weight to inputs based on data without transparency (i.e., unobservable data). Additionally, the standard requires that an entity consider all nonperformance risk aspects, including the entity’s credit, when measuring the fair value of a liability.

CPC 40 establishes a three-level hierarchy to measure and disclose fair value. The classification of an instrument in the fair value measurement hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input significant for its measurement. We present below a description of the three-level hierarchy:

Level 1—inputs consist of prices quoted (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities to which the entity has access on measurement date;

Level 2—inputs are different from prices quoted in active markets used in Level 1 and consist of directly or indirectly observable inputs for the asset or liability. Level 2 inputs include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active; or inputs that are observable for the asset or liability or that can support the observed market inputs by correlation or otherwise for substantially the entire asset or liability.

Level 3—inputs used to measure an asset or liability are not based on observable market variables. These inputs represent management’s best estimates and are generally measured using pricing models, discounted cash flows, or similar methodologies that require significant judgment or estimate.

There were no transfers between levels between March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014.

 

     Fair value
measurement
hierarchy
   Fair value  
      03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Assets

        

Cash equivalents

   Level 2      1,396,188         1,916,921   

Cash investments

   Level 2      257,650         282,700   

Derivative financial instruments

   Level 2      5,249,150         3,221,481   

Held-for-sale assets (i)

   Level 3      4,574,771         4,284,416   

Liabilities

        

Derivative financial instruments

   Level 2      923,868         666,922   

 

(i) Refers to the recognized fair value related to Unitel, transferred to held-for-sale assets, as referred to in Note 26. The fair value of this investment at the date of acquisition was estimated based on the valuation made by Banco Santander (Brasil), which used a series of estimates and assumptions, including the cash flows projections for a four-year period, the choice of a growth rate to extrapolate the cash flows projections, and definition of appropriate discount rates. In order to value this investment, the Company periodically monitors and adjusts the main assumptions and relevant estimates, as well as the events reported in Note 1 (‘Risks related to our interest in Unitel’), and believes that as at March 31, 2015 the fair value of Unitel represents the best estimate for the realization of this investment.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

3.3. Measurement of financial assets and financial liabilities at amortized cost

We concluded that the discount to present value of financial assets and financial liabilities under the amortized cost method does not apply, based on the valuation made for this purpose, for the following main reasons:

 

    Accounts receivables: near-term maturity of bills.

 

    Trade payables, dividends and interests on capital: all obligations are due to be settled in the short term.

 

    Borrowings and financing and due from and to related parties: all transactions are adjusted for inflation based on contractual indices.

 

    Licenses and concessions payable, tax refinancing program and other payables (payable for the acquisition of equity interests): all payables are adjusted for inflation based on the contractual indices.

 

3.4. Financial risk management

The Company’s and its subsidiaries’ activities expose them to several financial risks, such as: market risk (including currency fluctuation risk, interest rate risk on fair value, interest rate risk on cash flows, and price risk), credit risk, and liquidity risk. The Company and its subsidiaries use derivative financial instruments to protect them against certain exposures to these risks.

Risk management is carried out by the Company’s treasury officer, in accordance with the policies approved by management.

The Hedging and Cash Investments Policies, approved by the Board of Directors, document the management of exposures to market risk factors generated by the financial transactions of the Oi Group companies.

Under the Hedging Policy, market risks are identified based on the features of financial transactions contracted and to be contracted during the year. Several scenarios are then simulated for each of the risk factors using statistical models, used as basis to measure the impacts the on Group’s financial income (expenses). Based on this analysis, the Executive Committee annually agrees with the Board of Directors the Risk Guideline to be followed in each financial year. The Risk Guideline is equivalent to the worst expected impact of financial income (expenses) on the Group’s net income, with 95% of level of confidence. To ensure a proper risk management, according to the Risk Guideline, the treasury can contract hedging instruments, including derivative transactions such as swaps and currency forwards. The Company and its subsidiaries do not use derivative financial instruments for other purposes.

With the approval of the Policies, a Financial Risk Management Committee that meets monthly was created, currently consisting of the CEO, the CFO, the Executive Planning Officer, the Development and New Business Management Officer, the Tax Officer, the General Controller, and the Treasury Officer, and the Internal Audit Officer as observer.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

According to their nature, financial instruments may involve known or unknown risks, and it is important to assess to the best judgment the potential of these risks.

 

3.4.1.  Market risk

 

a. Foreign exchange risk

Financial assets

Foreign currency-denominated cash equivalents and cash investments are basically maintained in securities issued by financial institutions abroad similar to Bank Certificates of Deposit (CDBs) traded in Brazil (time deposits).

The risk associated to these assets arises from the possible exchange rate fluctuations that may reduce the balance of these assets when translated into Brazilian reais. The Company’s and its subsidiaries’ assets subject to this risk represent approximately 9.48% (11.41% at December 31, 2014) of our total cash and cash equivalents and cash investments.

Net investment in foreign subsidiaries

The risks related to the Company’s investments in foreign currency arise mainly from the investments in subsidiary PT Portugal and its subsidiaries. The Company does not have any contracted instrument to hedge against the risk associated to the net investments in foreign companies; however, the Company contracted non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) to hedge part of the euro-denominated debt of its foreign subsidiaries.

Financial liabilities

The Company and its subsidiaries have foreign currency-denominated or foreign currency-indexed borrowings and financing. The risk associated with these liabilities is related to the possibility of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates that could increase the balance of such liabilities. The Company’s and subsidiaries’ borrowings and financing exposed to this risk represent approximately 46.4% (41.7% at December 31, 2014) of total liabilities from borrowings and financing, less the currency hedging transactions contracted. In order to minimize this type of risk, we enter into foreign exchange hedges with financial institutions. Out of the consolidated foreign currency-denominated debt, 100.0% (100.0% at December 31, 12/31/2014) is protected by exchange swaps, currency forwards, and cash investments in foreign currency. Additionally, with the sale of PT Portugal, the Company has been reversing the derivatives it held through the end of the last quarter of 2014 to hedge of a portion of the Portuguese companies’ debt against foreign exchange fluctuations. From a total of €950 million, €870 million has already been reversed during the current quarter, and the remaining balance is €80 million. Note that the funds that the Company will receive in euro, which in itself operates as a natural hedge of any debt possibly maintained in Oi’s consolidated structure. The unrealized gains or losses on hedging transactions are measured at fair value, as described in 3.2 (a) above.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

These financial assets and liabilities are presented in the balance sheet as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  
     Carrying
amount
     Fair value      Carrying
amount
     Fair value  

Financial assets

           

Cash equivalents

     105,824         105,824         224,806         224,806   

Cash investments

     91,249         91,249         86,807         86,807   

Derivative financial instruments

     4,962,992         4,962,992         3,025,464         3,025,464   

Financial liabilities

           

Borrowings and financing

     17,939,892         17,939,892         14,781,242         14,781,242   

Derivative financial instruments

     598,390         598,390         425,784         425,784   

Derivative financial instruments are summarized as follows:

 

     Derivatives designated for hedge accounting  
            Fair value  
            Amounts (payable)/receivable  
     Maturity (years)      03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

US$/R$ cross currency swaps

     0.3 - 8.9         3,442,787         1,816,206   

US$/fixed rate cross currency swaps

     5.5         744,872         649,293   

EUR/R$ cross currency swaps

     2.7         (3,762   

EUR/R$ non-deliverable forwards (NDFs)

     < 1 year         49,191         23,524   

 

     Derivatives not designated for hedge accounting  
   Maturity (years)      Fair value  
      Amounts (payable)/receivable  
      03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

US$/R$ cross currency swaps

     0.8         56,207         24,122   

R$/US$ cross currency swaps

     0.8         (54,121      (31,290

US$/R$ non-deliverable forwards (NDFs)

     < 1 year         23,751         107,718   

EUR/R$ non-deliverable forwards (NDFs)

     < 1 year         105,677         10,107   

The main foreign currency hedge transactions contracted with financial institutions to minimize the foreign exchange risk are as follows:

Cross currency swap contracts (plain vanilla)

US$/R$: Refer to foreign exchange swaps to protect its US dollar-denominated debt payments. Under these contracts, the asset position is in US dollars plus a fixed interest rate or in US LIBOR plus a fixed interest rate, and the liability position a percentage of interbank deposit rate (CDI) or a fixed rate in real. The main risk of loss in the asset position of these instruments is the US dollar exchange rate fluctuation; however, such losses would be fully offset by the US dollar-denominated debt’s maturities.

R$/US$: Refer to foreign exchange swaps to reverse swap contracts. Under these contracts, the asset position is in US dollar plus a fixed rate and the liability position is a percentage of CDI. The main risk of loss in the liability position of these instruments is the US dollar exchange rate fluctuation; however, such possible losses would be fully offset by the maturities of the reversed US dollar-denominated swaps.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Non-deliverable forwards (NDFs)

US$/R$: Refer to future US dollar sales transactions using NDFs to protect against a depreciation of the Brazilian real in relation to the US dollar. The main strategy for these contracts is to set the foreign exchange rate for the contract period at a fixed amount, thus mitigating the risk of adverse fluctuations on US dollar-denominated debt. In order to extend the hedging period, we can roll over these instruments by selling US dollars for the period equivalent to the short-term NDF in the portfolio and simultaneously purchase US dollars for longer positions.

Euro/R$: Refer to future Euro dollar sales transactions using NDFs to protect against a depreciation of the Brazilian real in relation to the US dollar. The main strategy for these contracts is to set the foreign exchange rate for the contract period at a fixed amount, thus mitigating the risk of adverse fluctuations on euro-denominated debt. In order to extend the hedging period, we can roll over these instruments by selling euro for the period equivalent to the short-term NDF in the portfolio and simultaneously purchase euro for longer positions.

As at March 31, 2015 and 2014, the amounts shown below were recorded as gain or loss on derivatives (see Note 6):

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Gain (loss) on currency swaps

     2,178,409         (394,820

Currency forwards

     412,639         (334,983
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  2,591,048      (729,803
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The movements below, related currency hedges designated for hedge accounting treatment, were recognized in other comprehensive income:

 

Table of movements in hedge accounting effects in other comprehensive income

 

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

     165,085   
  

 

 

 

Gain on designated hedges

  (2,820

Transfer on ineffective portion to profit or loss

  (3,399

Amortization of hedges to profit or loss at the effective rate

  2,302   

Deferred taxes on hedge accounting

  1,331   

Share of subsidiary’s hedge accounting

  

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  162,499   
  

 

 

 

(a.1) Foreign exchange risk sensitivity analysis

As at March 31, 2015, management estimated the depreciation scenarios of the Brazilian real in relation to other currencies, at the end of the reporting period. The rates used for the probable scenario were the rates prevailing at the end of March 2015. The probable rates were then depreciated by 25% and 50% and used as benchmark for the possible and remote scenarios, respectively.

 

     Rate  

Description

   03/31/2015      Depreciation  

Probable scenario

     

US dollar

     3.20800         0

Euro

     3.44570         0

Possible scenario

     

US dollar

     4.01000         25

Euro

     4.30713         25

Remote scenario

     

US dollar

     4.81200         50

Euro

     5.16855         50

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

As at March 31, 2015, management estimated the outflow for the payment of interest and principal of its debt pegged to exchange rates based on the interest rates prevailing at the end of this reporting period and the exchange rates above.

The impacts of foreign exchange exposure, in the sensitivity scenarios estimated by the Company, are shown in the table below:

 

     03/31/2015  

Description

   Individual risk    Probable
scenario
     Possible
scenario
     Remote
scenario
 

US dollar debt

   Dollar appreciation      15,701,980         19,627,475         23,552,970   

Derivatives (net position—US$)

   Dollar depreciation      (16,349,528      (20,436,910      (24,524,292

US dollar cash

   Dollar depreciation      (170,393      (212,991      (255,590

Euro debt

   Euro appreciation      2,628,423         3,285,529         3,942,635   

Derivatives (net position—euro)

   Euro depreciation      (2,808,352      (3,510,440      (4,212,528

Euro cash

   Euro depreciation      (26,680      (33,350      (40,020
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total pegged to exchange rate

  (1,024,550   (1,280,687   (1,536,825
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

b. Interest rate risk

Financial assets

Cash equivalents and cash investments in local currency are substantially maintained in financial investment funds exclusively managed for the Company and its subsidiaries, and investments in private securities issued by prime financial institutions.

The interest rate risk linked to these assets arises from the possibility of decreases in these rates and consequent decrease in the return on these assets.

Financial liabilities

The Company and its subsidiaries have borrowings and financing subject to floating interest rates, based on the Long-term Interest Rate (TJLP) or the CDI, in the case of real-denominated debt, and on the LIBOR, in the case of U.S. dollar-denominated debt.

As at March 31, 2015, approximately 57.9% (60.3% at December 31, 2014) of the incurred debt, less adjustment for derivative transactions, was subject to floating interest rates. After the derivative transactions, approximately 85.2% (79.4% at December 31, 2014) of the consolidated debt was subject to floating interest rates. The most material exposure of Company’s and its subsidiaries’ debt after the hedging transactions is to CDI. Therefore, a continued increase in this interest rate would have an adverse impact on future interest payments and hedging adjustments. However, as the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ cash is invested mainly in securities pegged to the CDI fluctuation, the net exposure to CDI of current liabilities does not constitute a material risk for the Company and its subsidiaries.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

We continuously monitor these market rates to assess the possible contracting of instruments to hedge against the risk of fluctuation of these rates.

These assets and liabilities are presented in the balance sheet as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  
     Carrying
amount
     Market value      Carrying
amount
     Market value  

Financial assets

           

Cash equivalents

     1,290,364         1,290,364         1,692,115         1,692,115   

Cash investments

     166,401         166,401         195,893         195,893   

Derivative financial instruments

     286,158         286,158         196,017         196,017   

Financial liabilities

           

Borrowings and financing

     18,553,261         18,553,261         17,722,928         17,722,928   

Derivative financial instruments

     325,478         325,478         241,138         241,138   

The amounts of contracted derivatives to hedge against floating interest rates on outstanding debt are summarized below:

 

     Derivatives designated for hedge accounting  
   Maturity (years)      Fair value  
      Amounts (payable)/receivable  
      03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Fixed rate/DI rate swaps

     5.5         (30,678      (37,627

US$ LIBOR/US$ fixed rate swaps

     0.3         (552      (1,413

 

     Derivatives not designated for hedge accounting  
   Maturity (years)      Fair value  
      Amounts (payable)/receivable  
      03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

US$ LIBOR/US$ fixed rate swaps

     0.8 - 6.8         (293,950      (200,771

US$ fixed rate/US$ LIBOR swaps

     6.8         285,860         194,690   

The main hedging transactions contracted with financial institutions to minimize the interest rate risk are as follows:

Interest rate swaps

US$ LIBOR/US$ fixed rate: Refer to interest rate swaps to protect debt payments pegged to US dollar floating rates from exchange fluctuation. Under these contracts, the asset position in US dollar LIBOR and the liability position is a fixed rate. The risk of loss in the asset position of these instruments is, therefore, the fluctuation of the US dollar LIBOR; however, such possible losses would be fully offset by maturities of US dollar-denominated debt pegged to LIBOR.

US$ fixed rate/US$ LIBOR: Refers to the interest rate swap transaction that changes US dollar-denominated debt payments from fixed rate to floating rate. Under this contract, the asset position is a US dollar fixed rate and a LIBOR liability position to reduce the cost of the backing debt, as part of the Company’s onerous liability management strategy.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

R$ fixed rate/CDI: Refer to interest rate swaps to convert a foreign exchange swap liability position at a fixed rate into R$ to a liability subject to a DI percentage. This transaction is intended to swap the exchange peg of a certain dollar-denominated debt to a floating DI position, cancelling the debt’s current fixed rate position.

As at March 31, 2015 and 2014, the amounts shown below were recorded as gain or loss on derivative instruments: (see Note 6)

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Loss on interest rate swap

     (27,653      (208
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  (27,653   (208
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The movements below, related interest rate hedges designated for hedge accounting treatment, were recognized in other comprehensive income:

 

Table of movements in hedge accounting effects in other comprehensive income

 

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

     (41,442
  

 

 

 

Gain on designated hedges

  7,940   

Transfer on ineffective portion to profit or loss

  (156

Amortization of hedges to profit or loss at the effective rate

  696   

Deferred taxes on hedge accounting

  (2,884

Share of subsidiary’s hedge accounting

  

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  (35,846
  

 

 

 

 

b.1 Interest rate fluctuation risk sensitivity analysis

Management believes that the most significant risk related to interest rate fluctuations arises from its liabilities pegged to the TJLP, the USD LIBOR, and mainly the CDI. This risk is associated to an increase in those rates.

As at March 31, 2015, management estimated the fluctuation scenarios of the rates the CDI, the TJLP, and the USD LIBOR. The rates used for the probable scenario were the rates prevailing at the end of the reporting period. These rates have been stressed by 25 and 50 percent, and used as benchmark for the possible and remote scenarios. Note that beginning January 2015, the TJLP increase from 5.0% p.a. to 5.5% p.a. Before the end of the current quarter, the National Monetary had decided for an new increase for this rate, this time to 6.0% p.a., effective beginning April 1 to June 30, 2015.

 

03/31/2015

 

Interest rate scenarios

 

Probable scenario

    Possible scenario     Remote scenario  

CDI

   TJLP     6M USD
LIBOR
    CDI     TJLP     6M USD
LIBOR
    CDI     TJLP     6M USD
LIBOR
 
12.60%      5.50     0.40065     15.75     6.88     0.50081     18.90     8.25     0.60098

As at March 31, 2015, management estimated the future outflows for the payment of interest and principal of its debt pegged to CDI, TJLP, and US$ LIBOR based on the interest rates above. The outflows for repayment of Oi Group related party debt were not considered.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Such sensitivity analysis considers payment outflows in future dates. Thus, the aggregate of the amounts for each scenario is not equivalent to the fair values, or even the present values of these liabilities. The fair values of these liabilities, should the Company’s credit risk remain unchanged, would not be impacted in the event of fluctuations in interest rates, as the interest rates used to estimate future cash outflows would be the same rates that discount such flows to present value.

The impacts of exposure to interest rates, in the sensitivity scenarios estimated by the Company, are shown in the table below:

 

03/31/2015

 

Transaction

   Individual risk      Probable
scenario
     Possible
scenario
     Remote
scenario
 

CDI-indexed debt

     CDI increase         3,236,650         3,890,225         4,537,701   

Derivative financial instruments (net position—CDI)

     CDI increase         6,719,260         8,293,147         9,850,876   

TJLP-indexed debt

     TJLP increase         1,336,350         1,484,545         1,617,777   

US LIBOR-indexed debt

     US LIBOR increase         173,505         181,732         189,959   

Derivative instruments (net position—LIBOR)

     USD LIBOR decrease         (139,389      (145,940      (152,493
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total pegged to interest rates

  11,326,376      13,703,709      16,043,820   
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

3.4.2.  Credit risk

The concentration of credit risk associated to trade receivables is immaterial due to the diversification of the portfolio. Doubtful receivables are adequately covered by an allowance for doubtful accounts.

Transactions with financial institutions (cash investments and borrowings and financing) are made with prime entities, avoiding the concentration risk. The credit risk of financial investments is assessed by setting caps for investment in the counterparts, taking into consideration the ratings released by the main international risk rating agencies for each one of such counterparts. As at March 31, 2015, approximately 99.32% of the consolidated cash investments were made with counterparties with an AAA, AA or sovereign risk rating.

The Company had credit risks related to dividends receivable associated to the investment in Unitel. The credit risks associated to these dividends receivable from Unitel are detailed in Note 1 (Risks related to the stake held in Unitel).

 

3.4.3.  Liquidity risk

The liquidity risk also arises from the possibility of the Company being unable to discharge its liabilities on maturity dates and obtain cash due to market liquidity restrictions.

Management uses its resources mainly to fund capital expenditures incurred on the expansion and upgrading of the network, invest in new businesses, pay dividends, and refinance its debt.

Conditions are met with internally generated cash flows, short- and long-term debt, and third party financing. These sources of funds, coupled with the Company’s solid financial position, will continue to ensure the compliance with established capital requirements.

The Oi Group has two revolving credit facilities that increases short-term liquidity and increases the cash management efficiency, and is consistent with its capital cost reduction strategic focus.

 

37


Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

The revolving credit facilities were contracted in November 2011 and December 2012 with syndicates consisting of several global banks.

The following are the contractual maturities of the financial liabilities, including estimated interest payments, where applicable:

 

     Less than a
year
     One to three
year
     Four to
five years
     Over five
years
     Total  

At March 31, 2015

              

Borrowings and financing, and derivative financial instruments (i)

     7,000,322         16,413,551         7,702,330         4,611,785         35,727,988   

Debentures (i)

     922,679         6,176,348         6,976,346         8,178         14,083,551   

Trade payables (ii)

     1,246,404                  1,246,404   

Licenses and concessions (iii)

     763,282         725,812         297            1,489,391   

Tax refinancing program (iv)

     77,533         310,208         206,806         396,377         990,924   

The amounts disclosed in the tables take into account the contractual undiscounted payment outflow estimates, these amounts are not reconciled with the amounts disclosed in the balance sheet for borrowings and financing, derivative financial instruments, and trade payables.

 

(i) Includes the future interest payment estimates, calculated based on the applicable interest rates and takes into account all the interest and principal payments that would be made on the contractual settlement dates;

 

(ii) Consists of the estimated obligations for the purchase of fixed-line and mobile telephony equipment in Brazil with contractual obligations entered into with our suppliers, including all the significant terms and conditions, and the approximate transaction life; and

 

(iii) Consists of obligations due to ANATEL related to the radiofrequency licenses. Includes accrued, unpaid interest for each period.

 

(iv) Consists of the tax installment plan designed under the tax refinancing programs. Includes accrued, unpaid interest for each period.

Capital management

The Company manages its equity structure according to best market practices.

The objective of capital management is to ensure that liquidity levels and financial leverage that allow the sustained growth of the Group, the compliance with the strategic investment plan, and returns to our shareholders.

The Company may change its capital structure, according to existing economic and financial conditions, to optimize its financial leverage and debt management.

The indicators used to measure capital structure management are: gross debt to accumulated twelve-month EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization), net debt (gross debt less cash and cash equivalents and cash investments) to accumulated twelve-month EBITDA, and the interest coverage ratio, as follows:

 

Gross debt to EBITDA

     from 2x to 4.0x   

Net debt to EBITDA

     from 1.4x to 3x   

Interest coverage ratio (*)

     greater than 1.75   

 

(*) Measures the Company’s ability to settle its future interest obligations.

 

38


Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

3.4.4.  Risk of acceleration of maturity of borrowings and financing

Under some debt instruments of the Company, default events can trigger the accelerated maturity of other debt instruments. The impossibility to incur in new debt might prevent such companies from investing in their business and incur in required or advisable capital expenditures, which would reduce future sales and adversely impact their profitability. Additionally, the funds necessary to meet the payment commitments of the borrowings raised can reduce the amount of funds available for capital expenditures.

The risk of accelerated maturity arising from noncompliance of financial covenants associated to the debt is detailed in Note 17, ‘Covenants’.

 

4 NET OPERATING REVENUE

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Gross operating revenue

     11,159,427         11,160,096   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deductions from gross revenue

  (4,119,492   (4,283,593

Taxes

  (2,111,310   (2,304,298

Other deductions

  (2,008,182   (1,979,295
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

NET OPERATING REVENUE

  7,039,935      6,876,503   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

5 REVENUE AND EXPENSES BY NATURE

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

NET OPERATING REVENUE

     7,039,935         6,876,503   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating income (expenses):

Interconnection

  (505,803   (755,970

Personnel

  (616,516   (659,837

Third-party services

  (1,553,434   (1,492,059

Grid maintenance service

  (459,588   (474,852

Handset and other costs

  (148,911   (102,348

Advertising and publicity

  (39,157   (118,143

Rentals and insurance

  (886,435   (776,857

Provisions/reversals

  (223,144   (146,265

Allowance for doubtful accounts

  (169,276   (203,226

Taxes and other income (expenses) (i)

  (426,412   (440,693

Other operating income (expenses), net (ii)

  1,247,127   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating expenses excluding depreciation and amortization

  (5,028,676   (3,923,123
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

  (1,218,388   (1,144,450
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

  (6,247,064   (5,067,573
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Profit before financial income (expenses) and taxes

  792,871      1,808,930   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Financial income (expenses):

Financial income

  306,921      279,015   

Financial expenses

  (1,576,008   (1,472,858
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total financial income (expenses)

  (1,269,087   (1,193,843
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Profit (loss) before taxes

  (476,216   615,087   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income tax and social contribution

  62,120      (387,574
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Profit (loss) from continuing operations

  (414,096   227,513   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

39


Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Discontinued operations

     

Loss for the quarter from discontinued operations, net (net of taxes)

     (32,445   

Profit (loss) for the period

     (446,541      227,513   

Profit (loss) attributable to owners of the Company

     (401,317      227,513   

Profit attributable to non-controlling interests

     (45,224   

Operating expenses by function:

     

Cost of sales and/or services

     (3,794,762      (3,761,476

Selling expenses

     (1,147,766      (1,356,485

General and administrative expenses

     (949,395      (895,587

Other operating income

     184,778         1,511,569   

Other operating expenses

     (540,351      (562,983

Share of profits of subsidiaries

     432         (2,611
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

  (6,247,064   (5,067,573
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(i) Includes share of profits of subsidiaries totaling income of R$110,852 in the company (R$663,853 at March 31, 2014) and expense of R$432 (R$2,611 at March 31, 2014) on a consolidated basis.
(ii) In March 2014, revenue includes basically: (i) R$1.3 billion, net of transaction expenses, related to the sale of 100% of the share capital of one our subsidiaries owner of telecommunications towers used to provide mobile telephone services

 

6 FINANCIAL INCOME (EXPENSES)

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Financial income

     

Interest on and inflation adjustment to other assets

     183,938         195,762   

Exchange differences on translating foreign cash investments

     44,518         (5,619

Income from cash investments

     44,679         74,252   

Dividends received

        626   

Interest on and inflation adjustment to intragroup loans

     3,161      

Other income

     30,625         13,994   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  306,921      279,015   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Financial expenses and other charges

a) Borrowing and financing costs

Financial instrument transactions

  2,563,395      (730,011

Inflation adjustment to and exchange losses on third-party borrowings

  (2,756,890   492,571   

Interest on borrowings payable to third parties

  (611,532   (463,920

Interest on debentures

  (286,755   (273,442

Interest on and inflation adjustment to intragroup borrowings

  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Subtotal:

  (1,091,782   (974,802
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

b) Other charges

Interest on and inflation adjustment to other liabilities

  (227,996   (206,303

Tax on transactions and bank fees

  (98,277   (46,420

Inflation adjustment to provisions

  (52,576   (98,673

Interest on taxes in installments—tax financing program

  (23,780   (26,009

Other expenses

  (81,597   (120,651
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Subtotal:

  (484,226   (498,056
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  (1,576,008   (1,472,858
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

FINANCIAL INCOME (EXPENSES)

  (1,269,087   (1,193,843
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

7 INCOME TAX AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION

Income taxes encompass the income tax and the social contribution. The income tax rate is 25% and the social contribution rate is 9%, generating aggregate nominal tax rate of 34%.

The provision for income tax and social contribution is broken down as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Income tax and social contribution

     

Current taxes

     (271,043      (397,635

Deferred taxes

     333,163         10,061   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  62,120      (387,574
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Profit (loss) before taxes

     (476,216      615,087   

Profit of companies not subject to income tax and social contribution calculation

     (109,375      16,031   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total taxed income

  (585,591   631,118   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income tax and social contribution

Income tax and social contribution on taxed income

  199,101      (214,580

Share of profits of subsidiaries

  147      (888

Tax effects of interest on capital

Tax incentives (basically, operating profit) (i)

  10,792      19,097   

Permanent deductions (additions) (ii)

  (117,206   (157,621

Utilization of tax loss carryforwards

  166   

Unrecognized deferred tax assets (iii)

  (35,858   (33,748

Effects of differentiated tax rates (iv)

  5,144   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income tax and social contribution effect on profit or loss

  62,120      (387,574
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(i) Refers to the exploration profit recognized in the profit or loss of subsidiary Oi Móvel pursuant to Law 11638/2007.
(ii) The main components of permanent deduction (addition) tax effects are: nondeductible fines, sponsorships, nondeductible donations, income from expired dividends, and goodwill amortization (pre-merger period).
(iii) Refer to adjustments to deferred tax assets because of subsidiaries that do not recognize tax credits on tax loss carryforwards.
(iv) This line item corresponds to the effects of the difference between the tax rate levied in Brazil and the tax rates levied on other Group companies, namely in Africa.

The quarterly financial information for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 has been prepared considering management’s best estimates and incorporate procedures introduced by Law 12973/2014.

Management conducted an early assessment of the material aspects of its operations/activities, based on the new provisions of the tax introduced by Provisional Act 627, of November 11, 2013 (“MP 627/2013”), as subsequently amended during its approval procedure by the National Congress, resulting in Bill 02/2014 (“PLV 02/2014”), and the provisions of Regulatory Instruction 1397, of September 16, 2013, as amended by Regulatory Instruction 1422, of December 19, 2013 (“IN 1397/2013”). Based on this assessment, Management did not identify any material impacts as compared to the used under the regime in place until December 31, 2014 (for those entities that did not elect the early adoption of Law 12973/2014).

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

We emphasize that the PLV 02/2014 resulted in the publication of the Law 12973/2014 on May 14, 2014, which, in a preliminary analysis, does not change the conclusions described above. The Company did not elect the early adoption of said Law and is subject to its provisions starting January 1, 2015.

 

8 CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND CASH INVESTMENTS

Cash investments made by the Company and its subsidiaries in the periods ended March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 are classified as held for trading securities and are measured at their fair values.

 

a. Cash and cash equivalents

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Cash and banks

     425,651         532,285   

Cash equivalents

     1,396,188         1,916,921   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  1,821,839      2,449,206   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Exclusive investment funds

     693,053         1,007,728   

Bank certificates of deposit (CDBs)

     533,890         652,948   

Repurchase agreements

     104,681         66,183   

Time deposits

     61,988         187,117   

Other

     2,576         2,945   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash equivalents

  1,396,188      1,916,921   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

b. Cash investments

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Exclusive investment funds

     142,013         171,415   

Private securities

     115,637         111,285   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  257,650      282,700   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  142,013      171,415   

Non-current

  115,637      111,285   

 

c. Breakdown of the exclusive investment funds portfolios

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Repurchase agreements

     333,775         707,304   

Bank certificates of deposit (CDBs)

     258,428         267,168   

Time deposits

     85,069         18,406   

Other

     15,781         14,850   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Securities classified as cash equivalents

  693,053      1,007,728   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Government securities

  142,013      171,415   

Securities classified as short-term investments

  142,013      171,415   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total invested in exclusive funds

  835,066      1,179,143   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company and its subsidiaries have cash investments in exclusive investment funds in Brazil and abroad, for the purpose of obtaining a return on its cash, and which are benchmarked against the CDI in Brazil and LIBOR abroad.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

9 ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Billed services

     6,191,538         5,481,028   

Unbilled services

     1,568,984         1,450,777   

Mobile handsets and accessories sold

     833,065         1,032,022   

Allowance for doubtful accounts

     (501,956      (513,787
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  8,091,631      7,450,040   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The aging list of trade receivables is as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Current

     6,527,193         5,878,915   

Past-due up to 60 days

     1,216,934         1,388,330   

Past-due from 61 to 90 days

     197,515         136,200   

Past-due from 91 to 120 days

     157,364         113,212   

Past-due from 121 to 150 days

     117,676         102,139   

Over 150 days past-due (i)

     376,905         345,031   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  8,593,587      7,963,827   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The movements in the allowance for doubtful accounts were as follows:

 

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

  (513,787
  

 

 

 

Allowance for doubtful accounts

  (145,525

Trade receivables written off as uncollectible

  157,356   
  

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  (501,956
  

 

 

 

 

10 CURRENT AND DEFERRED TAXES

 

     Assets  
     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Current recoverable taxes

     

Recoverable income tax (IRPJ) (i)

     47,483         485,929   

Recoverable social contribution (CSLL) (i)

     19,491         182,772   

IRRF/CSLL—withholding income taxes (ii)

     468,584         428,488   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current

  535,558      1,097,189   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deferred taxes recoverable

Income tax on tax credits—merged goodwill (iii)

  1,149,261      1,180,524   

Social contribution on tax credits—merged goodwill (iii)

  413,734      424,989   

Income tax on temporary differences (iv)

  2,237,248      2,073,875   

Social contribution on temporary differences (iv)

  712,874      655,156   

Income tax on tax loss carryforwards (iv)

  2,419,394      2,353,806   

Social contribution on tax loss carryforwards (iv)

  901,995      876,478   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Subtotal—deferred taxes recoverable

  7,834,506      7,564,828   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deferred taxes recoverable (v)

  393,615      60,944   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Non-total current

  8,228,121      7,625,772   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     Liabilities  
     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Current taxes payable

     

Income tax payable

     100,247         306,366   

Social contribution payable

     94,112         170,916   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current

  194,359      477,282   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(i) Refer mainly to prepaid income tax and social contribution that will be offset against federal taxes payable in the future.
(ii) Refer to corporate income tax credits on cash investments, intragroup loans, government entities, and other that are used as deductions from income tax for the periods, and social contribution withheld at source on services provided to government agencies.
(iii) The Company merged the deferred income tax and social contribution amounts calculated as tax benefit originating from the goodwill paid on acquisition and recognized by the acquirees in 2009. The tax credits are realized as goodwill based on the STFC license and the appreciation of tangible assets is amortized, and should be utilized in tax offsetting estimated until 2034.
(iv) Deferred income tax and social contribution assets are recognized only to the extent that it is probable that there will be a positive tax base for which temporary differences can be used and tax loss carryforwards can be offset. Deferred income tax and social contribution assets are reviewed at the end of each annual period and are written down as their realization is no longer possible. The Company and its subsidiaries offset their tax loss carryforwards against taxable income up to a limit of 30% per year, pursuant to the prevailing tax law.

Additionally, as at March 31, 2015, only part of tax credits on tax loss carryforwards or tax credits on temporary differences has been recognized for direct and indirect subsidiaries that do not have a profitability history and or do not expect to generate sufficient taxable profit. Unrecognized tax credits total R$233,679 (R$217,655 at December 31, 2014).

The table below shows the expected realization periods of deferred tax assets resulting from tax credits on tax loss carryforwards and temporary differences:

 

2015

  344,929   

2016

  380,392   

2017

  409,992   

2018

  526,947   

2019

  988,339   

2020 to 2022

  3,100,117   

2023 to 2024

  520,795   
  

 

 

 

Total

  6,271,511   
  

 

 

 

 

(v) Refer mainly to prior years’ prepaid income tax and social contribution that will be offset against federal taxes payable.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Movements in deferred income tax and social contribution

 

     Balance at
12/31/2014
     Recognized in
deferred tax
income/ expenses
     Recognized
directly in
equity
     Balance at
03/31/2015
 

Deferred tax assets arising on:

           

Temporary differences

           

Business combination with PT

           

PROVISIONS

     1,534,792         4,136            1,538,928   

Provisions for suspended taxes

     133,958         1,155            135,113   

Provisions for pension funds and impacts of CPC 33 (R1)

     183,148         6,996         (6,039      184,105   

Allowance for doubtful accounts

     592,279         24,903            617,182   

Profit sharing

     86,534         (13,273         73,261   

Foreign exchange differences

     556,389         303,039            859,428   

Merged goodwill

     1,605,513         (42,518         1,562,995   

Hedge accounting

     (63,695         (1,553      (65,248

Other temporary add-backs and deductions

     (294,374      (193,010      94,737         (392,647

Tax loss carryforwards

           

Income tax loss carryforwards

     2,353,806         182,671         (117,083      2,419,394   

Social contribution carryforwards

     876,478         67,667         (42,150      901,995   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  7,564,828      341,766      (72,088   7,834,506   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

11 OTHER TAXES

 

     Assets  
     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Recoverable State VAT (ICMS) (i)

     1,418,006         1,512,543   

Taxes on revenue (PIS and COFINS)

     177,078         181,772   

Other

     90,289         101,851   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  1,685,373      1,796,166   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  961,538      1,054,255   

Non-current

  723,835      741,911   

 

     Liabilities  
     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

State VAT (ICMS)

     741,949         709,126   

ICMS Agreement No. 69/1998

     87,197         80,287   

Taxes on revenue (PIS and COFINS)

     610,098         664,278   

FUST/FUNTTEL/broadcasting fees

     819,062         807,576   

Other

     147,654         281,059   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  2,405,960      2,542,326   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  1,509,315      1,667,599   

Non-current

  896,645      874,727   

 

(i) Recoverable ICMS arises mostly from prepaid taxes and credits claimed on purchases of property, plant and equipment, which can be offset against ICMS payable within 48 months, pursuant to Supplementary Law 102/2000.

 

12 JUDICIAL DEPOSITS

In some situations the Company makes, by legal requirement or to provide guarantees, judicial deposits to ensure the continuity of ongoing lawsuits. These judicial deposits can be required for lawsuits with a likelihood of loss, as assessed by the Company based on the opinion of its legal counsel, as probable, possible, or remote.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Civil

     9,125,825         8,919,658   

Tax

     2,528,083         2,466,187   

Labor

     2,068,849         2,007,822   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  13,722,757      13,393,667   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  1,162,528      1,133,639   

Non-current

  12,560,229      12,260,028   

As set forth by relevant legislation, judicial deposits are adjusted for inflation.

 

13 INVESTMENTS

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Investment in subsidiaries

     

Joint arrangements

     71,909         74,803   

Tax incentives, net of allowances for losses

     31,579         31,579   

Other investments

     42,034         42,029   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  145,522      148,411   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Summary of the movements in investment balances

 

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

  148,411   
  

 

 

 

Share of profits of subsidiaries

  432   

Equity in earnings transferred to held-for-sale assets

  (3,326

Other

  5   
  

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  145,522   
  

 

 

 

 

14 PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

 

    Works in
progress
    Automatic
switching
equipment
    Transmission
and other
equipment (1)
    Infrastructure     Buildings     Other
assets
    Total  

Cost of PP&E (gross amount) 

             

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

    2,657,409        18,767,622        47,661,787        25,025,369        3,641,753        4,792,264        102,546,204   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Additions

  734,770      58,359      889      150      8,785      802,953   

Write-offs

  (2,072   (16,394   (734   (19,200

Transfers

  (1,210,068   46,465      583,272      502,823      (14,708   92,216   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  2,182,111      18,814,087      48,301,346      25,512,687      3,627,195      4,892,531      103,329,957   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Accumulated depreciation

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

  (16,536,253   (34,693,873   (19,637,902   (1,773,042   (4,235,108   (76,876,178

Depreciation expenses

  (86,334   (479,087   (273,683   (20,626   (55,162   (914,892

Write-offs

  1,982      15,819      101      17,902   

Transfers

  123      (149   (1,736   (13,622   15,384   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  (16,622,464   (35,171,127   (19,897,502   (1,807,290   (4,274,785   (77,773,168
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment, net

 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

  2,657,409      2,231,369      12,967,914      5,387,467      1,868,711      557,156      25,670,026   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  2,182,111      2,191,623      13,130,219      5,615,185      1,819,905      617,746      25,556,789   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Annual depreciation rate (average)

  11   10   8   8   12

 

(1) Transmission and other equipment includes transmission and data communication equipment.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Additional disclosures

Pursuant to ANATEL’s concession agreements, all property, plant and equipment items capitalized by the Company that are indispensable for the provision of the services granted under said agreements are considered returnable assets and are part of the concession’s cost. These assets are handed over to ANATEL upon the termination of the concession agreements that are not renewed.

As at March 31, 2015, the residual balance of the Company’s returnable assets is R$8,256,934 (R$8,199,356 at December 31, 2014) and consists of assets and installations in progress, switching and transmission equipment, payphones, outside network equipment, power equipment, and systems and operation support equipment.

In the period ended March 31, 2015, financial charges and transaction costs incurred on works in progress were capitalized at the average rate of 9% per year.

 

15 INTANGIBLE ASSETS

 

     Goodwill     Intangibles in
progress
    Data processing
systems
    Regulatory
licenses
    Other     Total  

Cost of intangibles (gross amount)

            

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

     613,719        156,718        7,310,309        4,041,011        1,160,211        13,281,968   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Additions

  157,648      6,774      12,761      177,183   

Transfers

  (117,675   114,951      2,724   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  613,719      196,691      7,432,034      4,041,011      1,175,696      13,459,151   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Accumulated amortization

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

  (459,645   (5,874,996   (2,394,221   (862,128   (9,590,990
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Amortization expenses

  (8,473   (139,013   (67,935   (42,969   (258,390
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  (468,118   (6,014,009   (2,462,156   (905,097   (9,849,380
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Intangible assets, net

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

  154,074      156,718      1,435,313      1,646,790      298,083      3,690,978   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  145,601      196,691      1,418,025      1,578,855      270,599      3,609,771   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Annual amortization rate (average)

  20   9   16

Goodwill

The Company and its subsidiaries also recognize goodwill arising on the acquisition of investments based on expected future earnings.

In December 2014, annual impairment tests were conducted based on ten-year discounted cash flow projections, using perpetuity-based amounts in the last year, which is the period in which the entity expected to recover the investments made when the business was acquired, by applying an average growth rate of 24.2% for Pay TV, 14.5% for Means of Payment, 6.0% for RII Internet provider, and 4.7% for RII Multimedia, discount rate of 12.3%, and use of perpetuity-based amounts in the last year. The tests did not show any impairment losses, as summarized below:

 

Cash-generating unit (CGU)

   Asset balance      Goodwill
allocated
to the CGU
     Recoverable
amount
valuation basis
     Value in use  

Pay TV

     46,723         37,690         84,413         912,893   

Means of payment

     77,591         36,211         113,802         139,781   

RII Internet service provider

     27,189         72,828         100,017         287,755   

RII multimedia

     169,474         7,345         176,819         650,116   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  320,977      154,074      475,051      1,990,545   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

16 TRADE PAYABLES

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Infrastructure, network and plant maintenance materials

     1,865,096         1,708,777   

Services

     1,991,624         1,985,629   

Rental of polls and rights-of-way

     376,087         422,423   

Other

     114,511         219,737   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  4,347,318      4,336,566   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

17 BORROWINGS AND FINANCING

Borrowings and financing by type

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014      Maturity (principal and
interest)
     TIR %  

Development Banks - BNDES

     5,730,752         5,871,576         Mar 2015 to Jul 2021         10.81   

Public debentures

     7,768,685         7,807,389         Mar 2015 to Jul 2021         13.51   

Financial institutions

     25,964,696         22,644,230         

Bank Credit Note (CCB)

     4,604,386         4,503,810         Mar 2015 to Jan 2028         11.96   

Senior Notes—local currency

     1,105,257         1,136,801         Mar 2015 to Sep 2016         11.91   

Certificates of Real Estate Receivables (CRI)

     1,564,882         1,496,674         Mar 2015 to Aug 2022         12.71   

ECA—Export Credit Agency

     4,574,804         3,532,048         Mar 2015 to May 2022         10.11   

Senior Notes—foreign currency (i)

     13,755,600         11,600,563         Mar 2015 to Feb 2022         14.61   

Other

     359,767         374,334         Mar 2015 to Dec 2033         11.95   
  

 

 

    

 

 

       

Subtotal

  39,464,133      36,323,195   
  

 

 

    

 

 

       

Incurred debt issuance cost

  (502,131   (473,800
  

 

 

    

 

 

       

Total

  38,962,002      35,849,395   
  

 

 

    

 

 

       

Current

  4,909,588      4,463,728   

Non-current

  34,052,414      31,385,667   

 

(i) In 2014 the Company bought back own obligations maturing in 2022, in the nominal amount of US$33 million (R$106 million at March 31, 2015), which the Company intends to cancel or hold to maturity.

Debt issuance costs by type

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Financial institutions

     469,300         438,690   

Public debentures

     28,464         30,513   

BNDES

     4,367         4,597   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  502,131      473,800   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  111,619      107,695   

Non-current

  390,512      366,105   

Breakdown of the debt by currency

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Brazilian reais

     21,022,110         21,068,153   

US dollar

     15,323,812         12,368,551   

Euro

     2,616,080         2,412,691   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  38,962,002      35,849,395   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Breakdown of the debt by currency

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Fixed rate

     16,360,591         14,146,444   

CDI

     9,881,925         9,811,490   

TJLP

     5,031,892         5,149,392   

IPCA

     3,869,561         3,798,431   

LIBOR

     3,639,444         2,762,046   

INPC

     178,589         181,592   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  38,962,002      35,849,395   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Maturity schedule of the long-term debt and debt issuance costs allocation schedule

 

     Long-term debt      Debt issuance costs  
     03/31/2015  

2016

     4,818,631         69,707   

2017

     7,629,204         84,259   

2018

     3,666,991         77,376   

2019

     4,186,018         68,700   

2020 and following years

     14,142,082         90,470   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  34,442,926      390,512   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Description of main borrowings and financing

Local currency-denominated financing

Development Banks

The Company and its subsidiary obtained financing facilities with BNDES to fund the expansion and improve the quality of their fixed and mobile nationwide networks and meet their regulatory obligations.

Additionally, the Company and its subsidiaries are parties to current financing agreements with the BNDES and other development banks from the North and Northeast of Brazil, entered into in 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2014 to finance investment projects with goals the referred to above.

Foreign currency-denominated financing

ECA credit facilities

The Company and TMAR contract financing facilities with export credit agencies to finance part of the investments in equipment and services that incorporate foreign technology.

In March 2015, US$141.3 million (R$461.1 million) were disbursed under a financing agreement entered into by Oi with Finnvera—Finnish Export Credit Ltd in October 2014, amounting to US$397.4 million to finance part of our investments.

In February 2015, US$42.8 million (R$123.2 million) were disbursed under a financing agreement entered into by Oi with ONDD—Office National Du Ducroire/Nationale Delcrederedienst amounting to US$257 million to finance part of our investments.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

TMAR is a party to current agreements with major export credit agencies, including: SEK—Swedish Export Corporation; CDB—China Development Bank; and ONDD—Office National Du Ducroire; and FEC—Finnish Export Credit.

Public and private debentures

 

Issuer

   Issue   Principal    Maturity      03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Oi

   10th        2019         1,500,751         1,633,137   

Oi

   9th   R$2,000 million      2020         2,355,761         2,386,594   

Oi

   8th   R$2,350 million      2018         2,424,966         2,352,258   

Oi

   7th   R$1,000 million      2017         1,079,420         1,047,432   

Oi

   5th (2nd series)   R$246 million      2020         360,051         340,957   

TMAR

   2nd   R$31 million      2021         47,736         47,011   
          

 

 

    

 

 

 

Public debentures

  

  7,768,685      7,807,389   
          

 

 

    

 

 

 

The debentures issued by the Company and its subsidiaries do not contain renegotiation clauses.

Guarantees

BNDES financing facilities are collateralized by receivables of the Company and its subsidiaries TMAR and Oi Móvel. The Company provides guarantees to its subsidiaries TMAR and Oi Móvel for such financing facilities, totaling R$4,725 million.

Covenants

The financing agreements of the Company and subsidiaries TMAR and Oi Móvel with the BNDES and other financial institutions, and the debentures issued requires compliance with financial ratios (covenants). The financial ratios of the BNDES agreements are calculated semiannually, in June and December. The other financial ratios are calculated on a quarterly and annual basis.

Specifically for the subsidiaries’ BNDES agreements, the financial ratios are calculated based on the Company’s consolidated financial reporting.

On February 12, 2015, the General Debentureholders’ Meeting of the 9th Issue Debentures ratified the permission for the sale of PT Portugal to Altice, including undertaking the corporate reorganization necessary to implement sale. Also on this date, the General Debentureholders’ Meeting of the 5th Issue Debentures approved: (i) the permission to undertake the corporate reorganization, through the merger of Company shares with and into Telemar Participações S.A. that results in the increase of the Company’s governance level on the BM&FBOVESPA; and (ii) temporary change of the ratios resulting from the calculation of the maximum leverage financial covenants to be determined by the Company for the four quarters of 2015, obtained by dividing the Company’s Total Gross Debt by EBITDA, which must be 4.5 times or lower, except if before or after the actual transfer of PT Portugal shares to Altice and their payment to the Company it is necessary to take into account PT Portugal’s and its subsidiaries’ debts to calculate the Total Gross Debt, which must be 6.0 times or lower, calculated using the Company’s 2015 quarterly financial information and annual financial statements.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Beginning in the first quarter of 2016 (included), the ratios resulting from the calculation of the financial covenants referred to above shall return to the ratios described in the Debenture Indentures, i.e., the Company’s total debt to EBITDA must be 4.0 times or lower, calculated based on the consolidated balance sheet or an EBITDA-to-debt service ratio of 1.75 or higher, also based on the consolidated balance sheet, with the corresponding amendment to the Debenture Indenture.

As a result of the approval of the terms above, the Company approved the payment of a waiver fee to the 5th Issue Debentureholders of R$143.107735 per 2nd series debenture (Cetip Code: TNLE25), totaling R$3,521, and to the 9th Issue Debentureholders of R$105.378745 and R$126.997862 per 1st series (Oi BR-D91) and 2nd series (Oi BR-D92) debenture, totaling R$4,215 and R$20,320, respectively.

The Company has negotiated with its creditors the temporary amendment of the financial covenant ceilings for the leverage ratio (gross debt to EBITDA) for the four quarters of 2015 in context of the sale of PT Portugal to Altice.

At the end of the reporting period, on March 31, 2015, all ratios were complied.

Committed and not used credit facilities

The revolver credit facility transactions were structured so that the Company and its subsidiaries can use the credit facility at any time, over the contractual periods. These transactions provide a comfortable liquidity cushion, strengthening the Group’s capital structure and credit profile, and increase our cash management efficiency.

In December 2014 the Company signed a financing agreement with Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB) amounting to R$370.6 million to finance part of the investments in the Northeast of Brazil in the next two years. There was no disbursement from this facility to date.

 

18 DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Assets

     

Currency swaps

     4,687,895         2,871,904   

Interest rate swaps

     286,158         196,017   

Non-deliverable forwards (NDFs)

     275,097         153,560   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  5,249,150      3,221,481   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  649,553      340,558   

Non-current

  4,599,597      2,880,923   

Liabilities

Currency swaps

  501,912      413,573   

Interest rate swaps

  325,478      241,138   

Non-deliverable forwards (NDFs)

  96,478      12,211   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  923,868      666,922   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  708,729      523,951   

Non-current

  215,139      142,971   

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

19 LICENSES AND CONCESSIONS PAYABLE

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

SMP

     1,337,064         1,238,209   

STFC concessions

     152,327         123,731   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  1,489,391      1,361,940   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  763,282      675,965   

Non-current

  726,109      685,975   

Correspond to the amounts payable to ANATEL for the radiofrequency concessions and the licenses to provide the SMP services, and STFC service concessions, obtained at public auctions.

The payment schedule is as follows:

 

2015

  763,282   

2016

  719,894   

2017

  2,959   

2018

  2,959   

2019

  297   
  

 

 

 

Total

  1,489,391   
  

 

 

 

 

20 TAX REFINANCING PROGRAM

The outstanding balance of the Tax Debt Refinancing Program is broken down as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Law 11941/09 and Law 12865/2013 tax financing program

     985,665         983,904   

REFIS II - PAES

     5,259         6,326   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  990,924      990,230   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  94,695      94,041   

Non-current

  896,229      896,189   

The amounts of the tax refinancing program created under Law 11941/2009, divided into principal, fine and interest, which include the debt declared at the time the deadline to join the program was reopened as provided for by Law 12865/2013 and Law 12996/2014, are broken down as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  
     Principal      Fines      Interest      Total      Total  

Tax on revenue (COFINS)

     260,003         15,513         288,751         564,267         563,846   

Income tax

     56,329         4,189         58,034         118,552         119,447   

Tax on revenue (PIS)

     67,465         1,516         33,199         102,180         102,598   

Social security (INSS - SAT)

     1,445         2,571         8,619         12,635         13,852   

Social contribution

     14,947         736         15,083         30,766         30,985   

Tax on banking transactions (CPMF)

     16,946         1,669         21,891         40,506         39,717   

Other

     46,770         5,547         69,701         122,018         119,785   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  463,905      31,741      495,278      990,924      990,230   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The payment schedule is as follows:

 

2015

  77,533   

2016

  103,403   

2017

  103,403   

2018

  103,403   

2019

  103,403   

2020 to 2022

  310,208   

2023 to 2025

  189,571   
  

 

 

 

Total

  990,924   
  

 

 

 

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

21 PROVISIONS

Broken down as follows:

 

Type

   03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Labor

     

Overtime

     480,192         471,506   

Indemnities

     146,783         152,113   

Sundry premiums

     129,548         131,963   

Stability/reintegration

     123,816         126,070   

Additional post-retirement benefits

     80,556         83,417   

Salary Differences and related effects

     52,501         52,852   

Lawyer/expert fees

     29,050         29,382   

Severance pay

     19,473         20,235   

Labor fines

     15,718         15,562   

Severance Pay Fund (FGTS)

     9,079         9,359   

Employment relationship

     5,829         5,717   

Joint liability

     1,511         1,581   

Other claims

     50,899         55,267   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  1,144,955      1,155,024   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Tax

State VAT (ICMS)

  377,840      363,025   

FUST/FUNTTEL

Tax on services (ISS)

  73,268      71,666   

INSS (joint liability, fees, and severance pay)

  28,447      31,735   

Tax on net income (ILL)

  6,674      20,691   

Other claims

  54,331      45,504   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  540,560      532,621   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Civil

Corporate

  1,510,033      1,549,525   

ANATEL estimates

  605,578      597,437   

ANATEL fines

  509,602      506,726   

Small claims courts

  312,198      282,209   

Other claims

  512,156      508,226   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  3,449,567      3,444,123   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total provisions

  5,135,082      5,131,768   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

  1,038,403      1,058,521   

Non-current

  4,096,679      4,073,247   

In compliance with the relevant Law, the provisions are adjusted for inflation on a monthly basis.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Breakdown of contingent liabilities, per nature

The breakdown of contingent liabilities with a possible unfavorable outcome and, therefore, not recognized in accounting, is as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Labor

     1,159,767         1,082,677   

Tax

     21,435,175         21,059,009   

Civil

     1,153,520         1,146,745   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  23,748,462      23,288,431   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Summary of movements in provision balances

 

     Labor      Tax      Civil      Total  

Balance at Dec 31, 2014

     1,155,024         532,621         3,444,123         5,131,768   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Inflation adjustment

  31,875      9,885      10,816      52,576   

Additions/(reversals)

  7,643      292      215,209      223,144   

Write-offs for payment/terminations

  (49,587   (2,238   (220,581   (272,406
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Balance at Mar 31, 2015

  1,144,955      540,560      3,449,567      5,135,082   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Guarantees

The Company has bank guarantee letters and guarantee insurance granted by several financial institutions and insurers to guarantee commitments arising from lawsuits, contractual obligations, and biddings with the ANATEL. The total adjusted amount of contracted bonds and guarantee insurances, effective at March 31, 2015 corresponds to R$16,296,482 (R$16,488,245 at December 31, 2014). The commission charges on these contracts are based on market rates.

 

22 EQUITY

 

a. Share capital

Subscribed and paid-in capital is R$21,438,374 (R$21,438,220 at December 31, 2014), represented by the following shares, without par value:

 

     Number of shares
(in thousands)
 
   03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Total capital in shares

     

Common shares

     286,155         286,155   

Preferred shares

     572,317         572,317   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  858,472      858,472   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Treasury shares

Common shares

  55,860      8,425   

Preferred shares

  102,151      7,281   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

  158,011      15,706   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Outstanding shares

Common shares

  230,295      277,730   

Preferred shares

  470,166      565,036   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total outstanding shares

  700,461      842,766   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company is authorized to increase its capital under a Board of Directors’ resolution, in common and preferred shares, up to the share capital ceiling of R$34,038,701,741.49, within the legal ceiling of 2/3 for the issuance of new nonvoting preferred shares.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

By resolution of the Shareholders’ Meeting or Board of Directors’ Meeting, the Company’s capital can be increased by capitalizing retained earnings or reserves previously set up for this purpose by the Shareholders’ Meeting. Under these conditions, the capitalization can be made without any change in the number of shares.

Capital is represented by common and preferred shares without par value, and the Company is not required to maintain the current proportion of these types of share on capital increases.

By resolution of the Shareholders’ Meeting or the Board of Directors, the preemptive right on issuance of shares, warrants or convertible debentures can be cancelled in the cases provided for in Article 172 of the Brazilian Corporate Law.

On February 25, 2015 the Board of Directors approved a capital increase of R$154 without the issue of new shares, through the capitalization of the investment reserve.

 

b. Treasury shares

Treasury shares as at March 31, 2015 originate from the corporate events that took place in the first quarter of 2015, the first half of 2012, and the second quarter of 2014, described below:

 

i. On February 27, 2012 the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Oi S.A. approved the Merger Protocol and Justification of Coari with and into the Company and, as a result, the cancelation of the all the treasury shares held by the Company on that date;

 

ii. On February 27, 2012 the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Oi S.A. approved the Merger Protocol and Justification of TNL with and into the Company, and the Company’s shares then held by TNL, as a result of the merger of Coari with and into the Company, were canceled, except for 24,647,867 common shares that remained in treasury;

 

iii. Starting April 9, 2012 Oi paid the reimbursement of shares to withdrawing shareholders.

 

iv. As a result of the Company’s capital increase approved by the Board of Directors on April 30 and May 5, 2014, and due to subscription made by PT in PT Portugal assets, R$263,028 was reclassified to treasury shares (Note 3.1—iv).

 

v. Under the exchange agreement entered into with PT SGPS on September 8, 2014 (Note 26), approved at PT SGPS’s extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, by the CVM, and at Oi’s extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, on March 30, 2015 the Company conducted a share exchange under which PT SGPS delivered to PTIF Oi shares divided into 474,348,720 OIBR3 shares and 948,697,440 OIBR4 shares (47,434,872 and 94,869,744 after the reverse stock split, respectively); in exchange, the Company delivered Rio Forte securities to PT SGPS, in the total principal amount of R$3,163 million (€897 million).

 

c. Capital reserves

Capital reserves are recognized pursuant to the following practices:

Special merger goodwill reserve: represents the net amount of the balancing item to goodwill recorded in assets, as provided for by CVM Instruction 319/1999.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Special merger reserve: net assets: represents the net assets merged by the Company under the corporate reorganization approved on February 27, 2012.

Investment grant reserve: recognized due to the investment grants received before the beginning of FY 2008 as a balancing item to an asset received by the Company.

Law 8200/91 special inflation adjustment reserve: recognized due to the special inflation adjustments to capital assets, the purpose of which was to offset distortions in inflation adjustment indices prior to 1991.

Interest on works in progress: consists of the balancing item to interest on works in progress incurred through December 31, 1998.

Other capital reserves: consist of the funds invested in income tax incentives before the beginning of FY 2008.

 

d. Profit reserves

Profit reserves are recognized pursuant to the following practices:

Legal reserve: allocation of 5% of profit for the year up to the limit of 20% of capital. This allocation is optional when the legal reserve plus the capital reserves exceeds 30% of capital. This reserve is only used for capital increases or offset losses.

Investments reserve: consists of the balances of profit for the year, adjusted pursuant to Article 202 of Law 6404/76 and allocated after the payment of dividends. The profits for the year used to recognize this reserve were fully allocated as retained earnings by the related shareholders’ meetings in light of the Company’s investment budget and in accordance with Article 196 of the Brazilian Corporate Law.

On February 25, 2015, the Board of Directors approved the capitalization of the investment reserve balance totaling R$1,933,354, as follows: (i) R$154 to capital increase and (ii) R$1,933,200 to recognize the capital reserves, without the issue of new shares.

 

e. Dividends and interest on capital

Dividends are calculated pursuant to the Company’s Bylaws and the Brazilian Corporate Law. Mandatory minimum dividend are calculated in accordance with Article 202 of Law 6404/76, and preferred or priority dividends are calculated pursuant to the Company’s Bylaws.

Preferred shares are nonvoting, except in the cases specified in paragraphs 1-3 of Article 12 of the Bylaws, but are assured priority in the payment of the noncumulative minimum dividends equal to the higher of 6% per year of the amount obtained by dividing capital stock by the total number of shares of the Company or 3% per year of the amount obtained by dividing book equity by the total number of shares of the Company.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

By decision of the Board of Directors, the Company can pay or credit, as dividends, interest on capital pursuant to Article 9, paragraph 7, of Law 9249/1995. The interest paid or credited will be offset against the annual mandatory minimum dividend amount, pursuant to Article 43 of the Bylaws.

At the Company’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on April 29, 2015 the allocation of loss for 2014, amounting to R$4,407,711, was approved as follows: (i) offset against the legal reserve amounting to R$383,527 and R$4,024,184 to accumulated losses.

 

f. Share issue costs

We recognized in this line item the share issue costs related to the corporate transactions: (1) capital increase, in accordance with the plan for the business combination between the Company and PT (Note 1) and (2) corporate reorganization of February 27, 2012. These costs directly attributable to the mentioned events are basically represented by expenses on the preparation of prospectus and reports, third-party professional services, fees and commissions, transfer costs, and registration costs.

 

g. Other comprehensive income

We recognize in this line item other comprehensive income, which includes hedge accounting gains and losses, actuarial gains and losses, foreign exchange differences arising on translating the net investment in foreign subsidiaries, including exchange differences in intragroup loans that are part of the net investment in foreign subsidiaries, reclassification adjustments, and the tax effects related to these components, which are not recognized in the income statements.

 

h. Basic and diluted earnings (losses) per share

The Company’s Bylaws award different rights to holders of common and preferred shares with respect to dividends, voting rights, and in case of liquidation of the Company. Accordingly, basic and diluted earnings (losses) per share were calculated based on profit for the period available to common and preferred shareholders.

Basic

Basic earnings (losses) per share are calculated by dividing the profit (loss) attributable to the owners of the Company, available to common and preferred shareholders, by the weighted average number of common and preferred shares outstanding during the period.

Diluted

Diluted earnings (losses) per share are calculated by adjusting the weighted average number of outstanding common and preferred shares, to estimate the dilutive effect of all convertible securities. Currently we do not have any potentially dilutive shares.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

The table below shows the calculations of basic and diluted earnings (losses) per share:

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Profit from continuing operations

     (368,872      227,513   

Loss for the quarter from discontinued operations (net of taxes)

     (32,445   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Profit (loss) attributable to owners of the Company

  (401,317   227,513   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Profit (loss) allocated to common shares—basic and diluted

  (401,317   71,410   

Profit allocated to preferred shares—basic and diluted

  156,103   

Weighted average number of outstanding shares (in thousands of shares)

Common shares—basic and diluted

  277,730      51,476   

Preferred shares—basic and diluted

  565,036      112,527   

Earnings (losses) per share (in reais):

Common shares—basic and diluted

  (0.48   1.39   

Preferred shares—basic and diluted

  (0.48   1.39   

Earnings per share—continuing operations:

Common shares—basic and diluted

  (0.44   1.39   

Preferred shares—basic and diluted

  (0.44   1.39   

Earnings (losses) per share—discontinued operations:

Common shares—basic and diluted

  (0.04

Preferred shares—basic and diluted

  (0.04

Retrospective adjustment

As required by CPC 41, we have adjusted retrospectively the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share taking into consideration the new shareholding structure resulting from the reverse share split described in item (a) above.

 

23 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

This note should be read together with the related disclosures made in Note 24 to the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014.

As at March 31, 2015, the consolidated liabilities referring to retirement benefits recognized in the balance sheet are as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Actuarial assets

     52,059         47,496   

Current

     5,902         1,744   

Non-current

     46,157         45,752   

Actuarial liabilities

     484,416         476,535   

Current

     150,153         129,662   

Non-current

     334,263         346,873   

a) Pension funds

The Company and its subsidiaries sponsor retirement benefit plans (“pension funds”) for their employees, provided that they elect to be part of such plan, and current beneficiaries. The table below shows the existing pension plans as at March 31, 2015.

 

Benefit plans

  

Sponsors

   Manager
TCSPREV    Oi, Oi Móvel, BrT Multimídia, Oi Internet and BrTI    FATL
BrTPREV    Oi, Oi Móvel, BrT Multimídia, Oi Internet and BrTI    FATL
TelemarPrev    Oi, TMAR, Oi Móvel and Telemar Internet    FATL
PAMEC    Oi    Oi
PBS-A    TMAR and Oi    SISTEL
PBS-Telemar    TMAR    FATL
PBS-TNCP    Oi Móvel    SISTEL
CELPREV    Oi Móvel    SISTEL

Sistel—Fundação Sistel de Seguridade Social

FATL—Fundação Atlântico de Seguridade Social

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Telemar Participações S.A., the Company’s parent, is one of the sponsors the TelemarPrev benefit plan.

For purposes of the pension plans described in this note, the Company can also be referred to as the “Sponsor”.

The sponsored plans are valued by independent actuaries at the end of the annual reporting period. The Bylaws provide for the approval of the supplementary pension plan policy, and the joint liability attributed to the defined benefit plans is ruled by the agreements entered into with the pension fund entities, with the agreement of the National Pension Plan Authority (PREVIC), as regards the specific plans. PREVIC is the official agency that approves and oversees said plans.

The sponsored defined benefit plans are closed to new entrants because they are close-end pension funds. Participants’ and the sponsors’ contributions are defined in the funding plan.

Actuarial liabilities are recognized for the sponsored defined benefit plans that report an actuarial deficit. For the plans that report an actuarial surplus, assets are recorded when there is an express authorization for offsetting them against future employer contributions.

The related liabilities disclosed in the balance sheet as at March 31, 2015 have been recognized based on the actuarial studies as at December 31, 2014, prepared using the “Projected Credit Unit Method”, adjusted by the costs on retirement benefits and benefit payments in the period and the actuarial losses determined at March 31, 2015 related to the difference between the actual and budget income of the pension funds and the impact of the revision of the discount rates used to discount the actuarial liabilities. The main actuarial assumptions taken into consideration in the actuarial studies as at December 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015 after the revision of the discount rates are as follows:

 

     BrTPREV     TCSPREV     PBS-Telemar     TelemarPrev  

MAIN ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS USED

        

Nominal discount rate of actuarial liability

     11.83     11.83     11.83     11.83

Estimated inflation rate

     5.50     5.50     5.50     5.50

Estimated nominal salary increase index

     5.50     5.50     5.50     5.50

Estimated nominal benefit growth rate

     5.50     5.50     5.50     5.50

Total expected rate of return on plan assets

     11.83     11.83     11.83     11.83

General mortality biometric table

     AT-2000        AT-2000        AT-2000        AT-2000   

Biometric disability table

    
 
Zimmermann
Nichzugs
  
  
   

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

   

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

   

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

Biometric disabled mortality table

     Winklevoss        Winklevoss        Winklevoss        Winklevoss   

Turnover rate

     7.3     8.2     Nil        0% to 12

 

     PBS-A     PAMEC     PBS-TNCP     CELPREV  

MAIN ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS USED

        

Nominal discount rate of actuarial liability

     11.83     11.83     11.83     11.83

Estimated inflation rate

     5.50     5.50     5.50     5.50

Estimated nominal salary increase index

     N.A.        N.A.        N.A.        N.A.   

Estimated nominal benefit growth rate

     N.A.        N.A.        N.A.        N.A.   

Nominal medical costs growth rate

     N.A.        8.67     N.A.        N.A.   

Total expected rate of return on plan assets

     11.83     11.83     11.83     11.83

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

General mortality biometric table

  AT2000      AT2000      AT2000      AT2000   

Biometric disability table

 

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

 

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

 

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

 

 

Zimmermann

Nichzugs

  

  

Biometric disabled mortality table

  Winklevoss      Winklevoss      Winklevoss      Winklevoss   

Starting age of benefit

  N.A.      N.A.      57 years      55 years   

Turnover rate

  N.A.      N.A.      Nil      Nil   

The main movements in the actuarial liabilities related to pension plans in the period ended March 31, 2015 were as follows:

 

Balance at December 31, 2014

  476,535   

Pension plan costs, net

  7,881   
  

 

 

 

Balance at March 31, 2015

  484,416   
  

 

 

 

The main movements in the actuarial assets related to the pension plans in the period ended March 31, 2015 were as follows:

 

Balance at December 31, 2014

  47,496   

Pension plan income, net

  1,405   

Actuarial gains (losses), net

  5,066   

Payments, contributions and reimbursements

  (1,908
  

 

 

 

Balance at March 31, 2015

  52,059   
  

 

 

 

 

24 SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company’s management uses operating segment information for decision-making. The Company identified only one operating segment that corresponds to the telecommunications business in Brazil.

Due to the discontinuation of the business in Portugal (see Note 26), the related operating segment in telecommunications in Portugal is no reported since December 31, 2014.

In addition to the telecommunications business in Brazil, the Company conducts other businesses that individually or in aggregate do not meet any of the quantitative indicators that would require their disclosure as reportable business segments. These businesses refer basically to the following companies: Mobile Telecommunications Limited in Namibia, Cabo Verde Telecom, Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicações, Listas Telefónicas de Moçambique, ELTA—Empresa de Listas Telefónicas de Angola, and Timor Telecom, which provide fixed and mobile telecommunications services and publish telephone directories, and which have been consolidated since May 2014.

The revenue generation is assessed by Management based on a view segmented by customer, into the following categories:

 

    Residential Services, focused on the sale of fixed telephony services, including voice services, data communication services (broadband), and pay TV;

 

    Personal Mobility, focused on the sale of mobile telephony services to subscription and prepaid customers, and mobile broadband customers; and

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

    SMEs/Corporate, which includes corporate solutions offered to our small, medium-sized, and large corporate customers.

Telecommunications in Brazil

The financial information of this reportable segment of the periods ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 is as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Residential

     2,490,880         2,552,460   

Personal Mobility

     2,258,808         2,166,306   

SMEs/Corporate

     2,020,912         2,091,248   

Other services and businesses

     70,180         66,489   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net operating revenue

  6,840,780      6,876,503   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating expenses

Depreciation and amortization

  (1,173,282   (1,144,450

Interconnection

  (503,619   (755,970

Personnel

  (591,688   (659,837

Third-party services

  (1,532,383   (1,492,059

Grid maintenance service

  (451,476   (474,852

Handset and other costs

  (137,658   (102,348

Advertising and publicity

  (33,219   (118,143

Rentals and insurance

  (875,971   (776,857

Provisions/reversals

  (223,144   (146,265

Allowance for doubtful accounts

  (145,525   (203,226

Taxes and other expenses

  (417,710   (440,693

Other operating income, net

  1,247,127   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Operating income before financial income (expenses) and taxes

  755,105      1,808,930   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Financial income (expenses)

Financial income

  297,907      279,015   

Financial expenses

  (1,568,048   (1,472,858

Pretax income

  (515,036   615,087   

Income tax and social contribution

  139,624      (387,574
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Profit (loss) for the quarter from continuing operations

  (375,412   227,513   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Reconciliation of revenue and profit (loss) for the quarter and information per geographic market

In the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, the reconciliation of the segment telecommunications in Brazil revenue and total consolidated revenue is as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Revenue related to the reportable segment

     6,840,780         6,876,503   

Revenue related to other businesses

     199,155      
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Consolidated net operating revenue

  7,039,935      6,876,503   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

In the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, the reconciliation between the profit (loss) before financial income (expenses) and taxes of the segment telecommunications in Brazil and the consolidated profit (loss) before financial income (expenses) and taxes is as follows:

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Profit (loss) before financial income (expenses) and taxes

     

Telecommunications in Brazil

     755,105         1,808,930   

Other businesses

     37,766      
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Consolidated income before financial income (expenses) and taxes

  792,871      1,808,930   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets, liabilities and tangible and intangible assets per geographic market as at March 31, 2015 are as follows:

 

     03/31/2015  
   Total
assets
     Total
liabilities
     Tangible
assets
     Intangible
assets
     Capital
expenditures on
tangible and
intangible assets
 

Brazil

     71,452,657         59,317,859         25,556,789         3,609,771         928,490   

Other, primarily Africa

     8,050,720         779,925         478,492         866,992         41,527   

25 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Transactions with unconsolidated related parties

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Accounts receivable and other assets

     1,865,716         1,586,372   

Unitel (i)

     1,645,339         1,375,162   

Multitel (ii)

     25,311         24,282   

PT-ACS

     11,071         15,114   

Fundação PT

     6,738         7,387   

Sportinvest Multimédia (iii)

     112,621         105,492   

Siresp

     4,631         40   

Fibroglobal (iv)

     49,669         48,134   

Yunit (v)

     8,026         7,454   

Contax

     2,310         3,307   

 

(i) This line item includes dividends receivable by PT Ventures from said subsidiary, amounting to R$1,518 million and accounts receivable related to services rendered amounting to R$56.3 million.
(ii) This line item includes financing granted to this subsidiary amounting approximately to R$3.6 million.
(iii) This line item includes financing granted to this subsidiary amounting approximately to R$112.3 million.
(iv) This line item includes financing granted to this subsidiary amounting approximately to R$47.4 million.
(v) This line item includes financing granted to this subsidiary amounting approximately to R$7.7 million.

 

     03/31/2015      12/31/2014  

Trade and other payables

     96,525         61,603   

Unitel

     7,421         1,484   

Multitel

     516         1,217   

PT-ACS

     11,410         599   

Fundação PT

     1         2   

Sportinvest Multimédia

     290         291   

Siresp

     55         6   

Fibroglobal

     5,617         9,564   

Yunit

     309         669   

Contax

     61,183         41,832   

TODO

     8,997         5,587   

Ability

     7         7   

Veotex

     719         345   

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Revenue

     

Revenue from services rendered

     7,683         35,908   

PT Portugal

        31,413   

Unitel

        583   

Contax

     7,552         3,599   

TODO

     131         313   

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Costs/expenses

     

Operating costs and expenses

     (9,758      (23,743

PT Portugal

        (12,050

PT Inovação e Sistemas

        (1,442

Veotex

     (2,423      (2,594

TODO

     (7,335      (7,657

Services provided by Contax

The Company and subsidiaries TMAR and Oi Móvel engage call center and collection services from Contax, which is controlled by shareholders that are part of the Company’s control block. Contax provides customer services to fixed-line telephony customers, outbound telemarketing services to capture new mobile telephony customers, support to prepaid and subscription mobile telephony customers, technical support to Velox subscribers (ADSL), and collection services. Total costs of services provided by Contax for the period ended March 31, 2015 were R$393,292 (R$372,726 for the period ended March 31, 2014).

Financing agreements with the BNDES

The Company entered into financing agreements with BNDES, controlling shareholder of BNDESPAR, which holds 5.099% (5.099% in 12/31/2014) of the voting capital of TmarPart, holding company of the Group and, therefore, a Company related party.

The balance due related to BNDES financing at March 31, 2015, was R$5,731 million (R$5,872 million at December 31, 2014), and we recognized related financial expenses totaling R$119 million (R$113 million at March 31, 2014.

Compensation of key management personnel

The compensation of the officers responsible for planning, managing and controlling the Company’s activities, including the compensation of the directors and executive officers, totaled R$6,026 (R$5,003 at March 31, 2014).

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

26 OTHER INFORMATION

a. Held-for-sale assets and discontinued operations

Sale of PT Portugal shares to Altice

On December 9, 2014, the Company and Altice Portugal S.A. (“Altice PT”), wholly-owned subsidiary of Altice S.A., (collectively Altice PT, “Altice”), entered into a purchase and sale agreement of all of the shares PT Portugal to Altice PT, basically involving the operations conducted by PT Portugal in Portugal and in Hungary.

On January 22, 2015, PT SGPS shareholders approved the sale by Oi of all the PT Portugal shares to Altice PT, under the terms and conditions of the Share Purchase and Sale Agreement. Accordingly, the suspensive condition provided for in said agreement to its effectiveness was implemented.

Oi shall sell to Altice all the PT Portugal shares, for an enterprise value of €7.4 billion, with adjustments to cash and debt, including an earn-out amounting to €500 million related to PT Portugal’s generation of future revenue. The price payable by Altice shall be subject to the adjustments usually adopted in similar transactions, based on PT Portugal’s cash position at the closing of the transaction.

On April 22, 2015, the Company informed its shareholders and the market in general that it had been notified by Altice PT of the compliance with the conditions precedent below:

 

    The approval, by the European Commission, of the acquisition by Altice PT of 100% of the shares of PT Portugal held by Oi, an approval that is contingent to the sale by the French group of its operations in Portugal, namely Cabovisão and ONI; and

 

    No opposition by Autoridade de Supervisão de Seguros e Fundos de Pensões (former Instituto de Seguros de Portugal) (the Portuguese pension fund regulator) to an indirect qualified holding by Altice Portugal S.A. representing of 82.05% of the share capital of Previsão—Sociedade Gestora de Fundos de Pensões, S.A.

The consummation of PT Portugal shares is still subject to the precedent to the completion of all documentation of the corporate reorganization aimed at segregating PT Portugal’s investments that will not to be sold, including the investments in Africatel GmbH & Co. KG and Timor Telecom S.A., as well as the whole or part of PT Portugal’s debt.

Approval of preparatory actions for the sale of Africatel

At the Board of Directors’ meeting held on September 16, 2014, Oi’s management was authorized to take all the necessary actions to divest Oi’s stake in Africatel Holdings B.V. (“Africatel”), representing 75% os Africatel’s share capital, and/or dispose of its assets. Oi will lead the sale process, even though we believe that it would be in the best interests of both Africatel shareholders to maximize the value of their investments, that this sale be coordinated with Samba Luxco, a Helios Investors L.P. affiliate that holds the remaining 25% of Africatel’s share capital. Oi is committed to work with its local partners and each one of the operating companies where Africatel holds investments to ensure a coordinated transition of its interests in these companies.

Notwithstanding the above, our indirect subsidiary Africatel GmbH & Co. KG (“Africatel GmbH”), direct holder of the Oi’s investment in Africatel, received on September 16, 2014 a letter from Samba Luxco, where Samba Luxco exercised an alleged right to sell the shares it

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

holds in Africatel (put option), pursuant to Africatel’s shareholders’ agreement. According to this letter, this put option results from the indirect transfer of Africatel shares, previously indirectly held by PT, to the Company as the payment for the capital increase made in May last year (Note 1).

As disclosed in Note 1 ‘Risks related to our interest in Unitel’, the Company believes that there was not any action or event that, under Africatel’s shareholders’ agreement terms, would trigger the right to exercise the put option. Accordingly, without prejudice to the value the Company attributes to maintaining a relationship of mutual respect with Samba Luxco, Africatel GmbH intends to challenge the exercise of this put option by Samba Luxco in the current circumstances, which, pursuant to Africatel’s shareholders’ agreement. In November 2014, Samba Luxco initiated an arbitration proceeding against Africatel GmbH and PT to resolve this issue.

Oi intends to focus its efforts on the sale of Africatel and/or its assets and believes that if this goal is successfully met through the arbitration proceeding already initiated.

Classification of the assets and liabilities held for sale and discontinued operations

On May 5, 2014, the Company acquired PT Portugal and since then it also fully consolidated its profits or losses, assets and liabilities. With the execution of purchase commitment agreement of PT Portugal shares to Altice and the approval of the preparatory for the sale of Africatel, the Company classified PT Portugal’s operations and the operations in Africa as non-current held-for-sale assets and the liabilities associated to assets held for sale, in accordance with CPC 31.

Additionally, because it represents an important separated business line, the results of PT Portugal’s operations are presented as discontinued operations in a single line of the income statement.

The operations in Africa are consolidated in the income statement since May 5, 2014.

The group of assets and liabilities of PT Portugal’s operations and the operations in Africa are stated at the lower of their carrying amounts and their fair values less costs to sell.

The main components of the assets for held sale and associated to assets held for sale are as follows:

 

     03/31/2015  
   PT Portugal
operations
    

Operations in

Africa

     Total  

Held-for-sale assets

     27,480,343         8,050,720         35,531,063   

Cash, cash equivalents and cash investments

     574,640         190,361         765,001   

Accounts receivable

     2,163,877         169,368         2,333,245   

Dividends receivable (i)

        1,520,406         1,520,406   

Available-for-sale financial asset (ii)

        4,574,771         4,574,771   

Other assets

     1,231,525         129,307         1,360,832   

Investments

     176,343         121,023         297,366   

Property, plant and equipment

     11,020,422         478,492         11,498,914   

Intangible assets

     5,512,166         204,361         5,716,527   

Goodwill (iii)

     6,801,370         662,631         7,464,001   

Liabilities directly associated to assets held for sale

     27,496,381         779,925         28,276,306   

Borrowings and financing (iv)

     20,134,530         19,690         20,154,220   

Trade payables

     2,025,521         85,244         2,110,765   

Provisions for pension plans

     3,442,743         975         3,443,718   

Other liabilities

     1,893,587         674,016         2,567,603   

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Non-controlling interests

  1,502,915      1,502,915   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets held for sale and liabilities associated to assets held for sale—consolidated

  (16,038   5,767,880      5,751,842   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Intragroup eliminations

  20,109   

Total assets held for sale—Parent company

  5,771,951   

Investments in PT Portugal

  3,144,247   

Due from related parties (v)

  2,627,704   

 

(i) Refers basically to dividends receivable from Unitel;
(ii) Refers to the fair value of the investment determined based on PT Portugal’s asset valuation reports, as part of the capital increase transaction (Note 1).
(iii) Goodwill arising on the business combination between the Company and PT is reported less the allowance for loss of R$4.3 billion resulting from the recognition of the investments in PT Portugal at fair value less costs to sell. The sale price used to determine the allowance corresponds to Altice’s offer of R$23,880 million (€7,400 million) less the R$1,613 million earn-out (€500 million) and liabilities on retirement and other benefits assumed by PT Portugal, amounting to R$3,872 million (€1,200 million), and the foreign exchange differences for the period.
(iv) The borrowings and financing related to PT Portugal’s operations are as follows:

 

     03/31/2015  

Non-convertible bonds

     16,818,814   

European Investment Bank

     1,872,010   

Commercial paper

     1,369,100   

Other

     121,449   

Debt issuance costs

     (46,843
  

 

 

 

Total

  20,134,530   
  

 

 

 

Current

  4,086,450   

Non-current

  16,048,080   

Guarantees of PT Portugal debt

On May 5, 2014 the outstanding EMTN Notes, Exchangeable Bonds and financing agreements of PT Portugal and Portugal Telecom International Finance B.V. started to be guaranteed by Oi, except for the commercial papers issued by PT Portugal.

 

(v) The receivables from PTIF consist of Notes issued by PTIF totaling €750,000 and fully acquired by the Company, maturing in 2015, which bear 6M Euribor + 2.5% p.a.

Discontinued operations

The results of discontinued operations for the period ended March 31, 2015 include administrative and legal expenses related to the sale of PT Portugal and the profit or loss of discontinued operations.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

The main revenue and expense components related to the loss for the year of discontinued operations are as follows:

 

     Operations
in Portugal
 
   03/31/2015  

NET OPERATING REVENUE

     1,867,795   

Depreciation and amortization

     (552,573

Third-party services

     (465,976

Personnel

     (281,461

Interconnection

     (175,317

Grid maintenance service

     (43,384

Other costs and expenses

     (183,822
  

 

 

 

Profit before financial income (expenses) and taxes

  165,262   
  

 

 

 

Financial Income (expenses)

  (235,093

Profit (loss) before taxes

  (69,831

Income tax and social contribution

  56,396   
  

 

 

 

Loss for the year of discontinued operations

  (13,435
  

 

 

 

The cash flow components related to the discontinued operations are as follows:

 

     Operations
in Portugal
 
   03/31/2015  

Cash flows from operating activities of discontinued operations

     485,342   

Cash flows from investing activities of discontinued operations

     (194,739

Cash flows from financing activities of discontinued operations

     (492,194
  

 

 

 

Total cash flows of discontinued operations

  (201,591
  

 

 

 

 

b. Rio Forte Securities

On June 30, 2014, Portugal Telecom, the Company was informed, through a notice disclosed by Portugal Telecom, SGPS S.A. (“PT”) related to the investment made by PT International Finance BV (“PTIF”) and PT Portugal SGPS S.A. (“PT Portugal”), companies contributed by PT to Oi in the capital increase, in a commercial paper of Rio Forte Investments S.A., a company part of the Portuguese group Espírito Santo (“GES”), (respectively, “Securities” and “Rio Forte”), when both PTIF and PT Portugal were PT subsidiaries.

According to said notice, the Securities had been issued in the total amount of €897 million, and bore average annual interest of 3.6% and matured on July 15 and July 17, 2014 (€847 and €50 million, respectively), stressing since April 28, 2014 no other investment and/or renewal of this type of investments had been made.

Both PT Portugal and PTIF (collectively “Oi Subsidiaries”) became Company subsidiaries due to the assignment of all PT Portugal shares to the Company by PT, on May 5, 2014, to pay in the Company’s capital increase approved on April 28 and 30, 2014.

The Securities, amounting to €847 million, matured on July 15, 2014. The remaining Securities, amounting to €50 million, matured on July 17, 2014. Rio Forte did not settle its liabilities on the due dates and the cure period for payment of the securities that matured on July 15 and 17, 2014 ended on July 22 and 24, 2014, respectively, without the repayment of the securities.

The Luxembourg Commercial Court denied Rio Forte’s request for controlled management on October 17, 2014 and Rio Forte’s bankruptcy was declared on December 8, 2014. As at March 31, 2015, the bankruptcy proceeding was in the proof of claim submission stage, which will end only on June 1, 2015.

On March 31, 2015, the Securities held by PT Portugal were transferred to PTIF and subsequently all Securities were transferred from PTIF to PT SGPS, in exchange PT SGPS transferred all its Company shares to PTIF (47,434,872 OIBR3 and 94,869,744 OIBR4), and PT SGPS now has the legitimacy to claim the repayment of the Securities in the Rio Forte bankruptcy proceedings.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

Terms of the agreement entered into by the Company, TmarPart, and PT related to the cash investments made in Rio Forte commercial papers

On July 15, 2014, the Company entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with PT aimed at laying down the bases for an agreement with regard to the cash investments made in the Securities. On July 28, 2014, Oi and PT established the terms that would be included in the definitive agreements and which would be submitted to the approval of Oi’s Board of Directors and PT’s shareholders’ meeting.

On September 8, 2014, PT’s shareholders’ meeting and the Boards of Directors of the Company and TmarPart approved the terms and conditions of the definitive agreements related to the investments made in the Securities. These agreements were executed on the same date by the Company, Oi Subsidiaries, TmarPart, and PT. The agreements provided for (i) an exchange (the “Exchange”) through which Oi Subsidiaries transfered the Securities to PT in exchange for preferred shares and common shares of the Company and held by PT, as well as (ii) the assignment by Oi Subsidiaries of a call option on the Company shares to the benefit of PT (“Call Option”).

CVM’s authorization of the Exchange and the Call Option transactions

In view of legal and regulatory restrictions to the Exchange and the Call Option, the Company filed an authorization request with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”) with regard to said transactions.

On March 6, 2015, the Company was informed of the unanimous decision issued by the CVM’s Board on March 4, 2015 that this Commission granted the necessary waivers for the implementation of the Exchange and the Call Option transactions, contingent to (i) the approval of the transactions’ terms and conditions by the Company’s Shareholders’ Meeting and (ii) the grant of voting rights to the preferred shareholders in said Shareholders’ Meeting. The minutes’ extract of the CVM Board Meeting that decided on this matter emphasizes the need to comply with Article 115, Par. 1, of Law 6404/1976, especially because it refers to a transaction with a related party.

Accordingly, on March 26, 2015, in order to comply with the conditions established in the CVM’s decision, the Company held a shareholders’ meeting that approved the terms and conditions of the Exchange and Call Option agreements.

Consummation of the Exchange

On March 31, 2015, the Company announced in a Material Fact Notice, the consummation of the Exchange, under which PT delivered to the Oi Subsidiaries Oi free shares corresponding to 47,434,872 OIBR3 (common shares) and 94,869,744 OIBR4 (preferred shares) (“Exchanged Shares”); and in exchange Oi, through PTIF, delivered the Securities to PT, totaling €897 million, with no money involved.

With implementation of the Exchange, PT became the holder of the Securities and the sole responsible for negotiating with Rio Forte and the decisions related to the Securities, and the Company is responsible for the supporting documentation to PT to take the necessary actions to collect the receivables represented by the Securities.

 

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Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

As a result of the consummation of the Exchange, PT’s direct interest in Oi decreased from 104,580,393 common shares and 172,025,273 preferred shares, representing 37.66% of the voting capital (ex-treasury) and 32.82% of the total capital of Oi (ex-treasury) to 57,145,521 common shares and 77,155,529 preferred shares, representing 24.81% of the voting capital (ex-treasury) and 19.17% of the total capital of Oi (ex-treasury). Oi shares received by PTIF as a result of the Exchange will remain in treasury.

Main terms of the Call Option for the Purchase of Shares (“Option Contract”)

The terms of the Call Option Agreement entered into on September 8, 2014 by PT, PTIF, PT Portugal, Oi, and TmarPart, and amended on March 31, 2015, the call option on Oi shares granted to PT became exercisable with the consummation of the Exchange, beginning March 31, 2015, at any time, during a six-year period.

Under the terms of the Call Option Agreement, the Call Option will involve 47,434,872 Oi common shares and 94,869,744 Oi preferred shares (“Shares Subject to the Option”) and can be exercised, in whole or in part, at any time, pursuant to the following terms and conditions:

 

(i) Term: six (6) years, noting that PT SGPS’s right to exercise the Option on the Shares Subject to the Option will be reduced by the percentages below:

 

Date of Reduction

   % of Shares Subject to the Option that cease to the
subject to the Option each year
 

As from 03/31/2016

     10

As from 03/31/2016

     18

As from 03/31/2018

     18

As from 03/31/2019

     18

As from 03/31/2020

     18

As from 03/31/2021

     18

 

(ii) Exercise Price: R$1.8529 per preferred share and R$2.0104 per common share of Oi, as adjusted by the interbank deposit rate (CDI), plus 1.5% per annum, calculated pro rata temporis, from the date of the Exchange to the date of the effective payment of each exercise price, in whole or in part, of the Option. The exercise price of the shares will be paid in cash, at the transfer date of the Shares Subject to the Option.

Oi is not required to maintain the Exchanged Shares in treasury. In the event that PTIF or any of Oi’s subsidiaries do not hold, in treasury, a sufficient number of Shares Subject to the Option to transfer to PT SGPS, the Option may be financially settled through payment by the Oi Subsidiaries of the amount corresponding to the difference between the market price of the Shares Subject to the Option and the respective exercise price corresponding to these shares.

While the Option is effective, PT may not purchase Oi shares, directly or indirectly, in any manner other than by exercising the Option. PT may not transfer or assign the Option, nor grant any rights under the Option, including security, without the consent of Oi. If PT issues, directly or indirectly, derivatives that are backed by or referenced to Oi shares, it shall immediately use the proceeds derived from such a derivative transaction, directly or indirectly, to acquire the Shares Subject to the Option.

Oi may terminate the Option if (i) the Bylaws of PT are amended voluntarily to remove or amend the provision that limits the voting right to 10% of all votes corresponding to the capital stock of PT; (ii) PT directly or indirectly engages in activities that compete with the activities of Oi or its subsidiaries in the countries in which they operate; (iii) PT violates certain obligations under the Option Contract.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

As at March 31, 2015, the Option Agreement was amended to provided for (i) the possibility of PT assigning or transferring the Call Option, regardless of previous consent by Oi, provided that such assignment or transfer covers at least  14 of the Shares Subject to the Option, and PT SGPS can freely use the use the proceeds of such transactions, (ii) the possibility of PT, subject to previous, written consent from Oi, creating or granting any rights arising on the Call Option or, pledging the guarantees supported by the Call Option, and (iii) the grant of a right of first refusal to Oi for the acquisition of the Call Option, should PT wish to sell, assign, transfer, contribute the capital of another entity, transmit, or otherwise sell or dispose of the Call Option.

This amendment was executed under a condition suspensive and shall only become effective after authorization from the CVM is obtained to amend the Option Agreement, if necessary, and only after an Oi’s shareholders’ meeting where holders of preferred shares are entitled to vote, approves the terms of said amendment.

As at March 31, 2015, the fair value of the Call Option is estimated at R$44 million calculated by the Company using the Black-Scholes model and theoretical share volatility assumptions, using the Revenue Approach valuation technique provided for by paragraphs B10 and B11 of CPC 46 Fair Value Measurement.

 

c. Alternative Structure for the Transaction (“Alternative Structure”)

On March 26, 2015, the Company disclosed a Material Fact Notice regarding the existing obstacles to the Share Merger in the context of the Transaction, related to the registration of TmarPart with the SEC. Since at the date of the said Material Fact Notice TmarPart was unable to comply with all the requirements for the registration of its shares with the SEC and, consequently, to proceed with the Share Merger, the Company assessed transitional alternative structures for the Transaction, which would be adopted prior to the migration to the Novo Mercado (São Paulo Stock Exchange’s special listing segment) to achieve the main goals of the Transaction, including: (i) accelerate several rights to which Oi shareholders would be entitled when Oi migrates to Novo Mercado; (ii) adopt high corporate governance standards, including anticipating the election of TmarPart’s Board of Directors in Oi; (iii) diluting voting rights without a single defined controlling shareholder; (iv) terminating the currently effective shareholders’ agreements applicable to TmarPart and Oi; and (v) the merger of the subsidiaries to streamline Oi’s capital structure and allow it to seize financial synergies.

As at March 31, 2015, the Company disclosed a Material Fact Notice to announce the disclosure TmarPart’s Material Fact Notice regarding the unanimous approval by TmarPart’s shareholders of the Transaction’s alternative structure aimed at accelerating its main goals.

The alternative structure consists of a proposal for the voluntary exchange of Oi’s preferred shares for Oi common shares (i.e., at the discretion of the holder of preferred shares), at an exchange ratio of 0.9211 common share per one Oi preferred share, as previously disclosed for the Share Merger and used to price Oi shares in the public offering conducted on April 28, 2014.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

The voluntary exchange proposal of Oi preferred shares for Oi common shares is subject to a minimum acceptance percentage by 2/3 of the holders of preferred shares ex-treasury (“Exchange Condition”), and acceptance that must be expressed within 30 days after the Oi shareholders’ meeting that approves the start of the exchange period (“Voluntary Exchange of Preferred Shares”).

The TmarPart shareholders who hold Oi shares would assume the commitment to exchange their Oi preferred shares for Oi common shares at the approved 0.9211-for-one ratio. This commitment shall remain effective up to the first of October 31, 2015 and the end of the 30-day period for the exchange of Oi preferred shares for Oi common shares pursuant to the Voluntary Exchange of Preferred Shares structure, subject to the implementation of the Exchange Condition.

As steps prior to the start of the exchange period, the following steps will be taken, which are linked to each other and which must be simultaneously, jointly, and undividedly approved and implemented (“Prior Steps”):

 

    Merger of the entities that hold direct or indirect stakes in Oi (“Corporate Streamlining”);

 

    Approval of Oi’s new bylaws, reflecting the adoption of high corporate governance standards at Oi; and

 

    Election of a new Oi Board of Directors, with term of office until the shareholders’ meeting that approves the financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2017.

As regards the new Oi bylaws, the draft bylaws have been approved to be submitted to Oi’s Board of Directors and Shareholders’ Meeting in order to accelerate the adoption by Oi of high corporate governance standards and dilute the voting rights, in line with the corporate governance commitments assumed with the market. The new Oi bylaws shall include, but not limited to:

 

    A 100% tag along for common shares;

 

    Nonvoting preferred shares, which would maintain their current rights;

 

    Exchangeability of preferred shares, according to the timing and under the terms approved by the Board of Directors;

 

    The voting rights of any single Oi shareholder would be limited to 15%;

 

    At least 20% of directors would be independent, pursuant to the Novo Mercado Regulations;

 

    Unified term of office of up to two years for all members of the Board of Directors, except for the first term of office, which can be three years;

 

    Interdiction for the same person to hold both the chairman of the board and the chief executive officer or the main executive positions (except during a three-year period from the effectiveness of the new bylaws);

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

    Mandatory approval by the Board of Directors of any public offering of Oi securities;

 

    Mandatory public tender offering of securities at their economic value, restricted to common shares, in case their listing in the Level 1 of Corporate Governance is canceled or terminated, except if the securities become listed in the Level 2 of Corporate Governance or in the Novo Mercado listing segment;

 

    Mandatory dispute and controversy resolution through arbitration, at the Market Arbitration Chamber.

The limitation to voting rights will cease in the following cases:

 

    Capital increase or corporate reorganization that results in a dilution of the current shareholder base of more than 50%;

 

    As a result of a public offering for the purchase of all outstanding common shares of Oi in which the offeror acquires at least 20% of the outstanding common shares or such offeror or group of shareholders representing the same or related interest of the offeror by voting agreement becomes the holder, either individually or collectively, of an interest in excess of 50% of Oi’s voting capital; or

 

    If, at any time, no Oi shareholder or group of shareholders representing the same or related interest by voting agreement, holds, individually or collectively, an interest in excess of 15% of Oi’s voting capital.

In addition, on March 31, 2015, TmarPart, Oi and PT executed an amendment to the Commitment Agreement, dated September 8, 2014, which requires the parties to use their best efforts and take all reasonable steps to cause the listing of Oi’s shares (or securities backed by Oi shares or its successor’s shares in the event of a corporate reorganization) on the regulated market Euronext Lisbon, in addition to the New York Stock Exchange and BM&FBovespa, where the Oi shares are already listed.

In addition to the relevant corporate approvals, the transactions and steps included in the Alternative Structure are subject to prior approval of the ANATEL. The Voluntary Exchange of Preferred Shares and the Prior Steps will also be submitted for approval to certain creditors and debentureholders, pursuant to their corresponding debt instruments, however, they are not subject to their approval.

The TmarPart shareholders set October 31, 2015 as the deadline for the implementation of the Prior Steps. It is estimated that the shareholders’ meetings which will decide on the Prior Steps, as well as the opening date for the holders of Oi preferred shares to express their intent to exchange their preferred shares for common shares, will be called around August 8, 2015, subject to the ANATEL’s prior consent to the implementation of the transactions and Alternative Structure steps.

 

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Oi S.A. and Subsidiaries

Notes to the Consolidated Quarterly Information

for the periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

d. Execution of an agreement with Banco BTG Pactual S.A. regarding a proposal for the acquisition of a stake in TIM

On August 26, 2014, Oi entered into an agreement with Banco BTG Pactual S.A. (“BTG Pactual”) under which the latter will act as commissioner to develop alternatives aimed at render viable a proposal for the acquisition of the stake indirectly held by Telecom Italia SpA in TIM Participações S.A.

As already reported to the market, BTG Pactual held discussions with third parties regarding a possible transaction and the role of BTG Pactual includes contracting other market players that could be interested in the transaction, as Company agent for the transaction.

No definite decision or agreement as yet been reached with regard to the transaction’s structure and no instruments or proposals aimed at conducting a transaction.

 

e. CEO

On January 21, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors elected Mr. Bayard De Paoli Gontijo as the Company’s chief executive officer, thus confirming the appointment of Mr. Bayard Gontijo to the position for which he had been indicated at Oi ‘s executive committee’s meeting held on October 7, 2014, pursuant to Article 30A of the Company’s Bylaws.

As a result of these decisions, beginning October 7, 2014, Mr. Bayard Gontijo is both the CEO and the Chief Finance and Investor Relations Officer, a position he already held prior to this date.

On April 20, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the election of Mr. Flavio Nicolay Guimarães for the position of Chief Finance and Investor Relations Officer, responsible for the Corporate Finance Department, and Mr. Marco Norci Schroeder as Officer at large, responsible for the Administrative and Financial Department, and Mr. Bayard De Paoli Gontijo became solely the Chief Executive Officer.

 

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Appendix - Statement of Value Added

For the Periods Ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Revenue

     

Sales of goods and services

     11,159,426         11,160,096   

Voluntary discounts and returns

     (2,008,182      (1,979,295

Allowance for doubtful accounts

     (169,276      (203,226

Other income

     177,977         1,414,539   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  9,159,945      10,392,114   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Inputs purchased from third parties

Interconnection costs

  (505,803   (755,970

Supplies and power

  (311,204   (240,461

Cost of sales

  (171,044   (116,305

Third-party services

  (2,117,094   (2,188,993

Other

  (216,181   (229,888
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  (3,321,326   (3,531,617
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Gross value added

  5,838,619      6,860,497   

Retentions

Depreciation and amortization

  (1,218,388   (1,144,450

Provisions (includes inflation adjustment)

  (275,720   (244,938

Loss for the year of discontinued operations

  (32,445

Other expenses

  (72,280   (71,029
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  (1,598,833   (1,460,417
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Wealth created by the Company

  4,239,786      5,400,080   

Value added received as transfer

Share of profits of subsidiaries

  432      (2,611

Financial income

  306,921      279,015   
  307,353      276,404   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Wealth for distribution

  4,547,139      5,676,484   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Wealth distributed

Personnel

Salaries and wages

  (394,411   (443,095

Benefits

  (110,651   (99,963

Severance Pay Fund (FGTS)

  (31,295   (31,057

Other

  (14,684   (19,086
  (551,041   (593,201

Taxes and fees

Federal

  (340,564   (817,109

State

  (1,645,549   (1,861,998

Municipal

  (38,557   (33,137
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  (2,024,670   (2,712,244
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Appendix - Statement of Value Added

For the Periods Ended March 31, 2015 and 2014

(Amounts in thousands of Brazilian reais, unless otherwise stated)

(continued)

 

     03/31/2015      03/31/2014  

Lenders and lessors

     

Interest and other financial charges

     (1,531,534      (1,366,669

Rents, leases and insurance

     (886,435      (776,857
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  (2,417,969   (2,143,526
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Shareholders

Non-controlling interests

  45,224   

Retained earnings (accumulated losses)

  401,317      (227,513
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  446,541      (227,513
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Wealth distributed

  (4,547,139   (5,676,484

 

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