Swisscom AG (SCMWY) Q4 2021 Earnings Call Transcript
Published at 2022-02-04 10:02:02
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to Swisscom full year results presentation, again online. My name is Louis Schmid, Head of Investor Relations. We now start the online meeting with the program and a quick overview on Page number 2. In the first chapter, presented by our CEO, Urs Schaeppi, he dives into some of last year key highlights commercially, operationally and financially. In chapter Swisscom 2025, our CEO presents shortly an update on the group strategy and elaborates on our ambitions '25 and focus '22. In chapter number 1 in Switzerland, Urs gives you a short overview on our '21 achievements within Swisscom Switzerland for B2C and B2B, updating on our network rollout ambitions and presenting the operational excellence results and plans. Alberto Calcagno, CEO of Fastweb, will discuss in chapter "Leading challenger in Italy" the industrial and financial performances of our Italian business and its plan going forward. After Alberto's presentation, Eugen Stermetz, our CFO, will present in chapter "Rock-solid financials" in detail our financials '21, including the outlook '22. And in the wrap-up chapter, some final remarks from our CEO. After the presentation of approximately 90 minutes, we move directly into the Q&A session. We will start at around 3:30. For this part, Dirk Wierzbitzki, Head of Residential Customers Swisscom Switzerland; and Urs Lehner, Head of Business Customers Swisscom Switzerland, will also attend and support in case of specific operational Swiss questions. With that, I would like to conclude my introduction and open the meeting and hand over to our CEO. Urs?
Yes. Thank you, Louis. And a warm welcome from my side. And I would like to start with our highlights in the 2021. So overall, we had a very strong year from an operational side, commercial side but also from a financial side. And we are -- have well strategic positioning. And if you look to our results, they are slightly above or above previous year. Highlights -- and that's not the highlights which are quoted by Swisscom. So these are highlights which are quoted from third parties -- shows that Swisscom is in a lot of dimension a leading telecom operator. So on the Net Promoter Score, we have excellent values, customer satisfaction values. On the network side, we won, I would say, all the tests, relevant tests, which shows that we have a leading technology position. And also, on the service side, customer service side, we have excellent results, which leads at the end to this higher Net Promoter Score which we have. In the B2B market, certainly to mention is that we have a broad positioning in the product portfolio which differentiate ourselves strongly in the B2B market. Fastweb is a successful and innovative challenger in Italy. And we were able to grow in a very competitive market by 5% EBITDA, which is an excellent result. Financially, we are solid. Eugen will come later to it. The words of Eugen are "rock-solid," so he can explain it later. And maybe the last point on this chart is the -- let's say, our ambition in corporate responsibility. So we have ambitious targets to be '25 net-zero neutral. As the first operator, already today on scope 1 and 2, we are net zero, so that means -- or that shows that sustainability was also in the past a very important thing for Swisscom. To our market performance, good, strong market performance in Switzerland; but also in Italy. In Switzerland, you can see that on the wireline business we are approximately stable from the net adds. So it means slightly -- very slightly positive on the net adds. And that's a very good contribution if you look to the competitive dynamic which we have in the Swiss broadband market. On mobile, we were able to grow by 128,000 postpaid subscribers. You see also the market shares, which are on a high level, approximately stable. In Italy, we have a picture where we can show strong growth in the Italian mobile market, 511,000 additional subscription on mobile. And on broadband, where we have a value strategy in this very, let's say, promotion-oriented market from the last months where we have a value strategy, we are approximately flat, but if you take in account all the wholesale customers, you will see that we have also in the wireline market decent growth. On this slide, the key financials. So net revenue approximately stable; EBITDA with a growth of CHF 96 million, so at CHF 4.48 billion EBITDA, which is a strong contribution. Half of this growth is coming out of Switzerland, and the second part of the growth is coming from Italy. You see it on the right side of the chart. So CapEx are approximately stable at CHF 2.28 billion or CHF 2.3 billion approximately; as a good, stable CapEx. And overall, this leads to a high operating free cash flow proxy of CHF 1.9 billion. On the net income, 2 remarks. The first one is an -- it's 20% higher than previous year. Main reason are some financial effects which we already communicated in the last quarters. And then certainly also the better operational performance leads also to a higher net income. So overall good and strong results. And you can also see that we were able to decrease our debt. To Swisscom Switzerland, some remarks to our unique positioning. On the UBB attractiveness of the Swiss market, you see that Switzerland is leading. So we have very good networks in Switzerland with a very good coverage. So that means 99% of Switzerland has a coverage above 100 megabits per second. Also, on NPS side, Swisscom has strong contribution. These are from the retail market. On B2B, we have even higher net promoter cores. And our, let's say, advantage to our competitor is even bigger. What is also interesting to mention is our market share on the service revenue. So you can see it on the slide, on the right side. So we have 67% market share on revenue share -- as on the revenue share base. Strong total shareholder return, you can see it also. We are a reliable stock or -- yes, reliable stock with a good dividend. Some remarks to our environment. So the environment is a challenging one, on the one side, but on the other side, we show that we are able to perform in this environment. The market is certainly or will certainly be under pressure on the service revenue side in Switzerland. And in Italy, we are facing with more competition, more competitive dynamic in the broadband market, especially in the retail segment. And on the other side, there are a lot of opportunities in the IT business, so growth opportunities. And efficiency in this environment keeps extremely relevant and is key for Swisscom. On the customer side, what we see is that -- also driven a bit by COVID, that digitalization is accelerating. And customers are asking for good online services which are combined with the physical environment. Also, shops remains important, but to have a good customer experience, seamless customer experience over the different channels is a differentiator and important. On the stakeholder side, certainly ESG is becoming more relevant, where we are very well positioned. We are certainly also facing with more cyber attacks. Just to give you one example: Swisscom Switzerland has 4.6 million attacks on the infrastructure -- per month on our infrastructure, and this shows that you need skillful teams. We have 700 engineers which are working [7/20] hours on this topic, but you need also technology. You must be leading on the technology side. Otherwise, we will not be able to, let's say, compete in this cybersecurity space. To our goals. So we have -- on a corporate Swisscom level, we have these 5 goals. I don't want to read them now in detail. We will go through these different goals and -- for Italy, for Switzerland, but then you see also cross-dimensional goals of the -- how is our ambition on the financial side, corporate responsibility and innovation reliability, which is at the end the DNA of Swisscom, innovation and reliability. Or I would say, for every operator, that's the DNA because at the end we are here to connect our people everywhere and to each minute or each second. These are our priorities or our goals. You will see them later also in the different presentations, but certainly then the one in the middle of this chart, because we are in a scale business, because we have a big installed customer base, is defending our market shares or increasing the market shares in Italy. So market share is an important topic but not for every price, so on a value-based approach, we will manage our market shares. Then the second priority is using the momentum of digitalization. So there are a lot of opportunities in the customer-facing unit but also internally where we can use digitalization to improve our processes, to automize the processes or to get a better quality, as an example, in the networks on the network side. Third priority or third focus topic is the efficiency. We have this goal of 100 million-plus also in the future. And for this, we have a broad road map to increase our efficiency day by day. Priority or point four is find solution in this -- let's say, in this regulatory environment. It's clear the regulator is also a weapon of our competitors. They use it to get better -- let's say, better conditions on our network. We need a good dialogue and a good exchange with the regulator to explain us because we are a fair competitor. We don't misuse our market power. And then the third point I would like to mention is this transformation. Swisscom and also Fastweb is in a constant transformation, and it's -- behind this transformation is also the culture shape. Swisscom has a very good culture, but we can even improve this culture to become more agile; to be more flexible; to have a better, let's say, "performing together" culture. So these on the focus topic for 2022. To Swisscom Switzerland, some achievements of the last year. So overall we have outstanding results, and you see here some examples of it. As an example, in the B2C market, we launched our new offer blue Play. That's a content library where we have a lot of movies and content, more than 10,000, where customers get an easy access to this content. And this is for free. That's add-on on the -- on our TV platform. Certainly also important to mention is that we're able to have low churn figures in Switzerland in this very competitive promotion-oriented market. We chose that we have a good differentiation in this market. On B2B side, important one point would -- I would like to mention is this strong Net Promoter Score. We were able to increase the Net Promoter Score substantially and it's really high. It's a really high Net Promoter Score. And this is important if you want to have a strategy where we increase our share of wallet. Net Promoter Score is extremely important so we can do more upselling with IT products and cloud and security products. On the infrastructure side, certainly interesting to mention are the wins of all the wireless network tests in Switzerland. And also, in January, we won the Ookla tests for the best network, also on 5G, also on speed. So that shows that our network are really superior. The coverage in Switzerland of 5G is at 99%. This is on the dynamic spectrum-sharing approach. And I will come later to the coverage of -- on with the bandwidth 3.5 giga, but 99% 5G coverage with high speed is certainly an outstanding result. Our ultra-broadband footprint is at 72%. So that means 72% of the Swiss households have speeds over 200 megabit per second. And that's important to mention because later we will talk about "fiber to the home" rollout; and it shows that, short or mid term, Swisscom has already today a very performing ultra-broadband network. On the financials in Switzerland, you see that overall the service revenue are approximately flat with different dynamics. On the one side, you see the service revenue which is eroding by CHF 190 million. That's price-driven, ARPU-driven. And on the other side, we were able to grow in our solution IT business in the B2B market by CHF 52 million. The EBITDA, underlying EBITDA, is CHF 48 million higher than previous year, certainly a strong performance if you see that our service revenue declined by CHF 190 million in the Swiss business. So good, strong financials also in Swisscom Switzerland. Then on corporate responsibility. It's quite a busy chart, but it shows our -- let's say, our track record but also our ambitions. And you see -- on the left side of the chart, you see our scope 1 and 2 CO2. It's the direct CO2 emissions. That means the emissions which are coming from fuel, from terminal -- thermal energy but also from electricity which we are purchasing. And that's Scope 1 to 2. And you can see that, from 2010, Swisscom is actually 100% -- we have 100% -- or we are using 100% renewable energy. And by 2020, you see that we are net zero on scope 1 and 2. So from operational side, Swisscom is already today net zero for scope 1 and 2. So we were able, and that's impressing, to decrease our direct CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2025 by 90%. So that's extremely a big move in these emission reductions. And behind this are a lot of different actions on the technology side but also in the supply chain. On the right side of the chart, you see our indirect CO2 emissions, the scope 3. And you see that this footprint is also reducing. The ambition is to reduce the footprint from 2020 to 2025 by 25% through a lot of different actions mainly in the supply chain. And this leads, at the end, to the result of net zero over the whole value chain of Swisscom in '25. To our results in '21, just to show you that we don't do greenwashing, yes. It shows that we have already in '21 strong contribution. You see how many people we educated on the use of our products. So the -- also the media protection for young people, as an example. In the middle of the chart, you see how much we're able to reduce our electricity consumption. The efficiency measures actually avoid 22 gigawatt per hour electricity consumption. And this was a big network, so that shows that our different actions to save energy are working. To our strategy. So we have a proven strategy since several years, and this slide summarized the major elements of our strategy in a simple way. So it's all about good customer experience. And this customer experience is at the end the sum of excellent product portfolio, of an excellent customer service and of an excellent infrastructure. This leads to this superior customer experience. On the operational excellence side, which remains important for us because telecom business will continue to shrink, it's important to do our homework, to have smart investment plans, to have lean IT and network infrastructure and to using the momentum of this digitalization in our market. On new growth, that's the third pillar of our strategy. So the most important thing, if we talk about strategy, is maximize the core. So what can we do to optimize, let's say, the revenues and the margins out of our core business? This has a lot to do with churn, with ARPU, with share of wallet with cross- and upselling. And there, we were performing in 2021. Then on IT, we are able to grow. That's the second pillar, mainly in the B2B market. And then in the adjacent business, there are -- or small other elements. They are small today, but in 5 years, they will be more substantial for our business. To our ambitions in the B2C market. You see it on the chart. You see the 5 main elements. I don't want to go now in detail in each of them. I have some slides later, but you see it's about customer base management. It's about excellent experience. It's about inspiring our customers through a better entertainment proposition. So this TV chapter. So we have different chapters of TV. We came all -- every year with something new which differentiate ourselves in this TV market and at the end also in the broadband market. And then also the multi-brand strategy, which is an important pillar for our B2C business. To one of the ambition. You see here what we are doing, maximize customer value. So one element is inOne. That's our hero product, inOne. And there we have a strategy, a more-for-more strategy. That means we bring in more value. As an example, we have a 10-gigabit offer. Or at the other side, on mobile, we are upgrading prepaid to postpaid customers, so a lot about customer base management. And on the right side of the chart, you see that we are successful with this: So the overall RGUs of inOne were increased from, yes, 2 -- 5.1 million to 5.3 million, but also if you are talking about maximizing the customer value, the network side is extremely important. I will come later to it. And there, we are performing. You see it with the different logos on the chart. And the third pillar for this maximizing the customer value is certainly to have a differentiated access. End-to-end connectivity solutions is extremely important. At the end, the customer at home, he don't care if the connectivity falls out because a -- weak WiFi connection, in-house WiFi connection or because of the Internet access, so it's important to have end-to-end performing solution over the Internet to the TV platform. Fixed-mobile convergence is also an important topic to defend the ARPU and to have a low churn. You see that converged customers have a higher ARPU and a lower churn. And that's why we continue to push converged offers, which we do quite successfully. 46% of our broadband customers are in converged offers, and then -- and 41% of our mobile customers are in a converged offer. And on the bottom line of the chart, you see that we have a churn figure for converged offers at 7.4%. So strong results with these fixed-mobile converged offers. To entertainment. Entertainment is important, very important, for Swisscom because it's that differentiator for our broadband access. And there we're doing an outstanding job. We are -- we have different roles. The one is we are the aggregator. We have an aggregator role, so we are bundling the different content and giving our customer the easiest access to these offers. That's one point which is important. Second point is what we have done in 2021 is we launched an OTT offer. That means that broadband connection-independent, connectivity-independent customers can use our OTT offer. And then this can also create, in the middle time, an upselling case for the Internet access. Certainly also important for an outstanding entertainment proposition is the -- let's say, the different pay TV elements which we have. So we have a broad portfolio for blue Play. It is these different movies and series. We have a good sport portfolio, where we have strong growth. You see it on the right side of the chart. So we were able to have a plus 77% more blue Sport subscriptions. And music. Music is also an important thing and will become much more important in 2022. There we have nice things in our pipeline. On digital experience. Before, I mentioned that the market is turning more and more in a digital market. Therefore, it is important for us to deliver an excellent digital experience. And then we do this through different elements. We -- as an example, we launched a new smart home proposition. It was growing by 70%, still on a low level from a revenue side but, from a market take-up, good results. We are also enriching our core with value-added services. Security is becoming more and more important, security solutions, not only for the B2B market but also for B2C. And then some applications like myClouds. That's a data storage -- cloud-based data storage application for our customers. So you see that we are able to get the growth also with these value-added services, on the right side of the chart. To our multi-brand strategy. This is a successful strategy. And on the right side, you see the percentages of the customer base which are on these second and third brands. On postpaid, it's 23%, 4% higher than previous year. And on broadband, it's at 5%. This shows also the different dynamic of the market. So second and third brand are more attractive in the mobile market than in the wireline market. You see also on the chart the different positioning of our brands. So Swisscom, the absolute, major and core brand which we protect against the second and third brands, that's clear, with a good fencing, but to be part also or to be also -- to playing also a game in the lower or more price-sensitive segment, we use this Wingo and the brands Coop Mobile and M-Budget to save our market share. So -- and this is working very well. Also the cannibalization between the second and third brand and Swisscom is at a good level so that we get good -- a good business case overall out of this multi-brand strategy. To promotional activities. So the market was and is still very promotion oriented. And therefore, we have to do, let's say, we call it, smart promotions. On our own brands, it's more value-oriented promotions. And with second and third brands, we address the more price-sensitive customers. On digital push, I don't go in too deep. You see that we are successful in ramping up our online shares. That's important. And this will continue, but that doesn't mean that we don't push also our Swisscom shops. The Swisscom shops remain extremely important for our core brand. B2B ambitions. You see them on the chart. I don't go in detail in it. I have some additional charts on the next slide. So here you see that in the B2B market we are still facing with a service revenue decline by approximately 5% driven by competition. The ARPU on mobile is at CHF 31. So this will certainly continue, that we will have some erosion in the B2B market. From the subscription side, overall we have a solid situation. And we are also able to get win-backs through a differentiated product portfolio. Maybe some remarks on this -- on the potential, growth potential, in our B2B business. So 5G, IoT is certainly potential to grow in B2B. This needs time because it's project oriented, but you see the use cases where we see potential. It's for critical communication, prioritized voice, push-to-talk features, but also on mobile private networks that's a big opportunity. And in some areas, more on temporary locations, fixed wireless access is an opportunity. And you see we won the award, IoT award of Microsoft; and this is an Industry 4.0 solution for a railway construction site. And this shows actually the potential of 5G in this B2B market. ICT portfolio, and I don't step in. We have a broad ICT portfolio to be the partner, to be the digital partner for our B2B customers; very broad, well positioned and then -- and also a good market position in the whole market. In the SME market, we have potential to grow. And that's why we also made an acquisition of MTF. That's a mid-size IT system integrator in Switzerland. And with such capabilities, we can accelerate our go-to-market for ICT solution in the SME market. You see the portfolio. You see what we are offering in this ICT market on the left side of the chart. Then also digitalization is, in the B2B market, important. We do a lot. And on the bottom line of the chart, you see that we are doing it in a good manner. And then otherwise, the Net Promoter Score wouldn't increase in the case that this is on the chart. So good momentum on digitalization. We will continue to do it. One example is one B2B portal which we will launch in this year. On infrastructure side, I have some charts, but it's turning around and excellent networks, then reducing complexity. That's an important thing, and fiber rollout. And also that's priority #1, reliability and security. What are our ambitions on our infrastructure? You see it on wireless. So we have already today a coverage of 99% of 5G. 5G plus, that means it's with 3.5 gigahertz spectrum, we are at 62%. And you see also the ambitions for '25 on the right side of the chart. On wireline, I already explained it. Our ambition is to increase the footprint of over 200 megabit, until '25, of 85 -- to 85%. And 60% will be the footprint on fiber, fiber to the home. We have also KPIs on security and reliability. And you see that we were able to increase the stability, the reliability of our networks in the last year in a substantial way, but that's important. And it will continue because, the customer, he don't accept 1-minute break out of a network. We are winners in all the mobile tests. You can see it on this chart, but now coming to 5G, which is certainly in great interests from your side: So the strategy of Swisscom to rolling out the network was a strategy of waves. So the first wave, which we have done from 2009 to 2015, was fiber to the home rollout on a point-to-point architecture for 30% of the households. And it was -- the focus was on the main cities of Switzerland. The second wave of the -- of our fiber rollout strategy was the wave from 2015 to now, to '21, where we increased our ultra-broadband footprint to 90%. So the goal was to have a fast rollout to have whole Switzerland over 80 megabits per second, to be also competitive against cable operator. And the third wave, that's the wave where we are in now. That's the wave where we want to increase our fiber to the home footprint on a points-to-multipoint architecture to 60%. That means plus 30 percent points footprint increase, which is equivalent to 1.5 million households. The point to point -- the point-to-multipoint architecture is the fastest, most efficient technology; and internationally accepted network architecture which we are using. And we certainly do it in a nondiscriminatory way, so we offer access to our network, but not everybody has the same view on it. That's also for sure. That's why we are talking about this discussion with COMCO, but what is interesting is that our competitors actually support us in this architecture. So Salt and Sunrise and other players in the Swiss market actually announced that they support this architecture to rolling out fiber networks. Coming to the investigation on -- from COMCO. Here you see the process. And as today, we are -- the investigation is still ongoing, still pending. We are in discussion with COMCO to find an agreement how we could, let's say, find a solution for their offer, for their request for a layer 1 offer. So it's the virtual layer 1 offer, which we have actually in a market survey. We don't have the results of this market survey today. And in the meantime, we can continue to roll out our networks, but we are not allowed to market these networks. And so also the rollout of the Salt network is on hold. So that means we can construct, and we do it in a way that we don't create some costs. So even if we would have to switch from a point to point -- point-to-multipoint architecture to a point-to-point architecture, we can use the investments which we have done in the last -- let's call it, in the last mile and in the in-house cabling. So that means we can construct, but we can't market it. But the market impact up to now is limited. And we have to discuss with COM to find a decision how we find a fast solution because, as longer it lasts -- has more impact we will get in the market. Now to the different scenarios. So our best case, and that's our scenario which we are addressing, is to save the original point-to-multipoint rollout plan where we deliver 60% coverage in Switzerland or additionally 1.5 million households. And we offer a layer 1 virtual access product. And we restart the partnership with Salt. So that's the base scenario -- the best case which we see -- which you can see on the green -- in the green quarter. The fiber CapEx for this scenario in 2022, they are flat. And the absolute amount is 500 million to 600 million. That -- but it's flat. And for the next years, it would have -- '22 to '25, we would have a slightly decreasing CapEx of approximately 100 million per year due to the completion of fiber to the street networks which we have still -- which we are closing in 2022 and the Salt agreement. So flat for 2022 and then minus 100 million in the next years. The worst case scenario that would mean no agreement with COMCO is that we will do -- that we will switch to, we call it, a smart point-to-point rollout scenario at least on a temporary base. That means until we get more clarity from the regulatory process. Our ambition is then -- or it's still our ambition to save point to multipoint, but we would switch on a temporary base. And we would reduce our target, coverage target, from 60% to 50%. That means 1 million household, additional households, in '25. A point-to-point architecture has certainly higher additional costs for households; and you see it, that it's in the region of CHF 500 or approximately 30%. We optimize these additional costs in the -- in a manner that we are optimizing our footprint, our rollout scenarios, so we go to more economically or the most attractive regions. And we use also synergies with communal construction. So it's a more focused rollout, which led -- and also a slower rollout. And this will save us some CapEx, but we keep the option open to switch later to point to multipoint. I think that's important and that's important to know. If we would have to switch to this scenario, we would also have to adapt the Salt partnership on a point-to-point architecture. And we would certainly continue to fight for point to multipoint, but this would take us 2 to 3 years, so what does this mean for the fiber CapEx? So in 2022, also in the worst case, the CapEx are flat, as in our guidance, 500 million to 600 million. And '23 to '25, we would have CapEx which are going up by approximately 50 million per year. So that means -- overall, if you compare the best case scenario, that means the point-to-multipoint scenario, to the smart -- to the worst case, the smart point-to-point rollout, this would -- means additional CapEx in the region of 400 million, maybe a bit higher, maybe up to 600 million but more in the region of 400 million, or 150 million per year. So that means digestible additional CapEx. And we have a dual objective. That means doing a consequent rollout execution to stay competitive to get a good wholesaler market share and also to avoid land grabbing or overbuilds through other fiber initiatives in Switzerland. On the other side then, it's important for us to be -- to have a solid financial positioning. That means the rollout will be financed out of the free cash flow. We have enough flexibility, because also of our strong balance sheet, if something unpredictable would occur. And so the CapEx guidance for 2022 is unaffected, and also the dividend outlook is stable. So this, to the fiber to the home rollout strategy, a smart rollout strategy in the worst case. On this slide, I don't go in deep. It shows you our ambitions on the network side, what we will do to reduce the complexity in our network. So we have clear phaseout plans. You see we attends to phase out 3G in '25. We will do copper phaseouts until 2030 but also consolidation and simplification of networks. You see the ambitions which we have and clear road maps behind it and also phaseouts and cloudification of application. This leads to a better operational performance or excellence at the end. On the reliability side, we have programs, holistic programs, to improve our reliability on the network on the culture side, on the process side. And you see targets. And you see also the achievement which we had in 2021. So we were able to decrease substantially the incidents, the amount of incidents, in 2021. Wholesale. Message here is having an attractive portfolio to save the Wholesale business. And now I'm coming to costs. And you see we were able to -- performing in the last years in the region of CHF 100 million, so we have a strong track record. And also in '21, we saved CHF 119 million costs. The question is now how we do it. And this is a portfolio of different actions and portfolio -- streamlining products portfolios; improving processes, as an example; phasing out; smart end-to-end operation and such things. And this leads at the end to further decrease in our costs. So the target for '22 is to decrease our telco-related costs by approximately CHF 100 million. We say telco related because, in the solution business, we have growing costs, but with these growing costs you have also additional revenues and additional margins. So from an efficiency side, it's important to look to these telco-related costs. And there we see savings of CHF 100 million. And also, in '23 plus, we see savings in the same magnitude. Good. This was it. And now I would like to hand over to Alberto. Alberto?
Good afternoon from my side. Also, if you can start with the next page, please, that I can see it. I don't see it in my screen -- hello. Can you hear me?
Okay. If you just can -- otherwise, I will use my presentation, but I will -- seen the presentation and now I don't see it anymore. Okay? Yes, okay, that's it. So basically I think that 2021 has been a terrific year in terms of performance. We exploit another year of strong operational momentum. As you remember, we have been concentrated on infrastructure over-the-top strategy. That means to roll out, to own and to develop the best infrastructure but also to have it available through scalable platform, available for the retail business, available for the enterprise business and available also for your self business. As a consequence, we can say that in the wireline we had a very strong increase. We'll see in a second, but overall we almost reached 200,000 new customers, with one objective. First, we don't want to follow the price war that is happening even before the Iliad entry, yes, in Italy. And we want to remain at premium if compared with our competitors, yes, and also based on superior quality of our services, but on the other side, we want to exploit the really good opportunity that a lot of new entrants are giving us for our wholesale business. So a very strong momentum in the wireline but also very strong momentum in mobile. We are exploiting also -- we have exploited actually in 2021 a very strong growth. We are the second best market performer, after Iliad, while in enterprise we continue to be the leader in growth. During the year, clearly we've done a lot of innovative launches related to the offer, not only the 2.5 giga offer but also the new 5G FWA service. I remember that we are the only one that are combined real 5G frequencies. So the millimeter one together with 3.5. Then we launched NeXXt, our new Internet box that is the only one in Europe to have Alexa integrated. We also launched the 5G mobile in our enterprise business. As you know, we have today reached 35% market share in the enterprise business, so we have a very strong opportunity to increase our share of wallet and start to be also a relevant player in the 5G mobile in this market. For the enterprise also, as you know, we are really focusing on cloud and in security. We have built a new data center in Rome. We have built a second security operational center in Bari, coupling the one that we have in Milan. And also we struck an agreement, a partnership with Amazon web service. And finally, as it concern the network, all our rollout are on track. Today, we have already a very strong ultra-broadband infrastructure with roughly 90% coverage of family and business in Italy. The setup of FiberCop is completed. The plan and the ambition plan, yes, is still the same and to roll out as soon as possible a fiber coverage up to the -- almost 60% of Italy by 2025. Also 5G: Our 5G network rollout is going well, under -- following our expectation, and we are today covering 50% of the population. If we can move to next page, please. So as a result, a bit of numbers. We increased our customers -- our customer base by roughly 700,000 that are divided in this way: roughly 200,000 wireline, the vast majority based on the wholesale business but also showing some growth in retail; and then more than 500,000 in mobile. Our enterprise market share reached almost 35%. And most importantly, the order book, which basically are anticipating the -- or are mirroring the future revenues, grow 15% year-on-year to EUR 250 million. This is a data extremely important because it shows or it anticipates the growth of revenues that will come in 2022, in 2023. As a -- yes, as results, the full year guidance was achieved, 5% growth in EBITDA; 4% growth in revenues; and most importantly, 34 consecutive quarters of growth in a market that has done probably 34 consecutive quarters of decrease and decline. The ingredient of success is clearly the control that we have on infrastructure and on innovation. We have a leadership in wireline. And we have been -- again this is not just internal analysis, but there are external reference. We are the first operator for broadband quality, as per Netflix index since the inception. And also, we are leading in sustainability. We have been certificated over the year by Standard Ethics to be the best ESG telco in Italy. If we can move to the next page, please. So some numbers. I would say that revenues are in a good shape; and also because they are growing not only as a company but growing in every single market, wholesale, enterprise and consumer. There's been clearly some fluctuation in the quarters, but at the end of the day, the result is a growth in every market, especially also in the consumer one where, as I said, we will not go for a price war. So it's extremely important, these data for us. In terms of EBITDA or 5% organic growth. Also in this case, all the BUs are contributing to growth with improving recurring margin. CapEx, slightly higher than prior year, but we are talking just about EUR 14 million, so it's not a big deal. The ratio CapEx to sales remain the highest in the market, reaching almost 25% which is flat versus last year, while for operating free cash flow, we reached an increase of roughly 20% if compared with last year. If we can move to the next page, please, and in terms of recipe for continuous growing and delivering growth. We have to -- first of all, the growth will come from all our markets. So consumer wireline, mobile, enterprise and wholesale. And for what matters the consumer offer, we will expand our offer and services. We want to -- for the enterprise, we want to grow on mobile market exploiting the new 5G service that we launched bank in -- back in September. And also in enterprise, we will continue to leverage our leadership on cloud and security. For wholesale, we will continue to scale up the volume business. As we saw, we almost hit the 200,000 this year -- actually in 2021. And this year, we want to increase significantly this number. And we want -- clearly, since infrastructure is extremely important, we want to couple our over-the-top service capability with a strong NGN infrastructure. So we want to provide the best performance everywhere, leveraging on fiber, on FWA and also on 5G. And we want to continue clearly to deliver a steady financial growth leveraging on -- as we said, on our over-the-top strategy, which is having the most performing infrastructure and also scalable platform. On top of that, we have positioned the company with the new -- let's say, with a new aim, with a new vision, which is to develop a trustable and sustainable corporate image. We will be playing a very important role in the digital transformation by -- through our Fastweb Digital Academy, which is basically our academy that allows people to receive digital training and digital certification. We have included this training, let's say, lessons in our offer. And also they will be available for our enterprise customer. I think that in the future it will be more and more important to have a sustainable business from 360 degrees and so including also an effective, I would say, positioning for the development of the digital skills in our country. If we can move to the next page, please. For what concern the consumer wireline, we already anticipate a bit of the most important things. As I said, NeXXt is today the best Internet box; is WiFi 6; has also the possibility to have multiple booster to have the best coverage, in-house coverage. And -- but also we want to actually achieve the best ultra-broadband performance everywhere through our FWA. Our FWA basically is the technology that we choose in the gray, in the white areas; is a special FWA because we are talking about 5G, as I was saying, a combination between the millimeter frequencies, 26 gigahertz, together with 3.5. That means that we can deliver a -- very strong and high-performing services. Today, the average, just to give you an idea of our customer base, in terms of download performance is about 600 giga and about 200 giga in upload. We want clearly to maintain our NPS leadership also in the future. We have significant space between us and the second best, but we want to increase this advantage. And also we want to continue to push on fixed-mobile convergences. Today, we almost reach 40% FMC penetration, but we do think that in the future this growth will continue. In terms -- I would say that -- or strategy. It had been anticipated that we really don't want to follow the price war. 1 year ago, the price for fiber was about EUR 30. Now there is a -- we are already at EUR 19 or even lower if we take into account the launch of Iliad. I don't think that this is sustainable prices. Therefore, for us, the wireline world will be always the combination of 2 opportunity, the retail one and the wholesale one. If we can move to next page. In terms of mobile, we are -- again, we are in a very strong positioning. We have almost reached 2.5 million mobile customers, which means roughly more than 500,000 versus previous year with almost 30% growth. There is a churn reduction. Today, we are at 24%. The 5G service has been launched in December; and now is available for consumer in more than 1,000 city, with an outdoor coverage at 50%. 5G services is available for all our customers for free, so it's included for all the customers that were already our customer before the launch of this technology. As I said, we launched the -- also the mobile enterprise 5G, yes, in September 2021. And we will try to exploit also the advantage that we have from a technology point of view if compare with Vodafone and TIM that are still leveraging 4G spectrum while we are already trying to exploit the 5G frequencies. If you can go to next page, please. In terms of enterprise, that's a very strong story for Fastweb. We -- in all these years, we have been investing in infrastructure at 360 degrees. And when it comes to enterprise, it means that we have been investing also in data center, in cloud platform, also in security platform. And that's extremely important because today we can be really the one-stop shop for innovative services for this market. Moreover, also in the future, we will push on innovative services such -- edge computing. We have a plan to develop a total of 40 nodes by 2025. And clearly edge computer will be -- is already today but will be extremely important because it will bring computation and data storage closer to the sources of data, thanks to these distributed nodes. And then it will enhance requirements of low latency necessary, for example, for the development of IoT. In terms of operational KPI, the revenue increased by 8%, almost to EUR 1 billion, also thanks to a good performance in the public administration. And in terms of market share, we reached almost 35%, which is 1 point -- 1 percentage point on top on 2020, yes. If I break out the market share: In the PA, we reached already 46%. And in the year, that means an increase of almost 3%. The -- at the end of the day, as I said, we have been able not only to do a very strong growth in revenues, but also we couple this growth also in the order book. And this is extremely important because, as I said, the order book represents the future revenues. Another important note is that, out of the order book, almost 50% comes for the -- from the value-added services. So we're talking about data center, cloud solution, security, which is extremely important because all these services are belonging to market that are growing. And so this shows our ability to move away from, I would say, core and stable; or decrease in market like voice and connectivity; and well positioning into market which, on the contrary, will be extremely dynamic and growing in the next year. And we do expect this trend also this year and the -- and also for the year after. As usual, we have been able to get new contracts. And I don't have to get in -- through the details, but we are always getting top-notch customer. If we can move to next page, please. Again, on the wholesale business, yes, our ambition was to accelerate on the ultra-broadband volume business and to further grow in the core service. And we were able to achieve such target because, in the ultra-broadband volume business, we grew, thanks to Sky and Wind Tre broadband volumes. Also we were able to continue to backhaul in BTS, yes. In the year, we have been able to connect 2,000 new BTS. And then as usual, we are exploiting opportunity-based business. Also in the year, we have been able to record some revenues related to the building connection for Flash Fiber, for -- gives an example. And at the end of the day, that shows that is the right strategy to develop. In terms of volume, we do see that 2022, yes, and also the 2023 and other years will be extremely growing year. As I said, in a retail market that become more and more competitive with a lot of new entrants, it's very, very good to be the leader in growth as a wholesale business. And in the future, for us, it will be important to attract more telco customers and players also from adjacent markets such as multi utilities. And we want really to become a one-stop shop for all the, I mean, new entrant in the -- yes, in the telco consumer business. If we can move to next page. In terms of our infrastructure evolution, again this slide shows that our ambition is to become the telco provider with the largest ultra-broadband footprint. And it will be a combination of technology because, as Urs was saying, at the end of the day, for the customers really -- is negligible what kind of technology serving or is delivering the performances, but depending on the area, we will continue to invest in fiber to the home or FWA 5G or 5G mobile. Our 2021 coverage is already a good coverage, but clearly we want to reach the excellence by 2025 with almost [27] household passed and representing 90%. We do it through different -- 3 different co-investment plan: the one in fiber which is the one that we built together with TIM and KKR. The one in 5G FWA is depending on the -- yes, on the co-investment that we are developing with Linkem. And as I said, for the 5G rollout, we have signed a co-investment agreement with Wind Tre. So this is extremely important because, as I said, it's really the core of our strategy, to have the best infrastructure and to make it available to everybody through scalable platform. We can go for next page, please. In terms of positioning, we think that as a telco company we have more responsibility that goes, I would say, beyond the rollout of the network. We do think that it's also important to play a role in the digital transformation of the company; also in training people, young guys, unemployed or even elderly people to have digital skills in order to belong or to have their own future. We will do it in -- through 4, I would say, pillars. One is our core business operation; and as I said, our Fastweb Digital Academy courses, which are -- which includes entry packages for people that don't talk the digital language -- but also that they could -- that you could find also courses that are extremely -- professional courses. And so it's really for all the needs and appetite of different audience. And this is now included directly in our offer, so basically everyone, all the clients of Fastweb have access in a preferential way to these content. Second, as I said, the Fastweb Digital Academy is the engine of these content training. We have developed a lot of new courses. And this is going to be, I think, extremely important as developing the rollout. Third one will be [Step]. It will be opening in Q2. It will be our exhibition center, where people will enter -- or will have a contact with the future works. Today, one of the main problem of young people is that they are not inspired. Or they don't know what will be the future works, the future employments. What are the activities? What are the projects? They just know some names that companies drop to them. We want to show what will be possible works in 2030, in 2050. And hopefully, we are going to also offer them pragmatic content in order to get part of this future. Last but not least, more important, we will dedicate, every single employee of Fastweb will dedicate 5 days. So the -- a kind of week dedicated to the future, where they will give their personal contribution either through our Fastweb Digital Academy, becoming mentor or becoming teacher. Or they will be, yes, also involved in the [Step] and the exhibition center. So there is a real effort, a real commitment from all our employees to open up the digital transformation, to make it available to all society, not only just, as I said, network but most importantly the skills that you need in order to manage your future and the network at best. I don't know whether there are one page more. So in a -- if we can wrap up all the slides. I think that the top management is fully committed to continue to deliver the top line growth over time, yes. And this will be materialized not only through the right and smart combination between retail and wholesale business but also a continuous and constant push on mobile consumer; a continuous and constant push, yes, on enterprise, where clearly value-added services will be more important. As I said, the infrastructure is at core of our strategy. And so we will continue to expand our infrastructure in order to provide the best performance everywhere regardless the technology. And also, we will continue to be different from the others, try to positioning on innovation, on -- but also to become the #1 company in terms of reputation. If I look at the financial outlook. Again 2022, regardless the market, regardless the competitiveness, will be another years -- year of growth for us. So we are confirming revenue in a region of 5% growth, EBITDA a region of 5% growth and CapEx stable. So 2021 has been a successful year, but we do want and we are strongly committed to make a successful year also for 2022. I thank everybody. And then I leave the floor to Eugen.
Okay, thank you, Alberto. Hello, everybody, also from my side. I am happy to walk you through the numbers in the next 20 minutes or so. I'll start on Page 58 with group revenue. Group revenue was up by CHF 83 million; underlying, plus CHF 64 million, net of some currency effects. As Alberto already explained, we had a very impressive growth again at Fastweb with plus CHF 94 million compared to last year. That's a plus 4%, the lion's share of these CHF 94 million coming out of the enterprise division with a very impressive growth of plus CHF 72 million. Swisscom Switzerland revenues, more or less flat with minus CHF 17 million year-over-year on a basis of CHF 8.2 billion or so. B2C revenue was up, plus CHF 31 million. That's a mix or our usual mix of service revenue decline, on the one hand. There was an increase in hardware sales, on the other hand, and also a compensating increase in other revenue. And I'll spend a few words on other revenue when we get to Swisscom Switzerland revenue at the next slide. B2B segment, CHF 44 million down; also here a well-known mix, service revenue decline on the one hand but very nice growth of the IT solution business on the other hand. We'll also get to that on the next page. Let me spend a couple of words on some noteworthy quarterly developments. You see, in Q4, B2C minus CHF 15 million. That's mainly due to lower hardware sales. We did have, as others, some supply chain issues on some handsets, et cetera; and that showed up in lower hardware sales in the fourth quarter. Margin impact is negligible of this development. Also one word on the quarterly development in Q4 of the wholesale business: You see minus CHF 11 million here in the wholesale business of Swisscom Switzerland Q4. That is finally the MVNO agreement -- or the loss of the MVNO agreement with UPC showing up in the numbers. We had during the year some compensating factors from inbound roaming and others, but in the fourth quarter, the net-net figure that you see here is the minus CHF 11 million. And that corresponds pretty much to the number from the lack of MVNO agreement compared to last year. Also one word on the Fastweb quarterly performance. You see, with plus CHF 7 million here, we have rather moderate growth in the fourth quarter compared to growth in the previous quarter. The mix is not surprising given what Alberto said. The consumer was down by minus CHF 3 million, but the enterprise segment was strongly up again with plus CHF 22 million. We had a minus in the wholesale segment of minus CHF 12 million, but that's not representative on -- of any underlying trend. That has more to do with the previous year, with the Q4 of previous year, than with the Q4 in 2021. In Q4 of previous year, we reached the peak of our construction work for the Flash Fiber joint venture, which is a rather low-margin undertaking. It was also on one of the slides of Alberto. And compared to the strong Q4 2020, we had a minus CHF 12 million. As we already heard, we strongly believe in the growth potential both of the enterprise segment and of the wholesale segment in Fastweb. And Alberto's words on the guidance speak for themselves. Let's move on to Swisscom Switzerland, the minus CHF 17 million revenue that we saw on Swisscom Switzerland. As usual, we show you the major components of this development on the left hand of the page. We have service revenue, first of all, a decline of minus CHF 189 million, CHF 105 million out of B2C, CHF 84 million out of B2B. If we dive into the B2C revenue. The lion's share comes from the wireless segment. The wireline segment was just minus CHF 25 million. I think that's on -- for the full year very good news. As most of you know, we have a structural effect on the wireline side with voice line losses amounting to about CHF 20 million or so year-over-year. So that means, outside these voice line losses, we basically had no significant service revenue decline in the wireline B2C segment. And that's certainly something that is very positive. We did have some help from COVID tailwinds. We talked about that before, some traffic revenues, et cetera, but the most important factor here is really that we were able to stabilize the ARPU or even improve the ARPU in the wireline segment B2C. On the wireless side, the usual effects, brand shift, fixed-mobile convergence. I'll talk about that in a second. In the B2B segment, CHF 51 million of service revenue decline was from the wireless segment, and CHF 34 million from the wireline segment. The wireless B2B segment is certainly the one that is in percentage terms most under pressure. All the service revenue declines, with very few exceptions, are price related and not RGU related as we saw in the operating performance when Urs talked about the market performance. Let me say a few words on the actual performance of minus CHF 189 million compared to what we predicted and forecasted at the beginning of the year. We talked about a service revenue decline of some CHF 250 million to CHF 300 million. We performed much better than that. About 1/3 of that is some COVID effects. We had traffic revenues in all -- in various segments, B2C and B2B, that were not expected. So about 1/3 of the difference between what we expected and the final result is due to COVID, but about 2/3 of the effect is really due to operating performance, one being the topic that I just mentioned, the wireline B2C performance. And also RGUs on the B2B wireless side came out better than expected, so we were able to retain customers at a higher price level and retain more customers than we originally expected. So for -- on service revenue, for the moment, I'll walk you quickly through some of the other components. Some of you picked up on this already in the morning, the famous other revenue components. First of all, the decoupling line, the plus CHF 50 million, that's related to our old subsidized mobile contracts from 2 to 3 years ago. The good news is this line is gone, so it's not going to confuse anybody anymore. It was already gone by the end of the second quarter. The bad news is also it's gone. So it's not going to help in the year-on-year performance to 2022, but we'll talk about that when we talk about the guidance. But we all can safely forget about this item. Then the next item is a very important and very positive one, plus CHF 53 million growth in the IT solution business. CHF 43 million out of those CHF 53 million are organic growth. CHF 10 million come from acquisitions. And we grew in various subsegments, very telco-related segments like cloud data center, security, but also business applications, SAP, et cetera. So a very good year, profitable growth from the IT solutions business. I'm not going to talk too much about hardware. That's mostly related to the first 2 quarters. We already covered that in the previous quarters. Maybe one word on the plus CHF 55 million other revenues. So what is in there? And there is quite a significant number in there from Q4, as you see in the line on the bottom of the chart. What is in there? Mainly 3 items. One is again an IFRS 15 item. So it has nothing to do with the device decoupling, but it's also an IFRS 15 item. It has to do with our hardware promotions. So when we run hardware promotions and sell hardware at a subsidized price, IFRS 15 assumes that the discount should be allocated over the whole life of the contract and not at the time of the sale. So the result of this is that, at the time of the sale, we have increased revenues; and over time of the contract, we have decreased revenues. Now one can debate how reasonable this standard is, but this is the standard and we have to follow it. So the upshot is, if we have increasing hardware promotions as we had this year, we have a positive balance out of this. If we have decreasing hardware promotions, we get a negative balance out of this. And in a steady state, it's plus, minus 0. That's what we expect for 2022, by the way, just in case the question comes up, but it really depends a lot on the particulars of the marketing plan of the specific year, so it's a bit hard to predict. So that's one item in there. The other item I explained already in the Q2 session is a refund we get from our insurance. We offer our customers an extended warranty and have an insurance for that. The scheme is quite profitable, so we get a refund. We do get this from time to time, so in a way, it's a recurring item, but the exact size depends on the profitability of the scheme. And this is not absolutely stable, but in principle it is a recurring item. And finally, just to address the Q3 -- sorry, the Q4 increase: There is IFRS 15 in there, but there is also a nice upside in there. Our cinema business grew by 11 million in the fourth quarter. So people went back to the cinemas despite all the COVID situation or maybe because of James Bond. And that was an 11 million in that number. So I hope that wraps up the other revenue discussion as good as I can. On the quarterly evolution of the service revenue. You saw that we are tending towards a CHF 50 million run rate over last couple of quarters. It's pretty stable. And that's also what we expect, by the way, for 2022 as a baseline scenario for the quarterly service revenue decline. On the individual drivers for the Q4 service revenue decline, bottom right of the chart, I am not going to go into the details because these are the usual drivers. We put a comparison line in there to Q3 '21. You see the situation is quite stable. So we have our usual suspects, fixed voice line losses, fixed-mobile convergence, price pressure obviously in the B2B segment and all the other effects that we talk about regularly. And they are pretty stable. So this is our baseline assumption, that the CHF 50 million quarterly rate is the one to assume going forward; and that's better than it was already in the past. So let me move on to the EBITDA evolution. EBITDA is up CHF 96 million. We had quite a number of exceptional items over the quarters; just one in the fourth quarter, a restructuring charge. In the end, they all balanced out, so the underlying EBITDA performance is the same as the reported number or more or less the same as the reported number with plus CHF 95 million year-over-year. We heard already about the Fastweb performance, another year of 5% growth on EBITDA level, which is obviously very, very positive, but also Swisscom in Switzerland had a positive EBITDA evolution of plus CHF 48 million. B2C was up CHF 73 million, a combination of the revenue dynamics that we saw and of consistent cost savings that were very well executed during the year and in particular in the fourth quarter. B2B was down CHF 61 million. That's clear. We're losing in B2B very high-margin service revenue, and then on the other hand, we compensate by new revenue from IT service -- IT solutions. That's obviously very nice, to compensate with IT solutions, but the marginality of an IT solution revenue is quite different from the margins on the service revenue in the telco business. Infrastructure and support functions, plus CHF 35 million. That is under the EBITDA line, but it's really about costs, so what shows up here is the cost savings in our infrastructure network division and also in the support functions. 2 or 3 words on quarterly developments. B2C was particularly strong in the fourth quarter with plus CHF 34 million. On the one hand, that's cost savings. On the other hand, there is a subscriber acquisition cost item in there. We had lower subscriber acquisition costs, which is more due to some hardware availability issues in the supply chain, so this is one of the reasons why B2C is so much up in the fourth quarter. Also, on B2B in the fourth quarter, a quick explanation on the minus CHF 33 million: We booked some accruals for project risks. We run some pretty large and long-term projects there, and that is the main explanation for this sort of outlier. So much on group EBITDA. I move on to EBITDA Swisscom Switzerland; as I said, underlying, plus CHF 48 million. I'm not going to talk about revenue anymore. Direct costs, not so much to say; SAC, SRC a little bit higher year-over-year. That comes mostly from the first half of the year, which had to do with the first half of last year, 2020, when the pandemic hit; I -- towards the end of the year, in the fourth quarter, as I explained, rather hardware -- some hardware availability issues and lower stocks than last year. Outpayments, more or less flat, with some variations over the year. Goods purchased and others, higher by CHF 48 million. That's very much driven by the first quarter and by the third quarter. The first quarter -- again, in the first quarter 2020, we had lower hardware sales because shops were closed, et cetera, et cetera. And in the third quarter, we had also, in the previous year, exceptionally low costs for sports events, et cetera. We reported about this a year ago. Otherwise, there is not so much to report. More importantly, on indirect costs, we managed to achieve or overachieve our cost savings ambition of CHF 100 million indirect costs. That also comprises the costs -- the increased costs for the solution business. So on the telco business alone, that will be CHF 137 million, plus, minus, so that's a very good result. It comes from reduced workforce expenses. That's net of -- that's net -- workforce expense net of capitalized expense and reduced other OpEx. On to CapEx. We already heard we invested CHF 2.3 billion again this year, slightly up year-over-year. I don't bother too much about the quarterly numbers. We have quite some fluctuations sometimes from quarter to quarter, so the annual figure is certainly the one to look at. In Switzerland alone, CHF 1.6 billion of CapEx. You see the rough breakdown on the right-hand side. The major item, obviously we discussed it already a lot today, is the fiber CapEx with CHF 550 million. That's about 34% of the total; 20%, in wireless; and the remainder, in basic infrastructure and IT. On to free cash flow, Page 63. We have quite a clean free cash flow bridge this quarter. We have operating free cash flow proxy of CHF 1.891 billion. Net working capital, not much change this year. There was some change last year, but this year, nothing much. Pension, no impact this year. Normally we have a mismatch between accrual and between cash compensations, not this year because there was an extraordinary profit on the pension. So no impact from pension. Very low interest expense, as usual. Cash payments, CHF 279 million, slightly lower than last year. That's merely scheduling, nothing else. So we end up with a free cash flow of CHF 1.5 billion. That's about CHF 200 million before -- below last year, but last year, it was just driven by net working capital and pension. So that's very good. And it compares very favorably with our dividend payment of CHF 1.14 billion, which means dividend coverage is more than assured. Net income, quickly. Our net income is up by CHF 300 million. Now that sounds a bit more than it's -- than it actually is. From an operating point of view, we saw EBITDA is up by CHF 96 million, so about CHF 100 million out of these CHF 300 million is operating. The other CHF 200 million come from the financial results. Some exceptional items that we disclosed and presented in the first -- or the first and second quarter: the -- our swap of our Flash Fiber stake into the FiberCop stake, which led to a revaluation at market price of this participation; also the sale of BICS. It was all in the first quarter and we've reported about it. On to our balance sheet. Urs mentioned it already. Net debt is down to CHF 7.7 billion due to a strong free cash flow; and also some inflow, cash inflow, from M&A given the sales that we had last year. So we are down by 0.2x net debt-to-EBITDA and end up with a leverage of 1.7x. That's -- without IFRS 16, that's 1.4x. Just one note: We presented frequently the government's leverage cap of 2.1x. That has now become a 2.4x because the government now also takes into account the IFRS 16. So the old 2.1x become 2.4x. And going forward, we will only report the 1x -- sorry, 1.7x number, so we are not going to adjust anymore for IFRS 16. That gives us a stable A rating from S&P and Moody's, with a very conservative debt side. 88% is in fixed interest, so we are well covered against any interest rate increases that might come. Maturities are very long. And that shows up in our financing cost, which is on average, including old financings, 0.9%. And on top of that, we have CHF 2.2 billion of committed credit lines that are obviously unused. With that, I come to the guidance outlook for 2022. I'll walk you through the numbers one by one. Guidance for revenue is CHF 11.1 billion to CHF 11.2 billion, so that's essentially flat. Why do we give you a range? There is a certain unpredictability around hardware revenues at this time. They have very low impact on the EBITDA, but there is a certain unpredictability, so that's why we give a range of CHF 11.1 billion to CHF 11.2 billion revenue. On EBITDA, the guidance for 2022 is CHF 4.4 billion. That's slightly down from the CHF 4.478 billion that we had in 2021. And I'd like to quickly walk you through the bridge from 2021 to this guidance. Well, the bridge is as follows. Service revenue in Switzerland, we expect minus CHF 200 million. I already talked about that. Cost savings in the telco segment, we expect cost savings of CHF 100 million, so that gives a minus CHF 100 million. Then in Switzerland we have 2 effects that basically cancel each other out. We expect a minus of CHF 20 million to CHF 30 million from the Wholesale business. That's the final piece of the MVNO agreement going out and some erosion of other Wholesale revenues, CHF 20 million to CHF 30 million. On the other hand, we expect CHF 20 million-plus positive EBITDA impact from growth in the solution business and increase of the profitability of the solution business, so we are still at minus CHF 100 million. Then we expect plus 5% EBITDA growth from Fastweb that translates into EUR 40 million, EUR 45 million, but given that the current exchange rate euro to Swiss franc is much weaker than the average of last year, that translated into Swiss francs translates into a flat EBITDA, in Swiss francs, not in euro, in Swiss francs. So this is how we end up with roughly minus CHF 100 million, and this is what drives the CHF 4.4 billion guidance. Finally, on CapEx, CHF 2.3 billion CapEx guidance, essentially flat. We are aware that the CHF 2.3 billion are slightly above the consensus. Our assumption for the reason for the difference is some of you might still have some Salt agreement in there in the CapEx line. So this is something I can talk about in a second. And secondly, we have an overlap of the final tail of the FTTS rollout and the ramp-up of the FTTH rollout. And that final tail goes into 2022, and this is why we have this CapEx guidance of CHF 2.3 billion which is slightly above consensus. Two words on CapEx. What is in there, and what is not in there? So the Salt agreement is not in there. So if during the year the Salt agreement becomes reactivated, that would have a positive impact on CapEx, but it depends, as you might remember from last year, very much on timing. Assuming that this is not going to happen at the beginning of the year, at the moment, we assume that the impact for 2022 will probably not be material. Point number two, the CapEx guidance assumes a point-to-multipoint rollout. Now we talked a lot about a potential shift to point-to-point in the worst case. This is not in there. If it were to happen in 2022, this would mean slightly higher CapEx, as we explained, but also here given that this is not going to happen in the first half of the year, the overall impact in our view today is not material. So this is why we don't guide for it. If any of these 2 items should ever become material during the course of the year, of course, we would update you on that. So with that, I come to the dividend guidance. If all these things fall into place as we project them right now, we will also propose a dividend for the fiscal year 2022, payable in 2023, of CHF 22 per share. And with that, I hand over back for the wrap-up to Urs.
Yes. Thank you, Eugen. So very short final remarks. So we are well positioned. And then we have a solid strategy and clear goals; and a very good alignment in the management team, what we have to do and what are our targets. And I think that's important to get a strong momentum on execution. The second point is the priorities. They are clear on the operational side but also on the financial side. And we have a strong commitment, as already Eugen mentioned, on the dividend. So let's close this, the presentation, but I would like to say some words to our new CEO, Christoph Aeschlimann. He will take over the role on the 1st of June. He has an -- 15 years experience, management experience in the IT business. He was coming out of different IT departments. He was a developer, so his background is actually really an engineering background. He has an engineering degree and then made an MBA, so he has a good mix between technique and business. Before his role in Swisscom, he was CEO of ERNI Group. ERNI Group is a company which developed IT solutions, software solutions; and so he knows really the software business. And since 2019, he's the Head of IT and Network in Swisscom. And he has a good reputation in Swisscom and also a good backing in the management team. So with this, I'm convinced that Christoph will be a good CEO of Swisscom and also shares the value and the strategy which we have today. So this will also give a bit, let's say, certainty that not everything will be changed. So he will certainly be a guarantee for development and develop Swisscom in the future. So with this, I would like to hand over to you, Louis.
Thank you, Urs. And now it's time for the Q&A session. And as highlighted previously, Dirk Wierzbitzki and Urs Lehner are available for specific business questions in Switzerland. Some remarks to the people being registered for raising questions. [Operator Instructions] And lastly, third point, please indicate your name and institute you're representing. A - Louis Schmid: Let's now start the second part of today's meeting conference, with the first question coming from Polo Tang, UBS.
Can you hear me? Just check...
Okay, great, good. I just have a few different questions. The first really is just about a clarification in terms of the Salt joint venture. So you said that in a worst case scenario where you have to use point-to-point architecture. Can you explain why it takes 2 to 3 years to get the Salt partnership restarted? What actually needs to change if you change the technology in terms of your rollout? Second question is really just about inflation. Can you maybe just talk about how you think about the impact of inflation on your business both in terms of the top line -- is there any potential in terms of opportunity to take pricing either in Switzerland or Italy? But then actually how should we think about inflation in terms of costs? So for example, wage inflation, energy costs. Or is there anything else that might be impacted by inflation? And my final question is really just about Italy and M&A. So if KKR does acquire Telecom Italia, how does this change the market dynamics? And then separately, would Swisscom be willing to engage in Italian M&A? And would you ever consider divesting Fastweb? Or are you more focused on driving M&A and potentially doing mergers?
Thank you, Polo. I think the first question, on the Salt JV, is for Urs. The second one, on inflation, is for Eugen. And the last one, M&A, Italy and consolidation, whatever, is again Urs.
So maybe that was a misunderstanding. These 2 to 3 years would take the whole process with COMCO to get clarity over the whole process, but if we would have switched to point to point, we certainly would try to find, foster an agreement with Salt. That's clear. We don't -- we wouldn't need 2 to 3 years. So it's on -- it is 2 to 3 years is correlated to the process with COMCO. If we don't find an agreement with them, then that would be the normal process.
Okay. Then on inflation, we are not -- to say very brief, we are not too concerned about inflation at this point on the costs side. And we also don't see too much upside on the revenue side. Talking briefly about Switzerland: Switzerland inflation last year, that is in 2021, was 0.6%. So at least for now, Switzerland seems to be quite detached from the overall inflationary environment in Europe or in particular in the U.S., so we don't expect at the moment this inflation rate to somehow feed into our personnel expenses in any significant way. We expect to have an annual pay rise, annual average pay rise, of about 1%. So no big point of concern there. The one point where inflation could potentially hit is on the energy costs side because obviously energy cost inflation is quite the cupboard and much more extreme, it seems at times, than the overall consumer price index. There, what we do, do, there we try to hedge ourselves by buying energy pretty significantly in advance. So obviously this doesn't hedge you long term. If long-term prices go up, they go up, but it gives you a certain hedge a long time and reduces the risk. So there might be an impact, I don't know, 1 million type of size but not much more than that. In terms of passing it on to consumers, that's certainly an option when it comes to hardware. We do expect in some places increased prices in hardware. That's a natural consequence of hardware shortages that are all around, but this, you can, to quite an extent, pass on to customers, in particular in the B2B business, both in Switzerland and in Italy. On the B2C side, to factor something into subscription prices, that will take, I think, a massive increase in inflation for that to be possible. Otherwise, it would be wiped out by competition. That's my take. I don't know...
Then on the question of merger or consolidation of KKR, just a general statement then. So Fastweb -- or our strategy is to develop Fastweb on a stand-alone base. And we think that we can do it, so Fastweb don't need a merge. So we can develop and increase the value of Fastweb. And the team of Alberto always showed that they are capable to handle different conditions in the market. And then to M&A, that was always our strategy. We have a pragmatic view to the market. We observe what will -- happening and then we will judge it if this would make industrial sense for us, but overall I think Fastweb is not directly touched. But maybe, Alberto, some words from you on KKR, your view on this.
But again, I think you have been very clear. I think that Fastweb, at the end of the day, has all the ingredients to continue to perform growth also in the future, as long as we are focused on infrastructure. We have all the balance that we can exploit, as I said, through wholesale, through enterprise. At the end of the day, we have been able to grow in a market that has been already, I think, very, very competitive, so I think that any consolidation that could happen in the future for our competitors is just something good for us. Because if we can lead a market that is extremely competitive, we can be in a better position in a market that is less competitive.
Next question comes from Ulrich Rathe.
Yes, I have 2 questions and 1 clarification -- sorry. It's Ulrich Rathe, Jefferies. Sorry. My camera wouldn't work because it needs to be rerouted to New York, at my employer. So on the fiber situation, you mentioned that there's now a market testing going on for the virtual layer 1 offer. And you mentioned the support you have from Salt and Sunrise, I believe. And obviously [7] talked against it, I mean, in public already. I'm not entirely familiar how such a market test would be decided. Can you give a bit of color how such a process can conclude in Swisscom's favor when one player makes specific arguments against that? Is market testing essentially some sort of get everyone's view together and then make a decision what is sensible to do? Or is opposition, strong opposition, from one player already a difficult situation in these processes? And also, on the P2P situation, I was wondering. COMCO, in the court case certainly -- in the court decision, it looks COMCO is arguing that Swisscom has called the extra costs for P2P as less relevant in the past, in the first 30% rollout; and that this comes back now to bite you in the sense that COMCO argues, well, if it wasn't so relevant in the first 30%, why should it be relevant in the second 30%. Could you comment on that particular point, what your counterargument to that would be? So that will be my first question. The second question is, at Fastweb, you're talking about not wanting to participate in the price war. What retail share loss would be acceptable? Is there sort of a limit at which you would say, look, we've got to make sure we have enough retail presence in the market? "And this is now getting wrong. And we have to sort of enter that market," I mean that retail market, "in a stronger way." My last question is just a clarification on the other revenues. Obviously there are sort of moving parts, and it seems to be a bit lumpy from quarter to quarter. Would you -- how do you look at the second half other revenues now? Is that a normal level, or was that an elevated level when we look into 2022?
The first question is for our CEO, Urs. The second one is for Alberto. And the third one, I think, is for our CFO, Eugen.
To the first question, on fiber market tests. So what COMCO made is actually -- they made a test. Or they ask competitors how good or how suitable this product is for their need. So they test the demand for this product. And we don't know the final results of this market test. But there are companies who support this product and other ones which don't support it. And in it -- Swisscom will never support a solution, in my view, beside a dark fiber access. So that's -- it was clear in the beginning that these remarks will have different colors. But the big ones, the really the big players, they were actually positive and they're also positive to point to multipoint architecture. But at the end, it's the decision of COMCO how they judge these results from the market test. And today, I think that this is enough for having a good competition in Switzerland. That's -- there will be the judgment of COMCO, and we don't know the result today. On this additional costs, when we built -- or the first wave of our fiber strategy was rollout in the cities. And in the cities, normally the ducts are bigger than in rural areas. And that means in cities, we could make a point-to-point rollout without actually doing construction work on the ducts. So that means in the cities that there is difference between a point-to-point rollout, and point-to-multipoint rollout is small. But if you go in more rural areas, in smaller communities, these costs are increasing because we have approximately 80% of the ducts, which we have to open because the fiber needs more space. And that's why we will have additional costs of 30% to 40%. And in the discussion with COMCO, we showed them the facts. Now the question is how they judge it? And if you read the paper, you can also see that the cost argument could be a strong argument. Eugen? No Alberto, Alberto?
Yes. And thanks for the question. Again, the WLAN nmarket is not really as volatile as it could be mobile market. We do think that we will be able to retain our market share. We have 2.7 billion fixed customer. I think that we will be able to retain more or less this number. And actually, we still hope to grow this market based on our superior NPS. The only thing that I say that I think that today, there is a not sustainable price situation. If our competitors want to lose money and also trigger dynamic movements in their customer base, happy to do it. But for what concern us, we remain extremely very, very logic and rationale. And as I said, we will continue to deliver the best infrastructure, the best services, and we do think that we will be able to hold our market share.
Okay. Then on the other revenue line. So going through the 3 items that made the big difference year-over-year in the second half of the year. IFRS15, my best guess would be that it's an elevated level. So you asked is it elevated? Or is it kind of -- it's an elevated level, IFRS15? Because simply all the hardware promotion that we did this year will come back with negative balances in the next year. So that's certainly an elevated level. The refund from the insurance, I would also say elevated lever. The cinema will hopefully stay with us. But as you saw in the EBITDA bridge, I also didn't mention the other revenue component. So that's my best guess for now.
The next question comes from Jakob Bluestone, Crédit Suisse. Okay. Obviously, it looks like he is not available. So we are going through, the next one is Georgios from Citi.
I hope you can hear me. A couple of questions from my side.
Sure. I don't know why, but you have to turn the camera, I think.
Okay. I don't know which side it is. Is it okay now?
It looks better, much better.
Okay. I'll try and ask you like this. I have 1 double question on fiber and 1 double question on Fastweb. So fiber, I was curious if you could share with us some of the other participants in this process. I'm guessing the government and maybe local authorities may have a view about the extra cost of rolling out, particularly in the, I guess, less dense areas and what that could be long term, whether they are on your side and whether there has been any debate on that front? And then the second element to that is in the event that some compromise is reached on point-to-multipoint, is it fair for us to assume that you could recognize more than the annual impact you guided last year just because of all the preparation you've done over the last few months, and therefore, you will deliver a lot more in the next 12 months than what you are initially planning? And then on Fastweb, just a follow-up what Polo asked earlier around M&A and options there. I'd be curious just to hear roughly what the balance sheet capabilities are of Swisscom in the event that something would become available? Like what are your limits in terms of how you can participate? And then the second element to that, if I could ask, is on the network slicing agreement you have with Wind Tre. I'm curious how it works. So if you were to get more spectrum, do you get a bigger slice, so can you effectively scale up your network without having to commit to higher interest with higher companies is the question I'm trying to ask.
Thank you, Georgios. I think the first question on fiber is split between Urs and thereafter, Eugen. On financial impact and then on Fastweb delivery potential, Eugen. And for Wind Tre slicing, Alberto.
Good. On this fiber topic. We have actually a lot of supporters for this point to multipoint architecture. I mentioned it before, the big players in Switzerland, they support it. They see it as the right solution because at the end, the impact would not only be to Swisscom, the impact would be to everybody who is building fiber networks. So we have support from the big players in our market. Second point is, certainly, rural areas on a political level, they are support for this architecture because they see the consequences and the political people, they also see actually that this could lead to a lower rollout speed and a better coverage in Switzerland. That's why they are certainly not -- they certainly don't support this process. But at the end, it's a running process and political people. They don't involve them in a process. That's a bit the situation. That's why it's up to Swisscom to find a solution with COMCO.
Okay. Georgios, I'm sorry, I have to ask that because I understood, if the compromise was found, could be recognized more than we guided last year? But I didn't hear or understand what recognized revenue or CapEx?
The revenue and the CapEx benefit just because you've done a lot more preparation, I guess, so you can't deliver a lot more coverage earlier on to sort than what you've guided in terms of the phasing, basically.
Yes. Sorry, sorry. Yes, out of the Salt agreement. Now I understand. I'm sorry. That's super hard to predict, that's super hard to predict because first of all, for that -- to answer that question, we would need to know what the compromise exactly looks like, and we have no visibility as to that. And once you know what that compromise looks like, you would need to know what is the rollout plan that follows from that and how does it impact the Salt agreement. So as much as I would like to answer the question, I can't today. I'm sorry, I'm getting the non-answer question because the second one is a bit similar. It's a different question, but it's always a non-answer. Obviously, I cannot talk about the balance sheet potential we might have in the event of the consolidation in Italy. What you do know is that with a leverage of 1.7, we are on the very conservative side compared to our peers and obviously have quite some flexibility if ever some opportunity that presents itself. That's probably a thought as much as I can say.
Thank you, Eugen. Then on the second question, faster deleverage potential, and Alberto hold on to that question regarding...
Yes. I think that our co-investment with Wind Tre is fully scalable. So as long as we have additional spectrum, we can clearly put it available, make it available for the co-investment and for leverage it and exploit it the best for us, for our customers.
Congratulation, Urs. Well deserved, and thank you for all the insights you provided us over the years.
Next question, we try again comes from Jakob Bluestone. Hopefully, it works. Obviously, it does not work. Okay. Then we move to Andreas Müller, ZKB. Andreas Müller: Do you hear me?
Yes. We here you. Andreas Müller: Okay. I've got a question also on the 30% extra feeder cost with the P2 -- point-to-point investments. Can you give us more color on that and the ability also to pass that on to competitors if they went for this network of this dark fiber -- feeder? And then will, in case of the negative composition, the fiber CapEx being increased, being mitigated by other declines of CapEx, for example, in the mobile networks, so the question is then, of course, the overall CapEx bracket is going up also CHF 150 million per year for these 3 years.
Thank you, Andreas. I think the first question is for Urs. And the second part on CapEx, Eugen can take over.
Good. It will be certainly a challenge to charge additional costs of the network rollout to the competition because we have a wholesale market -- in Switzerland, prices are more national prices. And then you have the other topic that you have always to take into account the price squeeze. So the wholesale market is not independent to the retail market. That's my message. And in Switzerland, the pricing is a nationwide same price, so we don't have local prices. So I think it will be quite a challenge to charge additional costs per region. But I don't know it, maybe the market will be another one in some years. But today, it wouldn't work. So that's why we have to make more a kind of cherry-picking approach, it would be for everybody the same, that's for sure. We have to take a kind of cherry-picking approach, taking the bigger and more attractive locations. And that's exactly my message. At the end, we would have a divide from cities to rural areas because we have to invest in a less efficient technology.
Yes. Maybe on the CapEx, just a minor clarification for the start. So the CHF 150 million extra CapEx is the worst case compared to the best case. So the important comparison to make is to the status quo today to the CHF 500 million of the day. So compared to the CHF 500 million of the day, in the best case, our fiber CapEx envelope would decrease by about CHF 100 million. And in the worst case, our fiber CapEx envelope would be flatter, go up by maybe CHF 50 million. So would CHF 50 million -- would we be able to compensate an additional CHF 50 million of CapEx per year in an overall part of CHF 2.3 billion? Probably yes, just given the size. Whether it will be done? We need to see once we are there. I think the important message is this extra EUR 50 million compared to today is in no way a threat to our overall financial policy.
Thank you, Urs and Eugen. Thanks Andreas. The next question comes from Simon Coles, Barclays.
Can you at least hear me?
Excellent. And so the first question is just on Fastweb. So we've got the 5% growth guidance. Just wondering if you could give a bit more color on sort of the individual lines? So consumer, it's looking a little bit tough now, but you're saying you're going to defend your base. So how should we be thinking about that sort of outlook in '22 to flattish revenue in line compared to what we've seen in the past. And then enterprise, you obviously have done a very good job over the years, but now your market share is sort of 35%, you said. What's the sort of growth driver in '22? There is more market share? Or is it the EU recovery fund? And then how should we think about wholesale? Because it's very difficult for us to have too much of an idea of what's going on there. So you said 2,000 sites were connected with fiber. Is that going to be sort of steady level again in '22? Or does that start to come down? And is that offset with your sort of wholesale business? So just some more color around those moving parts would be great. Then in Switzerland, if I could just dive into sort of the Swiss service revenue dynamics. You said CHF 200 million service revenue losses. Should we just assume that Q4, those impacts that you detailed in the slide very helpfully, is that the sort of trends you are expecting to continue? Or should we maybe expect some changes, maybe B2C wireline is going to see a bit more pressure given we've seen Sunrise UPC, expanding Yellow offering and things like this? So just wondering how those moving parts play out? And then finally, just said on the guidance on the EBITDA bridge, which was super helpful with CHF 20 million, CHF 30 million, I think you said from Cloud Solutions, how much of that is organic? And how much is the acquisition you announced at the end of last year? I'm just wondering what's driving that there? So that would be great.
Thank you, Simon. First question on Fastweb is for Alberto. Second one on Swiss revenue, I think Eugen can take over. If -- well, Dirk or Urs Lehner might add something on the service revenue or telco outlook '22. Also very much appreciate. By the way, you can always ask questions on the operations in Switzerland. We have 2 guys here, very experienced. And the last question, EBITDA, Cloud and MTF impact, I think, so this was your question, organic versus inorganic, maybe Urs Lehner or you can take over.
Okay. Then I start with Fastweb. For what concerns the revenues of consumer, you can assume, I think, flattish revenues. Don't forget that at the end of the day, the consumer has a double phase. One is the wireline, which we said we will be roughly, let's say, basically stay in a same market share, but also mobile is rapidly growing. So mobile revenues will grow. So I would say flattish. Hopefully, we will actually try to do better than that. But let's say, for the moment, let's stay with that. In terms of enterprise, actually, the market share is not an issue at all because this 35% market share, by the way, has been increasing steadily of 1%, 2% every year, will continue to grow also because still the vast part of this market share relies, I would say, on core services and not on value-added services. So in 2022, but also for the upcoming years, you will see a lot of demand of cloud solutions, data center managed services. And certainly, you already mentioned [indiscernible] are welcome to Italy. It's not something that will impact 2022. But certainly, from 2023, 2024, we will have, I would say, a much more booster, a natural booster of the public administration needs. So we do expect also for Fastweb to take a good part of this digital transformation. So definitely, enterprise, yes, we know that 35% can look a very high market share, but history shows that we have been able to grow every year. And also, there are effect and -- effects that will be extremely positive for 2022 and going forward. For wholesale, I do understand that it's difficult to predict. But I would say that also in the future as long as the unbundled of our network and so the volumes will grow up, also revenues will be pretty much more predictable because it is just a matter of price times volume, the wholesale customers that we will connect of our telco customers. In terms of BTS, I would say that I think, yes, in 2021, we've done 2,000. You can assume something that stays between 1,000 and 2,000, depending also the rollout of the other player. But I would say that also in the future, the revenue growth will come from the ultra broadband volume business. And with that, I leave the floor to Eugen, I guess.
Okay. And I'll start with the CHF 20 million to CHF 30 million and then go to service revenue because then I can smoothly hand over the CHF 20 million to CHF 30 million -- a very good question, actually, very good questions. The 1 acquisition that should make an impact on that number is the MTF acquisition that Urs talked about before. We can't disclose details on the transaction, but it's a double-digit revenue company and single-digit EBITDA company. And that single-digit EBITDA will, as you spot it quite well, will be in the EBITDA bridge in the solutions business year-over-year. The other 2 components in there are profits from incremental growth, organic growth. And the third component is the improvement of the profitability of the existing business. So excellent question. Then on the service revenue drivers, I'll give a quick start and then hand over. In principle, all the major factors that we monitor and that we also share with you every quarter seem pretty stable at the moment, and they will certainly not go away. So price pressure in B2B, Urs is going to talk about it, is not going to go away. In B2C, the structural effects, like fixed voice line losses is not going to go away. All our tools in the retail competition for market share like fixed mobile convergence, promotions, brand shift, et cetera, is not going to go away, and we don't see a massive tendency one way or the other. But as I said, for the fine tuning of what might be there, if one can talk about it, I'm happy to hand over maybe to Dirk and then to Urs.
Okay. Good. Thank you, Eugen. Yes. I mean, obviously, service revenue mirrors our considerations around our market share as it is subs times ARPU, if you wish. And as far as subscribers is concerned, we're going to continue the kind of 2-tier market strategy, as was explained earlier. So defending share on the own brand and attacking on the third and second brand. And we feel confident, particularly with the performance we had shown in Q3 and Q4 that we can continue that performance in the marketplace as a subscriber side of the business also in 2022. Then it comes to the service revenue effects, and then I will make a couple of comments. There are a couple of historical effects that are kind of coming to an end, like, for instance, subscribers in the broadband and landline signing off from the fixed net voice service. I mean that's kind of more or less done. Same for the effect that we have in the customer base for the convergence advantage to having mobile and broadband with us on the own brands is kind of more or less through that effect. Actually, in the home business, so in the broadband and TV business, we were actually able to manage the ARPU just a little bit up instead of down. So that encourages us that we can continue this value approach for which we have quite it's not a lot of, let's say, processes and practices into the organization. So for instance, to give you an example, it's kind of a sales objective what the acquisition ARPU is. Or it is a touch point agents objective to maintain when a customer wants to modify their offer to maintain the level of ARPU even to up or cross-sell. So we, clearly, let's say, enhanced our commercial practices at that end. And we are quite positive about that, that trend can continue. We even made good experiences last year that, for instance, phase out of products like 2G in mobile or older tariffs in landline is actually an upsell opportunity within the customer base, and we still identify a couple of opportunities into that. Then quickly on the mobile side, I think the biggest effect is a brand shift, which is that portion of second band customers that come from our first band and Urs said earlier on, we're monitoring that closely. So I think we are a healthy, if you wish, one can say that in that context, cannibalization level, we think we can continue that pace. We even -- and there is one more, let's say, reason that also gets placed into the service revenue. We even are trying to lower a little bit, let's say, our activities on promotional offers for tariffs. As you know, is almost like a market standard. Unfortunately, it is the standard that for the first like 12 months or so with us with the competition, like 24 months, people are going into a subscription at a discounted price. We have just made changes to that in January and February. We will not offer any such advantages to stand-alone customers only to converge customers. And also on the second brand, where we kind of also in promotional times played with like a CHF 20 price mark for like a mobile national flat, we want to, let's say, get that back between levels to CHF 25 and CHF 30. So we are taking a bit of let's say, commercial or promotional aggressiveness out. And we still believe that, that is successful. So overall for long answer, I think it's all these measures, we are confident to bring the plan as we presented it to you.
And to add on the B2B side, with a few words, let's say, in the SME space, it's pretty similar. So as just Dirk mentioned it as it looks like B2B going up to larger enterprises, the upper SME segment, the corporate business. There, we see, let's say, a very aggressive mobile market on -- so there we believe there is a huge challenge where we are fighting strongly in '21, and I don't see any reason why shouldn't be similar in '22. On the wireline side, we don't have that much churn in -- non in the SME and non in the corporate environment. So mobile is for sure, let's say, the playfield where the operational competitive makes a difference on a deal-by-deal basis.
Okay. Thank you, guys. Let me just add one thing. Let me just add one thing because otherwise Simon is going to ask me in Q1, why is this effect still there on the fixed voice line losses with 2 components. The 2 components, one is land lines only. These die out, quite literally. It's a demographic issue. But there is also customers opting out of a bundle the land line component, and that is going to stay. So in Q1, you'll see it again.
All right. Thank you, guys. With that, I would like to ask Titus Krahn for the question. All right. We have to move to the next one. It's Luigi Minerva. Okay. So we go back to Titus, Bank of America. Hopefully, it works.
Yes, it worked now. Sorry for joining on the phone without a video. Perhaps just 2 questions, both on the fiber side. And the first one might be a little bit of a clarification. On the CapEx outlook for 2023 and to '25 and the difference between the best and the worst case, you're talking about CHF 400 million to CHF 600 million impact for these couple of years. And just back on the envelope calculation, that's pretty much a difference for 1 million households between CHF 400 to CHF 500 and delta between rolling out with P2P and P2MP technology. Just a clarification, where do we see the savings from actually rolling out to 0.5 million fewer households? Are they set off by other elements? Or can you walk us through kind of this difference? And maybe a second quick question, just given that there would be probably 40% to 50% of households depending on the actual rollout still that after 2025. How do you look at those? And given they are probably more expensive to rollout, would a partnerships with financial investors of any adjacent countries is an actual option or an opportunity for you?
Thank you, Titus. I think the first question on CapEx outlook is for our CFO, Eugen. And the second question, well, '25 outlook, how we continue is for Urs.
Okay. So I'm happy to take the first question because Urs kept us busy for a while. So your back of the envelope is right in principle. But your assumption that there are also other factors in play is also right. And so that is exactly why we gave you an indication of the fiber CapEx envelope going forward in the best and in the worst case scenario. And I would like to encourage you to stick to that number rather than to the back of the envelope. But I'm going to answer your question because the back of envelope is the obvious thing to do it. Now what are the factors why the back of the envelope doesn't work and the compensating factors. One is, the numbers we give you for the average cost of rollout in FTTS and FTTH is a typically FTTS household. However, in particular, in the first phase of the rollout, we have a number of so-called FTTB, fixed lines, so fiber to the building. So the fiber is already in the house. They are quite cheap to upgrade to FTTH point-to-multipoint, but they cost about the same to upgrade to FTTH point-to-point. So actually, for these number of household connections, the upgrade price is much higher than the CHF 500 that we give you in the kind of typical FTTS to FTTH upgrade. That's point number one. Point number 2 is we already build a number of point-to-multipoint connections. We saw it in some of the slides. So if we ever had to switch completely to point to point, we would need to rework those point-to-multipoint connections that we already built. So that's the second factor. There are 3 or 4 others, but that's the most important -- these are the most important ones. But actually, very good catch actually. The second question, was it financial...
The second one for Urs. The outlook after '25.
Eugen wants to take every question, and that's a bit -- no, what would we do after '25? We will certainly continue to rollout fiber networks in Switzerland. It's quite hard to touch how we will do it. Because it's open, if we are in '25, if we can do it in a point-to-multipoint architecture or even then we have to do it point-to-point. So there is a lot of things open. But what I can tell you is we will continue to roll out the fiber networks, but we will do it in a way that we can digest it. And we actually don't need a partnership or an infrastructure fund, which would help us to make this rollout. As long as the whole situation like it is today. So we don't see the need for it. And even if we would have to have a high investments, we could -- we have a strong balance sheet, as Eugen mentioned it before.
Thank you, Urs and thank you Titus. Then we move to the next question coming from Luigi Minerva, HSBC.
A couple for Urs probably. The first one is about, yes, staying on this 2025 theme. I just wanted to ask, you mentioned in your introduction that there's a series of initiatives which are currently small but that perhaps can become material contributors to Swisscom in 5 years from now. I was wondering if you can just elaborate on that. And if you were to pick 1 or 2 of those initiatives that in 5 years would be material for Swisscom numbers, which would it be? Secondly, on 5G, I kind of ask you the same question every year. But I'm curious to see what are you seeing in terms of products and pricing for 5G? And essentially, the question is whether 5G can really be the hope for the sector to see some pricing power in a sort of a stable way over time? And perhaps the last question for Alberto on Italy. Of course, you mentioned the deterioration of the fiber prices, EUR 30 a year ago, then EUR 19, then obviously, Iliad is there now at EUR 15.99. Now it's a fact that Iliad doesn't change their prices. So the EUR 15. 99 is there to stay. Does it mean that the Italian market is compromised without hope essentially, unless there is a change in market structure?
Thank you, Luigi. So the first 2 questions for Urs on adjacent businesses in 5G. And the last one on fiber prices for you, Alberto.
So on adjacent business, there are 2 main elements. The one is all cloud-based solutions, so software-defined networks, cloud solutions, which are quite, let's say, close to our core business. But where you could enter in new businesses. So cloud-based business, software-defined business, SaaS and all such things. I think that's one of the element. And the second element are more, let's say, fintech-oriented element. So we have a vertical where we are the outsourcer for Swiss banks. These banks, they will also go in a more cloud-oriented area. And we have, as an example, fintech start-ups, and this such startups could play a role in this vertical element of the Swiss banks. But at the end, I think it's important that the big growth potentials that are coming really more out of the IT-related business than this, let's say, internet-oriented businesses. Then the second question on the pricing on 5G. I don't know if I get the question right down -- the question right. But to charge additional -- an additional price for 5G, in my view, will be quite difficult midterm because everybody has, let's say, a strategy giving more for the same price, and so that means it will be hard to touch for 5G in addition. But 5G has a lot of other elements. You can -- in the B2B market, you can enter new spaces private mobile networks, such things, vertical solutions. So more volume, the whole IoT business. I think that is the potential. And then 5G has much more efficiency though the cost -- production cost for a megabyte on 5G is lower than on 4G or 3G, so it's intelligence to push 5G. That's a bit of my message.
Okay. And as I was saying, I'm really convinced that the consumer wireline is not in a sustainable situation. That's the transition. I also don't agree with you on the fact that prices are here to stay because the EUR 15.99 is a loss-making offer. Clearly, that's not a bold embrave move, but I think it's quite a consequence by the fact that the growth on mobile customers of Iliad has been flattening, and now they are exiting growth. And so they do need to find a way to get more mobile customer. And since they cannot decrease prices for mobile customers because otherwise, they will blow up because there will not be any more financially sustainable, they had to find something else. And then they come up with this, giving the fixed at cost. But as I said, this is a loss-making offer. So I really do think that this is just a transition, maybe 12, 18 months, but then prices will go out definitely because at the end of the day, you cannot stay with the offers that are loss making. And also I do believe that this move will not pop up -- bump up their mobile sales. So they will do -- need to increase profitability.
Thank you, Alberto. The next question comes from Steve Malcolm from Redburn.
And just congratulations, Urs. You've done a great stint at Swisscom, and I hope you get to relax in June and take it easy. And good luck to the new CEO. I hope he does as well as you've done. I'm going to come back to Simon's questions on Fastweb, if that's okay, because I'm trying to sort of get my head around the revenue and EBITDA guidance for next year, given the way the numbers are trending at the moment. In Q3, I think you had a CHF 25 million regulatory settlement, which I guess will lap next year. And if I look at the Q4 numbers, I mean, the cost performance was great, but it seems like there was a few odd ones, particularly in other operating costs, which fell 14% in the quarter, having risen by about 4% or 5% in the previous 3 quarters. So can you maybe just help us understand how those maybe odd-looking moves lap out in 2022? And then just coming back to the revenue sort of picture overall, I mean if you don't grow consumer and enterprise doesn't accelerate from this point, you're going to have to grow wholesale 20-odd percent to get to 5%. Is that right? Or should we assume that enterprise can do better than the 7% or 8% you did in 2021? And also within wholesale, it feels like if you're swapping BTS revenues for ultra-broadband wholesale where you are reselling someone else's product, that's going to have a detrimental impact on margins. So I guess it all feels like the margin outlook is not so great next year, but clearly, that's not the guidance you're giving. So maybe you can help us sort of understand some of those moving parts.
Thank you, Steve. I mean, in terms of numbers, we have not disclosed the concrete numbers on income from regulatory litigation '21. I would like to hand over that question to you, Alberto.
But again, I think that the answer is going to be quite close to the one that I just gave. Again, the revenues of consumer has 2 sources of impact. One is clearly the wireline where I say that -- I just said flattish. Hopefully, we could do better than that. But I think that it's just a consequence of losing maybe some thousands of customers, but keeping the ARPU of our customer base stable. So I think, as I said, more or less flattish. On the mobile, we do think that we will continue to grow. And Hopefully, we will be able to repeat or actually do even be better since our sales are going well in terms of mobile, and this will be pure growth on top of what we deliver. So it's not -- at the end of the day, also consumer has some, let's say, growth engines, and we want to try to exploit it. In terms of enterprise, enterprise, I would say that our ability -- we outperformed our guidance in 2021. We have been growing at 8%. I think that in enterprise, we are very, very healthy. We keep going to win bids. And the good thing is that we keep going winning bids not only in the core services, we have already a good market share, but in the value-added services, actually, since we have the highest Net Promoter Score in the enterprise, close to 80%, I think is something that is one of the highest in Europe. We can leverage to have a strong NI customer -- sorry, market share in the core services like voice and connectivity to increase our share of wallet with cloud data center, managed services, security services, and that's what we are doing. I think that you can assume that also in 2022, enterprise growth will be outperforming. And wholesale, again, for wholesale...
Alberto, can I just ask, what is outperforming mean? I mean does that mean 8% like 2021?
Let's say that we have at company level, a 5% growth. Consumer is not growing at that level, then the growth needs to come either from enterprise and wholesale. I do -- I would bet on enterprise because, as I said, I think it's one of the market where we are a leader in a market that is growing significantly. That's my point. But [indiscernible] also that wholesale is a very healthy business as well because it's the sunny part of the street of the retail. Retail is going to be extremely competitive. A lot of new players in the market, a lot of new players that are growing their sales, like Sky, like the others, we can -- if we were able to grow with roughly 200,000 wholesales customers in 2021, you can assume that this growth will continue to increase also in the future. So that's what...
Sorry. Are you not saying that selling fiber copper line -- reselling fiber copper line, and so the margin, if BTS goes from 2001 to 2,000, which is going to be very high margin, obviously. And...
But BTS has nothing to do with fiber copper. Fiber copper is just lines to, let's say, consumer and BTS are our dark fiber backhauling that we are providing.
I understand, the margins on that are very high, presumably . And I think the guide is that you would get less BTS connections in '22 than '21. So that would be marginal...
No, I wouldn't say so. We have done 2,000, let's say, that also in 2022, we have something that stays between 1,000 and 2,000 depending on the rollout but we could be actually replicating also 2021 performance in the BTS.
Okay. So that may be the same. And you -- the ultra-broadband is on top is the way we should think about it.
Okay. Great. And the cost performance in Q4, the other operating costs down 14%, was there anything particularly unusual on that?
I would say that marginality on 2022 will be very close to the one of 2021. So I wouldn't go really on the fluctuation quarter-over-quarter. I'll keep a view on a year, sometimes quarters are fluctuated also by mix of revenues. I would say that marginality should be following the trend that has been performing in the last years.
I take Louis' point on the regulatory settlement. But I think in Q3, you had another income of EUR 25 million, EUR 30 million. Should we expect more kind of -- one-off the kind of stuff to come in, in 2022 to help margin?
Yes. I would say that all in all, I think that, again, marginality will be more or less the same as 2021. There could be an impact of slightly one-off, but at the end of the day, marginality will be similar.
Thank you, Steve. Thank you Alberto. Let me move to the next question, Joshua Mills from Exane BNP.
Brilliant. Yes. So 2 questions from my side. One on the cost savings and then if I can come back to this fiber debate. So going forward, you're maintaining the same level of cost cutting kind of CHF 100 million a year, and you're saying you can continue that beyond 2022. But within that mix, it sounds like headcount reduction will be less of a factor. And if you're hiring more IT consultants, et cetera, who are presumably on higher wages, where are the additional savings coming from? Is it more network side? Is it your own IT systems? It would be great to give us a breakdown of how CHF 100 million of savings this year compared to CHF 100 million savings in 2023 or 2024? And then on second question, if I just were to go back to Slide 37, where you run through the different best and worst case scenarios for point to point or point to multipoints. I think you've been very clear on the CapEx element. But what kind of revenue or EBITDA impact do you think you would see if you were only able to operate 50% of homes rather than 60% with fiber to the building? And the reason I ask is net out is good, we're talking about the piece of net promoter scores. Are there -- is actually any ARPU uplift or share gain opportunities as you rollout fiber? And sorry, one very final one, I suppose, on clarification around capitalized costs. I think they were up quite a bit this year in Switzerland. So I just wanted to understand why that was the case.
Thank you, Josh. I think on cost savings, is a mix between Urs and Eugen, maybe.
I'll take cost savings. High-level question.
Okay. And then second question on the different scenarios and impact on ARPU is for you, Urs. And the third question is on capitalized cost is for you, Dirk. Yes, right.
So let's take the cost from where are the cost savings coming? At the end, from a high-level perspective, it's digitalization and simplification. I show you in the presentation what we are doing in the technical department, consolidating platforms, phasing out all systems. So that's one element, phasing out products. And all this leads to a simplification of our product so you can operate the company with less technical people and with a smaller field service or even also a smaller customer care. So that's one element, a lot of different projects on simplification. And the second one is digitalization. So we can optimize processes also in the operation of the network. We can do a change management. We can do a lot there also in the monitoring of end-to-end solutions. And then in the go-to-market shift to online to have a good mix between physical go-to-market and virtual or online, that's what are behind this CHF 100 million. And we have there a lot of different projects, which will help us to get the costs down. So that was the one on savings. Then the second one on fiber. We have today a footprint of 72%, which has speeds more than 200 megabits per second. So that means short term, if we don't have a fiber-to-the-home footprint, we don't lose actually in the retail market short term. We will be competitive with this footprint, but not long, long term. Long, long term, we certainly need fiber to the home. And that's why we want to ramp up our fiber-to-the-home footprint. And on the one side, we see that in areas where we have fiber to the home that we can slightly increase the ARPU because of upselling, put them on higher tariffs. But at the end, it's always a question how competition will be in the turf where we made the rollout at the end. But in the existing rollout, we were able to gain a bit additional ARPU. Maybe Dirk, some words on this fiber.
Not exactly as you say. I mean, really I think wisely, we build up the fiber-to-the-street network so that we now have the 200 megabits, which at this point in time, for many households is a decent speed. You can have a couple of HD, UHD streams, do that browsing, gaming, whatever, not. So if you're not obsessed about super speed, then it's perfectly okay, really, really. And I think we also need to look at the trigger points for changes in your broadband service provider is mostly events around your household, marriage or divorce or you go abroad and you cancel the whole household and whatever, it's less so that you're like in the market and look for a better price. As long as, let's say, as you always would say, never touch a running system, particularly in terms of pandemic, we have seen -- if you look at our figures, we have seen in the last year churn in Q3 and Q4 decreasing in broadband despite of all the competitive activities that there is -- so it's really, let's make us confident that we have a good offer today, which obviously is not only the broadband line, but the whole TV service around it, the whole service proposition and so on and so forth. So I think for the time being, we are well positioned. But obviously, in the future, of course, we need to also continue to build further out.
Okay. On capitalized -- why is capitalized cost up? The answer is simple. We have quite a substantial insourcing program going on as part of our CapEx efficiency program. So there's an OpEx efficiency program and there is a CapEx efficiency program. And we have a substantial program of in-sourcing software development. By doing so, we can reduce the number of external parties we interact with. It's cheaper, it's better controlled and it leaves a better quality. We in-source among others in our service -- sorry, software development centers in Rotterdam and in Riga. So these people that we hire for software development, first show up in those fee, show up in gross personnel expense and then get CapEx because what they do is soft development and that goes into CapEx. So that's the reason for it.
Thank you, Eugen. Thank you, Josh. I suggest, we do one last question before closing today's meeting after 3 hours. [Yemi Falana].
Firstly, judging by your 4Q KPIs, it seems like your commercial traction in Switzerland has been improving. Could you perhaps provide some color on the run rate of your traction through the first few months of this year and perhaps a wider competitive environment as well? And then secondly, following on from your comments on not needing a partner for fiber investment, while I don't necessarily want to ask the long-term guidance, is it fair to assume that, that CHF 2.3 billion level is a medium-term CapEx flow with the dividend effectively setting the CapEx ceiling from here?
Thank you. I think on commercial momentum, Urs and Dirk can jointly take over this question or Dirk directly. And on the second question, the CapEx outlook, I think that is a question you, Eugen, can take over.
Okay. So with respect to the Q4 and the consumer market, as you already said it was an attempt, and I think, really good Q4 for us. And we want to operate on the full year on the business of that trajectory. Now if you compare to Q1 and to particularly January, then obviously, you can complete Q1 to Q4. We need to look at Q4 to another Q4, particularly because in Q4, you have all these like Christmas business, Black Friday promotions and so on and so forth. So business, let's say, has been a bit moderate, but as moderate as it albeit is in January. But we are -- I can say on our planned trajectory overall for the year in the first month of this year.
Unidentified Company Representative
I think it will be the same in B2B.
On CapEx outlook, obviously, it's much too early to talk about CapEx 2025 or beyond. You mentioned that the only thing I would say is, obviously, maintaining our dividend outlook is a major factor in determining the rollout program speed now or be it in 2 or 3 years, it will always play a major role in these considerations.
Okay. Thank you very much. At this point, is it [Call ends abruptly]