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CORECOMM STRATEGY
First Truly Converged Phone Company
- Bundled phone / Internet / data services,
- Sold to residential and business customers,
- With "internet-centric" distribution
- Over both smart build and fiber direct networks
- To achieve low cost, high rate of return on investment
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MARKET FORCES
- ~$200 Billion U.S. market
- 50% willing to convert
- Unbundled local loop allows creative approach
- Rapid rollout & broad reach
- Efficient capital deployment
- High rates of return
- Internet useful as both product and process
- Residential market untouched
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SMART BUILD NETWORK
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| SWITCH / IP |
| GATEWAY |
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-------- -------- --------
| COLO | | COLO | / | HOME |
-------- -------- / --------
/
-------- City Fiber -------- -------
| COLO | Ring | COLO |----| MDU |
-------- -------- -------
\
\ -------
-------- -------- Leased \ | BIZ |
| COLO | | COLO | Copper/ -------
-------- -------- DSL
--------
| COLO |
--------
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SMART LEC ADVANTAGES
- Capital Efficient
- Lower overall cost
- Success-led
- Attractive margins; control the customer
- Rapid rollout (6-12 mos.)
- Residential and business reach
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
- Faster / larger telephone reach than cable
- ILEC can't bundle as well
- Other new entrants focused on business only
- Low-cost Internet-centric operations
- Local loop network via fiber provides killer app at the appropriate time
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CORECOMM SMART LEC
- CoreComm has perfected new technique:
- low colo's to start, build to suit later
- packages force all activations "in footprint"
- 85% "on net" achievable, no trapped investment
- migrating res customers not an issue
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MARKET DEPLOYMENT
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Potential
CURRENT 2000 2001-2003
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<S> <C> <C>
- Chicago - New York - Baltimore
Cleveland Boston Washington
Columbus Philadelphia Milwaukee
Detroit - +27 markets
- SBC;
Bell South;
US West
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THE RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITY
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BUSINESS RESIDENTIAL
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<S> <C> <C>
MARKET SIZE ~$100 BILLION ~$100 BILLION
# OF CLECS 10-20 1-2
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Source: Based on FCC data and Company estimates
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RESIDENTIAL BUNDLE - ECHAT
- Simple, attractive offer: Telephone + Internet for price of
telephone alone
- $25 to $39 per month minimum plus additional features and usage
- Targets Internet customers:
- spend more, $10-$15 higher average
- convert to high speed, $30-$40 for DSL
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NTL -- FEBRUARY 1996
For Pound Sterling 8.87
BT lets you talk.
[GRAPHIC]
For Pound Sterling 8.87
we give you something
to talk about.
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"INTERNET-CENTRIC"
- Every customer will be an Internet customer
- On-line:
- sales, sign-up & provisioning
- feature selection
- billing
- customer care / MAC
- Lowers costs, speeds rollout
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BUSINESS BUNDLE - COREPACK
- Bundled Package for 5-15 lines
- telephone, internet, local calls, LD, v-mail
- $55.95 per month per line
- DSL for high speed, $125-$350 per month
- Integrated T-1 for 15-50 lines
- telephone, data, internet bundle
- $1500 - $2500 min per account
- web services too
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ATTRACTIVE ECONOMICS
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<S> <C> <C> <C>
CAPEX / LINE TEL & INT W/ DSL
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Switching & Facilities $300 - $300
Provisioning / set-up 75 - 75
Internet and Other 25 - 350
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$400 - $725
MONTHLY REVENUE / LINE LOW HIGH
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Telephony $50 - $65
Internet / DSL 0 - 35
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Total $50 - $100
Gross Profit $25 - $60 (50-60% margin)
EBITDA $12 - $40 (25-40% margin)
Annualized EBITDA $144 - $480
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Unlevered Return 36% - 66%
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SAMPLE MARKET ECONOMICS
($ in Millions)
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CLEVELAND, OHIO
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- Total Telephone Lines 1,7000,000
- Sample Penetration 6%
- Access Lines (Res & Bus) 100,000
- Total Revenue $ 80 mm
- EBITDA $ 28 mm
- Total Investment $ 55 mm
- Initial Capex: $6.5 million
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CURRENT TELEPHONY CUSTOMER BASE
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CURRENT CURRENT 2005E
ACCESS LINES(1) PENETRATION PENETRATION
SWITCH -------------------------- ----------- -----------
MARKET RES BUS TOTAL RES BUS RES BUS
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Cleveland 18,900 14,500 33,400 1.6% 2.7% 6% 7%
Columbus 16,400 5,500 21,900 2.2% 1.8% 6% 7%
Philadelphia 500 137,300 137,800 NM 4.1% 6% 7%
Chicago 4,520 10,400 14,920 0.1% 0.6% 6% 7%
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(1) Q3 Actual. Local lines only. Excludes 18,800 dedicated lines and long
distance lines.
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GROSS ADDITIONS
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RESIDENTIAL
<S> <C>
Q1 8,750
Q2 9,400
Q3 11,800
2001E AVG/Q 10,250
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BUSINESS
Q1 Q2 Q3* 2001E AVG/Q
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
ATX 13,100 17,150 17,280 9,525
COMM 2,950 4,300 7,250 9,900
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16,050 21,450 24,550 19,425
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* ATX Q3 additions normalized for Verizon strike. Actual additions or Q3 were
8,126. September additions were 5,760.
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RESIDENTIAL MARKETING
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Q3 2000
GROSS ADDS BY CHANNEL
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<S> <C>
Referral 42%
Core.com 20%
Direct Mail 14%
Telesales 14%
Other 10%
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Total 100%
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Acquisition Costs: CURRENT Q4 TARGET PROJECTED
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<S> <C> <C> <C>
Total Sales & Marketing/
Gross Add $240 $170 $120
(includes
branding)
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WWW.CORE.COM IMPLEMENTATION
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MARCH JUNE SEPT
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<S> <C> <C> <C>
% of gross adds 9% 15% 23%
Hits/ Day 51,871 75,438 181,804
1st time visitors 50,800 57,463 59,118
E-mails answered 1,058 2,143 4,406
Avg.response time (min) 9.4 7.8 6.0
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ON-NET AND MIGRATION
(CLEVELAND & COLUMBUS)
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RES BUS
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<S> <C> <C>
- Intial target on-net percentage 65% 75%
- Q3 '00 additions - % on-net 38% 70%
- Total Customers - in footprint 67% 69%
- Total off-net customers remaining 28,095 15,746
- # of additional collocations to reach
approximately 85% in footprint 9
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RECENT ACQUISITIONS
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CORECOMM PRO FORMA FOR ACQUISITIONS
($ in Millions)
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PRO FORMA
CORECOMM VOYAGER.NET ATX COMBINED
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Revenue (Q3 annualized) $73 $74 $153 $300
Residential Local Access Lines 44,230 44,230
Business Local Access Lines 61,960 137,300 199,260
Internet Subscribers 99,000 358,000 4,600 461,600
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ATX OVERVIEW
- Same strategy, business focus
- Mid-Atlantic region, strong sales experience
- "Integrated T" approach
-web hosting and ASP services too
- 137,000 local access lines
- $161 million revenues, breakeven EBITDA
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VOYAGER.NET OVERVIEW
- Largest ISP in Great Lakes region
- 360,000 subscribers
- Significant network (200 POPs)
- Superior Internet management
- $75 million revenues; $12 million EBITDA
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ECONOMICS OF INTERNET SUBSCRIBERS
VOYAGER.NET:
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SUBS REVENUE EBITDA
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360,000 $75 mm $12 mm
CORECOMM / VOYAGER:
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% REV./ ANNUAL
PEN. RGU'S SUB/MO REVENUE EBITDA
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Telephony 25% 90,000 $60 $ 65 million
DSL 25% 90,000 $40 $ 43 million
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$ 108 million $ 40 million
Acquisition Multiple (excluding subscriber growth):
AT ACQUISITION PRO FORMA
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Revenue 2.7x 1.1x
EBITDA 17.1x 3.9x
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CORECOMM
DIRECT FIBER STRATEGY
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"KILLER APP" LOCAL LOOP NETWORK
- Rapid Deployment
- Within CoreComm existing cities
- Telephone & Internet gateway available
- MDU targets -- available metro fiber
- Compelling economics, service control
- Strategic Partners - Cisco, IBM, Corning
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SMART BUILD NETWORK
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
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SWITCH / IP
GATEWAY
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------ ------
COLO COLO
------ ------
------
HOME
------
------ ------ ------
COLO CITY FIBER COLO MDU
------ RING ------ ------
------
LEASED BIZ
COPPER/ ------
DSL
------ ------
COLO COLO
------ ------
------
COLO
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FIBER DIRECT NETWORK
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
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SWITCH / IP
GATEWAY
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MDU MDU
----- -----
------
HOME
------
------ ------ ------
COLO CITY FIBER COLO MDU
------ RING ------ ------
------
----- ----- LEASED BIZ
BIZ BIZ COPPER/ ------
----- ----- DSL
------
COLO
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SUMMARY OF SYSTEM COSTS
- DEPLOYMENTS COSTS
- PER PREMISE: $503
- PER SUBSCRIBER: $658 (10 MBPS DATA)
- TOTAL COST PER CUSTOMER
- $1,900 TO $2,400 (TODAY)
- 30% TO 40% PENETRATION
- SIGNIFICANT DECLINES EXPECTED
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SUMMARY
- Attractive Economics
- Achievable Plan
- Components in Place
- Early-Mover Advantage
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