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EXHIBIT 99B.2
SELECTED CONSOLIDATED DATA (UNAUDITED) U S WEST, Inc.
Quarter Ended
Dollars in millions, March 31, %
except per share amounts 1995 1994 Change
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U S WEST, Inc. SELECTED STATISTICS
EBITDA (Note 1) $1,226 $1,145 7.1
EBITDA margin 43.4% 43.4% -
Capital expenditures $621 $600 3.5
Return on common equity 17.6% 21.3% -
Debt-to-capital ratio (Note 2) 53.6% 51.8%# -
Dividends per common share $0.535 $0.535 -
Common shares outstanding (thousands) 469,935 452,826 3.8
Employees (Note 3) 61,302 61,080 0.4
TELEPHONE COMPANY STATISTICS
Access lines (thousands):
Business 4,128 3,932 5.0
Consumer 10,325 10,027 3.0
Total access lines (Note 4) 14,453 13,959 3.5
Billed access minutes of use (millions):
Interstate 11,594 10,620 9.2
Intrastate 2,245 2,011 11.6
Total access minutes of use 13,839 12,631 9.6
EBITDA (Note 1) $1,053 $1,006 4.7
EBITDA margin 46.2% 45.4% -
Debt-to-capital ratio 61.9% 60.9%# -
Capital expenditures $543 $551 (1.5)
Employees 47,215 49,340 (4.3)
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# As of December 31, 1994
<F2>
Note 1: Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization,
and other (EBITDA). EBITDA also excludes gains on sales of assets and
equity losses.
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Note 2: Ratio excludes preferred stock. 1995 and 1994 Ratios
including the debt included in the net investment in assets
held for sale are 56.4% and 55.5%, respectively.
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Note 3: 1995 Includes 797 additional employees due to the May 1994
acquisition of Thomsom Directories, 903 due to the December 1994
acquisition of the Atlanta cable properties and 360 fewer employees
due to the June 1994 sale of Paging operations.
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Note 4: Access line growth, excluding 1995 rural exchange
sales of 50,000 lines, and 1994 second and fourth quarter rural
exchange sales of 41,000 lines, was 4.2%.
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EXHIBIT 99B.2
SELECTED CONSOLIDATED DATA (UNAUDITED) U S WEST, Inc.
Quarter Ended
Dollars in millions, March 31, %
except per share amounts 1995 1994 Change
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DOMESTIC CELLULAR DATA
Service revenue $185.5 $131.9 40.6
Equipment revenue $16.7 $21.9 (23.7)
Cellular service operating
cash flow (EBITDA) $62.3 $34.1 82.7
Cellular service operating
cash flow margin 33.6% 25.9% -
Cellular subscribers (consolidated) 1,048,000 665,000 57.6
Cellular subscribers (proportionate) 885,000 563,000 57.2
Total adjusted POPs (millions) 18.7 18.5 1.1
CABLE TELEVISION DATA (Note 5)
(Wholly Owned Subsidiary)
Basic subscribers served 501,000 466,000 7.5
Pay units 270,000 273,000 (1.1)
Homes passed 822,000 790,000 4.1
Basic penetration 60.9% 59.0% -
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<F1>
Note 5: U S WEST acquired the Atlanta cable TV properties on
December 6, 1994. The 1994 data is presented for comparative
purposes only.
<F2>
Note: Certain reclassifications have been made to conform
to the current year presentation.
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