EXHIBIT 99A.5
SELECTED CONSOLIDATED DATA U S WEST, INC.
(UNAUDITED)
As of and for the As of and for the
Quarter Ended Nine Months Ended
September 30, % September 30, %
1999 1998 Change 1999 1998 Change
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Access lines
(thousands):
Business 5,008 4,903 2.1
Consumer 11,904 11,505 3.5
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Total access lines 16,912 16,408 3.1
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Billed access minutes
of use (millions):
Interstate 15,487 14,707 5.3 46,207 43,868 5.3
Intrastate 3,270 3,107 5.2 9,625 9,206 4.6
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Total minutes of use 18,757 17,814 5.3 55,832 53,074 5.2
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Wireless/PCS:
Revenues(millions) $ 69 $ 25 176.0 $166 $50 232.0
Subscribers(thousands) 344 104 230.8
ARPU (Dollars) $ 58 $ 46 26.1
Wtd Avg Penetration 2.6% 1.6% 62.5
Data Revenues(millions):
Frame Relay $45.6 $34.1 33.7 $126.9 $95.0 33.6
Private Line
LAN Interconnect 36.1 31.0 16.5 105.7 90.5 16.8
ISDN 62.8 36.8 70.7 174.7 103.5 68.8
USW.Net/Megabit(DSL) 19.7 4.7 319.1 48.9 7.1 588.7
Other !NTERPRISE 56.7 33.4 69.8 139.7 80.9 72.7
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Subtotal !NTERPRISE 220.9 140.0 57.8 595.9 377.0 58.1
Other Special Access
& Private Line 222.4 192.4 15.6 640.3 556.2 15.1
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Total Data Revenues $ 443.3 $ 332.4 33.4 $1,236.2 $933.2 32.5
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Total Special Access
and Private Line (#1) $ 304.1 $ 257.5 18.1 $ 872.9 $741.7 17.7
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Additional Data Stats:
XDSL Equipped
Central Offices (C.O.) 237 N.A.
Subscribers per XDSL
Equipped C.O.'s 338 N.A.
Employees:
U S WEST, Inc. 56,634 53,758 5.3
Telephone
operations only 47,758 45,654 4.6
Telephone empl per
10,000 access lines 28.2 27.8 1.4
Dividends per
common share $0.535 $0.535 0.0 $1.820 $1.605 13.4
Common shares
outstanding(millions) 505.0 502.1 0.6
Capital expend
(millions) $1,051 $589 78.4 $2,819 $1,920 46.8
EBITDA (millions)(#2) 1,465 1,357 8.0 4,288 3,923 9.3
EBITDA margin 44.2% 43.6% 1.4 43.9% 42.8% 2.6
Debt-to-capital
ratio (#3) 60.2% 56.0% 7.5
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<F1>
# 1: Includes Frame Relay, Private Line LAN Interconnect and Other
Special Access and Private Line revenues.
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# 2: Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization,
and other (EBITDA).
<F3>
# 3: Telephone operations only.
<F4>
N.A. = Not Available
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