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Q1 2015 Earnings Call· Thu, Apr 30, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Hello and welcome to the Time Warner Cable First Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time. Now, I'll turn the call over to Mr. Tom Robey, Senior Vice President of Time Warner Cable Investor Relations. Thank you sir, you may begin.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks Candy and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Time Warner Cable's 2015 first quarter earnings conference call. This morning, we issued a press release detailing our 2015 first quarter results. Before we begin, there are several items I need to cover. First, we refer to certain non-GAAP measures. Definitions and schedules setting out reconciliations of these historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our earnings release and trending schedules. Second, today's conference call includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein due to various factors which are discussed in detail in our SEC filings. Time Warner Cable is under no obligation to and in fact expressly disclaims any such obligation to update or alter its forward-looking statements weather as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Third, the quarterly growth rates disclosed on this conference call are on a year-over-year basis, unless otherwise noted as being sequential. Fourth, today's press release, trending schedules, presentation slides and related reconciliation schedules are available on our website at TWC.com/investors. Finally, following prepared comments by Rob Marcus and Artie Minson, Rob, Artie and COO Dinni Jain will be available to answer your questions. With that covered, I'll thank you and turn the call over to Rob. Rob? Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Tom, and good morning, everyone. While the termination of our merger with Comcast and speculation about other M&A continue to grab most of the headlines, this morning, I'd like to focus on the fundamental strength of our…

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Artie. Candy, we're ready to begin the Q&A portion of the call. We would ask each caller to ask a single question so that we can accommodate as many callers as time permits. First question please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our first question comes from Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson.

Craig E. Moffett - MoffettNathanson LLC

Analyst · MoffettNathanson

Hi. Good morning. So I guess I have to ask about the elephant in the room, but given Artie's discussion about the payoff for the investments you're making now really doesn't come in until 2016. How do you think about the M&A opportunities in front of you between now and 2016? Would you prefer to defer any decisions until after you start to see the flywheel as already described it paying benefits? Or can that all be priced in upfront and whether you're a buyer or seller or what have you? Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Craig, it's Rob, I'll take it. You know that we're not really going to respond to questions about any M&A except to say that one, as we made it abundantly clear this morning, we feel great about the operating health of our business right now, and two, we're going to be guided by the same principles that have guided us heretofore, which is doing what's in the best interest of our shareholders. Period.

Craig E. Moffett - MoffettNathanson LLC

Analyst · MoffettNathanson

Okay. Can I slip in an operating question then if I can't get a – (28:59)? Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Go for it, Craig.

Craig E. Moffett - MoffettNathanson LLC

Analyst · MoffettNathanson

Where are the subscribers coming from? The numbers you put out in basic video especially are particularly strong. Are you seeing a real sea change with respect to satellite TV or is it weakness in AT&T viewers or some combination of the two?

Dinesh C. Jain - Chief Operating Officer

Analyst · MoffettNathanson

Craig, this is Dinni. It's always tempting to look at this as complete a zero-sum game as if, if we're growing that that absolutely means that somebody else is doing something bad or not executing as well as they want to. I think the reality is, there are a lot of jump balls as we call them. Every time a customer moves, every time a customer is looking to change, and we are winning a lot more of those jump balls and we were winning last year or the year before. And I think that's because we're so focused – we're so focused on a lot of small things from an execution standpoint. And I think we're slowly winning on those things. So I don't think that there is a great answer there for you. We have a triple-play offer that's not dissimilar from a lot of the others in the industry. We're not particularly really aggressive in our offers or in our promotions, but what we're doing is executing very well on both sales and marketing, particularly in care and tech ops. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: The only thing I'd throw in, in addition to what Dinni just said is that our performance is improving against all competitors. And in fact when you look at how we're performing in markets where we compete with FiOS and U-verse, connects are up and disconnects are down. And that really reflects the strength we're seeing against all players.

Craig E. Moffett - MoffettNathanson LLC

Analyst · MoffettNathanson

Right. Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks Craig. Next question please, Candy.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Jessica Reif Cohen of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Jessica Jean Reif Cohen - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

Thanks. Also two questions if it's okay. First, on your calendar 2016 guidance, it's a bit lower than what you've stated in the past. What changed? Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, Jessica, it's Artie. There's a couple of things I would point out. One is obviously pension. We talked about $26 million year-over-year in Q1. So, if you analyze that, that is $100 million right there. The second is obviously, we do not have a Dodgers deal at this point so that that certainly has an impact and programming costs have also been higher than we had anticipated. Obviously 12.2% per basic sub growth was more than we had anticipated than when we did the plan. Jessica, was your question 2015 or 2016, I'm sorry?

Jessica Jean Reif Cohen - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

2016. Is that – I think Artie, it was 2016. Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: 2016, and my answers really were applying to 2015. I think 2016, you also have ad sales is also – we will be presumably off a lower base going into next year as well, so that also has an impact. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: I would just say Jessica, as an overall comment, relative to the three-year plan we articulated prior to the announcement of the Comcast deal, we feel very good about how we're tracking. Any plan, you have puts and takes, some things you're ahead on, some things you're a little bit behind on. With respect to subscriber metrics, we're tracking extremely well. We're ahead of where we thought we'd be. With respect to underlying operating metrics, how we're doing in terms of improving the customer experience, we're ahead. Admittedly, that's requiring some additional investment. And as a result, we're tracking a little bit behind on OIBDA. But overall, I feel like we're tracking very well against the plan.

Jessica Jean Reif Cohen - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

And so my second question actually relates to the tremendous growth that you've had, I mean the improvement in video subs. It's really encouraging how much you've improved over the last few quarters. What is your longer-term view of pay-TV penetration and the bundle overall? Can you give us – how do you see this playing out? Will we have a full bundle, which seems to be a better value proposition? Or do you think consumers want skinny packages? Will they move to OTC? How do you think about it?

Dinesh C. Jain - Chief Operating Officer

Analyst · MoffettNathanson

I think there's a lot of play left in the plan that we're executing right now. I think there's a lot of play left with triple-play. And just a little while ago, people were acting like the phone product was completely dead and the ability for us to go out and aggressively sell phone as part of a triple-play was very limited. And I think we've shown that that's not actually the case. There's a lot of attraction in the press about skinny packages. I think a lot of the times, customers don't want to get bogged down in a lot of choices to make on those kinds of things. There's a lot of value in our triple-play packaging right now and it's a simpler sale. And I think that there's a lot of play in that. And I think that in terms of skinny packages, we don't want to be pioneers on that. There's a lot of talk and a lot of work going on out there from other guys. And if any of their things work, we'll just be fast followers on that stuff because I think there are some segments of our customer base where that is going to have appeal.

Jessica Jean Reif Cohen - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Jessica. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Ben Swinburne of Morgan Stanley. Benjamin Swinburne - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Thanks, good morning. Artie, just quickly, is 3.25 leverage still the target on Norstar that we should be thinking about? And just to clarify, are you assuming that Dodgers are carried in 2016, in the 2016 guidance or not? And then my real question maybe for Rob or Dinni is, the customer metrics are clearly strong. I think you guys have had your new pricing and packaging out for about a year. But the ARPU growth, and you had some price increases in Q1, the revenue growth per customer relationship was about 1%. And I'm wondering given you talk about high-quality subs coming in on both video and data, and we should be lapping some earlier promos, why isn't that number higher now? And do you expect that to accelerate this year? Or is that really more going to take place next year based on your current plan? Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, Ben, it's Artie. Let me – with respect to the Dodgers, I'm not going to get into sort of any of the specifics – underlying assumptions in the plan. We continue to think that Dodgers product is a great product and I will leave it at that. In the 3.25, as I indicated in my proactive remarks, we will be engaging with the board on a review of our overall capital allocation philosophy. So I frankly don't want to get ahead of those conversations either. One, before I turn it over to Rob and Dinni on the ARPU per CR, one thing I would just point out is, we are, which is a good thing, increasing the denominator on customer relationships. We're…

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Ben. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Next question of John Hodulik with UBS.

John C. Hodulik - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst

Hey, thanks, guys. Just a couple of questions around the CapEx guidance. You guys did about 20% of sales this quarter, up pretty meaningfully versus on a year ago number. Is that 20% a good number? I know it's a ways out, but does CapEx fall in 2016? Is 2016 sort of the top? Or how do you expect that as a percentage of sales curve to sort of flow through? Thanks. Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Obviously, we didn't give 2016 capital guidance today and I'm not – in the proactive remarks, and I'm not going to give any additional color today. What I will tell you is, we continue to be really pleased with the returns we're seeing on our CapEx spend. It has, I think the proof is obviously in our operating performance, our customer metrics, where we sat last year, there were things we really wanted to accomplish when we made the investments, which was, improve our product reliability, improve our network reliability, make sure our customers had the best equipment in their homes for new customers, go into existing customers' homes and take out equipment that we thought was not optimizing the experience. And I think the proof is in the subscriber results today. So to the extent we continue to see those results which we expect to, I think that obviously requires capital, but there's a great return on that capital. Obviously also, we continue to invest in Business Services. The business is at a $3.1 billion run rate. We added 12,000 buildings to the network this quarter, and that's another place you're going to continue to see investments. But all that has very, very good returns on it.

John C. Hodulik - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst

Okay. Thanks for the color.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, John. Next question please, Candy.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Phil Cusick of JPMorgan.

Philip A. Cusick - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Thanks. Same topic from a different direction. As I think about the all-digital pacing, where do you think you can be in terms of markets or subscriber or footprint by the end of 2015 and when does the all-digital transition sort of get done? And then the other side of it is, on the set-top box, your high-end box, I would say, is much better than you've had historically, but probably not up to the level of an X1 and some of the competitors. How do you think about the durability of that box in the marketplace long-term and do you think about doing something else? Thanks. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Phil, we've laid out the schedule for rolling out TWC Maxx, which really includes the all-digital conversion. I think that takes us to somewhere between 40% and 50% of the footprint by the end of the year in terms of homes passed. And the exact pace at which we continue that process in 2016 and 2017 I think in part depends on the experience we have in 2015, where we're feeling better about our ability to roll out all-digital this year than we did last year, which was really the first year of the program. And we'll evaluate as we go into 2016 how quickly we think we can ramp the next batch of systems, so that's the pacing. In terms of the set-top box question, I think your question really goes to the guide or the user interface as opposed to the box. Is that correct?

Philip A. Cusick - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Yeah. That's fair. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. So look, right now, we have on – I believe 8 million set-top boxes, so a real mass deployment, what I think of as a very robust cloud-based guide. And I think that concept of having a guide in front of that many customers, that great of proportion of our total subscriber base, might be ahead of the rest of the pack in the industry. It's – the current version of that guide has a great rich graphical user interface, and we've seen the impact of that already in that usage of VOD amongst customers who have that guide, is a lot higher than on the prior boxes. So I feel very good about where we are in terms of the guide. We do have a next-generation cloud-based guide, which is following this one, which is in some paying customers' homes right now and will be more broadly deployed in the back half of this year. But that only makes what we've got today even better. I feel very good about the current guide offering.

Philip A. Cusick - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst

Thanks, Rob.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Phil. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Rich Greenfield of BTIG.

Rich S. Greenfield - BTIG LLC

Analyst

Hi. A couple questions. First, just video ARPU improved from flat year-over-year in Q1 last year to up 2% in Q1 2015, while your high-speed ARPU growth went from up 9% a year ago to only up 3%. Why is data ARPU growth slowing while video ARPU growth is improving? I assume there's discounting in there as well as year-over-year rate increase timing but just, could you give us a bit more clarity on how those metrics are performing. Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Sure. Hey, Rich, it's Artie. What you may recall is, if you go back over a year ago, we were doing, what I would call, product rate increases. So you may, at one point in the year, get a video rate increase, and you may, at another point in the year, get an HSD increase. You may recall in the comparison year you have that we increased our HSD modem fee, and that drove HSD ARPU in that year. This year when we went out, we went to what we call the unified rate increase, which was one increase to a customer per year regardless of the number of products, and that had more of a allocation across the different product lines of that increase. So as we've said in the past, we tend to not sort of focus too much on the individual product ARPUs, but that difference in approach to how we do rate increases is impacting the year-over-year product ARPU comparisons.

Rich S. Greenfield - BTIG LLC

Analyst

And then just a question for Rob because I think this is kind of the elephant in the room in terms of your stock price. How do you think about the value currently of your stock? Given the performance of the company today versus a year ago, obviously stock is up a lot from when you had a whole bunch of approaches over a year ago. How do you think about the intrinsic value of where your stock is currently trading? And how investors currently perceive the company at current levels? Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah, Rich, your connection is lousy, so I only heard part of it, but I think I got the gist. We're not going to comment except to say that everything we said today supports the notion that we feel great about the spot we're in. We think that our strength yields terrific confidence for the future. And we're pleased with the overall health of the business, period, end of story.

Rich S. Greenfield - BTIG LLC

Analyst

Thanks.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Rich. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Jason Bazinet with Citi.

Jason Boisvert Bazinet - Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Analyst

Just a quick question for Mr. Marcus. Maybe a strange one in light of your positive net adds on Video, but I know investors care about it given some of the bigger changes maybe going on in the industry. If a customer ends up terminating their video subscription with you and you have a, whatever it is, $35 gross profit shortfall, how do you internally think about bridging the gap to claw back to break even? In other words, is it taking standalone data higher, is it consumption data, are there other costs in there where video isn't as profitable as it may appear? Just how do you think about that? Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah, Jason, I've been asked that question numerous times in the past. And I think it departs from the reality of the marketplace. At the end of the day, we've got to figure out how to have competitive products that are really compelling to customers. So it's not so simple as taking money from one bucket and sticking it in another bucket. We're very focused on delivering compelling products to customers at a price that delivers real value. And beyond that, we think the rest is going to work itself out. But we can't think in terms of taking gross margin dollars that are lost because we lose a video customer and somehow embedding those into HSD and not seeing an impact on HSD. So I think we're going to not really think about the world quite that way.

Jason Boisvert Bazinet - Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Analyst

Okay. All right. Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Jason. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Amy Yong from Macquarie. Amy Yong - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Thanks. My question is actually on AT&T and DTV. And I guess with the merger closing around May, June, do you anticipate any bigger changes on the promotional side or competitive landscape? And then just really quickly, Artie, how do we think about cash taxes for this year? Thanks. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: On DIRECTV-AT&T, obviously, that deal has not yet closed. And at this point, no, we don't anticipate any change really in the promotional pricing. Arguably a deal like that where two companies that actually do compete with one another in the marketplace, if it were to close, would reduce the number of competitors in the marketplace. And as a general matter, that's good for the other participants in the marketplace, so I'm not terribly worried about it. Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: And Amy, our cash taxes, at this point, our outlook is about $475 million for the year. If there was an extension of bonus depreciation, that may reduce cash taxes by another $100 million. You'll recall that last year, it happened so late in the year that frankly, we had already made our estimated tax payments. So with no extension, you're sort of looking in the $475 million range. Amy Yong - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Great. Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Amy. Next question please, Candy.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Tom Eagan with Telsey Advisors.

Thomas William Eagan - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

Analyst

Super. Thank you very much. Rob, I think it was the last earnings call, you mentioned that the CBC Wi-Fi offer was interesting, but you felt the need for some kind of backup. Any comments on Wi-Fi. Thanks. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: I'm not sure I have much to add to what I said last quarter. We continue to be big fans of Wi-Fi. Our high-speed data customers now I think have access to something like 400,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country, when you include both the Wi-Fi hotspots that we've deployed and the Wi-Fi hotspots of our various cable partners. I think that's a great value-add. We saw increased usage amongst our high-speed data customers of Wi-Fi this quarter. So we'll continue to invest to broaden that network because we think it makes our high-speed data product that much more attractive. Whether or not there's a play which is more of a cellular replacement strategy, which may include voice, I think that remains to be seen. I said that I thought the Freewheel offering from Cablevision was intriguing, but I'm inclined to watch and see how that evolves and then we'll see how best to develop our own strategy on that front.

Thomas William Eagan - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Tom. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Marci Ryvicker with Wells Fargo.

Marci L. Ryvicker - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst

Thanks. I have two. In your prepared remarks, you talked about the timing of rate increases this year versus last year. Can you say anything about the magnitude? And then secondly, given all of the uncertainty obviously going around the deal, how are you positioned from a personnel perspective? Is there going to be some sort of hiring outreach? Thanks. Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: On the rate increases, Marci, some of them hit Q1. And we'll basically get a full quarter impact on Q2. You will recall that last year as I said, it's almost a sea change in how we did rate increases whereas last year, we had more rate increases in different quarters, particularly around HSD and modem fees, so really a different approach. What I would tell you is overall this year, our rate increases went to more customers, but the average customer got a meaningfully lower rate increase. So we talk a lot about the goal of getting back to a balance of rate and volume. And obviously one of the ways we did that is to not be as dependent on higher rate increases. So we went broader with them, but not as much on individual bills. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Marci, as far as the team goes, one of the things that I am proudest of and has impressed me the most over the course of the last year and change is just how fabulously the team has hung together and performed in the face of what were at times challenging circumstances. Bottom line is, if this team could hang together through what we just went through, we're about as well positioned for the future as one could imagine. So I feel very good about where we sit in terms of the team.

Marci L. Ryvicker - Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Analyst

Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Marci. Next question, please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Mike McCormack of Jefferies.

Michael L. McCormack - Jefferies LLC

Analyst

Hey, guys. Thanks. Artie, maybe just a quick comment on the programming expense trend, maybe on a per sub basis and what you're contemplating in the guide. And then one for Rob, thinking about the, I guess, the future of TV watching and the younger demo, is there a movement at some point to a set-top or CPE Lite model meeting the demand for maybe the current product, but only on an app space basis? Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: On the programming increase, we obviously didn't get into any specifics in the full-year guide. What I would tell you though is a lot of the dynamics we saw in Q1 do continue through the rest of the year. There are some lapping of products that were launched later in 2014. But we frankly – I think you're not going to see that much of a change this year. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Mike, in terms of the concept of a set-top boxless video product. First, before I get to it, let me just say that there tends to be, in my opinion, an obsessive interest in millennials, maybe at the expense of the broader customer base. And I would tell you that for most of our customers, the vast majority of our customers, the way we currently deliver the video product is pretty darn attractive. That said, sure, there's a group of customers who might very well like to access video via other means. And that's one thing we've been incredibly aggressive on over the last several years is making the video product available on multiple platforms, whether it's iOS platforms, iPads and iPhones, Android-based platforms. Most recently, we launched the Xbox. So it is definitely the case that over time, I can see a world where more and more customers consume our offering without needing to lease a set-top box from us. But that doesn't mean we're going to abandon the largest portion of our customers who actually do like the current model.

Michael L. McCormack - Jefferies LLC

Analyst

Yes. It just seems like if you can move to no truck roll, self-install and a cable modem and save on that side and the cost side, it could be an interesting model going forward. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Without a doubt, for a certain portion of our customer population, that could be incredibly attractive to them and maybe financially very interesting for us.

Michael L. McCormack - Jefferies LLC

Analyst

Great. Thanks, guys.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Mike. Next question please.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Next question of Vijay Jayant with Evercore ISI.

Vijay Jayant - Evercore ISI

Analyst

Thanks. I just wanted to – you're talking about nearly 10% EBITDA growth – OIBDA in 2016. Can you give any breakdown on how much of that is really going to be driven by step ups in promotional pricing going to full-rate pricing versus some of the investments in customer care and tech ops sort of normalizing so that we get a better sense? And I have a follow-up. Thanks. Arthur T. Minson - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, Vijay. It's Artie. I would just point out a couple of things. To your point on tech ops and customer care, we basically have had the stair-step increase in investment this year. And so that, to your point, begins to normalize out. As you think about programming, I would think we don't have any new launches on the horizon right now. We also though, I think the really key thing is, and I talked a little bit sort of as the Flywheel of the business, when you start adding subscribers and have that momentum and have a full year of subscriber add wind at your back, this year, we're still dealing with losing subscribers and losing individual products last year, it's impacting this year's results. That is sort of the biggest driver of the overall increase. You saw the acceleration in residential growth. But that should – that growth rate should continue to accelerate next year and you continue to see strong growth in Business Services. And on the ad sales front, it's obviously a political year, so that provides some benefit as well.

Vijay Jayant - Evercore ISI

Analyst

On Title II broadly, obviously you guys still investing on your network and increasing broadband speeds. Can you talk about any changes in how you're thinking about raising high-speed data pricing longer term or the prospect of introducing (58:23) pricing given what you know now? Thank you. Robert D. Marcus - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: At this point in time, no changes to our overall philosophy, but obviously we're going to be watching closely how things unfold on the Title II front. We've said in the past that our normal business practices comply entirely with the notion of the open Internet, no blocking, no discrimination, no throttling, and transparency are fundamental parts of the way we do business. So to the extent that that's the full scope of what's getting incremented under Title II, I think you won't see a change in the way we do business. To the extent that something more comes from this, as we would describe an excessively broad grant of authority, then we'll have to revisit the way we're approaching investment and pricing.

Vijay Jayant - Evercore ISI

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Vijay. I think that's all we have time for this morning.

Thomas Robey - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Management

For those of you planning ahead, our second quarter earnings conference call will be held on Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time. Thanks for joining us.

Operator

Operator

Thank you for your participation. That does conclude today's conference. You may disconnect at this time.