Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos De Venezuela
Ticker:VNT Edificio CANTV, Primer Piso, Avenida Libertador
Exchange:NASDAQ-National Market Caracas, VEN
Industry:Service (SIC Code 4813)

Offering Information
Type of Shares:American Depositary Receipts Filing Date:10/23/96
U.S. Shares:20,520,000 Offer Date:1/21/97
Non-U.S. Shares:24,108,571 Filing Range:$21.50 - $24.50
Primary Shares:0 Offer Price:$23.00
Secondary Shares:44,628,571 Gross Spread:$0.55
Offering Amount: $1,026,457,133 Selling:$0.33
Expenses:$5,100,000 Reallowance:$0.10
Shares Out After:142,857,100

Primary Underwriting Group
ManagerTierPhone
Lehman Brothers IncorporatedLead Manager (212) 526-8100
CS First BostonCo-manager (212) 325-2000
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Co-manager (212) 371-0641
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.Co-manager (212) 648-0517
SBC Warburg & CompanyCo-manager (212) 224-7274

Legal Counsel, Auditor and Registrar
Issuer's Law Firm: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Bank's Law Firm: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Auditor: Arthur Andersen
Registrar/Transfer Agent: Citibank, NY

Selected Financial Data

Dollar amounts in U.S. millions except for per share data
6 Month Ending Financials
Full Year
Audited
Income
Latest
Unaudited
Income
Prior
Unaudited
Income
Balance
Sheet
12/31/95 6/30/96 6/30/96
Revenue:$1,203.00$544.00Assets:$3,362.00
Net Income:$1.00-$15.00Curr Assets:
EPS:$0.00-$0.10Liabilities:$1,302.00
Prior EPS:Curr Liabilities:
Cash Flow/Oper:$557.00Equity:$2,060.00
Cash Flow/Fin:Cash:
Cash Flow/Inv:

Business Description
The company is a full service telecommunications provider offering switched, fixed local and domestic and international long distance telephone service throughout Venezuela on an exclusive basis until October 2000, except in limited circumstances. The company also offers cellular services, paging services, public telephones, community telecommunications centers, private networks, rural telephone services, packet-switched data transmission, directory information services and other value added services. The company owns all of the Venezuelan public exchanges and the nationwide network of public telephone lines and public national and international long distance telephone transmission facilities. The company had gross revenues and net income of Bs. 565.4 billion and Bs. 25.7 billion, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 1995 and gross revenues and net income of Bs. 255.8 billion and Bs. 31.3 billion respectively, for the six months ended June 30, 1996.

Competition
Under the Concession, the company is to be the exclusive provider of local, domestic and international switched, fixed telephone services in Venezuela until October 2000, except in limited circumstances. For a description of the regulatory framework applicable to the company. Several entities are competing with the company in particular areas of its business. The company faces competition from companies providing leased private line networks.

Business Plan
The company's strategy is to seek to achieve profitable growth in its telecommunications business by continuing to expand its network, increase market penetration, broaden service offerings, increase network utilization, reduce costs and improve productivity. Key elements of the company's strategy include: 1) improve profitability through increased marketing focus; 2) continue cost reductions and productivity gains; 3) continue expanding mobile services; 4) grow value added services; 4) implement an interconnect strategy.

Use of Proceeds
The proceeds from the proposed offering will be distributed to selling shareholders.

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