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uCloudlink Group Inc.
5/31/2022
Hello and welcome to the uCloud Link Group, Inc. first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing star then zero on your telephone keypad. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Jillian Zhang, investor relations of the company. Please go ahead.
Thanks everyone for joining us on our first quarter 2022 earnings call today. The earliest release is now available on our IR website at ir.euclolink.com, as well as our NewsWare survey. I will give a brief introduction to our Euclolink management team. Zhi Ping Peng is our co-founder and chairman of board of directors. Chao Hui Chen is our co-founder, director, and chief executive officer. Yi Mengshi is our chief financial officer. Zhu Tan is our vice president of marketing and sales. Our CEO will begin with an overview of our company and business highlights, which will cover section one of the earnings presentation posted on our IR website. Our CFO, Yi Mengshi, will then discuss our operations highlights and financial results as presented in Sections 2 and 3. Before we proceed, please note that this Quorum contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and observations that involve the known and unknown risk uncertainties and other factors not under the company's control, which may cause actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be materially different from the results, performance, or expectations implied by this forward-looking statement. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements, risk factors, and details of the company's filings with the FCC. The company does not assume any obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events, chance in market conditions, or otherwise expect as required by law. Please also note that EuclidLink's earnings press release and this conference call include discussions of non-audited gap financial information as well as non-audited non-gap financial measures. EuclidLink's press release contains a reconciliation of the non-audited non-gap measures to the non-audited most directly compared gap measures. I will now turn the call over to our co-founder and CEO, Mr. Chao-Hui Chen. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Page 4 to page 12 are similar contents as the earning presentation of first quarter of year 2021. We still encourage you to review in the quarter one year 2022 earning presentation. upload to our investor relationship website with some latest updates. Hence, I will now elaborate on a path similar with quarter four earning results, but will instead focus on our most recent developments in the fourth quarter. Please turn to page 13. uClouding 1.0 is our international data connectivity services business, which has had a strong track record of high gross margins and profitability with ongoing growth potential. We have established an intelligent wholesale to retail repackaging solution to minimize unit cost of data traffic. In that, as data packages of single operators across mobile network operators, mobile virtual network operators are priced differently. This is attributable to our large SIM card pool and our ability to acquire data packages at a local wholesale price from operator and partners. We further differentiate ourselves with our multi-network reselection and combination technologies, which could ensure high-quality data connectivity and improve user experience. uClouding 1.0 business monetized model includes retail to see rental or selling to the end user, wholesale to be for business partners, and our PaaS and SaaS services such as CRM, billing management, devices selling, and rental management, etc. For wholesale-to-be, we can act as a reseller or provide commission services to our business partners. We allow our business partners to share data traffic pools through our PaaS and SaaS platform and charge a commission fee. During the first quarter of the year 2022, our 1.0 business revenues have slightly increased by 2.2% compared to the same period in year 2021. As international travel restrictions around the world continue to abate over time, the number of daily active terminal, DAT, for the 1.0 business has increased during the first quarter of year 2022, indicating that more and more customers are using our products and services. With an increasing diversified geography market composition, we are positive that the revenues from 1.0 business will steadily grow and exceed the pre-COVID-19 level in the future. we will continue to develop and enrich our 1.0 product offerings. Our goal, as always, is to provide the best quality products and services for our global customers, which ensure better international data connectivity. Let's move to page 14. UCLARIM 2.0 is our local data connectivity services business and has become a new driver of revenue growth since the year 2020. Its business monetization model is similar to that of uClouding 1.0 with a massive potential local user base. Our new HyperCon technology contributes to the further development and growth of our uCloud in 2.0 business. We have expanded the business scope of our local data connectivity services. Currently, our innovative HyperCon technology is widely assessed by mobile network operators and business partners in various industries with great growth potential. such as with local partners in China, US, and Japan. In the past quarter, we have continued to strengthen our presence in our existing markets, including Japan, North America, Southeast Asia, where we have helped operators improve their data services and solve data connection problems through our PaaS and SaaS platform. we provide high-quality data connection for 5G applications in response to the increased demand for better connectivity services. Furthermore, as people get used to the new normal, our products and services provide better performing solutions for remote work and learning which require reliable connectivity as well. We adapt ourselves to involving market by introducing innovative products to address various 2.0 business applications scenarios. During the first quarter of year 2022, our various IoT solutions, which have successfully start to gauge customers' interest and being perceived as reliable and high-quality data connectivity services in market, like Japan and North America, achieved further recognition. Our revenues from 2.0 business increased 185.4% compared to the same period in prior years. Our customers were able to realize the reduced operating costs and improve data connectivity experience through these cutting-edge IoT solutions. And we continue to focus on exploring new business prospects to serve a broader spectrum of partners with IoT needs. We expect our 2.0 business to grow with the support of our innovative cloud theme and hypercom technology as we continue to introduce our solutions, services and products to the market and strengthen our collaborations with local partners. Let's move to page 15. Based on our innovative cloud theme and HyperCon technology solution, we continue to develop and broaden our portfolio of offerings with new products and services, such as our self-developed terminals and third-party devices. Our HyperCon technology solution has been well perceived and related products including industry Wi-Fi loader, IP camera, power, energy services, like live broadcasting e-commercial, autopilot, augmented reality, and virtual reality, AR, VR, and clouding computing, et cetera, are gaining recognition proven by a growing user base across a wider spectrum of industries. In the first quarter of the year 2022, we promote more innovative 5G products in countries and regions such as the US, Japan, and Europe. Furthermore, we have a leading global 5G long-mean solution, which is an easier long-mean solution for carriers, and we are one of few company that could provide 5G products with a global ban and global looming. This reflects our market confidence and continued efforts on elevating our user experience as this new product equipped with our innovative 5G technologies marks not only the gradual recovery, but also a new beginning for our growth path in the post-pandemic era. In terms of IoT side, we applied GMI, Glaucoma Insight solution in IP camera commercially, and it has been promoted among multiple markets. Going forward, we plan to launch more of these types of innovative products and services. uCloud Link's position is set as the pioneer technology solution provider in the data connectivity market. Through our mature 1.0 business and the newer 2.0 business, uCloud Link is promoting the long-term development of the PaaS and SaaS ecosystem, which which have been recognized by various savings partners as a show in its increased revenue contribution by 7.8% in the first quarter of year 2022. Additionally, we have entered two new regional markets during the period. PaaS and SaaS platform is built upon uClouding 1.0 and 2.0 business lines, and its growth implies our ability to construct a healthy ecosystem. This requires our non-stop efforts in maintaining and expanding a strong partnership base, which includes more financial operators mobile virtual network operators, SIM card providers, our business customers and more, we remain confident in our business development teams and to empower the building of our PaaS and SaaS ecosystem and in our research and development team to address diversified needs our customers have posed to us. In a reminder, of year 2022, we expect past and past platform revenue to grow into more a significant driver of your clouding business. And that continues to enlarge its marginal efforts and improve margin profiles. We are able to reduce operating expense and decrease the net loss through streaming line our business operations, including optimizing labor costs compared to the first quarter of the year 2021. Going forward, we expect to further lower operating costs as a way to improve our operating and financial performance. We believe that from the connected to better connection, new clouding is a significant driving force in the transformation of an increasingly advanced information era. We are committed to building a more connected future for more customers and users, and we strive to make a positive impact in serving a global user community. I will now turn it over to our CFO, Yimeng Shi, who will go through the business and financial highlights.
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