TELEFÔNICA BRASIL S.A. Telefônica Brasil S.A. ('Company' or 'Telefônica Brasil'), in the manner and for the purposes of Article 157, paragraph 4, of Law 6,404 of December 15, 1976, as amended, and pursuant to Comissão de Valores Mobiliários ('CVM') Instruction No. 358, dated March 1, 2012, as amended, hereby informs the public that was appreciated on this date by the Board of Directors, pursuant to article 17, item XV of the Bylaws, the acquisition of Company's own shares for subsequent cancellation, sale or holding in treasury, pursuant to CVM Instruction No. 567/15, as follows:
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Program Objective: acquisition of common and preferred shares issued by the Company for subsequent cancellation, sale or holding in treasury, with no capital reduction, for the purpose of increasing shareholder value through the efficient application of available cash, optimizing the allocation of capital.
- Resources: the buybacks will be made through the use of the capital reserve balance constant in the latest balance sheet published on September 30, 2015 (R$ 2.2 billion), except the reserves referred to in Article 7, § 1, of ICVM 567.
iii) Deadline: beginning from the date of the Board of Directors' resolution, shall remain in force up to June 8, 2017, and the acquisitions will be made in BM&FBOVESPA at market prices, and it is for the Board to decide the timing and amount of shares to be acquired, either in a single transaction or in a series of operations, and set the parameters for carrying out the purchases, all within legal limits.
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Number of Shares to be acquired: up to a maximum of 870,530 common shares and 41,510,371 preferred shares, within the established limit of less than 10% of the shares of each class outstanding excluding the shares already held in treasury on the date hereof, respectively.
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Number of Outstanding Shares: 31,606,942 common shares and 415,111,046 preferred shares; considering the 2,290,164 common shares and 734 preferred shares in treasury; and excluding shares held by controlling shareholders, by persons related to them, and by administrators, under Article 8, section I, § 3 of ICVM 567.
- Intermediary Financial Institutions: the operation will be performed through:
Bradesco Corretora S.A. CTVM, headquartered at Avenida Paulista, 1450 / 7th floor - São Paulo/SP.
Information about the Program for the Buyback of Shares Issues by the Company, including those required under the CVM Instructions No. 567/15 and No. 480/09, as amended, and additional documents are available to shareholders at the Company's headquarters, on the Company's website (http://www.telefonica.com.br/ir), as well as on Comissão de Valores Mobiliários ('CVM') and BM&FBOVESPA S.A. websites.
São Paulo, December 9, 2015.
Alberto Manuel Horcajo Aguirre Investor Relations Officer
Telefônica Brasil - Investor Relations Phone: +55 11 3430-3687
E-mail: ir.br@telefonica.com Information available at www.telefonica.com.br/ir
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