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of our customers and the demands placed by devices on our networks;
• our ability to adequately enforce or protect our intellectual property rights and defend against suits filed by others;
• our capital structure, including our indebtedness amounts and the limitations imposed by the covenants in our
indebtedness and maintain our financial and disclosure controls and procedures;
• our inability to attract and retain key members of management and train personnel;
• our reliance on third parties to provide distribution, products, software and services that are integral to, used or sold by
our business and the ability of our suppliers to perform, develop and timely provide us with technological
developments, products and services we need to remain competitive;
• possible disruptions or intrusions of our billing, operational support, and customer care systems and networks which
may limit our ability to provide service or cause disclosure of our customers' information, and the associated harm to
our customers, our systems, and our goodwill;
• governmental regulation affecting our services and changes in government regulation, and the costs of compliance and
our failure to comply with such regulations; and
• other factors described in this Annual Report under “Risk Factors.”
These forward-looking statements speak only as to the date made, are based on current assumptions and expectations, and
are subject to the factors above, among other things, and involve risks, uncertainties, events, circumstances, uncertainties and
assumptions, many of which are beyond our ability to control or predict. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-
looking statements which are based on current assumptions and expectations and speak only as of the date of this report. The
results presented for any period, including the year ended December 31, 2011, may not be reflective of results for any
subsequent period. All future written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are
expressly qualified in their entirety by our cautionary statements. We do not intend to, and do not undertake a duty to, update
any forward-looking statement in the future to reflect the occurrence of events or circumstances after the date of this report,
except as required by law.