Nokia 2007 Annual Report Download - page 6

FORWARDLOOKING STATEMENTS
It should be noted that certain statements herein which are not historical facts, including, without
limitation, those regarding:
• the timing of product, services and solution deliveries;
• our ability to develop, implement and commercialize new products, services, solutions and
technologies;
• expectations regarding market growth, developments and structural changes;
• expectations regarding our mobile device volume growth, market share, prices and margins;
• expectations and targets for our results of operations;
• the outcome of pending and threatened litigation;
• expectations regarding the successful completion of contemplated acquisitions on a timely
basis and our ability to achieve the set targets upon the completion of such acquisitions; and
• statements preceded by “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “foresee,” “target,” “estimate,”
“designed,” “plans,” “will” or similar expressions
are forwardlooking statements.
These statements are based on management’s best assumptions and beliefs in light of the
information currently available to it. Because they involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may
differ materially from the results that we currently expect. Factors that could cause these differences
include, but are not limited to:
1. competitiveness of our product, service and solutions portfolio;
2. the extent of the growth of the mobile communications industry and general economic
conditions globally;
3. the growth and profitability of the new market segments that we target and our ability to
successfully develop or acquire and market products, services and solutions in those
segments;
4. our ability to successfully manage costs;
5. the intensity of competition in the mobile communications industry and our ability to
maintain or improve our market position or respond successfully to changes in the
competitive landscape;
6. the impact of changes in technology and our ability to develop or otherwise acquire complex
technologies as required by the market, with full rights needed to use;
7. timely and successful commercialization of complex technologies as new advanced products,
services and solutions;
8. our ability to protect the complex technologies, which we or others develop or that we
license, from claims that we have infringed third parties’ intellectual property rights, as well
as our unrestricted use on commercially acceptable terms of certain technologies in our
products, services and solution offerings;
9. our ability to protect numerous Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks patented, standardized
or proprietary technologies from thirdparty infringement or actions to invalidate the
intellectual property rights of these technologies;
10. Nokia Siemens Networks’ ability to achieve the expected benefits and synergies from its
formation to the extent and within the time period anticipated and to successfully integrate
its operations, personnel and supporting activities;
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