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“Safe Harbor” Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:
Various statements contained in this document constitute “forward−looking statements” as that term is defined under the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words like “believe,” “anticipate,” “should,” “intend,” “plan,” “will,” “expects,”
“estimates,” “projects,” “positioned,” “strategy,” and similar expressions identify these forward−looking statements, which involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements or industry
results to be materially different from those contemplated, projected, forecasted, estimated or budgeted, whether expressed or implied,
by these forward−looking statements. These factors, among others, include:
• the ability to compete with a range of other communications and content providers;
• the ability to control customer churn;
• the effect of technological changes on our businesses;
• the ability to use the Virgin name and logo;
• the ability to maintain and upgrade our networks in a cost−effective and timely manner;
• possible losses in revenues due to systems failures;
• the ability to provide attractive programming at a reasonable cost;
• the reliance on single−source suppliers for some equipment, software and services and third party distributors of our mobile
services;
• the functionality or market acceptance of new products that we may introduce;
• the failure to obtain and retain expected synergies from the merger of our legacy NTL and Telewest businesses and the
acquisition of Virgin Mobile;
• rates of success in executing, managing and integrating key acquisitions, including the merger with Telewest and the
acquisition of Virgin Mobile;
• the ability to achieve business plans for the combined company;
• the ability to fund debt service obligations through operating cash flow;
• the ability to obtain additional financing in the future and react to competitive and technological changes;
• the ability to comply with restrictive covenants in our indebtedness agreements; and
• the extent to which our future earnings will be sufficient to cover our fixed charges.
These and other factors are discussed in more detail under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Form 10−K. We assume no
obligation to update our forward−looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in factors affecting
these statements.
Note Concerning Corporate Name Changes
We entered into a license agreement with Virgin Enterprises Limited under which we are licensed to use certain Virgin
trademarks within the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. As a result, in February 2007, we rebranded our consumer and a
large part of our content businesses to “Virgin Media”. We also changed the name of our corporate parent from NTL Incorporated to
Virgin Media Inc. and the corporate names of certain of our subsidiaries, including:
• NTL Investment Holdings Limited, the principal borrower under our senior credit facility, to Virgin Media Investment
Holdings Limited;
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Source: VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTM, 10−K, March 01, 2007