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• our ability to maintain or increase the number of subscriptions to our digital cable, broadband internet, fixed-line telephony
and mobile service offerings and our average revenue per household;
• our ability to provide satisfactory customer service, including support for new and evolving products and services;
• our ability to maintain or increase rates to our subscribers or to pass through increased costs to our subscribers;
• the impact of our future financial performance, or market conditions generally, on the availability, terms and deployment
of capital;
• changes in, or failure or inability to comply with, government regulations in the markets in which we operate and adverse
outcomes from regulatory proceedings;
• government intervention that impairs our competitive position, including any intervention that would open our broadband
distribution networks to competitors and any adverse change in our accreditations or licenses;
• changes in laws or treaties relating to taxation, or the interpretation thereof, in the markets in which we operate;
• changes in laws and government regulations that may impact the availability and cost of credit and the derivative
instruments that hedge certain of our financial risks;
• the ability of suppliers and vendors to timely deliver quality products, equipment, software and services;
• the availability of attractive programming for our digital cable services and the costs associated with such programming;
• uncertainties inherent in the development and integration of new business lines and business strategies;
• our ability to adequately forecast and plan future network requirements;
• the availability of capital for the acquisition and/or development of telecommunications networks and services;
• our ability to successfully integrate and realize anticipated efficiencies from the LG/VM Transaction and from businesses
we may acquire;
• leakage of sensitive customer data;
• the outcome of any pending or threatened litigation;
• the loss of key employees and the availability of qualified personnel;
• changes in the nature of key strategic relationships with partners and joint venturers;
• adverse changes in public perception of the “Virgin” brand, which we and others license from Virgin Group Limited, and
any resulting impacts on the goodwill of customers toward us; and
• events that are outside of our control, such as political unrest in international markets, terrorist attacks, malicious human
acts, natural disasters, pandemics and other similar events.
The broadband distribution services industries are changing rapidly and, therefore, the forward-looking statements of
expectations, plans and intent in this quarterly report are subject to a significant degree of risk. These forward-looking statements
and the above-described risks, uncertainties and other factors speak only as of the date of this quarterly report, and we expressly
disclaim any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein,
to reflect any change in our expectations with regard thereto, or any other change in events, conditions or circumstances on which
any such statement is based. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement.