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customers; the overall demand for our service offerings, including the impact of decisions of new
subscribers between our post-paid and prepaid services offerings and between our two network
platforms; and the impact of new, emerging and competing technologies on our business;
• the impact of overall wireless market penetration on our ability to attract and retain customers with
good credit standing and the intensified competition among wireless carriers for those customers;
• the potential impact of difficulties we may encounter in connection with the integration of the pre-
merger Sprint and Nextel businesses, and the integration of the businesses and assets of certain of the
third party affiliates, or PCS Affiliates, that provide wireless personal communications services, or PCS,
under the Sprint»brand that we have acquired, and Nextel Partners, Inc., including the risk that these
difficulties could prevent or delay our realization of the cost savings and other benefits we expect to
achieve as a result of these integration efforts and the risk that we will be unable to continue to retain
key employees;
• the uncertainties related to the implementation of our business strategies, investments in our networks,
our systems, and other businesses, including investments required in connection with our planned
deployment of a next generation broadband wireless network;
• the costs and business risks associated with providing new services and entering new geographic
markets, including with respect to our development of new services expected to be provided using the
next generation broadband wireless network that we plan to deploy;
• the impact of potential adverse changes in the ratings afforded our debt securities by ratings agencies;
• the effects of mergers and consolidations and new entrants in the communications industry and
unexpected announcements or developments from others in the communications industry;
• unexpected results of litigation filed against us;
• the inability of third parties to perform to our requirements under agreements related to our business
operations, including a significant adverse change in Motorola, Inc.’s ability or willingness to provide
handsets and related equipment and software applications, or to develop new technologies or features
for our integrated Digital Enhanced Network, or iDEN», network;
• the impact of adverse network performance;
• the costs of compliance with regulatory mandates, particularly requirements related to the Federal
Communications Commission’s, or FCC’s, Report and Order;
• equipment failure, natural disasters, terrorist acts, or other breaches of network or information
technology security;
• one or more of the markets in which we compete being impacted by changes in political or other
factors such as monetary policy, legal and regulatory changes or other external factors over which we
have no control; and
• other risks referenced from time to time in this report and other filings of ours with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, or SEC, including Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors.”
The words “may,” “could,” “estimate,” “project,” “forecast,” “intend,” “expect,” “believe,” “target,” “providing
guidance” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are found throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations, and elsewhere in this report. The reader should not place undue reliance on forward-
looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this report. We are not obligated to publicly release any
revisions to forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this report, including unforeseen
events.
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