Sprint - Nextel 2014 Annual Report Download - page 66

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subscriber and network usage, subscriber growth and retention, technologies, products and services, pricing, operating costs,
the timing of various events, and the economic and regulatory environment.
Future performance cannot be assured. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include:
• our ability to retain and attract subscribers and to manage credit risks associated with our subscribers;
• the ability of our competitors to offer products and services at lower prices due to lower cost structures;
• the effective implementation of our plans to improve the quality of our network, including timing, execution,
technologies, costs, and performance of our network;
• potential increases in subscriber churn, bad debt expense, increased costs and write-offs related to any of our
service plans, including installment billing and leasing programs;
• the ability to generate sufficient cash flow to fully implement our plans to improve and enhance the quality
of our network and service plans, improve our operating margins, implement our business strategies, and
provide competitive new technologies;
• the effects of vigorous competition on a highly penetrated market, including the impact of competition on
the prices we are able to charge subscribers for services and devices we provide and on the geographic areas
served by our network;
• the impact of equipment net subsidy costs and leasing handsets; the impact of increased purchase
commitments; the overall demand for our service plans, including the impact of decisions of new or existing
subscribers between our service offerings; and the impact of new, emerging, and competing technologies on
our business;
• our ability to provide the desired mix of integrated services to our subscribers;
• our ability to continue to access our spectrum and acquire additional spectrum capacity;
• changes in available technology and the effects of such changes, including product substitutions and
deployment costs and performance;
• our ability to obtain additional financing, or to modify the terms of our existing financing, on terms
acceptable to us, or at all;
• volatility in the trading price of our common stock, current economic conditions, and our ability to access
capital, including debt or equity;
• the impact of various parties not meeting our business requirements, including a significant adverse change
in the ability or willingness of such parties to provide products, including distribution, or infrastructure
equipment for our network;
• the costs and business risks associated with providing new services and entering new geographic markets;
• the effects of any future merger or acquisition involving us, as well as the effect of mergers, acquisitions,
and consolidations, and new entrants in the communications industry, and unexpected announcements or
developments from others in our industry;
• our ability to comply with restrictions imposed by the U.S. Government as a condition to our merger with
SoftBank;
• the effects of any material impairment of our goodwill or other indefinite-lived intangible assets;
• unexpected results of litigation filed against us or our suppliers or vendors;
• the costs or potential customer impact of compliance with regulatory mandates including, but not limited to,
compliance with the FCC's Report and Order to reconfigure the 800 MHz band and government regulation
regarding "net neutrality";
• equipment failure, natural disasters, terrorist acts, or breaches of network or information technology
security;
• one or more of the markets in which we compete being impacted by changes in political, economic, or other
factors such as monetary policy, legal and regulatory changes, or other external factors over which we have
no control;