NOTE: This presentation contains statements about expected future events and financial .results that are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties. Para dichas declaraciones, nos amparamos en el principio de salvaguarda ("safe harbor") en cuanto a las declaraciones a futuro contenidas en la Ley de Reforma de los Litigios sobre Valores Privados de 1995. The following important factors could affect future results and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements: materially adverse changes in economic and industry conditions and labor matters, including workforce levels and labor negotiations, and any resulting financial and/or operational impact, in the markets served by us or by companies in which we have substantial investments; the impact on our operations of natural or man-made disasters and any resulting financial impact not covered by insurance; material changes in available technology, including disruption of our suppliers’ provisioning of critical products or services; technology substitution; an adverse change in the ratings afforded our debt securities by nationally accredited ratings organizations; the final results of federal and state regulatory proceedings concerning our provision of retail and wholesale services and judicial review of those results; the effects of competition in our markets; the timing, scope and financial impact of our deployment of fiber-to-the-premises broadband technology; the ability of Verizon Wireless to continue to obtain sufficient spectrum resources; changes in our accounting assumptions that regulatory agencies, including the SEC, may require or that result from changes in the accounting rules or their application, which could result in an impact on earnings; the ability to complete acquisitions and dispositions; and the extent and timing of our ability to obtain revenue enhancements and cost savings following our business combination with MCI, Inc.

This presentation may include certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined under SEC rules. As required by those rules we have provided a reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measure in materials aquí.