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Operator
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Nokia fourth quarter and full year 2007 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the call over to Mr. Bill Seymour, Head of Investor Relations.
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Operator
Operator
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Nokia fourth quarter and full year 2007 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the call over to Mr. Bill Seymour, Head of Investor Relations.
Bill Seymour
Head of Investor Relations
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Nokia’s fourth quarter 2007 conference call. I’m Bill Seymour, Head of Nokia Investor Relations. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and CEO of Nokia; and Rick Simonson, CFO of Nokia, are with me today. During this briefing and call, we will be making forward-looking statements regarding the future business and financial performance of Nokia and its industry. These statements are predictions that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may therefore differ materially from the results currently expected. Factors that could cause such differences can be both external, such as general economic and industry conditions, as well as internal operating factors. We have identified these in more detail on pages 12 to 24 in our 2006 20-F and in our press release issued today. Our aim is to finish this call in approximately one hour. To view the supporting slides while listening to the call, please log on to Nokia.com/investor. You may also note an appendix to the slide presentation and we have provided additional slides for your background information. A replay of this call will be available until next Thursday and the call will be archived on our website. As you know, the reorganization of our device businesses has taken effect starting this quarter. We plan on providing you quarterly P&L reconciliation based on the new structure for 2007 as soon as possible, but before Q1 results announcement. As a reference, we’ve posted in the appendix of this presentation the slides we showed at our Capital Markets day pertaining to the change in the structure. Olli-Pekka, please go ahead.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Good morning and good afternoon. It’s good to be on this call after such an impressive fourth quarter at Nokia. But our performance seems at odds with the volatility we all are witnessing in the equity markets and the financial sector. We closely monitor developments in our markets and the reality as we see it today is that the handset market is strong. We believe channel inventories for the industry and for Nokia are at normal levels. We are expecting a normal seasonal decline in the device market in Q1, and the demand for our products is good. I feel quite good about Nokia’s fundamentals across the globe. The emerging markets continue to see growth. India and China have each been adding seven million new subscribers a month, and Africa is only just starting to take off. The spread of wireless telephony in these regions has delivered great economic benefit and our position in these markets remains strong. In Europe, we are benefiting from strong demand for our new products. In Latin America, we have strong share and have steadily delivered a more diversified portfolio from the entry level to high-end multimedia computers. And in the U.S., while our position continues to be weak, we are delivering on our commitment to supply customized products to the major U.S. carriers. Some time ago, the mobile telephony evolved from a luxury product to a product that people in all markets are dependent on for business and personal communication. I would even say an indispensable tool. There are very few other consumer products today that are as important to people’s everyday lives as their mobile device. Let’s look at the fourth quarter. Our device business continued its excellent performance with market share and margins up nicely as many of our new products clearly…
Richard A. Simonson
Management
Thanks, Olli-Pekka. First to echo a bit what Olli-Pekka has said regarding current macro events and of course we have our eyes wide open, we continue to actively monitor world economic markets in general and specifically our own device and infrastructure markets globally. But let me state clearly here that for Nokia and for our industry, which are the areas where we do have some specific insight, we are currently seeing a healthy market and good underlying demand for Nokia products. We continue to expect overall device industry unit growth to be approximately 10% in 2008 with some value growth. The United States is less than 5% of our revenue. We are working to improve materially in the mid to long run, but currently our exposure to the U.S. economy certainly is low. Our estimated global device share was 38% in 2007 and we target to increase it this year. Our share in Q4 at 40% was almost 3 times that of the number two, Samsung, further expanding our valuable economies of scale. And in fact, our Q4 volumes look likely to be close to the combined volumes of our next four competitors when all the numbers are tallied up. By survey, we have the fifth most valuable brand in the world and we are number one in many of the highest growth markets like Asia-Pacific. And we are successfully managing one of the most complex logistics and manufacturing chains in the world, producing an unprecedented 1.5 million devices per day on average in the fourth quarter. So given our forecast for industry market growth and the growth of Nokia’s market share, we see good growth in our core device business for this year. Looking a little bit further out, we believe our pending acquisitions of NAVTEQ and continuing implementation…
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Thanks very much, Rick. I would like to conclude by talking a little bit about the future, first on software and services. As we said at our Capital Markets Day in December, we expect the internet services market to be approximately €100 billion in 2010. This as I see is a significant opportunity for Nokia that must be taken. It is a market with new competitors that requires a different way of executing if we expect to be successful. On January 1, we took a significant step towards doing this when we created our new Services and Software business unit. So how is it going? Well, it’s early days, but there are some encouraging signs. The revenue from internet services is very small, but the momentum has been good and operators are responding positively to our internet services plans. As you know, we have agreements with Vodafone, Telecom Italia, and Telefonica. We expect to sign agreements with more operators this year. We launched the Nokia Music Store service in the UK and have seen some positive trends. Apex rates to N95s and N81s sold in the UK are higher than expected. Users are buying an average of 15 tracks a month from the Nokia Music Store. And showing the potential of music in data traffic, approximately 25% of all downloads from the Nokia Music Store were done over the air. Over the next several months, we will launch the Nokia Music Store in several other markets globally including Spain, Italy, Germany, Finland, Australia, and Singapore. In navigation, the service apex rates of devices like the N95 has been encouraging and we continue to improve the user experience. We have A: GPS support, initial time to fix has improved remarkably, and user range is between 5 and 15 seconds. In the future, we believe we can lower this even more as well as introduce enhancements to the overall experience users have been using Nokia Maps. In closing, I would like to thank the Nokia team for their efforts in delivering such good results. In the future, Nokia will remain intensely focused on execution and we can assure you we will not underestimate the competition. I believe that our strengths put us in a good position for 2008. Thank you very much.
Bill Seymour
Head of Investor Relations
Thanks Olli-Pekka. We will now continue with the Q&A session. Please limit yourself to one question only. Operator, please go ahead.
Operator
Operator
(Operator Instructions) And your first question will come from the line of Phil Cusick with Bear Stearns.
Phil Cusick - Bear Stearns
Analyst · Bear Stearns
First, I want to talk about the handset guidance for the first quarter. You’re suggesting stable share for Nokia in the first quarter, which is unusual given your geographic exposure, and typically you lose share sequentially in the first quarter. Can you talk about why you expect to maintain share? I think it’s a pretty strong statement about where you are in terms of the competitive level.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
So if you look at the development in the fourth quarter, in fact, Phil, we took share and we came to the 40% level, and in fact if you analyze our assets, more exactly where did it come from. So we really did gain share in Middle East and Africa in comparison to the earlier years. And in that way, the growth in that area is something at the moment one nearly needs to remember and really include in the estimates. And I believe there is a possibility to continue in a very good way in that area, and that might come to play. I am saying this as an example simply because of the fact that at the moment, of course, the diversity of our business between different geographies is not necessarily the same it has been in the past, and it comes to play here when assessing, for instance, sequential market share.
Richard A. Simonson
Management
I think, too, that really identifies where this growth is. We are well positioned to take advantage of it, but also people rightly look at Europe. How do you do in Europe? We did very well in the quarter there, and I think we picked up some share coming from Q3 to Q4, but as we said before, the inventory channels look good, the demand looks good, and it’s all about the product portfolio being appealing in that market. So I think that’s part of the reason that allows us to, Phil, make the statement that approximately flat market share in the first quarter compared to quarter four.
Phil Cusick - Bear Stearns
Analyst · Bear Stearns
If I can follow-up on that, just given that we are seeing a shift from previous years, is the mix going to change substantially from the 4Q as well, or are we going to be pretty steady?
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
I think, of course, these changes here; they are not dramatic, no. So in that, I don’t think you can draw that conclusion. It’s really the evolution when it comes to mix changes. It is not that fast, but we simply want to highlight the point that different geographies can really happen in a different way. And so, there is always some type of volatility between different markets in a given quarter.
Operator
Operator
The next question will come from the line of Tim Boddy - Goldman Sachs.
Tim Boddy - Goldman Sachs
Analyst
I’d like to just ask about your overall market guidance, and obviously, you made some comments on the economy. It’s good to hear you are not seeing any weakness. I guess part of the problem is, whilst handsets are unlikely to be the most economically exposed segment, there is likely to be some exposure if we see, for example, a recession in Europe as well as the United States. It would be very helpful if you could try and dimension if we did see that, and I appreciate we are not seeing that now but if we did see it, how would that affect your business? And in your 10% growth forecast for the markets, have you assumed some kind of economic weakening within Europe specifically?
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Yes, when it comes to the overall macroeconomic discussion, I at least cannot add anything to the discussion that has been ongoing. Rick might make an effort, I don’t believe he will. And so in that vein, we really need to assess how we see the markets here and what’s our situation. If I look, I could almost refer to the previous answer I gave in the way that I said this in a CNBC call. Some of you might have noted that. A big part of the population in this world don’t know what the Fed is. They have not heard about Bernanke but they have to buy mobile phones. It’s a necessity item to them, and in that way more and more people simply cannot be without a phone. And in the past there has not been a link between these cycles, and penetration increases, and hand replacement. But of course we are no experts when it comes to the economy, but the estimates we have given on the market. We are not the best possible experts when it comes to the economy. We have to be that to some extent. When it comes to the market, the 10%, really it’s based pretty much on a very original concrete situation, how we see the markets in the countries, how do we see the trends happen, and in that way, it’s something that we feel is quite solid.
Richard A. Simonson
Management
Yes, and Olli-Pekka, I wouldn’t be foolish enough to step in and comment on the economy and pretend to be an expert there. But I think it’s important as you said that in the beginning of December, we set the 10% level, and here we are at the end of January and we feel good about confirming that. And there has been a lot that has happened between that, and we’ve been aware of it. And you can be sure that we have a flexible organization in terms of our servicing, our manufacturing, our distribution, and that works well in any market. So we feel good about the industry guidance that we gave for volume growth and some value growth in the industry.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray.
Mike Walkley - Piper Jaffray
Analyst
I was wondering if I could dig in a little bit more to the lower end of your portfolio. There have been several competitors indicating they want to go more into the low end. I was wondering if you could update us if you’re seeing any of your larger OEM competitors in the sub-€50 or even in the sub-€30 segment, and how you see that segment in terms of competitive threat from maybe Asia or other players longer term.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Okay, I think there has quite a lot of talk here in the past when it comes to entering the low end, and that talk that we need to take very seriously has been ongoing here now as well. And it’s very clear; make no mistake about that, that some of our competitors have ambitions when it comes to the low end of the market. We are taking that very seriously. We are watching them, and hence we really need to look at our competitive position and the way we work really in a way that we don’t rest and become complacent in that respect. I think especially Samsung’s ambitions need to be taken seriously. They will make an effort, but how low can they come here? I think that’s a big question. So really looking at the sub-€30 market, it’s extremely tough. You need extremely big volumes in order to get there and be competitive and make money. And so far we have been able to defend in a pretty proactive way that market.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Andrew Griffin - Merrill Lynch.
Andrew Griffin - Merrill Lynch
Analyst
Hi there, guys. Just following on the low-end question is, what happened in China, where if I ex out your NSN grew revenues, it looks like handset revenues actually fell sequentially. Your units were up, implying quite a big fall in average selling prices.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Yes, again there, this might sound a bit superficial when I say that in China, I think the situation is business as usual. We didn’t see any change in the market dynamics that would indicate that we would be somehow losing our position or losing market share in that market. There is always some volatility between the quarters. That’s a natural part of this business, has always been, will always be. But a change in the competitive dynamics in China, we have not seen.
Richard A. Simonson
Management
Let me add there if I may. I mean China, we have to understand and has been growing at six, seven million new subscribers per month and that’s after having many years of explosive growth. It’s interesting. China has always been a higher ASP market than people would have thought. You need to look deeper in there, and that’s reflective of them purchasing across all spectrum. But the real acceleration has been in this sub-€30 end we have seen over the year, and also sequentially quarter-on-quarter, a real push there. And that’s reflected in our numbers. It’s reflected by the push by CMCC. And so that is a factor in the overall market and not to be mistaken for Nokia’s market position in the dynamics as Olli-Pekka mentioned.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Sherief Bakr - Citigroup.
Sherief Bakr - Citigroup
Analyst
Just a question really on market share in terms of your ambitions over the next 12-18 months in terms of how much additional share you believe that you can actually take. You talk about in the low end, about in the sub-€30 segment there being very high barriers to entry because of scale. I was wondering how much higher can your share go in markets such as Africa, the Middle East and Africa, or in some of the Asian markets. And maybe looking at it from a different angle in terms of Europe as you start to see or probably start seeing increasing competition, is there a risk that share in Europe could have actually plateaued or can you actually take additional share or whether there is some risk that share could come down?
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
So, the overall market share thinking when it comes to our target setting; so we have clearly, internally, articulated that we want more than 40%. We have not gotten fixated to a number, that’s very clear. So, we are not saying its 41% or 43%. We are not giving a target like that, not even internally because economies of scale don’t stop on a certain level. They continue to increase the higher you go. But of course, it’s very true at the same time that this is tough and there are no pockets here that you could simplify and say these still give me a lot. And in that way this is very, very consistent and hard work in different places here not to lose and gain. And in that way, there is no magic bullet here. Then of course having said that, it’s very clear that the markets like we have discussed many times before, the markets where our market share is highest are growing more rapidly than some of the other markets. And in that way, we have this type of dynamism here that relates to the diversity of business and to the structure in all of our sales in different markets and that comes to play here. And it’s very clear we’ve got some upside in the U.S., no doubt about that, CDMA definitely. Once we ramp up in the new mode of working, it will come to play here and definitely we have got quite a lot of plans with regard to Japan as well. So in that way, those markets are getting special attention. Nowhere in this organization have we articulated that this market share is too high. Any given market, nowhere, everybody has the same target setting, take more share. And that I think is widely understood, but it never happens overnight because there are no miracles that are possible here.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Rod Hall – JP Morgan. Rod Hall – JP Morgan: Just a quick one, I guess it’s an obvious one. The margins are very high, even if you look at the devices and services definition, it looks to me like you’re 22.5%, 22.8%. That’s quite a lot higher than the 20% guidance you gave. And I wonder if you could just give us some indication of were these things that have been an anomaly this quarter or you’re wondering whether you’re going to be able to sustain these margin levels going forward.
Richard A. Simonson
Management
I think you lay out in a little bit of shorthand what we talked a lot about at Capital Markets and we lay out in terms of the devices and services combined margin targets for the midterm at this 20% plus or minus. As I mentioned, when things are hitting well and you’re executing well, you should be able to do above 20%. Sometimes you might be at that or a little bit lower because as Olli-Pekka said, there isn’t anything given in this business and competitive cycles change, and we are we are investing for innovation and growth. And we think that performance like in the fourth quarter where you really take advantage of that gives you that flexibility and the cash flow to invest. So, of course, we’re going to see a little bit above and below around that 20%. We feel real good about taking advantage of a strong fourth quarter. That seasonality always helps you to exploit that going into the first quarter, in that of course, you get the normal seasonal change there in the marketplace. So, we firmly believe and stand by the fact that we’re getting advantages of scale. We’ve shown that there was more to get 2007 than what people might have thought in 2006. We will take market share where we can take it sustainable and profitably, as Olli-Pekka mentioned, and we should get some benefit there. But obviously in terms of some of the shorter term drivers as I mentioned, is the seasonality Q1. Plus we are going to have OpEx as a percentage of sales normally goes up there a little bit and has an impact and competitive factors in general. So you got the numbers right. They are consistent with what we had at Capital Markets Day and link well I think into understanding the normal seasonality. Maybe, Olli-Pekka, do you wish to add there?
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
That was a comprehensive answer, but if I just add to that comprehensive answer that really the stars were really aligned in the fourth quarter.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Stuart Jeffrey - Lehman Brothers.
Stuart Jeffrey - Lehman Brothers
Analyst
A question again just touching on that margin issue, your margins are close to an all-time high, pretty close to the target that your competitors have been enjoying in the past, but I am sure they are very nice margins right now. Do you sense that maybe there is a risk of you becoming arguably greedy in that by having such high margins, you’re not putting as much pressure on the competitors that perhaps you should be. And that may allow them to reinvest themselves into new product lines, new product portfolios over the next 12 to 18 months? So, is there a risk that right now, you’re enjoying the gains too much like perhaps you did in 2003, and that you need to take some action to hurt your competitors a bit more?
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Yes, my answer for that one would really be that the thinking hereof course you have to be tactical in the market space. You have to in the right way always combine margin and share, margin and volume. And that’s the fine art of managing a business, and I think we have a lot of great people doing that on a day-to-day basis in the marketplace. And the target setting, of course overall if I simplify here, that has been given take market share, but do that not sacrificing the margins too much. This means we have set the overall direction when it comes to target setting, take market share. But like I said, we understand that we cannot, and we should not in fact be too greedy with the markets here trying to take too much at one goal. We need to be consistent. We need to be able to take share in a sustainable way. Meaning both sustainable in terms of profitability and sustainable in the way that what you get and take, you can maintain that overall level where you have come to. And that consistency in the thinking here continues to be applicable. And in that way, I hear what you are saying. I think it’s a good question, but I don’t really feel we are acting in the way you are implying.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Tim Long - Banc of America.
Tim Long - Banc of America
Analyst · America
Rick, maybe one for you on the gross margin side, obviously, great performance across almost all the businesses here. Could you just talk to us a little about the moving parts when we think about how sustainable the gross margin performance could be? Maybe if you can talk about the component side, if there was an impact one way or the other on the tight components, the impact maybe on having some of your products on allocation and what new products in the mix, which I guess were about 30% net at the gross margin line and how we think about it going forward? And then, Olli-Pekka, if you could just clarify, I think you said the channel inventories were lower than they were a year ago. I’m just curious if your volumes are 25% or so higher entering this year, does that just mean that inventories were too high a year ago? How is that not a positive as you look into next quarter and how does that not translate into lower channel inventories than normal?
Richard A. Simonson
Management
Okay, Tim; we will take in the order you asked in terms of looking at gross margin. Here you asked a number of questions. Let me try to step through them in a clear way. One thing that is important about the gross margin development we’ve had and the sustainability of that, and one of the things that we think gives us some comfort going forward is, think about the gross margins in the low end and the ultra-low end. We brought those up through the execution of our refresh of the product portfolio there, continuing refresh, coupled with the distribution system, and we brought it up into the mid-20s level last year. We worked that higher this year, as we said previously. We’ve gotten those margins up to a mark not too different than what we had defined as the overall mobile phone margins. That’s very important that if you can maintain margin profile in the entry level and ultra-low end level, and that’s where the volume is coming from, and the growth is coming from, that’s real important. That gives you a base to work from. And as you mentioned in terms of component price, I think there was some concern by many as people asked about with commodity prices rising and that aren’t you going to be unable to get your normal pricing erosion. In fact we didn’t see that. While we are not immune to commodity prices, it really had not impacted us. And we were able to do better in some other areas, again taking advantage of our scale, taking advantage of working closer with our suppliers so they can minimize their cost along the chain. And so we did do very well there in terms of component cost. And then in terms of allocation, if the question was implying that because we have some component constraints and therefore we are short of little bit of capacity on some devices and that caused us to be able to price those higher, I don’t look at it that way. Allocation to me is when you have such demand for a product that you can’t get it out there. Then you are able to reduce the price. So we didn’t get any benefit in the gross margin from the fact that we were short on a few components, if that was the angle of the question there.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Yes, I said some inventories fell lower exiting 2007 than they have exited 2006. And when I say, and it’s a good clarification, I mean DOS, days of supply number. I’m not referring as such to the absolute number because days of supplies is the number that we follow.
Richard A. Simonson
Management
Because we were in a bigger, growing market, so inventory goes up when we have spectacular growth in the market in the absolute, but the days of sales in inventory channel number lower as we exited ‘07 than we did in ‘06 in the device market.
Operator
Operator
Your next question will come from the line of Kulbinder Garcha - Credit Suisse.
Kulbinder Garcha - Credit Suisse
Analyst
Two quick questions, the first one is Nokia’s own inventory sequentially grows in the fourth quarter. Typically, that has gone down in absolute terms. Could you give any color? Is that just because the consolidation of Nokia Siemens is causing that or something else? Any color there will be appreciated. The second thing is a more general question, which is in 2007, we obviously saw Nokia make great strides in their product portfolio, and I’m just wondering. Olli-Pekka or Rick, when you look at your portfolio now, where the gaps are left for obvious improvement either from a product competitive point of view or gross margin point of view, any insight as to where there are any more easy gains can be made would be helpful.
Richard A. Simonson
Management
I will start on the inventory and then we will move to the portfolio with Olli-Pekka. Thanks for the clarification question there because it is one that needs precision here, and we are not concerned about the inventory levels. We were right in the middle of very high product transition and ramp-up of new products, as well as we were having very good sequential growth. You go into the fourth quarter, typically as we have talked before, the biggest sales in the fourth quarter are period ten and eleven, not period twelve. So in other words, not December. You do always have a fall-off in sales in December compared to November and earlier. That’s how the quarter shapes up. And in this year actually we had less of a decline in sales from November to December than we did last year, and that’s indicative of still good momentum, good strength in the marketplace. It gives one data point for why we have given the guidance that we have about how quarter one is shaping up and it also explains in most part where we are in terms of the inventory and absolute level behaving as you pointed out. So as we go into the normal channel, the normal seasonality in the first quarter, we think we’re very well set given the fact of working in the sales channel and how this stronger sales in December compared to the normal fall-off between November and December happened this year; no undue concern there at all. Quite the contrary, we feel that the overall situation is well managed.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
Okay and I will take the last one or the latter one. So I think it’s a very good question and of course that’s something that we are working day to night on, on that question. I would say the biggest upside for us here is in the user interface and in combining the device and the experience or service together, and in that way of the consumer solution. So if we limit ourselves thinking about the device only here, we are not making justice to the possibilities that we have in this industry. Looking at the user interface, looking at the combination of the experience, having constant music is a great example here and there are many, many others? So that’s really where the opportunities are. Having said that, of course, we cannot forget, vice versa, the physical design of the product. That’s of course something where a lot of work needs to go in too, but it is the big upside. So our user interface solution’s a combination of experience and service. Monetization then can happen here with a hardware business model, having an ASP supporting impact, or even as a service revenue. That’s very often like a tactical decision that you make on a day-to-day basis.
Operator
Operator
And this morning’s final question will come from the line of Mark Sue - RBC Capital Markets.
Mark Sue - RBC Capital Markets
Analyst
Olli-Pekka, just on North America, you’re making the biggest push at a time when you have the greatest headwinds. What’s a reasonable level of expectations for Nokia in the U.S., units, market share? And is it a very fluid target and should we see Nokia throttle back its efforts since the timing might be off?
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
President and CEO
I think again, and I of course sound like a broken record here, but I don’t think you can look at the U.S. market as one total. It’s AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, and Verizon. And your ambitions, your target, your strategies need to be different here, because here one size will not fit all. And that has been the basis we have been working on for quite some time now. And with each of these customers, the strategy is different, but we’re counting on progress in 2008. I mean to me saying that, not today, not this year, it’s too difficult, is not an option. So the right time is right now, continues to be right now. I don’t hesitate at all saying that.
Mark Sue - RBC Capital Markets
Analyst
If we see Europe slow a bit, will you push harder into the U.S. or is that a too simplistic view?
Richard A. Simonson
Management
Maybe, Mark, we push at the rate that we think we can meet the customers’ expectation. It has nothing to do with another region. And so, you don’t have more to push with just because Europe would behave one way or the other. Our organization, those people responsible are pushing as much as is possible in the U.S. regardless of what’s going on in the other dynamics, because it’s four different operators. It’s very customized and I think the right time for variety in the U.S. is right now and where we are coming from, I don’t think it changes our strategy or execution one bit of what the shorter term views are in terms of how that market tracks.
Bill Seymour
Head of Investor Relations
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our conference call. I would like to remind you that during the conference call today, we have made a number of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may therefore differ materially from the results currently expected. Factors that could cause such differences can be both external, such as general economic and industry conditions as well as internal operating factors. We have identified these in more detail on pages 12 to 24 in our 2006 20-F and on our press release issued today. Thank you and have a nice day.