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We provide broadband (i.e., high-capacity, high-speed) and other telecommunications services to business customers in selected European markets using primarily wireless networks. We plan to offer a full suite of telecommunications services to our customers, including broadband Internet access and data transport to connect geographically dispersed offices on local-area and wide-area computer networks. We also plan to offer value-added Internet, voice and video services such as web hosting, e-commerce, private network voice service and video conferencing. We believe that substantial opportunities exist to provide broadband telecommunications connections to business customers that traditionally have used copper-wire networks. We target business customers that do not have broadband telecommunications services either because the cost of available broadband access is prohibitive or because the businesses are located in areas with inadequate telecommunications infrastructure. Wireless networks utilize radio spectrum, which is government-regulated and licensed to service providers. We currently have radio spectrum licenses in Germany, Poland, Finland and New Zealand, have trial licenses in France and Hungary, and have been notified of our right to a license in Ireland. In addition to our radio spectrum licenses, we hold other nationwide telecommunications licenses that allow us to provide voice and data transmission services over land line networks in Austria and Germany. We have filed radio spectrum license applications in two additional European countries, and have begun the application process in several other European countries that have recently initiated their licensing application procedures. We expect that the continued liberalization of the telecommunications industry in Europe will create additional license opportunities for us. In addition, we may acquire companies that hold telecommunications licenses or other strategic assets. The following table includes information, based on our estimates, regarding our telecommunications licenses. The population and businesses listed under other telecommunications licenses includes the population and businesses also covered by our radio spectrum licenses.
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