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iUHBA is building ultra-high-speed wireless (Fixed Wireless/Mobile Access) networks and ultra-high-bandwidth FTTH/O systems in order to provide a bundle of five new or improved services to end-users. iUHBA’s open network approach will allow the Company to create a co-opetition opportunity for other companies after three years of building the systems.

In the case of co-opetition, iUHBA will share in revenues of the competition on top of charging them a reasonable “access fee” to utilize iUHBA’s infrastructure. The subscriber will thus have the choice to subscribe to iUHBA’s innovative quintuple bundle of services, or pick one, two, or three services from one or more providers.

The Company will make its ultra-high-capacity FTTH/O systems available to competitors, and independent VoIP (voice–over-Internet-Protocol) service providers; companies that could provide a particular service or bundle of services over iUHBA’s next generation cable infrastructure.

iUHBA will seek partnerships with application/content companies (like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft), and even with perceived competitors (such as T-Mobile) that have an existing wireless infrastructure, or Virtual Network Operators that have no proprietary systems or large infrastructures in place. These and other companies can reach subscribers via iUHBA’s ultra-high-speed wireless infrastructure e.g., for localized wireless service, mobile search, web browsing and mobile videoconferencing.

Some of the co-opetition tactics iUHBA has developed are:

1. Consumer Choice – operate and service its new infrastructures and provide a combination of services or a full-range quintuple play (FTTH/O as well as FWMA). The consumer chooses;

2. Strategic Partner Access Fee – iUHBA gets an access fee from the companies that want to provide services over iUHBA’s infrastructure. This way the Company opens the way for the competition to see iUHBA as strategic partner rather than threat or aggressive competitor;

3. Non Local Reach – iUHBA’s “Open Access” strategy can open up the market for players who are not local. In other words, iUHBA’s approach gives an out-of-city operator the opportunity, all of a sudden, to become a player in UHBA markets; thus mitigating the threat by iUHBA in their own home territory.