text: **Note 7. Significant Contractual Relationship**
  
  In 1999, the Company executed a Management Agreement (the Agreement) with Sprint whereby the Company 
  committed to construct and operate a PCS network using CDMA air interface technology, replacing an earlier PCS 
  network based on GSM technology. Under the Agreement, the Company is the exclusive PCS Affiliate of Sprint 
  providing wireless mobility communications network products and services in its territory which extends from 
  Altoona, York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and south along the Interstate 81 corridor through Western Maryland, the 
  panhandle of West Virginia, to Harrisonburg, Virginia. The Company is authorized to use the Sprint brand name in its 
  territory, and operate its network under the Sprint radio spectrum license. 
  
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