Offering Great Products and Ser vices We experienced excellent growth in 2003 in our short messaging service  or SMS  with revenues for the service growing 270 percent over 2002 to  $17 million. Our next step into data is easy edge SM  a robust wireless-data product that offers customers access to more than 150 downloadable applications  including games  news  sports information  ringtones and stock quotes. We introduced  easy edge SM only after  a trial run in one of our markets –  to ensure that it was a service our  customers would want and value. We learned the importance of getting everything right before we launched. That meant having the back-office support in place  having applications that were easy to use  and making sure our associates knew every aspect of the new product to best support our customers. So we gave each of our associates  an easy edge SM enabled handset. We asked them to use it and understand all of its capabilities. Now  all of our associates can effectively communi- cate the features and benefits of easy edge SM service to current and potential customers. Supporting versatile  powerful digital products such as  easy edge SM requires a state-of-the-art  reliable and expand- able network. At the end of 2003  we had upgraded more than 75 percent of our wireless network to CDMA 1X technology  a three-year initiative we began in 2002. CDMA 1X offers customers access to data  speeds the delivery of information and improves the quality of the wire- less experience. We believe CDMA is technology of the future for the wireless industry  and that’s one of the reasons we’ve chosen it for our network. We’re on target to complete the conversion process on time and under budget by the end of 2004. Besides upgrading the network  technology  we improved our market coverage by adding more than 500 cell sites to the network in 2003  making  it stronger than ever. We also opened  a new network operations center in Schaumburg  Ill.  to provide more  support for our network. 9 We’re excited about the successful launch of our most advanced data product  easy edge SM .