“We anticipate approximately $1.3 billion of merger-related cash outlays.”

In context

“ncludes Between $9 billion to $10 billion and again, all of this from a network perspective will be deployed through the customer-driven coverage lens. Means that every single dollar we put into the network goes to accrue to the highest customer experience improvements and hence the best value delivery for us. While simultaneously expanding the network leadership and allowing for long-term growth. Okay. Let's tumble down to adjusted free cash flow. And the short story here is we continue to deliver a cash generation profile and margin that is industry-leading. Free cash flow is expected to be between 18 billion to $18.7 billion in 2026 growing to between 19.5 billion to 20.5 billion in 2027. Now there's a number of things as you go through an integration that I want to highlight for 2026. We anticipate approximately $1.3 billion of merger-related cash outlays. Again primarily associated with that acceleration of The U. S. Cellular integration. Also expect approximately $1.2 billion of cash outlays for the network optimization and workforce restructuring costs that includes the workforce restructuring charges that we took in Q4 where the cash outflows will happen in twenty-six. And because we're accelerating that integration so dramatically, now expect those costs to drop down significantly in 2027 to $1 billion Cash taxes are expected to be 1 and a half billion for 2026 and 3.5 billion in 2027 fully integrating the benefits we anticipate from the one big beautiful bill. Now, one important note is around cash interest. I know a lot of you in this room like to model rapid deleveraging for us. So I wanted to just highlight that we take a very prud”