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Title:

Investor Agreement

Entities:

AT&T Corp.; AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.; NTT DoCoMo, Inc.; Sullivan & Cromwell; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Date:

2000

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$80

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                               INVESTOR AGREEMENT


BY AND AMONG

AT&T CORP.,

AT&T WIRELESS SERVICES, INC.

AND

NTT DOCOMO, INC.

DATED AS OF DECEMBER 20, 2000













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TABLE OF CONTENTS



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ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Definitions..................................................1

ARTICLE II

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Section 2.1 Representations and Warranties of AT&T......................10
Section 2.2 Representations and Warranties of AT&T Wireless.............10
Section 2.3 Representations and Warranties of DoCoMo and each Designee..11

ARTICLE III

GOVERNANCE AND STANDSTILL PROVISIONS

Section 3.1 Board of Directors..........................................11
Section 3.2 Pre-Spin-off Governance Rights..............................14
Section 3.3 Post-Spin-off Governance Rights.............................16
Section 3.4 Senior Leadership Team......................................17
Section 3.5 Management Positions........................................17
Section 3.6 Standstill Restrictions.....................................18
Section 3.7 Termination of the Standstill Restrictions..................22
Section 3.8 Voting......................................................24

ARTICLE IV

OTHER COVENANTS

Section 4.1 Technology Commitment.......................................25
Section 4.2 Joint Research and Development Effort.......................25
Section 4.3 Technology Default Right....................................25
Section 4.4 No Spin-off Repurchase Right................................29
Section 4.5 Reinvestment Right..........................................30
Section 4.6 Financial Statement Cooperation.............................32

ARTICLE V

MOBILE MULTIMEDIA ALLIANCE

Section 5.1 The Mobile Multimedia Alliance and the MMS..................33
Section 5.2 Technology Evolution and Timing.............................33
Section 5.3 Contributions and Resources.................................34
Section 5.4 Advisory Committee and Senior Management....................36
Section 5.5 Business Plan...............................................36
Section 5.6 Termination.................................................37


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Section 5.7 Other Operational Cooperation...............................37

ARTICLE VI

TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS

Section 6.1 Transfer Restrictions.......................................38

ARTICLE VII

REGISTRATION RIGHTS

Section 7.1 Demand Registrations........................................40
Section 7.2 Piggy-Back Registration.....................................42
Section 7.3 Limitations on Demand Registrations; Termination
of Registration Obligation................................43
Section 7.4 Registration Procedures.....................................44
Section 7.5 Registration Expenses.......................................49
Section 7.6 Indemnification; Contribution...............................49

ARTICLE VIII

PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS

Section 8.1 Preemptive Rights...........................................52
Section 8.2 Limitation of Preemptive Rights.............................55

ARTICLE IX

EFFECTIVENESS AND TERMINATION

Section 9.1 Effectiveness...............................................55
Section 9.2 Termination.................................................55
Section 9.3 Partial Termination.........................................55

ARTICLE X

NON-COMPETITION; CONFIDENTIALITY

Section 10.1 Non-Competition Restrictions................................55
Section 10.2 Definitions.................................................56
Section 10.3 Duration of and Limitations on Restrictions.................57
Section 10.4 Non-Disclosure Commitment...................................58

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1 Injunctive Relief...........................................60
Section 11.2 Successors and Assigns......................................60
Section 11.3 Amendments; Waiver..........................................60
Section 11.4 Notices.....................................................60
Section 11.5 Governing Law...............................................62

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Section 11.6 Arbitration.................................................62
Section 11.7 Headings....................................................64
Section 11.8 Entire Agreement............................................64
Section 11.9 Severability................................................64
Section 11.10 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers.........................64
Section 11.11 Waiver of Immunity..........................................65
Section 11.12 Waiver of Jury Trial........................................65
Section 11.13 Counterparts................................................65
Section 11.14 Interpretation..............................................65
Section 11.15 Anti-Dilution Adjustments...................................65
Section 11.16 Effectiveness of this Agreement.............................65
Section 11.17 No Third Party Beneficiaries................................66
Section 11.18 Substitution for AT&T Wireless..............................66

Exhibit A ..............................Cost of Carry
Exhibit B ..............................List of Separation Agreements
Schedule 3.4 ...........................Senior Leadership Team
Schedule 4.1 ...........................Top 50 U.S. BTAs
Schedule 5.3(b) ........................Mobile Multimedia Support/Contribution


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INVESTOR AGREEMENT (this "AGREEMENT"), by and among AT&T Corp., a New
York corporation ("AT&T"), AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation
and a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T ("AT&T WIRELESS"), and NTT DoCoMo, Inc., a
company incorporated under the laws of Japan ("DOCOMO"), dated as of December
20, 2000, but effective and binding upon the parties only as specified in
Section 11.16.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, AT&T, AT&T Wireless and DoCoMo have entered into a Letter
Agreement, dated November 30, 2000 (including the Term Sheet and other schedules
and attachments thereto, the "LETTER AGREEMENT"), that sets forth the agreements
among the parties for an investment by DoCoMo in the Wireless Group and, after
the Spin-off, in AT&T Wireless, and a related mobile multimedia alliance;

WHEREAS, AT&T, AT&T Wireless and DoCoMo are entering into a Securities
Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as it may be amended from time
to time, the "PURCHASE AGREEMENT"), pursuant to which, among other things,
DoCoMo will purchase 812,511.778 shares of New Tracking Stock (as defined in the
Purchase Agreement) and Warrants to purchase an additional 83,496.546 shares of
New Tracking Stock, which will be converted, in connection with the Spin-off,
into shares of Current Wireless Tracking Stock, which shares of Current Wireless
Tracking Stock will then immediately be exchanged for shares of AT&T Wireless
Common Stock, and Warrants to purchase shares of AT&T Wireless Common Stock
(collectively, the "INVESTMENT");

WHEREAS, the Letter Agreement contemplates that the agreements
contained therein would be superseded by definitive agreements, including (1)
the Purchase Agreement, (2) a Warrant Agreement and (3) this Agreement; and

WHEREAS, AT&T, AT&T Wireless and DoCoMo desire to establish in this
Agreement certain terms and conditions concerning the Investment and the
Alliance, and related provisions concerning DoCoMo's relationship with AT&T and
AT&T Wireless following the Closing.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and
agreements set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration,
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 DEFINITIONS. In addition to other terms defined elsewhere
in this Agreement, as used in this Agreement, the following terms
shall have the meanings ascribed to them below:

"ACQUIRED SPINCO SHARES" shall have the meaning assigned in Section
4.5.


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"ACQUIRED SPINCO WARRANTS" shall have the meaning assigned in Section
4.5.

"ADDITIONAL SECURITIES" shall have the meaning assigned in Section
8.1(a).

"ADVISORY COMMITTEE" shall have the meaning assigned in Section
5.4(b).

"AFFILIATE" shall mean a Person that directly, or indirectly through
one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common
control with, a specified Person; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for so long as At Home
Corporation, a Delaware corporation or Liberty Media Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and each other corporation constituting part of the Liberty Media
Group as defined in AT&T's certificate of incorporation, and their successors
and assigns ("AT HOME" and "LIBERTY Media," respectively) has any public
stockholders (directly, or through a tracking stock or similar concept), At Home
or Liberty Media, as the case may be, and any Affiliates or Subsidiaries of
Liberty Media, At Home or any of their respective Subsidiaries shall not be
treated as or deemed to be Affiliates of AT&T or of any of AT&T's Subsidiaries
or Affiliates for purposes hereof. For the purposes of this definition,
"CONTROL," (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling",
"controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person,
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the

 

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