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EXHIBIT 4.1

 Exhibit 4.1 
  

CACI INTERNATIONAL INC 
  
 INDENTURE 
  
 DATED AS OF                          , 200  

  
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 CACI INTERNATIONAL INC 
  
 RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND 
  
 INDENTURE, DATED AS OF
                         , 200   
  

					
	 Section 310
	 	(a)(1)	 	7.10
	 	 	(a)(2)	 	7.10
	 	 	(a)(3)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 	 	(a)(4)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 	 	(a)(5)	 	7.10
	 	 	(b)	 	7.10
	 Section 311
	 	(a)	 	7.11
	 	 	(b)	 	7.11
	 	 	(c)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 Section 312
	 	(a)	 	2.6
	 	 	(b)	 	10.3
	 	 	(c)	 	10.3
	 Section 313
	 	(a)	 	7.6
	 	 	(b)(1)	 	7.6
	 	 	(b)(2)	 	7.6
	 	 	(c)(1)	 	7.6
	 	 	(d)	 	7.6
	 Section 314
	 	(a)	 	4.2, 10.5
	 	 	(b)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 	 	(c)(1)	 	10.4
	 	 	(c)(2)	 	10.4
	 	 	(c)(3)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 	 	(d)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 	 	(e)	 	10.5
	 	 	(f)	 	NOT APPLICABLE
	 Section 315
	 	(a)	 	7.1
	 	 	(b)	 	7.5
	 	 	(c)	 	7.1
	 	 	(d)	 	7.1
	 	 	(e)	 	6.14
	 Section 316
	 	(a)	 	2.10
	 	 	(a)(1)(a)	 	6.12
	 	 	(a)(1)(b)	 	6.13
	 	 	(b)	 	6.8

  

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	 Section 317
	 	(a)(1)	 	6.3
	 	 	(a)(2)	 	6.4
	 	 	(b)	 	2.5
	 Section 318
	 	(a)	 	10.1

  
 Note: This reconciliation and tie
shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the Indenture. 
  

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 INDENTURE dated as of
                         , 200   between CACI INTERNATIONAL INC, a Delaware corporation
(“Company”), and
                                        
    , as trustee (“Trustee”). 
  
 Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture. 
  
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 
  
 SECTION
1.1 Definitions. 
  
 “Additional Amounts” means
any additional amounts which are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on Holders specified herein or therein and which are owing to such
Holders. 
  
 “Affiliate” of any specified person means
any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms
“controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities or by agreement or otherwise. 
  
 “Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent. 
  
 “Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper in an official language of the country of publication customarily published at least once a day for at
least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is used. If it shall be impractical in the opinion of the Trustee to make any publication of any notice required hereby in an Authorized
Newspaper, any publication or other notice in lieu thereof that is made or given by the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice. 
  
 “Bearer” means anyone in possession from time to time of a Bearer Security. 
  
 “Bearer Security” means any Security, including any interest coupon appertaining thereto, that does not provide
for the identification of the Holder thereof. 
  
 “Board of
Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof. 
  
 “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been adopted by the
Board of Directors or pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of the certificate and delivered to the Trustee. 
  

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 “Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate
or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, any day except a Saturday. 
  
 Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close. 
  
 “Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however
designated) of corporate stock. 
  
 “Company” means the
party named as such above until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor. 
  
 “Company Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer. 
  
 “Company Request” means a
written request signed in the name of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee. 
  
 “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered. 
  
 “Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default. 
  
 “Depository” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, the person designated as Depository for such Series by the Company, which Depository shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Depository” as used with
respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depository with respect to the Securities of such Series. 
  
 “Discount Security” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2. 
  
 “Dollars” and “$” means the currency of The United States of America. 
  
 “ECU” means the European Currency Unit as determined by the Commission of the European Union. 
  
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. 
  
 “Foreign Currency” means any currency or
currency unit issued by a government other than the government of The United States of America. 
  

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 “Foreign Government Obligations” means, with respect to Securities of any Series that are
denominated in a Foreign Currency, (i) direct obligations of the government that issued or caused to be issued such currency for the payment of which obligations its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or
supervised by or acting as an agency or instrumentality of such government the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by such government, which, in either case under clauses (i) or (ii), are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof. 
  
 “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of determination. 
  
 “Global Security” or “Global Securities” means a Security
or Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depository for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or nominee.

  
 “Holder” or “Securityholder” means a
person in whose name a Security is registered or the holder of a Bearer Security. 
  
 “Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented, from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder. 
  
 “Interest” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms
bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity. 
  
 “Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or installment of principal thereof, means the date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal becomes due and payable as
therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise. 
  
 “Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any
Assistant Secretary of the Company. 
  
 “Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer. 
  
 “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who
is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company. 
  
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof. 
  

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 “Principal” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus, when appropriate, the
premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security. 
  
 “Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter
is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject. 
  
 “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “Securities” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. 
  
 “Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of
the Company created pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof. 
  
 “Stated Maturity” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable. 
  
 “Subsidiary” of any specified person means any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof. 

 
 “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code
Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust
Indenture Act as so amended. 
  
 “Trustee” means the
person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean each person who
is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that Series. 
  
 “U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of The United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of The United States of America the
payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by The United States of America, and which in the case of (i) and (ii) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of
the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the 

  

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amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by
such depository receipt. 
  

			
	 Other Definitions

	  	Term Defined in Section

	 “Bankruptcy Law”
	  	6.1
	 “Custodian”
	  	6.1
	 “Event of Default”
	  	6.1
	 “Journal”
	  	10.15
	 “Judgment Currency”
	  	10.16
	 “Legal Holiday”
	  	10.7
	 “Mandatory sinking fund payment”
	  	11.1
	 “Market Exchange Rate”
	  	10.15
	 “New York Banking Day”
	  	10.16
	 “optional sinking fund payment”
	  	11.1
	 “Paying Agent”
	  	2.4
	 “Registrar”
	  	2.4
	 “Required Currency”
	  	10.16
	 “Service Agent”
	  	2.4
	 “successor person”
	  	5.1

  
 SECTION 1.2
Incorporation By Reference Of Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings: 
  
 “Commission” means the SEC. 
  
 “indenture securities” means the Securities. 
  
 “indenture security holder” means a Securityholder. 
  
 “indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture. 
  
 “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the
Trustee. 
  
 “obligor” on the indenture securities means
the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities. 
  
 All
other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined. 
  

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 SECTION 1.3 Rules Of Construction. 
  
 Unless the context otherwise requires: 
  
 (a) a term has the meaning assigned to it; 
  
 (b) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles; 
  
 (c) references to “generally accepted
accounting principles” and “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in effect as of the time when and for the period as to which such accounting principles are to be applied; 
  
 (d) “or” is not exclusive; 
  
 (e) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the
singular; and 
  
 (f) provisions apply to successive events and
transactions. 
  
 ARTICLE II 
 THE SECURITIES 
  
 SECTION 2.1 Issuable In Series. 
  
 The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in
one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof
pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof
pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ
between Series in respect of any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.2 Establishment Of Terms Of Series Of Securities. 
  
 At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series
generally, in the case of Subsection 2.2.1 and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through 2.2.21) by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth or determined in the
manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate: 
  
 2.2.1 the title of the Series (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series); 
  

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 2.2.2 the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the
Securities of the Series will be issued; 
  
 2.2.3 any limit upon
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6); 
  
 2.2.4 the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable; 
  
 2.2.5 the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not
limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such
interest, if any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date; 
  
 2.2.6 the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable, where the Securities of such
Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served, and the method of such payment, if by wire
transfer, mail or other means; 
  
 2.2.7 if applicable, the period
or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company; 
  
 2.2.8 the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase the
Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series
shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation; 
  
 2.2.9 the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such
repurchase obligations; 
  
 2.2.10 if other than denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable; 
  
 2.2.11 the forms of the Securities of the Series in bearer or fully registered form (and, if in fully registered form, whether the Securities will be
issuable as Global Securities); 
  
 2.2.12 if other than the
principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2; 
  

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 2.2.13 the currency of denomination of the Securities of the Series, which may be Dollars or any Foreign
Currency, including, but not limited to, the ECU, and if such currency of denomination is a composite currency other than the ECU, the agency or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing such composite currency; 
  
 2.2.14 the designation of the currency, currencies or currency units in which
payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be made; 
  
 2.2.15 if payments of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series are to be made in one or more currencies or currency units other
than that or those in which such Securities are denominated, the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments will be determined; 
  
 2.2.16 the manner in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if such amounts
may be determined by reference to an index based on a currency or currencies or by reference to a commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index; 
  
 2.2.17 the provisions, if any, relating to any security provided for the Securities of the Series; 
  
 2.2.18 any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to
any Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 6.2; 
  
 2.2.19 any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or
V which applies to Securities of the Series; 
  
 2.2.20 any other
terms of the Securities of the Series (which may modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series); and 
  
 2.2.21 any depositories, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if
other than those appointed herein. 
  
 2.2.22 All Securities of
any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate
referred to above, and the authorized principal amount of any Series may not be increased to provide for issuances of additional Securities of such Series, unless otherwise provided in such Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’
Certificate. 
  
 SECTION 2.3 Execution and Authentication.

  
 Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Company by
manual or facsimile signature. 
  
 If an Officer whose signature
is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid. 
  

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 A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an
authenticating agent. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture. 
  
 The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution,
supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Such Company Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the Company or its duly
authorized agent or agents, which oral instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication unless otherwise provided by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an
Officers’ Certificate. 
  
 The aggregate principal amount of
Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section
2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8. 
  
 Prior to the issuance
of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate establishing the form of the
Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series, (b) an Officers’ Certificate complying with Section 10.4, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel complying
with Section 10.4. 
  
 The Trustee shall have the right to decline
to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully; or (b) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive
committee or a trust committee of directors and/or vice-presidents shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities. 
  
 The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to
authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company. 
  
 SECTION 2.4 Registrar and Paying Agent. 
  
 The Company shall maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the place or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be
presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying Agent”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served (“Service Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice
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in the name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar,
Paying Agent or Service Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. 
  
 The Company may also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional service agents and may from time to
time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent in each place so specified pursuant to
Section 2.2 for Securities of any Series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such co-registrar, additional paying agent
or additional service agent. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar; the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “Service Agent” includes any additional service agent. 

 
 The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as the initial Registrar, Paying
Agent and Service Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued. 
  
 SECTION 2.5 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. 
  
 The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree
in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Series of Securities, and will
notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to
pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have no further liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts
as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent. 
  
 SECTION 2.6 Securityholder Lists. 
  
 The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the
names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten days before each interest payment date
and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities. 
  

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 SECTION 2.7 Transfer and Exchange. 
  
 Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to
exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the
Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6). 
  
 Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue,
register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities
selected, called or being called for redemption in part. 
  
 SECTION 2.8 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. 
  
 If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like
tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. 
  
 If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. 
  
 In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security. 
  
 Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith. 
  
 Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Securities of that Series duly issued hereunder. 
  

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 The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights
and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities. 
  
 SECTION 2.9 Outstanding Securities. 
  
 The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for
cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those described in this Section as not outstanding. 
  
 If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be
outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser. 
  
 If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a Series
money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue. 
  
 A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.

  
 In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount
of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2. 
  
 SECTION 2.10 Treasury Securities. 
  
 In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Company shall be disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities of a Series that the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. 
  
 SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities. 
  
 Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company Order.
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Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon request shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and date of maturity in exchange for temporary
Securities. Until so exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities. 
  
 SECTION 2.12 Cancellation. 
  
 The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any
Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and deliver such canceled Securities to the Company,
unless the Company otherwise directs; provided that the Trustee shall not be required to destroy Securities. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. 
  
 SECTION 2.13 Defaulted Interest. 
  
 If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities,
it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall fix the record
date and payment date. At least 10 days before the record date, the Company shall mail to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount of interest to be paid. The Company
may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner. 
  
 SECTION
2.14 Global Securities. 
  
 2.14.1 Terms of Securities. A
Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depository for such Global
Security or Securities. 
  
 2.14.2 Transfer and Exchange.
Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the names of Holders
other than the Depository for such Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any time such Depository ceases to be a clearing
agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depository registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such event, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented by such Global Security shall have happened and be continuing. Any Global
Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the Depository shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global
Security with like tenor and terms. 
  
 Except as provided in this
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Depository, by a nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor
Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository. 
  
 2.14.3
Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form: 
  
 “This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of the Depository or a
nominee of the Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and may not be transferred except as a
whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository, by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor
Depository.” 
  
 2.14.4 Acts of Holders. The Depository, as a
Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture. 
  
 2.14.5 Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture,
unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof. 
  
 2.14.6 Consents, Declaration and Directions. Except as provided in Section 2.14.5, the Company, the Trustee and any Agent
shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the Depository with respect to such Global Security, for purposes
of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions required to be given by the Holders pursuant to this Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.15 CUSIP Numbers. 
  
 The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP”
numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. 
  

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 ARTICLE III 
 REDEMPTION 
  
 SECTION 3.1
Notice to Trustee. 
  
 The Company may, with respect to
any Series of Securities, reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for
in such Securities. If a Series of Securities is redeemable and the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the
Trustee of the redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice at least 45 days before the redemption date (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee). 

 
 SECTION 3.2 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. 
  
 Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate, if less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities of the Series to be redeemed in any manner that the Trustee deems fair and appropriate.
The Trustee shall make the selection from Securities of the Series outstanding not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities of the Series that have denominations larger than
$1,000. Securities of the Series and portions of them it selects shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the minimum
principal denomination for each Series and integral multiples thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for redemption. 
  
 SECTION 3.3 Notice of Redemption. 
  
 Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed
and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion a notice in an Authorized Newspaper. 
  
 The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state: 
  
 (a) the redemption date; 
  
 (b) the redemption price; 
  
 (c) the name and address of the Paying Agent; 
  
 (d) that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price; 
  
 (e) that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases to
accrue on and after the redemption date; 
  
 (f) the CUSIP number,
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 (g) any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a
Series being redeemed. 
  
 At the Company’s request, the
Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense. 
  
 SECTION 3.4 Effect of Notice of Redemption. 
  
 Once notice of redemption is mailed or published as provided in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price. A notice of
redemption may not be conditional. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to the redemption date, provided that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to
the redemption date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities (or one or more predecessor Securities) registered at the close of business on the relevant record date therefor according to their terms and the terms of this Indenture.

  
 SECTION 3.5 Deposit of Redemption Price. 
  
 On or before the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying
Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date. 
  
 SECTION 3.6 Securities Redeemed in Part. 
  
 Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same
maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered. 
  
 ARTICLE IV 
 COVENANTS 
  
 SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. 
  
 The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 4.2 SEC Reports. 
  
 The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents,
and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also shall
comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a). Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any
information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officers’ Certificate).

  

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 SECTION 4.3 Compliance Certificate. 
  
 The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an
Officers’ Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has
kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his/her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each
and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or
Events of Default of which he may have knowledge). 
  
 The Company
will, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company
is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 
  
 SECTION
4.4 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. 
  
 The Company
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time
hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it
will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted. 
  
 SECTION 4.5 Corporate Existence. 
  
 Subject to Article V, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right,
license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any
material respect to the Holders. 
  
 Section 4.6 Taxes.

  
 The Company shall pay prior to delinquency all taxes,
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 ARTICLE V 
 SUCCESSORS 
  
 SECTION 5.1 When
Company May Merge, Etc. 
  
 The Company shall not consolidate
with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “successor person”) unless: 
  
 (a) the Company is the surviving corporation or the successor person (if other than the Company) is a corporation organized
and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes the Company’s obligations on the Securities and under this Indenture; and 
  
 (b) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
continuing. 
  
 The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to
the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officers’ Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and any supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 5.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. 
  
 Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other
disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that
the predecessor Company in the case of a sale, conveyance or other disposition (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities. 
  
 ARTICLE VI 
 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES 
  
 SECTION 6.1 Events of Default. 
  
 “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate, it is
provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default: 
  
 (a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited
by the Company with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent prior to the expiration of such period of 30 days); or 
  

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 (b) default in the payment of principal of any Security of that Series at its Maturity; or 
  
 (c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due in
respect of any Security of that Series; or 
  
 (d) default in the
performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty for which the consequences of nonperformance or breach are addressed elsewhere in this Section 6.1 and other than a covenant or
warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of Securities other than that Series), which default continues uncured for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied
and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or 
  
 (e) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law: 
  
 (i) commences a voluntary case, 
  
 (ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case, 
  
 (iii) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or
for all or substantially all of its property, 
  
 (iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or 
  
 (v) generally is unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or 
  
 (f) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: 
  
 (i) is for relief against the Company in an involuntary
case, 
  
 (ii) appoints a Custodian of the
Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or 
  
 (iii) orders the liquidation of the Company, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or 
  
 (g) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture
hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2.18. 
  
 The term “Bankruptcy Law” means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal or State law for the relief of debtors. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar
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 SECTION 6.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. 
  
 If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time
outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or (f)), then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that
Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of
the Securities of that Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or (f) shall occur, the principal amount (or specified amount) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities
shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. 
  
 At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due
has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences if all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest, if any, of Securities of that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13. 
  
 No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon. 
  
 SECTION 6.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. 
  
 The Company covenants that if: 
  
 (a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of
30 days, or 
  
 (b) default is made in the payment of principal of
any Security at the Maturity thereof, or 
  
 (c) default is made
in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of a Security, then, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and any overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. 
  

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 If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such
Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or deemed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated. 
  
 If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities of any Series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such Series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect
and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. 
  
 SECTION 6.4 Trustee May File Proofs Of Claim. 
  
 In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee
(irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue
principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, 
  
 (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers
or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in
such judicial proceeding, and 
  
 (b) to collect and receive any
moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same, and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7. 
  
 Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. 
  

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 SECTION 6.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities. 
  
 All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may
be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of
an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered. 
  
 SECTION 6.6 Application of Money Collected. 
  
 Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or interest, upon
presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid: 
  
 First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and 
  
 Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and interest on the Securities in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and 
  
 Third: To the Company. 
  
 SECTION 6.7 Limitation on Suits. 
  
 No Holder of any Security of any Series shall have any right to institute
any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless: 
  
 (a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of that Series; 
  
 (b) the Holders of at least a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder; 
  
 (c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; 
  
 (d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and 
  
 (e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the
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such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the
rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of
all such Holders. 
  
 SECTION 6.8 Unconditional Right of
Holders to Receive Principal and Interest. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Security on the Stated
Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

  
 SECTION 6.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

  
 If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in
such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been instituted. 
  
 SECTION 6.10 Rights and
Remedies Cumulative. 
  
 Except as otherwise provided with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy,
and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right
or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 
  
 SECTION 6.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. 
  
 No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any
Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time
to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be. 
  

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 SECTION 6.12 Control by Holders. 
  
 The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that: 
  
 (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with
this Indenture, 
  
 (b) the Trustee may take any other action
deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and 
  
 (c) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the
proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability. 
  
 SECTION 6.13 Waiver of Past Defaults. 
  
 The
Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such Series waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such Series and its consequences,
except a Default (i) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its
consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration) or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security of such
Series affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
Default or impair any right consequent thereon. 
  
 SECTION 6.14
Undertaking for Costs. 
  
 All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the
Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted
by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, or to any suit instituted by
any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date). 
  

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 ARTICLE VII 
 TRUSTEE 
  
 SECTION 7.1 Duties
of Trustee. 
  
 (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own
affairs. 
  
 (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of
Default: 
  
 (i) The Trustee need perform only
those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others. 
  
 (ii) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon Officers’ Certificates or Opinions of
Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officers’ Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to
the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officers’ Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture. 
  
 (c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own
willful misconduct, except that: 
  
 (i) This
paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section. 
  
 (ii) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts. 
  
 (iii) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series. 
  
 (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee
is subject to paragraph (a), (b) and (c) of this Section. 
  
 (e)
The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power at the request or direction of any Holder unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense. 
  

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 (f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may
agree in writing with the Company. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. 
  
 (g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of
its duties, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk is not reasonably assured to it. 
  
 (h) The Paying Agent, the Registrar and any authenticating agent shall be
entitled to the protections, immunities and standard of care as are set forth in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section with respect to the Trustee. 
  
 SECTION 7.2 Rights of Trustee. 
  
 (a) The Trustee may rely on and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. 
  
 (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate. 
  
 (c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care. No Depository shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall
not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depository. 
  
 (d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers, provided that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute negligence or bad
faith. 
  
 (e) The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice
of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder without negligence and in good faith and in reliance thereon. 
  
 (f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. 
  
 (g) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
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 (h) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit. 
  
 (i) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received
by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities generally or the Securities of a particular Series and this Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 7.3 Individual Rights of Trustee. 
  
 The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal
with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11. 
  
 SECTION 7.4 Trustee’s Disclaimer. 
  
 The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this
Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication. 
  
 SECTION 7.5 Notice of Defaults. 
  
 If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to
the Securities of any Series and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an
Authorized Newspaper, notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of
Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as its corporate trust committee or a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding
the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series. 
  
 SECTION 7.6 Reports by Trustee to Holders. 
  
 Within 60 days after May 15 in each year, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish in an
Authorized Newspaper, a brief report dated as of such May 15, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA Section 313. 
  
 A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange on which the
Securities of that Series are listed. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee when Securities of any Series are listed on any stock exchange. 
  

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 SECTION 7.7 Compensation and Indemnity. 
  
 The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for its
services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree upon in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon
request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel. 
  
 The Company shall indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee (including the cost of defending itself) against
any loss, liability or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee) incurred by it except as set forth in the next paragraph in the performance of its duties under this Indenture as
Trustee or Agent. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have one separate counsel and the
Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. This indemnification shall apply to officers, directors,
employees, shareholders and agents of the Trustee. 
  
 The Company
need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer, director, employee, shareholder or agent of the Trustee through negligence or bad faith. 
  
 To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee
shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities of that Series. 
  
 When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or (f) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law. 
  
 The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 7.8 Replacement of Trustee. 
  
 A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor
Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section. 
  
 The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Company at least 30 days prior to the date of the proposed
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respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company. The Company may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series if:

  
 (a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

  
 (b) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an
order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law; 
  
 (c) a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or 
  
 (d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting. 
  
 If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

  
 If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
one or more Series does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee. 
  
 A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to
the successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to
each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish such notice
on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to
expenses and liabilities incurred by it prior to such replacement. 
  
 SECTION 7.9 Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. 
  
 If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

  
 SECTION 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification. 

 
 This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements
of TIA Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).

  

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 SECTION 7.11 Referential Collection of Claims Against Company. 
  
 The Trustee is subject to TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated. 
  
 ARTICLE VIII 
 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE;
DEFEASANCE 
  
 SECTION 8.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture. 
  
 This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease
to be of further effect (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when 
  
 (a) either: 
  
 (i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed,
lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or 
  
 (ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation 
  
 (1) have become due and payable, or 
  
 (2) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

  
 (3) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company; 
  
 and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and
discharging the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable on or prior to the
date of such deposit) or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be; 
  
 (b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and 
  
 (c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
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 Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the
Trustee under Section 7.7, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.5 shall survive. 
  
 SECTION 8.2 Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification. 

 
 (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, all money deposited with
the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government
Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent (other than the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or
received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Sections 8.3 or 8.4. 
  
 (b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations
or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Sections 8.3 or 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders. 
  
 (c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon
Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Sections 8.3 or 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or
money were deposited or received. This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held under this Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 8.3 Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series. 

 
 Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section
2.2.20, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in
subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, at Company Request, execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), except as to: 
  
 (a) the
rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on
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such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such
Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series; 
  
 (b) the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.5; and 
  
 (c) the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the Trustee hereunder; 
  
 provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied: 
  
 (d) the Company shall have deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited
(except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the
case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign
Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one
day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal and such sinking fund payments are
due; 
  
 (e) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; 
  
 (f) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or
during the period ending on the 91st day after such date; 
  
 (g)
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the
date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such Series will
not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred; 
  
 (h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of such Series over any other creditors of
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 (i) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with. 
  
 SECTION 8.4 Covenant Defeasance. 
  
 Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2.20 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, on and after the 91st day after
the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) hereof, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, and 5.1 as well as any
additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.20 (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not
constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate
delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.18 and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

  
 (a) With reference to this Section 8.4, the Company has
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency
(other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax
liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments
of interest or principal and such sinking fund payments are due; 
  
 (b) Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; 
  
 (c) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such
Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after such date; 
  
 (d) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize
income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
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 (e) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with. 
  
 SECTION 8.5 Repayment to Company. 
  
 The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal
and interest that remains unclaimed for two years. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person. 
  
 ARTICLE IX 
 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS 
  
 SECTION 9.1 Without Consent of Holders. 
  
 The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder: 
  
 (a) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency; 
  
 (b) to comply with Article V; 
  
 (c) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; 
  
 (d) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any
Securityholder; 
  
 (e) to provide for the issuance of and
establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture; 
  
 (f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more Series and to
add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or 
  
 (g) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

  
 SECTION 9.2 With Consent of Holders. 
  
 The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the
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with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders of each such Series. Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any
provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series. 
  
 It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent
approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Securities affected thereby and, if any Bearer Securities affected thereby are outstanding,
publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by the Company to mail or publish such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect
the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver. 
  
 SECTION 9.3 Limitations. 
  
 Without the consent
of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not: 
  
 (a) reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver; 
  
 (b) reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security; 
  
 (c) reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or
reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation; 
  
 (d) reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof; 
  
 (e) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or
interest, if any, on any Security (except a rescission of acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that
resulted from such acceleration); 
  
 (f) make the principal of or
interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security; 
  
 (g) make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13, or 9.3 (this sentence); or 
  
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 SECTION 9.4 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series
shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect. 
  
 SECTION 9.5 Revocation and Effect of Consents. 
  
 Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental indenture or a waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing
consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or
subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective. 
  
 Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of
each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (h) of Section 9.3. In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every
subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security. 
  
 SECTION 9.6 Notation on or Exchange of Securities. 
  
 The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange
for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon request new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver. 
  
 SECTION 9.7 Trustee Protected. 
  
 In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the
trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights. 
  
 ARTICLE X 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 SECTION 10.1 Trust Indenture Act
Controls. 
  
 If any provision of this Indenture limits,
qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control. 
  

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 SECTION 10.2 Notices. 
  
 Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is
duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail: 
  

					
	 	 	if to the Company:
		
	 	 	CACI International Inc
	 	 	1100 North Glebe Road
	 	 	Arlington, Virginia 22201
	 	 	Telephone: (703) 841-7800
	 	 	Facsimile:
		
	 	 	if to the Trustee:
	 	 	  

	 	 	  

	 	 	  

	 	 	Attention:	 	  

	 	 	Telephone:	 	  

	 	 	Facsimile:	 	  

  
 The Company or the
Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications. 
  
 Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be mailed by first-class mail to his address shown on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any
Bearer Securities are outstanding, published in an Authorized Newspaper. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that
or any other Series. 
  
 If a notice or communication is mailed or
published in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the Securityholder receives it. 
  
 If the Company mails a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time. 
  
 SECTION 10.3 Communication by Holders with Other Holders. 

 
 Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA Section
312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection
of TIA Section 312(c). 
  

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 SECTION 10.4 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. 
  
 Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee: 
  
 (a) an Officers’ Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and 
  
 (b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all
such conditions precedent have been complied with. 
  
 SECTION
10.5 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. 
  
 Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(e)
and shall include: 
  
 (a) a statement that the person making
such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; 
  
 (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; 
  
 (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
  
 (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
  
 SECTION 10.6 Rules by Trustee and Agents. 
  
 The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of
Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions. 
  
 SECTION 10.7 Legal Holidays. 
  
 Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, a “Legal
Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the
intervening period. 
  

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 SECTION 10.8 No Recourse Against Others. 
  
 A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall
not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and
releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities. 
  
 SECTION 10.9 Counterparts. 
  
 This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be
deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. 
  
 SECTION 10.10 Governing Laws. 
  
 THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE,
WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF. 
  
 SECTION 10.11 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. 
  
 This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this
Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 10.12 Successors. 
  
 All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall
bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor. 
  
 SECTION 10.13 Severability. 
  
 In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 

 
 SECTION 10.14 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. 
  
 The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table, and headings of the Articles
and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof. 
  

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 SECTION 10.15 Securities in a Foreign Currency or in ECU. 
  
 Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture
hereto or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage
in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all Series or all Series affected by a particular action at the time outstanding and, at such time, there are outstanding Securities of any Series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than
Dollars (including ECUs), then the principal amount of Securities of such Series which shall be deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market
Exchange Rate at such time. For purposes of this Section 10.15, “Market Exchange Rate” shall mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of that currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
provided, however, in the case of ECUs, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the rate of exchange determined by the Commission of the European Union (or any successor thereto) as published in the Official Journal of the European Union (such publication
or any successor publication, the “Journal”). If such Market Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the Trustee shall use, in its sole discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or, in the case of ECUs, the rate of exchange as published in the Journal, as of the most recent available date, or quotations or, in the case of ECUs, rates of exchange from one or more major banks in The City
of New York or in the country of issue of the currency in question or, in the case of ECUs, in Luxembourg or such other quotations or, in the case of ECUs, rates of exchange as the Trustee, upon consultation with the Company, shall deem appropriate.
The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a Series denominated in currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture. 
  
 All decisions and determinations of
the Trustee regarding the Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, to the extent permitted by law, be conclusive for
all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Company and all Holders. 
  
 SECTION 10.16 Judgment Currency. 
  
 The Company
agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest or other amount on the
Securities of any Series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures
the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then the rate of exchange used shall be
the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is
entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)),
in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such 
  

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tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such
payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency
so expressed to be payable, and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal
holiday in The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close. 
  
 ARTICLE XI 
 SINKING FUNDS 
  
 SECTION 11.1 Applicability of Article. 
  
 The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for
the retirement of the Securities of a Series, except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture. 
  
 The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred
to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any
Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of
such Series. 
  
 SECTION 11.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund
Payments with Securities. 
  
 The Company may, in
satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is
applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been repurchased by the Company
or redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions
pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officers’ Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days
prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund
and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed
in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, 
  

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and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of
that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Company. 
  
 SECTION 11.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. 
  

Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate in respect of a
particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for
that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that Series pursuant to
Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise
indicated in the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such
sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

  

					
	 	 	Attest: CACI International Inc
			
	 	 	By:	 	  

	 	 	Name:	 	 
	 	 	Its:	 	 
		
	 	 	Attest: [Trustee]
			
	 	 	By:	 	  

	 	 	Name:	 	 
	 	 	Its:	 	 

  

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 EXHIBIT 4.1

 SONY ERICSSON 401(K) AND SAVINGS PLAN 
  
 Effective as of September 1, 2004 
  

  
 SONY ERICSSON 401(K) AND
SAVINGS PLAN 
  
 Effective as of September 1, 2004

  
 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 	  	 	  	Page

	 HISTORY AND PURPOSE
	  	1
			
	 ARTICLE I
	  	 DEFINITIONS
	  	2
			
	 ARTICLE II
	  	 ADMINISTRATION
	  	17
			
	 ARTICLE III
	  	 ELIGIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS AND ELECTIVE DEFERRALS BY PARTICIPANTS
	  	19
			
	 ARTICLE IV
	  	 CONTRIBUTION BY THE COMPANY
	  	24
			
	 ARTICLE V
	  	 ACCOUNTS OF PARTICIPANTS - INVESTMENTS
	  	29
			
	 ARTICLE VI
	  	 WITHDRAWALS DURING EMPLOYMENT
	  	32
			
	 ARTICLE VII
	  	 TERMINATION OF SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING
	  	38
			
	 ARTICLE VIII
	  	 TIME AND METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS
	  	41
			
	 ARTICLE IX
	  	 MISCELLANEOUS
	  	50
			
	 ARTICLE X
	  	 TOP HEAVY PLAN PROVISIONS
	  	56
			
	 ARTICLE XI
	  	 EMPLOYER PARTICIPATION
	  	59

  

 (i) 

  
 SONY ERICSSON 401(K)
AND SAVINGS PLAN 
  
 Effective as of September 1, 2004

  
 HISTORY AND PURPOSE 
  
 The Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan (the “Plan”) was created
as a spinoff from the Ericsson Inc. Capital Accumulation and Savings Plan (the “Ericsson Plan”), effective as of September 1, 2004. The assets and liabilities spun-off from the Ericsson Plan were the assets and liabilities attributable to
(i) any participant in the Ericsson Plan who was an employee of the Company on October 1, 2001 and who was not at the time of the spinoff an employee of Ericsson Inc. (“Ericsson”) or an affiliate (other than the Company), and (ii) any
participant in the Ericsson Plan who was hired by the Company after October 1, 2001 and who was not at the time of the spinoff an employee of Ericsson or an affiliate (other than the Company). 
  
 The purpose of the Plan is to encourage Eligible Employees to develop
individual initiative and thrift so as to provide additional security and income for their future through a systematic savings program. The Plan is intended to comply with ERISA and to be a qualified plan within the meaning of section 401(a) of the
Code, containing a cash or deferred arrangement described in section 401(k) of the Code, with the Plan assets to be held in a trust that is tax-exempt under section 501(a) of the Code. Moreover, this Plan is intended to be a stock bonus plan and,
pursuant to the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(27)(B), a profit-sharing plan as well. The Plan shall be interpreted, administered, and construed in accordance with these intents. 
  

 (1) 

  
 ARTICLE I 

 
 DEFINITIONS 
  
 1.1 Definitions. 
  
 Whenever used in this Plan, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context: 
  
 (a) Account. 
  
 Account shall mean the separate bookkeeping record maintained to record the
interest of Participants under the Plan. Each Participant shall have, if applicable, up to seven (7) subaccounts, (i) a Prior Plan Profit Sharing Account consisting of all discretionary non-matching employer contributions made under a Merged Plan,
together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (ii) a Company CAP Account (also called a Company Automatic Contribution Account) consisting of all Company CAP Contributions (also called
Company Automatic Contributions) made under the Plan and the Ericsson Plan and allocated to this subaccount, together with the income, gain, losses, and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (iii) an Employee CAP Account (also
called an Employee Pre-Tax Contribution Account) consisting of all Employee CAP Contributions (also called Employee Pre-Tax Contributions) and Catch-up Contributions under this Plan, the Ericsson Plan and the Prior CAP Plans, as well as elective
deferrals made under the Merged Plans, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (iv) an Employee Savings Account (also called an Employee After-Tax Contribution Account) consisting of
all Employee Savings Contributions (also called Employee After-Tax Contributions) under this Plan, the Ericsson Plan and the Prior Savings Fund Plans, as well as any after-tax employee contributions made under the Merged Plans, together with the
income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, (v) a Company Match Account, consisting of all Company Matching Contributions made prior to January 1, 2001 under the Ericsson Plan, regular contributions under
the Prior CAP Plans and Company Contributions under the Prior Savings Fund Plans, as well as matching contributions made under the Merged Plans, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom,
(vi) a Rollover Account consisting of all Rollover Contributions made to this Plan, the Ericsson Plan or a Merged Plan, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom, and (vii) a Safe Harbor
Matching Account consisting of Matching Contributions made on or after January 1, 2001 to this Plan or the Ericsson Plan, together with the income, gain, losses and expenses allocated thereto and less distributions therefrom. With respect to
Participants’ Accounts, separate recordkeeping shall be maintained for each subaccount, but an actual segregation of Trust assets shall not be required. 
  
 (b) Accrued Benefit. 
  
 Accrued Benefit shall mean the amount allocated to a Participant’s Account as of any date. 
  

 (2) 

 (c) Actual Contribution Percentage. 
  
 Actual Contribution Percentage shall mean for a specified group of Eligible Employees (who have satisfied the eligibility
requirements of Section 3.1) the average (arithmetic mean) of the ratios (calculated separately for each Eligible Employee in such group) of: (i) the amount of all Employee Savings Contributions actually contributed to the Trust by or on behalf of
such Employee and allocated to his Employee Savings Account for such Plan Year to (ii) the Employee’s Considered Compensation for such Plan Year, such average of ratios being multiplied by one hundred (100). 
  
 The Committee may elect, to the extent permitted by Treasury Regulations, to
take into account Company CAP Contributions in computing the Actual Contribution Percentage and Employee CAP Contributions. 
  
 For purposes of determining the Actual Contribution Percentage, Employee Savings Contributions, if any, must be allocated to the Employee’s Savings
Account and must be funded before the last day of the twelve-month period immediately following the Plan Year to which such contributions relate. 
  
 If this Plan and one or more other plans are considered as one plan for purposes of Code section 401(a)(4) or 410(b) (other than Code section
410(b)(2)(A)(ii)), then the Actual Contribution Percentage shall be determined as if all such plans were a single plan. Similarly, if this Plan and another plan are permissively aggregated for purposes of Code section 401(m), the aggregated plans
must also satisfy Code sections 401(a)(4) and 410(b) as if they were a single plan. Plans may be aggregated only if they have the same plan year. 
  
 Moreover, if any Highly Compensated Employee is eligible to make Employee Savings Contributions under this Plan and one or more other plans of an
Employing Company or a Related Employer subject to Code section 401(m) (other than those which may not be permissively aggregated), then, for purposes of determining the Actual Contribution Percentage with respect to such Highly Compensated
Employee, all such plans shall be treated as one plan hereunder. 
  
 (d) Alternate Payee. 
  
 Alternate Payee
shall mean any spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a Participant who is recognized by a Domestic Relations Order as having a right to receive all, or a portion of, the benefits payable under the Plan with respect to such
Participant. 
  
 (e) Annual Addition.

  
 Annual Addition means the sum, for any calendar year,
of 
  
 (1) Company Matching Contributions,

  
 (2) Company CAP Contributions, 
  
 (3) Employee CAP Contributions, 
  
 (4) Employee Savings Contributions, and 
  

 (3) 

 (5) forfeitures. 
  
 (f) Beneficiary. 
  
 Beneficiary means any person or fiduciary designated by a Participant who is or may become entitled to a benefit under the Plan following the death of the
Participant. 
  
 (g) Board. 
  
 Board means the Board of Directors of the Company. 
  
 (h) Catch-up Contributions. 
  
 Catch-up Contributions means amounts to be contributed by Employing
Companies and allocated to Participants’ Employee CAP Account in accordance with Section 3.5. 
  
 (i) Code. 
  
 Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it has been and as it may be amended from time to time. 
  
 (j) Company. 
  
 Company means Sony Ericsson Mobile Telecommunications USA Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and any successor to such entity, whether by merger, purchase, or otherwise. The Company shall be the Plan sponsor. 
  
 (k) Company CAP Contributions. 
  
 Company CAP Contributions means amounts to be contributed by Employing Companies and allocated to Participants’ Company CAP Account in accordance
with Section 4.3. 
  
 (l) Company Matching
Contributions. 
  
 Company Matching Contributions means
amounts to be contributed by Employing Companies and allocated to Participants’ Safe Harbor Matching Account in accordance with Section 4.1. 
  
 (m) Compensation. 
  
 For purposes of the Highly Compensated Employee, maximum Annual Addition, and Top Heavy rules, Compensation shall mean a Participant’s wages,
salaries, and other amounts received for personal services actually rendered in the course of employment with an Employing Company or Related Employer as an Employee to the extent that the amounts are includible in gross income (including, but not
limited to, commissions paid salesmen, compensation for services on the basis of a percentage of profits, management incentives, overtime, shift premium, bonuses, fringe benefits, reimbursements, and expense allowances under a nonaccountable plan),
but excluding the following: 
  
 (1)
employer contributions to a plan of deferred compensation to the extent contributions are not included in gross income of the Participant for the taxable year in which contributed, or on behalf of the Participant to a Simplified Employee Pension
Plan to the extent such contributions are deductible under section 219(b)(7) of the Code, and any distributions from a plan of deferred compensation whether or not includable in the gross income of the Participant when distributed (except for
amounts received from an unfunded, nonqualified plan in the year such amounts are includible in the Participant’s income); 
  

 (4) 

 (2) amounts realized from the exercise of a non-qualified stock option, or when
restricted stock (or property) held by the Participant becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture; 
  
 (3) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and 
  
 (4) other amounts that receive special tax benefits, or
contributions made by the employer (whether or not under a salary reduction agreement) toward the purchase of a Code section 403(b) annuity contract (whether or not the contributions are excludable from the gross income of the Participant).

  
 For purposes of the maximum Annual Addition rules in Section
9.11, Compensation, as defined above, taken into account for a calendar year, is the Compensation actually paid or made available to the Participant during such year. For the purposes of determining the identity and number of Highly Compensated
Employees and Key Employees, Compensation shall also include any elective deferrals (as that term is defined in Code section 402(g)(3)), any amounts excluded from gross income of an Employee under sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B),
403(b) and/or 457 of the Code, and any amounts that would be excluded from a Participant’s gross income pursuant to Code section 125 but for the Participant’s mandatory participation in the cafeteria plan sponsored by an Employing Company
(hereinafter referred to as “Deemed 125 Compensation”). 
  
 (n) Considered Compensation. 
  
 For purpose of determining the Actual Contribution Percentage, Considered Compensation shall mean, for a Plan Year compensation as defined in Code section 414(s) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, as elected by the Company from time
to time from the various options available under such regulations, and pursuant to any rules and requirements as may be set forth in such regulations. To the extent permissible under such regulations, the Company may use different definitions of
Considered Compensation (i) for different nondiscrimination tests in the same Plan Year, and (ii) for the same nondiscrimination test from year to year. 
  
 In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the annual
Considered Compensation of each Employee taken into account under the Plan shall not exceed $200,000, or such larger amount that may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 401(a)(17)(A) pursuant to Code section
401(a)(17)(B). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not exceeding 12 months, over which compensation is 

  

 (5) 

 
determined (determination period) beginning in such calendar year. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual compensation limit
will be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12. 
  
 Considered Compensation shall only include amounts actually paid an Employee during the period he is a Participant for services performed as an Eligible
Employee. 
  
 (o) Current Market Value. 

 
 Current Market Value means the value reported by the Trustee as being the
fair market value at the specified date as determined by it according to its usual methods and procedures. 
  
 (p) Domestic Relations Order. 
  
 Domestic Relations Order shall mean any judgment, decree, or order (including one that approves a property settlement agreement) that relates to the
provision of child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights to a spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a Participant and is rendered under a state (within the meaning of Code section 7701(a)(10)) domestic relations law
(including a community property law). 
  
 (q) E-Flex Plan.

  
 E-Flex Plan means the Ericsson Flexible Benefits Plan or
such successor health and welfare benefits plan adopted and enacted by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. 
  
 (r) Effective Date. 
  
 Effective Date means September 1, 2004, unless otherwise provided herein. 
  
 (s) Election. 
  
 Election means the permissible manner, method, and media by which Participants can make various choices available hereunder, as determined by the Plan
Administrator from time to time. Currently, Elections can be made through accessing and entering appropriate responses on the VRS, through the internet, or by filing an appropriate form with the Committee or its delegate, such as the Plan
recordkeeper, or the Company’s Human Resources Department or Benefits Department. Certain Elections may be made through several of the above-described options, whereas other Elections may only be made through a single method and media, as
determined by the Plan Administrator from time to time. 
  
 (t)
Eligible Employee. 
  
 Eligible Employee means any regular
salaried or hourly person who shall be in the employ of any of the Employing Companies during such period as he meets all of the following conditions: 
  

(1) he receives regular compensation in the form of a weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly or monthly salary paid on a United States
payroll; 
  

 (6) 

 (2) he is not in a unit of employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement or if
he is, an applicable collective bargaining agreement provides for the application of the Plan to the employees in such unit; 
  
 (3) he is not a part-time employee who is regularly credited with less than 1,000 Hours of Service in any 12-month computation period
commencing on his Employment Commencement Date or any anniversary thereof (provided that this restriction shall not apply once an employee earns 1,000 Hours of Service in any such computation period); 
  
 (4) he is not a “temporary employee” hired for a
limited period of time or for a specific task, as determined by the Employing Company on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis; 
  
 (5) he is not a nonresident alien with no United States source income; and 
  
 (6) he is not a foreign contract employee on assignment in the U.S. pursuant to an assignment policy that
prohibits his participation in the Plan. 
  
 (u) Eligible
Salary. 
  
 Eligible Salary means the actual wages or salary
paid to a Participant for the Participant’s personal service, including base pay, sales commissions, lump sum merit increase payments, overtime, shift differentials and on-call pay, but excluding management incentives or other incentive
payments, bonuses, gain-sharing payments, severance pay, or any other special payments, fees or allowances. Eligible Salary shall also include any amounts excluded from gross income of an Employee under Code sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3),
402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) and/or 457, and Deemed 125 Compensation. 
  
 In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the annual Eligible Salary of each Employee taken into account under the Plan shall not exceed $200,000,
or such larger amount that may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 401(a)(17)(A) pursuant to Code section 401(a)(17)(B). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not
exceeding 12 months, over which compensation is determined (determination period) beginning in such calendar year. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual compensation limit will be multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12. 
  

 (7) 

 (v) Employee. 
  
 Employee means a common law employee of an Employing Company, as designated on the Employing Company’s payroll records
(regardless of any recharacterization by a court or government agency). However, “Employee” does not include any person who is or is designated as a leased employee, leased owner, or leased manager. 
  
 (w) Employee CAP Contributions. 
  
 Employee CAP Contributions means reductions pursuant to a Salary Reduction
Agreement, in whole percentages from 1% through 50%, of a Participant’s Eligible Salary, which amounts are transferred by the Employing Company to the Trustee of the Trust and allocated to the Participant’s Employee CAP Account in
accordance with Section 3.4. 
  
 (x) Employee Savings
Contributions. 
  
 Employee Savings Contributions means
amounts contributed by Participants and allocated to their Employee Savings Account in accordance with Section 3.2. 
  
 (y) Employing Companies. 
  
 Employing Companies means the Company and each Subsidiary. 
  

(z) Employment Commencement Date. 
  
 Employment Commencement Date means the date on which an Employee first performs an Hour of Service for an Employing Company. 
  
 (aa) Enrollment Period. 
  
 Enrollment Period means the periods designated by the Committee during which
new Participants may establish their rates of Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions and/or Catch-up Contributions, to be generally effective as of the first administratively feasible pay period following receipt of a valid
election from the Participant. 
  
 (bb) Ericsson ADRs.

  
 Ericsson ADRs means non-restricted B Shares, nominal
value Skr 1, each represented by American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) of Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, a Swedish limited liability company, deposited with Citibank, N.A. as depository. 
  

 (8) 

 (cc) Ericsson Plan. 
  
 Ericsson Plan means the Ericsson Inc. Capital Accumulation and Savings Plan. 
  
 (dd) ERISA. 
  
 ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as it has
been and as it may be amended from time to time. 
  
 (ee) Fiduciaries. 
  
 Fiduciaries means the
Board, the Company, the Trustee, and any Investment Manager appointed hereunder or under the Trust Agreement. 
  
 (ff) Forfeitures. 
  
 Forfeitures shall mean, with respect to a Plan Year, the aggregate amount of all Forfeiture Amounts that have ceased for such Plan Year to be part of
Participants’ Accrued Benefit, as provided in Section 7.4. 
  
 (gg) Forfeiture Amount. 
  
 Forfeiture Amount
shall mean the portion of a Participant’s Account that is not part of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit upon the Participant’s termination of service, determined in accordance with Section 7.2. 
  
 (hh) GE Plan. 
  
 “GE Plan” means the GE Savings and Security Program, as maintained
by General Electric Company on December 31, 1989. 
  
 (ii)
Highly Compensated Employee. 
  
 Highly Compensated Employee
shall mean an Employee of an Employing Company or an employee of a Related Employer who performs services for the Employing Company or Related Employer during the current Plan Year for which Section 4.2 is being applied and either: 
  
 (1) during the current Plan Year or the immediately
preceding Plan Year, was a 5% owner (within the meaning of Code section 414(q)(2)); or 
  
 (2) during the Plan Year immediately preceding the current Plan Year, received Compensation in excess of $90,000 (or such larger amount
that may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 414(q)(1)(B)(i) pursuant to Code section 414(q)(1)), and during such prior Plan Year was also in the top 20% of Employees ranked by Compensation. 
  
 For purposes of determining the number of employees in the group consisting
of the top twenty percent (20%) of employees, the employees described in section 414(q)(8) of the Code shall be excluded as provided in such Code section and in rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. 
  

 (9) 

 In addition, the term “Highly Compensated Employee” shall also include a former Employee who
incurred a severance from employment prior to the Determination Year (as hereinafter defined) and who was a Highly Compensated Employee for either (i) the year in which he incurred a severance from employment or (ii) any Determination Year ending on
or after the Employee’s 55th birthday. For purposes of this Section, a “Determination Year” is the Plan Year for which a determination is being made of who is a Highly Compensated Employee. 
  
 (jj) Hours of Service. 
  
 Hours of Service shall mean the total number of hours for which the Employee
is either directly or indirectly compensated by or entitled to be compensated by, (i) the Employing Companies, (ii) any company that shall be or has been merged with, or whose assets or a majority of the stock of which, shall be or have been
acquired by any of the Employing Companies, (iii) any Related Employer, (iv) any other company if rendered at the written request of the Company, and (v) any entity designated as an affiliate by the Company, which shall in all events include
Ericsson Inc. and L M Ericsson, for performance of duties and for reasons other than the performance of duties. In addition, for all purposes of this Plan, service hereunder shall include service credited under the Prior Plans and the Merged Plans.
Furthermore, Hours of Service shall include regular time, overtime, vacation, holidays, sickness, disability, lay-off and similar paid periods, and shall also mean each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either
awarded or agreed to by the Employing Companies. Hours shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations that are incorporated herein by this reference. 
  
 (kk) Merged Plans. 
  
 Merged Plans shall mean, collectively, the following plans that were merged
into the Ericsson Plan: the Advanced Computer Communications, Inc. 401(k) Plan, the Ericsson IP Infrastructure, Inc. 401(k) Plan, the MPD Technologies, Inc. In-Vest Plan, and the EHPT, Inc. 401(k) Plan. 
  
 (ll) One Year Period of Severance. 
  
 One Year Period of Severance means a twelve (12) consecutive month Period of
Severance. 
  
 (mm) Parental Absence. 
  
 Parental Absence shall mean any period of absence from the active service of
any Employing Company that commences: 
  
 (1) by
reason of the pregnancy of the Employee; 
  
 (2)
by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee; 
  
 (3) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by the Employee; or 
  
 (4) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. 
  

 (10) 

 (nn) Partial Distribution 
  
 A Partial Distribution means the distribution of less than the Participant’s entire vested Accrued Benefit. 

 
 (oo) Participant. 
  
 Participant means an Eligible Employee who has elected to participate or
otherwise qualified for participation in the Plan in accordance with Section 3.1. 
  
 (pp) Period of Service. 
  
 Period of Service shall mean the period of time commencing on an Employee’s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date, whichever is applicable, and ending on the date a Period of Severance commences. A Period of
Service shall also include a Period of Severance of less than twelve (12) consecutive months. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in the case of an Employee who is absent from Service for reasons other than resignation, Retirement, or discharge,
and who terminates employment with the Employing Company because of resignation, Retirement, or discharge, Period of Service shall not include any Period of Severance commencing on the date such Employee so terminated employment with the Employing
Company and ending on the date such Employee is reemployed by the Employing Company if reemployment by the Employing Company does not occur within the twelve (12) month period commencing on the date such period of absence commenced. 
  
 With respect to a Re-Employed Employee, his Period of Service prior to his
incurring a One Year Period of Severance shall be aggregated with his Period of Service commencing on his Reemployment Commencement Date. 
  
 Notwithstanding any provisions contained herein to the contrary, a period of service with a Related Employer that, had it been spent with the Employing
Company would have been a Period of Service pursuant to the above provisions of this Section, shall be considered a Period of Service with the Employing Company. All Periods of Service under the Prior Plans and Merged Plans shall be credited
hereunder. 
  
 (qq) Period of Severance. 
  
 Period of Severance shall mean a period of time commencing on an
Employee’s Severance from Employment Date and ending on his Reemployment Commencement Date; provided, however, an Employee shall not be deemed to incur a Period of Severance for any period of absence occasioned by his voluntary or involuntary
induction into the armed forces of the United States (including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, and Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, or such other categories as the President designates in time of war or
emergency) under such circumstances as give rise to his having reemployment rights protected by Federal law after discharge. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, a period of absence occasioned by an Employee’s voluntary or involuntary
induction into the armed forces of the United States shall be deemed a Period of Severance, commencing on his Severance from Employment Date, unless such Employee returns to employment with the Employing Company within the time period required by
applicable Federal Law (including the 

  

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Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994), and satisfies the conditions required by Federal law protecting his reemployment rights.

  
 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, solely for
purposes of determining whether an Employee or Participant has incurred a One Year Period of Severance, the Severance from Employment Date of an Employee who is absent from Service beyond the first anniversary of the first date of absence by reason
of a Parental Absence is the second anniversary of the first date of such absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of the first date of absence from work is neither a Period of Service nor a Period of Severance. 
  
 (rr) Plan. 
  
 Plan means the Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan as set forth herein.

  
 (ss) Plan Administrator. 
  
 Plan Administrator means the Company, which shall delegate its duties to a
committee (“Committee”) of three or more persons designated by the Board to administer the Plan pursuant to the terms of Article II hereof. The Plan Administrator shall be a named fiduciary hereunder for purposes of ERISA. 
  
 (tt) Plan Year. 
  
 Plan Year means the calendar year. The first Plan Year shall be a short plan
year commencing on September 1, 2004 and ending on December 31, 2004. 
  
 (uu) Prior Plans. 
  
 Prior Plans means the
Ericsson Inc. Capital Accumulation and Savings Plan (the “Ericsson Plan”), Ericsson Capital Accumulation Plan, Ericsson Salaried Savings Fund Plan, Ericsson GE Capital Accumulation Plan, and Ericsson GE Savings Fund Plan. The “Prior
Savings Fund Plans” means the Ericsson Salaried Savings Fund Plan and the Ericsson GE Savings Fund Plan, and the “Prior CAP Plans” means the Ericsson Capital Accumulation Plan and the Ericsson GE Capital Accumulation Plan. 

 

 (12) 

 (vv) Qualified Domestic Relations Order. 
  
 Qualified Domestic Relations Order shall mean a Domestic Relations Order
entered on or after January 1, 1985, that creates or recognizes the existence of an Alternative Payee’s right to, or assigns to an Alternate Payee the right to, receive all or a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a Participant
under the Plan, does not require the Plan to provide any type or form of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the Plan, does not require the Plan to provide increased benefits (determined on the basis of actuarial value), does not
require that the payment of benefits to an Alternate Payee that are required to be paid to another Alternate Payee under another order previously determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, and that clearly specifies: (i) the name and
last known mailing address (if any) of the Participant and the name and mailing address of each Alternate Payee covered by the order; (ii) the amount or percentage of the Participant’s benefits to be paid by the Plan to each such Alternate
Payee, or the manner in which such amount or percentage is to be determined; (iii) the number of payments or payment period to which such order applies and (iv) specifically specifies that it is applicable with respect to this Plan. In the case of
any payment before a Participant has separated from Service, a Domestic Relations Order will not be treated as failing to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order solely because such order requires the payment of benefits be made to an Alternate
Payee: (i) in the case of any payment before a Participant has separated from Service, on or after the date on which the Participant is entitled to a distribution under the Plan or on or after the later of the date the Participant attains age fifty
(50) or the earlier date on which the Participant could begin receiving benefits under the Plan if the Participant separated from Service, (ii) as if the Participant had retired on the date on which payment is to commence under such order (taking
into account only the present value of benefits actually accrued as of such date), and (iii) in any form in which such benefits may be paid under the Plan to the Participant (other than in the form of a joint and survivor annuity with respect to the
Alternate Payee and his or her subsequent spouse). In addition, to the extent permitted by ERISA and the Code, Plan benefits may be distributed to an Alternate Payee pursuant to a Qualified Domestic Relations Order at any time specified in the
Qualified Domestic Relations Order, including an immediate distribution, whether or not such distribution date is prior to (i) the earliest retirement age under the Plan, (ii) the Participant’s separation from Service or other entitlement to a
distribution, or (iii) the Participant’s attainment of age 50. Furthermore, the Committee shall treat any Domestic Relations Order entered prior to January 1, 1985, as a Qualified Domestic Relations Order if the Committee is paying benefits
pursuant to such order on such date, and the Committee may treat any other Domestic Relations Order entered prior to January 1, 1985, as a Qualified Domestic Relations Order even if such order does not satisfy the requirements of this Section.

  
 (ww) Re-Employed Employee. 
  
 Re-Employed Employee shall mean (i) an Employee who previously separated
from Service or service with a Related Employer with a nonforfeitable interest in his employer derived Accrued Benefit or (ii) an Employee who previously separated from Service or service with a Related Employer without a nonforfeitable interest in
his employer derived Accrued Benefit but who resumes Service or service with a Related Employer before his number of consecutive One Year Periods of Severance equals or exceeds the greater of (a) five (5) or (b) his number of Years of Service prior
to his separation from Service with an Employing Company or a Related Employer. 
  

 (13) 

 (xx) Reemployment Commencement Date. 
  
 Reemployment Commencement Date shall mean the date on which an Employee
first performs an Hour of Service for the Employing Company following a One Year Period of Severance. 
  
 (yy) Regulations. 
  
 Regulations means the rules and regulations adopted by the Committee in accordance with Section 2.1. 
  
 (zz) Related Employer. 
  
 Related Employer shall mean any business entity that is, along with an
Employing Company, (i) a member of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in section 414(b) of the Code, with such section, for purposes of Section 9.11, being modified pursuant to section 415(h) of the Code), (ii) a member of a group of
trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) that are under common control (as defined by section 414(c) of the Code, with such section being modified, for purposes of Section 9.11, in accordance with section 415(h) of the Code), or (iii) a
member of an affiliated service group (as defined by section 414(m) of the Code). 
  
 (aaa) Related Plan. 
  
 Related Plan shall refer to any defined contribution plan (as defined in section 415(k) of the Code) maintained by an Employing Company or any Related Employer. 
  
 (bbb) Required Commencement Date. 
  
 Required Commencement Date shall mean the April 1st of the calendar year following the later of the calendar year in which
the Participant attains age seventy and one-half (70-1/2) or the Participant retires. However, for a 5% owner, “Required Commencement Date” means the April 1st of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant
attains age seventy and one-half (70-1/2). 
  
 (ccc)
Retirement. 
  
 Retirement means, with respect to any
Participant, termination of employment with an Employing Company on or after the first to occur of (a) or (b) below where (a) is the later of (i) the Participant’s 55th birthday or (ii) the date which he is credited with five (5) Years of
Service hereunder, and (b) is his 65th birthday, which birthday shall be his Normal Retirement Age hereunder. 
  
 (ddd) Rollover Contribution 
  
 Rollover Contribution means a contribution representing all or part of an eligible rollover distribution within the meaning of Code section 402(c)(4)
received by an Employee from a pension or profit sharing plan meeting the requirements of Code section 401(a), a plan described in Code section 403(b), a governmental plan described in Code section 457, or an individual retirement account described
in Code section 408(a). 
  

 (14) 

 (eee) Salary Reduction Agreement. 
  
 Salary Reduction Agreement means an agreement entered into between the Participant and the Employing Company at a time, as
determined by the Company, in advance of such Participant’s initial Employee CAP Contribution and/or Catch-up Contribution, by which the Participant agrees to accept a reduction in Eligible Salary from the Employing Company equal to any whole
percentage per payroll period, not to exceed the limits set forth in this Plan. Except as otherwise provided herein, this agreement shall remain in effect until changed or revoked as provided herein. In consideration of such agreement, the Employing
Company will transfer to the Participant’s Employee CAP Account, as applicable, the amount of the Employee CAP Contribution or Catch-up Contribution, such transfer to be made at the end of each month or as soon thereafter as administratively
feasible. 
  
 (fff) Service. 
  
 Service shall mean any period of time the Employee is employed by an
Employing Company or a Related Employer, including (for up to one year) any period the Employee is on a leave of absence authorized by the Employing Company or a Related Employer under a uniform, nondiscriminatory policy applicable to all Employees.
Service shall also include any service credited under the Prior Plans and any Service credited under Section 7.3. 
  
 (ggg) Severance from Employment Date. 
  
 Severance from Employment Date shall mean the earlier of: 
  
 (1) The date on which an Employee terminates employment with the Employing Company because of resignation, Retirement, discharge, death,
or severance from employment; or 
  
 (2) The
first anniversary of the first day of a period during which an Employee is absent from the Service of the Employing Company (with or without pay) for any reason other than resignation, Retirement, discharge, death, or severance from employment (such
as vacation, holiday, leave of absence or layoff). 
  
 (hhh)
Sony Ericsson. 
  
 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA)
Inc. 
  
 (iii) Sony Ericsson Plan. 
  
 The Sony Ericsson 401(k) and Savings Plan. 
  
 (jjj) Subsidiary. 
  
 Subsidiary means any corporation, partnership or other entity at least 5% of
whose voting shares or interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, which the Board shall at any time designate as a Subsidiary for the purpose of the Plan, and which has adopted the Plan pursuant to the provisions of Article XI.

  

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 (kkk) Total and Permanent Disability. 
  
 Total and Permanent Disability means that the Participant has been
determined to be disabled for purposes of the benefits offered under an Employing Company’s long-term disability benefit plan. 
  
 (lll) Trust Fund. 
  
 Trust Fund means the fund that holds all of the assets of the Plan. 
  
 (mmm) Trust Transfer. 
  
 Trust Transfer shall mean any amount that is transferred directly to this Plan from another defined contribution plan in accordance with Code section
414(l). 
  
 (nnn) Trustee. 
  
 Trustee means the trustee or trustees selected by the Board or the Committee
in accordance with Section 9.3. 
  
 (ooo) U.S. Obligations.

  
 U.S. Obligations means obligations issued or fully
guaranteed as to payment of principal and interest by the United States of America or any agency thereof, and savings bank deposits to the extent they are fully guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 
  
 (ppp) Valuation Date. 
  
 Valuation Date means each business day of the calendar year. 
  
 (qqq) VRS. 
  
 VRS means the Voice Response System, which is an interactive computerized
telephone system whereby Participants may enroll in the Plan, make inquiries, effect Plan changes, and request distributions and withdrawal forms over the phone. Access to the VRS requires a Personal Identification Number. 
  
 (rrr) Year of Service. 
  
 Year of Service means a twelve (12) month Period of Service. Service earned
under the Prior Plans shall also be credited as Service hereunder. However, notwithstanding the above, in the case of an Employee who separates from Service and later resumes Service, but not as a Re-Employed Employee, Years of Service credited to
the Employee for Service performed prior to his reemployment shall be disregarded. 
  

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 ARTICLE II 

 
 ADMINISTRATION 
  
 2.1 Regulations. The Committee shall have the power to adopt such rules and
regulations as it shall deem necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan, and to alter, amend or revoke any Regulations so adopted. 
  
 (a) The Fiduciaries shall have only those specific powers, duties, responsibilities and obligations as are specifically given them under this Plan. The
Employing Companies shall have the sole responsibility for making the contributions required by Article IV. Except as otherwise provided herein or as delegated by the Board, the Board shall have the sole authority to appoint and remove any Trustee
and members of the Committee, and to amend or terminate, in whole or part, this Plan or any trust established to fund benefits under this Plan. The Company, acting through the Committee appointed hereunder, shall be the Plan Administrator for
purposes of ERISA and, except as otherwise provided herein or as delegated by the Committee, the Committee shall have the sole responsibility for the administration of this Plan. Any Trustee shall have the sole responsibility for the administration
and management of any funds held by it. Each Fiduciary may rely upon any written direction, information or action of any other Fiduciary with respect to matters within the responsibility of such other Fiduciary as being proper under this Plan or any
related agreement, and is not required under this Plan to inquire into the propriety of any such direction, information or action. 
  
 (b) The general administration of the Plan and the responsibility for carrying out its provisions shall be placed in a Committee of not fewer than three
persons (any of whom may be, but none of whom need be, a member of the Board) appointed from time to time by the Board to serve at the pleasure of the Board. No person shall be ineligible to be a member of the Committee because he is, was or may
become a Participant in the Plan. 
  
 (c) The Committee shall
elect a chairman from among its members and a Secretary who may be but need not be a member of the Committee; may appoint such other committees with such powers as it shall determine; authorize one or more of the members of the Committee or any
agent to execute or deliver any instrument or make any payment on its behalf; and may retain counsel, employ agents, and may provide for such accounting and clerical services as may be required in carrying out the provisions of the Plan. 

 
 (d) The Committee shall hold meetings upon such notice, at such place or
places, and at such time or times, as it may from time to time determine. Two-thirds of the number of the members of the Committee at the time in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All resolutions adopted or other
action taken by the Committee shall be by vote of a majority of the members of the Committee present at any meeting or without a meeting by instrument in writing signed by a majority of the members of the Committee. 
  
 (e) No member of the Committee shall have any rights to vote or decide upon
any matter relating solely to himself or solely to any of his rights or benefits under the Plan. No employee of any of the Employing Companies shall receive compensation for services as a member of the Committee. Members of the Committee who are not
employees of any of the Employing Companies shall receive such compensation for their services as the Board may determine. 
  

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 (f) The Committee shall have full fiduciary discretion and authority to interpret and construe the
provisions and terms of the Plan, to resolve or otherwise decide matters not specifically covered by such provisions or terms, to make all determinations (including underlying factual determinations), to decide all questions of eligibility and
benefits, and to adjudicate all claims and appeals. The determination of the Committee in all such cases shall be final and binding upon all persons, unless such determination is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been arbitrary and
capricious. The Committee may also delegate any of its powers, duties, and responsibilities to one or more Committee members, or other agents or delegates. The Committee furthermore shall have the ability to determine which, if any, investment
options shall be made available to Participants from time to time for the investment of their Accounts, in accordance with Article V. 
  
 (g) Withdrawals may be requested either through the VRS, via the internet or the Company’s Human Resources or Benefits Department. Requests for most
withdrawals may be submitted to the Plan recordkeeper. However, all applications for hardship withdrawals shall be submitted to the Committee or its designee. Applications for hardship withdrawals must be in writing on the forms provided by the
Committee (or its designee) and must be signed by the Participant or in the case of a distribution payable by reason of death, by the beneficiary or legal representative of the deceased Participant. 
  
 Each application shall be approved or disapproved and the applicant notified
of the decision within 90 days following its receipt thereof. If additional time is needed to process the claim, the applicant will be notified in writing of an extension, the circumstances that require the extension and the time period in which the
Committee or its designee expects to make a determination. This notice will be provided within 90 days after the claim is received. In the case of an extension, a determination on the claim will be made and the applicant notified of the decision no
later than 180 days after the claim is received. 
  
 If the
applicant’s claim is denied in whole or in part, the Committee or its designee will notify the claimant in writing of the specific reasons for the decision. The denial notice will also include the following information: (i) references to the
specific Plan provision(s) upon which the decision was based; (ii) a description of any additional material or information necessary for the applicant to perfect his claim and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary; (iii) a
description of the Plan’s appeal procedures and the applicable time limits; and (iv) a statement of the applicant’s right to bring a civil action under ERISA section 502(a) following an adverse decision on appeal. 
  
 If a claim is denied in whole or in part, the applicant or his authorized
representative has up to sixty (60) days after receipt of the denial notice to appeal the decision to the Committee. All appeals must be submitted in writing. For purposes of these procedures, an applicant will be deemed to have received a written
notice from the Committee or its designee: (i) the date such notice is delivered in person, (ii) the date delivery is confirmed by the United States Postal Service or other commercial delivery service, (iii) or 3 days after the date the notice is
mailed to the applicant’s last know address on file with the Plan, unless it can be shown to the Committee’s satisfaction that a notice was in fact received at a later time. 
  
 In connection with an appeal, the applicant may submit written comments, documents, records, and other information with
respect to his claim, regardless of whether or not such information was considered in connection with the initial benefits determination. Upon written 

  

 (18) 

 
request and free of charge, the applicant will be provided reasonable access to and copies of all documents, records and other information relevant to his
claim for benefits. 
  
 The Committee will fully and fairly review
each appeal, taking into account any additional information submitted in connection with the appeal. Deference will not be afforded to any prior benefits decision. The Committee’s decision on a claimant’s appeal for benefits and any
matters related to such appeal shall be final and binding upon all persons, unless such decision is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been arbitrary and capricious. 
  
 The claimant will be notified no later than 5 days after the next regularly scheduled Committee meeting following receipt of
his appeal of the Committee’s final decision. Provided, however, if the appeal is received within 30 days of the next regularly scheduled Committee meeting, the claimant will be notified of the Committee’s final decision no later than 5
days after the second regularly scheduled Committee meeting following receipt of the appeal. If special circumstances necessitate additional time to make a benefits decision, the claimant will be notified in writing of an extension prior to the
commencement of the extension. The extension notice will set forth the special circumstances that necessitate the extension and the date by which the Committee expect to make a benefits determination. In the case of an extension, the claimant will
be notified of the Committee’s final decision no later than 5 days after the third regularly scheduled Committee meeting following receipt of the appeal. 
  

If the claimant’s appeal is denied in whole or in part, he will be notified in writing of the specific reasons for the decision. The denial notice
will also include the following information: (i) references to the specific Plan provision(s) upon which the decision was based; (ii) a statement that, upon written request and free of charge, the claimant will be provided reasonable access to and
copies of all documents, records and other information relevant to his claim for benefits; and (iii) a statement of the claimant’s right to bring a civil action under ERISA section 502(a). 
  
 (h) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the members of the
Committee, and each of them, and any employee of the Company acting on behalf of the Committee, from the effects and consequences of their acts, omissions and conduct in their capacity as members of the Committee, or an employee acting on behalf of
the Committee, except to the extent that such effects and consequences shall result from the individual’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct. 
  
 ARTICLE III 
  
 ELIGIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION AND 
 CONTRIBUTIONS AND ELECTIVE DEFERRALS BY
PARTICIPANTS 
  
 3.1 Participant 
  
 (a) Eligible Employees shall become Participants in the Plan as of the first
pay period after becoming an Eligible Employee. An Eligible Employee may commence Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions, and Employee Savings Contributions and qualify for Company Matching Contributions by making a request via the Voice
Response System (“VRS”), the internet or such manner as may be prescribed by the Committee, and within the applicable 

  

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Enrollment Period as the Committee shall require for authorizing payroll deductions and/or salary reductions from his Eligible Salary. 
  
 For newly hired Eligible Employees, the Enrollment Period deadline shall be
such time as established by the Committee, with the effective date of Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions and/or Employee Savings Contributions being the first administratively feasible pay period following the Eligible
Employee’s enrollment. Payroll deductions or salary reductions shall not be taken retroactively. Elections received after the applicable deadline will be processed and become effective as of the next administratively feasible pay period.

  
 (b) When an employee is transferred from an employee group of
any of the Employing Companies or a Related Employer that is not eligible for participation in the Plan to an employee group of any Employing Company that is eligible for participation in the Plan, the employee shall commence participation in the
Plan effective as of his transfer date if he meets the requirements for becoming an Eligible Employee. He may also commence Employee CAP, Employee Savings Contributions and/or Catch-up Contributions by making an appropriate Election in accordance
with the procedures specified in Section 3.1(a) for new hires. 
  
 (c) If a Participant under the Plan is transferred to an employee group of any of the Employing Companies or a Related Employer that is not eligible for participation in the Plan, such transfer shall not be considered a termination of
employment for purposes of Section 8.1 and all amounts otherwise distributable shall not be distributed, unless the Participant elects an in-service withdrawal pursuant to Article VI and files an appropriate Election, but otherwise shall be held as
if subject to the provisions of Section 8.3; however, all Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, and Company Matching Contributions with respect to such former Participant shall thereupon cease. In
addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to the extent required by applicable law, no distribution shall occur prior to the time specified in Section 8.11. 
  
 Subject to the restrictions of Section 8.5, withdrawal shall take place, if it has not taken place earlier, when the former
Participant ceases to be an employee of any of the Employing Companies or a Related Employer. 
  
 (d) In the case of an Employee who separates from Service and who resumes Service, but not as a Re-Employed Employee, Periods of Service credited to such Employee for Service performed prior to his resumption of
Service shall be disregarded. 
  
 (e) A Re-Employed Employee who
is an Eligible Employee shall reenter the Plan as a Participant: 
  
 (1) if he was a Participant prior to his separation from Service, the day he performs his first Hour of Service as a result of his return to Service (or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible), or 

 
 (2) if he was not a Participant prior to his separation
from Service, on the first day of any payroll period after again becoming an Eligible Employee (assuming timely submission of enrollment information). 
  

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 Any other Employee whose Service terminates and who is subsequently re-employed shall commence
participation in accordance with the provisions of Sections 3.1(a). 
  
 3.2
Employee Savings Contributions. 
  
 (a) Subject to Section
4.2, an Eligible Employee may make an Election within the applicable Enrollment Period to pay into the Plan through payroll deductions authorized by him, and allocated to his Employee Savings Account, an aggregate amount that is either 1%, 2%, 3%,
4% or 5% of his Eligible Salary (such amount being herein referred to as “Employee Savings Contributions” and sometimes referred to as “savings” or “employee savings”). In the absence of a new Employee Savings Election,
current Elections shall automatically remain in effect. Employee Savings Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee by the Employing Company as soon as administratively feasible following the payroll deduction. 
  
 (b) A Participant may change his percentage of Eligible Salary to be deducted
at any time by making an appropriate Election, to take effect as of the first day of the following pay period (or as soon thereafter as administratively practicable). In addition, a Participant may, by making an appropriate Election, discontinue
deductions for savings at any time, in which event he may resume such deductions at any time in the future, subject to the limits set for in subsection (a) above. 
  
 3.3 Rollover Contributions and Trust Transfers. 
  
 The Plan may receive Rollover Contributions or Trust Transfers on behalf of an Employee. Receipt of a Rollover Contribution
or Trust Transfer shall be subject to the approval of the Plan Administrator or its designee. Before approving the receipt of a Rollover Contribution or Trust Transfer, the Plan Administrator or its designee may request any documents or other
information from the Employee or opinions of counsel that the Plan Administrator or its designee deems necessary to establish that such amount is a Rollover Contribution or Trust Transfer. Rollover Contributions and Trust Transfers will be subject
to such procedures and restrictions that may be adopted by the Administrator or its designee from time to time. 
  
 An Account shall be maintained on behalf of each Employee from whom a Rollover Contribution and/or Trust Transfer is received, regardless of such
Employee’s eligibility to participate in the Plan in accordance with the requirements of Section 3.1. 
  
 Rollover Contributions and Trust Transfers received from an Employee who is not otherwise eligible to participate in the Plan may not be withdrawn in
accordance with the provisions of Article VI nor shall such Employee be eligible for a loan under Section 6.4 until such Employee becomes a Participant, except that such Employee may receive a distribution of his Participant’s Account upon
severance from employment. 
  
 Rollover Contributions and Trust
Transfers shall be credited to the Participant’s Account and may be invested in any manner authorized under the provisions of this Plan. 
  
 The Plan will not accept a Trust Transfer from a defined benefit plan or money purchase pension plan (including a target benefit plan), or from a stock
bonus or profit sharing plan which provides for a Life Annuity form of payment to the Participant, from an annuity contract 

  

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described in Code section 403(b), from an eligible deferred compensation plan described in Code section 457, or from any other plan subject to Code section
417. 
  
 3.4 Employee CAP Contributions. 
  
 Within an applicable Enrollment Period each Participant may enter into a
Salary Reduction Agreement with the Employing Company providing for Employee CAP Contributions commencing the next administratively feasible pay period, at a rate equal to any whole percentage from 1% to 50% of the Participant’s Eligible
Salary, but in no event shall such Employee CAP Contributions, together with any other elective deferrals, within the meaning of Code section 402(g)(3), under any qualified plan sponsored by an Employing Company or a Related Employer, exceed the
401(k) Ceiling for the Plan Year. The “401(k) Ceiling” shall mean the following: 
  
 (a) $13,000 for the Plan Year beginning on September 1, 2004 (and including any Employee CAP Contributions to the Ericsson Plan during the period from January 1, 2004 through August 31, 2004); 
  
 (b) $14,000 for the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 2005; and 

 
 (c) $15,000 (or such larger amount as may be determined by the Secretary
of the Treasury for purposes of Code section 402(g)(1) pursuant to Code section 402(g)(4)) for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006. 
  
 Employee CAP Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee by the Employing Company as soon as administratively feasible following the payroll deduction. In
the absence of a new Salary Reduction Agreement, a Participant’s current Salary Reduction Agreement shall automatically remain in effect. 
  
 3.5 Catch-up Contributions. 
  
 Any Participant who is eligible to make Employee CAP Contributions pursuant to Section 3.4 above who will attain age 50 by the end of any Plan Year and
who elects to have the maximum Employee CAP Contributions made on his behalf for the Plan Year determined pursuant to Sections 3.04 and 9.11, may elect to defer up to 20% of his Eligible Salary (but not including any unused Benefit Dollars
transferred from the E-Flex Plan) up to the Applicable Dollar Amount in effect for the Plan Year and have the Employing Company contribute the same to the Plan as a Catch-up Contribution. A Participant’s Catch-up Contribution election shall be
made at the same time and in the same manner for electing Employee CAP Contributions under Section 3.4. For purposes of this section, the “Applicable Dollar Amount” shall mean: 
  
 (a) $3,000 for the Plan Year beginning on September 1, 2004 (and including any Catch-up Contributions to the Ericsson Plan
during the period from January 1, 2004 through August 31, 2004); 
  
 (b) $4,000 for the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 2005; 
  

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 (c) $5,000 (or such larger amount as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of
Code section 414(v)(2)(B) pursuant to Code section 414(v)(2)(C)) for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006. 
  
 Catch-up Contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the 401(k) Ceiling under Section 3.4 or the limitations on contributions under
section 9.11. The Plan shall not be treated as a Top Heavy Plan under Section 10.2 by reason of the making of such Catch-up Contributions for any Plan Year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, only amounts contributed to the Plan by the Employer on
behalf of an Employee that are in excess of the applicable limits under Sections 3.4 or 9.11 for the Plan Year shall be treated as Catch-up Contributions for the Plan Year. Catch-up Contributions shall not be eligible for Matching Contributions.

  
 3.6 Change of Future Employee CAP Contributions and Catch-up Contributions
by Participants. 
  
 A Participant may change his Salary
Reduction Agreement with respect to his rate of Employee CAP Contributions or Catch-up Contributions at any time by making an appropriate Election, to be effective as of the first day of the following pay period (or as soon thereafter as
administratively practicable). 
  
 In addition, by making an
appropriate Election, a Participant may suspend his Salary Reduction Agreement at any time, in which case he may reinstate his Agreement and recommence Employee CAP Contributions or Catch-up Contributions at any time. 
  
 3.7 Distribution of Excess Deferrals. 
  
 (a) If a Participant is required to include in his gross income for a
taxable year elective deferrals (as defined in Code section 402(g)(3)) that exceed the 401(k) Ceiling (hereinafter referred to as “Taxable Deferrals”) and the Participant is eligible but has not elected and made the maximum Catch-up
Contributions pursuant to Section 3.5 for the Plan Year, to the maximum extent possible, such Taxable Deferrals shall be recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions for the Plan Year. To the extent such Taxable Deferrals cannot be so recharacterized,
the excess (hereinafter referred to as “Excess Deferrals”) shall be distributed to the Participant in accordance with the Participant’s instructions. Not later than the first March 1 following the close of the taxable year in which
the Excess Deferrals were made, the Participant shall notify the Committee of whether and to what extent the Participant has allocated any of the Participant’s Excess Deferrals to this Plan. If such allocation is made, the Committee shall
distribute to such Participant such excess deferral allocated to this Plan, adjusted for any income or losses allocable to such amount for the Plan Year in question not later than the first April 15 following the taxable year in which the Excess
Deferrals were made. Moreover, any excess deferrals arising solely by virtue of this Plan and any other plan or arrangement of an Employing Company or a Related Employer shall automatically be distributed on or before the time periods specified
above, and in such cases the Participant shall be deemed to have designated such distributions. Any distribution made pursuant to this Section 3.7 may be made notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan. Notwithstanding the distribution of
Excess Deferrals, except to the extent provided by Treasury regulations, such Excess Deferrals shall nevertheless be taken into account in determining a Highly Compensated Employee’s Actual Deferral Percentage hereunder. 
  

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 (b) No Company Matching Contributions shall be made on any Employee CAP Contributions that are
subsequently recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions or refunded under this Section 3.7. In the event Company Matching Contributions have previously been made on such amounts prior to their recharacterization or distribution, such Company Matching
Contributions (plus earnings thereon) shall be forfeited and used to reduce future Company Matching Contributions and/or Company CAP Contributions, or pay Plan administration expenses. 
  
 3.8 Special Rules For Participants Returning From Military Leave. 
  
 To the extent required by applicable federal law, including the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of
1994, if a uniformed services employee returns to employment after cumulative military service of up to 5 years and qualifies for reemployment under such applicable federal law, then the returning employee (to the extent he would otherwise qualify
for participation hereunder) shall have the right to make up contributions missed while he was on military leave, including Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions and Catch-up Contributions, and the Employing Company shall
contribute whatever Company CAP Contributions and Company Matching Contributions that such employee would have otherwise been entitled to. The employee must contribute any such make-up contributions within the lesser of (a) 3 times the period of his
military service, or (b) 5 years. However, the employee shall have no right to share in any Forfeiture allocations occurring during his period of military service. Likewise, no earning or losses shall be credited to his Account until the
contributions are actually made. Contributions shall be based on the Eligible Salary the employee would have earned if he had not entered the military, or, if that determination is not reasonably certain, the Eligible Salary earned during the
12-month period prior to entering the military. 
  
 ARTICLE IV

  
 CONTRIBUTION BY THE COMPANY 
  
 4.1 Company Matching Contributions. 
  
 (a) Amount. 
  
 Subject to the deduction limits of Code section 404 and the maximum annual
additions limits of Code section 415, the Employing Companies shall contribute to the Plan a Company Matching Contribution, equal to the lesser of (i) 100% of the amount of each Participant’s combined Employee CAP Contributions and Employee
Savings Contributions paid into the Plan for each pay period, or (ii) 3% of each Participant’s Eligible Salary for such pay period. The Company shall furthermore make a Company Matching Contribution equal to 50% of the amount of each
participant’s combined Employee CAP Contributions and Employee Savings Contributions paid into the Plan for each pay period in excess of 3% of such Participant’s Eligible Salary up to 1% of each Participant’s Eligible Salary for such
pay period. Employer Matching Contributions to be made with respect to each pay period shall be made to the Trust not later than the last day of the calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which the pay period with respect to which such
Company Matching Contributions are being made ended. Additionally, subject to the limitations stated above, for each Participant whose total Company Matching Contribution for the Plan Year was limited to less than 4% of Eligible Salary for the

  

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entire Plan Year by virtue of the Code section 401(a)(17) or 402(g) limits being reached before Plan Year end, the Employing Companies shall contribute for
each such Participant an additional “true up” Company Matching Contribution as soon as administratively feasible following the end of each Plan Year (to be allocated to such Participant’s account as of the last day of such prior Plan
Year) equal to the difference between (i) the lesser of (x) 100% of such Participant’s combined Employee CAP Contributions (other than unused Benefit Dollars transferred from the E-Flex Plan, which will not be matched) and Employee Savings
Contributions for the Plan Year (up to 3% of such Participant’s Eligible Salary) and 50% of any amount of such contributions in excess of 3% of such Participant’s Eligible Salary, and (y) 4% of such Participant’s Eligible Salary for
the Plan Year, and (ii) the amount of Company Matching Contributions previously allocated to such Participant’s Account for such Plan Year. “True up” Company Matching Contributions will be invested in the Investment Elections that are
current at the time the “true up” contributions are made, and at the cost per unit of each investment on the date the Participant’s Account is updated by the recordkeeper to reflect the “true up” contribution amount. In no
event will adjustments to the “true up” contribution be made to reflect any changes in investment performance which occur prior to the date such “true up” Company Matching Contribution is actually made. The Employing
Companies’ contribution shall be subject to credits for any Forfeitures, which shall be used to reduce the Company Matching Contributions otherwise required under this Section 4.1. Company Matching Contributions shall be transferred to the
Trustee in cash. 
  
 (b) Allocations. 
  
 All Company Matching Contributions made under the Plan and the Ericsson Plan
(but only with respect to Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2001), shall be allocated to a Participant’s Safe Harbor Matching Account. Company Matching Contributions made under the Ericsson Plan with respect to Plan Years beginning on
or before December 31, 2000, are allocated to a Participant’s Company Match Account. 
  
 (c) Characteristics of Company Matching Contributions. 
  
 Company Matching Contributions allocated to a Participant’s Safe Harbor Matching Account shall be one hundred percent (100%) vested at all times, and such contributions and the earnings (or losses) therein shall
be subject to the withdrawal restrictions set forth in Section 6.1(f). In addition, all Participants who are Employees on or after the Effective Date (on or after January 1, 2001 with respect to the Ericsson Plan), shall be fully vested in all
amounts credited to their Company Matching Account. 
  
 Notwithstanding the forgoing, if a Participant is not an Employee on or after the Effective Date (January 1, 2001 with respect to the Ericsson Plan), Company Matching Contributions allocated to the Participant’s Company Matching
Account made under the Ericsson Plan with respect to Plan Years beginning on or before December 31, 2000, shall be subject to the vesting schedule set forth in Section 7.2 and the normal withdrawal and distribution rules governing Company
Contributions other than Company CAP Contributions. 
  

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 4.2 Limitations on Employee Savings Contributions. 
  
 (a) Limitations. 
  
 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.2, the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees with respect to any Plan Year shall
not exceed the greater of (1) or (2): 
  
 (1) The
Actual Contribution Percentage for the Plan Year for the Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated Employees multiplied by 1.25 or 
  
 (2) The Actual Contribution Percentage for the Plan Year for the Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated Employees multiplied by
2.0; provided, however, that the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees for a Plan Year may not exceed the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Plan Year for the Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated
Employees by more than two (2) percentage points. 
  
 (b)
Adjustments for Excess Contributions. 
  
 (1)
General Rules. If at any time during or at the end of a Plan Year the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees would exceed, if not adjusted in accordance with the limitations of this Section, the amounts allowed
under Section 4.2(a), the “Total Excess Contributions” (hereinafter defined) for the Plan Year shall be eliminated by the Committee refunding Employee Savings Contributions allocated to the Highly Compensated Employee’s Employee
Savings Account plus earnings (or less losses) thereon for the Plan Year pursuant to the rules specified below, until the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employees equals (by rounding up) the greater of (1) or (2) of
Section 4.2(a). “Total Excess Contributions” shall mean, with respect to the Plan Year, the excess of (i) the aggregate amount of Employee Savings Contributions (and any other contributions used in determining the Actual Contribution
Percentage) actually paid over to the Trust on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over (ii) the maximum amount of such Employee Savings Contributions (and any other contributions used in determining the Actual Contribution
Percentage) permitted under the limitations of Section 4.2(a), as calculated under the leveling method specified in section 4.2(b)(3). Employee Savings Contributions distributed pursuant to this Section shall nonetheless be counted as Annual
Additions for purposes of Code section 415. 
  
 (2) Ordering Method. Refund or reduction of the Total Excess Contributions shall be made in the following order and in accordance with sections 401(a)(4) and 401(m) of the Code (and regulations thereunder): 
  
 (A) Refund of Unmatched Employee Savings
Contributions. Any Employee Savings Contributions made by Highly Compensated Employees during the Plan Year which are not matched by Company Matching Contributions in accordance with Section 4.1 (plus earnings or less losses thereon as specified
in Section 4.2(c) below) that constitute a portion of the Total Excess Contributions shall be refunded (according to the leveling method specified below) to such Highly Compensated Employees by the Trustee within the time period specified in Section
4.2(b)(3) below, until either (i) the amount refunded equals the Total Excess Contributions, or (ii) all such contributions are refunded. 
  

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 (B) Refund of Matched Employee Savings Contributions. If, after the refunds in
accordance with the preceding paragraph (A), an amount equal to the Total Excess Contributions has not been refunded, the Committee shall eliminate all remaining Total Excess Contributions by refunding (on an equal dollar-for-dollar basis, until the
Total Excess Contribution has been eliminated according to the leveling method specified below) the portion of each Highly Compensated Employee’s Employee Savings Contributions that constitute excess contributions and are matched in
accordance with Section 4.1. Such refund (plus earnings or less losses thereon as specified in Section 4.2(c) below) shall be distributed by the Trustee to the applicable Highly Compensated Employees within the time period specified in Section
4.2(b)(3) below. 
  
 (3) Leveling Method.
The total amount of excess contributions to be refunded to or forfeited by Highly Compensated Employees under Section 4.2(b)(2) above is to be determined by the following leveling method, under which the Actual Contribution Percentage of the Highly
Compensated Employee with the highest Actual Contribution Percentage is reduced to the extent required to (i) enable the Plan to satisfy the limitations of Section 4.2(a) or (ii) cause such Highly Compensated Employee’s Actual Contribution
Percentage to equal the Actual Contribution Percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest Actual Contribution Percentage, whichever occurs first. This process must be repeated until the Plan satisfies the limitations of Section
4.2(a). The aggregate of such excess contributions shall equal the “Total Excess Contributions.” All refunds and/or forfeitures from a Participant’s Employee Savings Account shall be charged first against Employee Savings
Contributions for the calendar year that includes the first day of the Plan Year, and then, to the extent necessary, charged against Employee Savings Contributions for the calendar year that includes the last day of the Plan Year. All refunds shall
be distributed by the Trustee to the appropriate Highly Compensated Employee (or forfeited by such Employee, as appropriate) within two and one-half months after the close of the Plan Year in which such excess contribution arose, if administratively
feasible, and within twelve months after the close of such Plan Year, at the latest. 
  
 The Total Excess Contributions identified by application of the preceding paragraph shall be refunded to individual Highly Compensated
Employees under Section 4.2(b) on the basis of the actual dollar amount of contributions by such Highly Compensated Employees, starting with the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest actual dollar amount of contributions and reducing his
contributions until it is equal to the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest dollar amount of Contributions, and then repeating this process until all of the Total Excess Contribution has been accounted for in accordance with Code
section 401(m)(6)(C) and the regulations promulgated thereunder. Once the refunds are made pursuant to this section, the limitations of Section 4.2(a) shall be deemed satisfied, regardless of whether the Actual Contribution Percentage, if
recalculated after such distributions, would satisfy such limitations. The Company shall maintain records to demonstrate compliance with the provisions of this Section 4.2. 
  

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 (c) Determination of Earnings and Losses for Plan Year. 
  
 The earnings or losses allocable to excess Employee Savings Contributions
for the applicable Plan Year shall be determined by multiplying the total income (or loss) allocable to the Participant’s Employee Savings Account for the applicable Plan Year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the excess Employee Savings
Contribution on behalf of the Participant for the applicable Plan Year and the denominator of which is the sum of the Participant’s Employee Savings Account as of the first day of the applicable Plan Year plus the Employee Savings Contributions
for the Plan Year. 
  
 4.3 Company CAP Contributions. 
  
 (a) Regular. In addition to the Company Matching Contributions, to
the extent permitted under Code Section 415 and to the extent deductible under Code Section 404, the Employing Companies shall contribute to the Plan and allocate to each Participant’s Company CAP Account during each Plan Year a Company CAP
Contribution as follows: with respect to each of its Eligible Employees who is a Participant, the percentage of such Participant’s Eligible Salary determined in accordance with the following schedule: 
  

			
	 Age at the
Beginning of the Month

	 	 Contribution

	under 40	 	3.5%
	40 — 49	 	  4%
	50 — 54	 	  7%
	55 and over	 	10%

  
 Unless the Committee
in its discretion determines otherwise, Company CAP Contributions will be allocated to eligible Participants’ Accounts each pay period and will be determined based on their ages at the beginning of the month during which the pay period occurs.
The Employing Companies’ Company CAP Contributions shall be paid to the Trustee as soon as administratively feasible. 
  

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 4.4 Return of Company Contributions. 
  
 Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, upon an Employing Company’s request, a contribution which was
made upon a mistake of fact, conditioned upon initial qualification of the Plan, or conditioned upon deductibility of the contribution under section 404 of the Code shall be returned to the Employing Company within one year after payment of the
contribution, denial of the initial qualification, or disallowance of the deduction (to the extent disallowed), as the case may be; provided, however, the amount returned shall be the excess of the amount contributed over the amount which would have
been contributed if there had been no mistake of fact or a mistake in determining the amount of the deduction. Any earnings on the excess contribution amount shall not be returned to the Employing Company, although any losses thereon will reduce the
amount so returned. 
  
 ARTICLE V 
  
 ACCOUNTS OF PARTICIPANTS - INVESTMENTS 
  
 5.1 Investment Options. 
  
 (a) General 
  
 Except as provided in Section 5.2, all Plan assets shall be invested in one or more of the investment funds established by the Committee from time to
time. Each Participant shall elect, in any whole percentage, the investment fund(s) in which the Plan assets allocated to all of his subaccounts are to be invested. The election shall apply to all amounts held in all subaccounts, such that each
subaccount is invested in a like manner. A Participant may elect any combination of available investment funds as long as the election totals one hundred percent (100%). In the absence of a valid election, all undirected funds shall automatically be
invested in the default investment fund as designated by the Committee from time to time. The Committee from time to time shall select the investment options available for investment in accordance with Section 2.1(f). 
  
 (b) L M Ericsson Stock Fund. 
  
 In addition to the investment funds designated under subsection (a) above,
there shall also be an L M Ericsson Stock Fund available for investment. This Fund invests solely in Ericsson American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), which represent non-restricted Class B shares of Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, a limited liability
company under the Swedish Companies Act, which is the parent company of Ericsson’s U.S. operations. The ADRs are currently traded on the over-the-counter market with price quotations reported on the NASDAQ National Market System under the
symbol ERICY.  
  
 5.2 Self-Directed Accounts. 
  
 In addition to the funds designated by the Committee from time to time in
accordance with Section 5.1, the Committee furthermore may make a self-directed brokerage account available to Participants. Such account shall be established with a broker designated or approved by the Committee. A Participant’s utilization of
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rules and restrictions concerning permissible investments established by the Committee from time to time, and any other applicable laws, rules and
regulations. 
  
 5.3 Investment of Contributions. 
  
 Each Participant may select from among the investment options made available
pursuant to Section 5.1 or 5.2 by making an appropriate Election upon becoming a Participant. Such elections may be changed, with respect to future contributions, at any time, to be effective with the next contribution after the Participant’s
change Election is confirmed. In this regard, contributions are currently transferred to the Trustee as soon as administratively feasible following the applicable pay period, and are credited to the Participants’ Account as soon as
administratively feasible thereafter. In the absence of any valid investment Election being on file, contributions shall automatically be invested in the default fund as designated by the Committee from time to time. 
  
 5.4 Investment Transfers. 
  
 Subject to all of the other provisions herein contained and any special
rules adopted by the Committee with respect to certain investment funds which, by their nature, require special treatment or are subject to particular requirements, and subject to any applicable securities law or other legal restrictions, each
Participant may elect at any time to have the assets in any or all investment fund(s), in any whole percentage, transferred to any one or more other investment fund(s) designated or made available by the Committee pursuant to Sections 5.1 or 5.2, in
any whole percentages totaling 100 percent of the transferred funds, by making an appropriate Election, to be effective as soon as administratively feasible after the request is received and processed. 
  
 5.5 Transfer of Assets Among Investment Funds. 
  
 The Committee or its delegate shall direct the Trustee to transfer monies or
other property among the appropriate investment options as may be necessary to reflect the aggregate investment elections of Participants after the necessary entries have been made in the Participants’ Accounts. All investments shall be held in
the name of the Trustee or its nominees. 
  
 5.6 L M Ericsson Stock.

  
 (a) Accounting for ADRs by Trustee. 
  
 The Trustee shall acquire Ericsson ADRs pursuant to Participants’
elections under Section 5.1. All Ericsson ADRs shall be carried by the Trustee at the actual cost thereof, including taxes, brokerage fees and commissions, if any, incident to the purchase, except that ADRs in respect of which cash is being
distributed and which are accordingly being retained as Trust assets shall be deemed to have been purchased by the Trustee at their current fair market value on the Valuation Date applicable to such distribution. 
  
 (b) Restriction on Ericsson ADR Acquisition. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, it is specifically provided that
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law or regulation applicable thereto. During such period, amounts that would otherwise be invested in Ericsson ADRs shall be invested in such other assets as
the Trustee may in its discretion determine, or the Trustee may hold such amounts uninvested for a reasonable period pending the designated investment. 
  

(c) Stock Rights, Stock Splits, and Stock Dividends. 
  

No Participant, former Participant or Beneficiary shall have any right of request, direction, or demand upon the Committee or the Trustee to exercise
in his behalf rights or privileges to acquire, convert into, or exchange for Ericsson ADRs or other securities. The Trustee, in its discretion, may exercise or sell any such rights or privileges. The separate Accounts shall be appropriately
credited. Ericsson ADRs received by reason of a stock split, stock dividend or recapitalization shall be appropriately allocated to the separate Accounts of the affected Participant, former Participant, or Beneficiary. 
  
 5.7 Valuation. 
  
 From time to time throughout the Plan Year, as agreed upon between the Committee and Trustee, the Trustee shall prepare or
cause to be prepared a statement of the condition of the Trust Fund, setting forth all investments, receipts, and disbursements, and other transactions effected by it during the period subsequent to the last Trust statement, and showing all the
assets of the Trust Fund and the cost and fair market value thereof. This statement shall be delivered to the Committee. The Trustee’s determination of the fair market value of the assets of the Trust Fund and the Committee’s charges or
credits to Accounts shall be final and conclusive on all persons ever interested hereunder, subject to Section 2.1(g) hereof. 
  
 5.8 Equitable Allocations. 
  
 If the Committee determines in making any valuation, allocation, or adding interest or earnings to any Account under the provisions of the Plan that the
strict application of the provisions of the Plan will not produce an equitable and nondiscriminatory allocation among the Accounts of the Participants, it may modify any procedure specified in the Plan for the purpose of achieving an equitable and
nondiscriminatory allocation in accordance with the general concepts of the Plan; provided, however, that any such modification shall not reduce the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit and shall be consistent with the provisions of section
401(a)(4) of the Code and ERISA. If the Committee in good faith determines that certain expenses of administration paid by the Trustee during the Plan Year under consideration are not general, ordinary, and usual and should not equitably be borne by
all Participants, but should be borne only by one or more Participants, for whom or because of whom such specific expenses were incurred, the net earnings and adjustments in value of the Accounts shall be increased by the amounts of such expenses,
and the Committee shall make suitable adjustments by debiting the particular Account or Accounts of such one or more Participants, former Participants, or Beneficiaries; provided, however, that any such adjustment must be nondiscriminatory and
consistent with the provisions of section 401(a) of the Code and ERISA. 
  
 5.9
Allocation Does Not Create Rights. 
  
 No Participant or
Beneficiary shall acquire any right to or interest in any specific asset of the Trust as a result of the allocations provided for in the Plan. 
  

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 ARTICLE VI 

 
 WITHDRAWALS DURING EMPLOYMENT 
  
 6.1 In-Service Withdrawals from Employee Savings Account, Rollover Account and Company
Match Account. 
  
 (a) Normal Withdrawals. 

 
 A Participant may at any time, upon such notice as the Committee may from
time to time prescribe, withdraw any and all of his vested Accrued Benefit attributable to his Employee Savings Account, Rollover Account and/or Company Match Account; provided that (except with respect to the Rollover Account), the funds to be
withdrawn have been allocated to such subaccounts (or to his applicable subaccounts in the Prior Plans) for at least two (2) full calendar years. Any withdrawals shall occur in the following order of priority: (i) pre 1987 Employee Savings
Contributions; (ii) the remainder of the assets allocated to the Participant’s Employee Savings Account; (iii) the Participant’s Rollover Account; and (iv) the Participant’s Company Match Account. Withdrawals shall be taken pro rata
from each applicable investment fund. No withdrawals may be taken from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. No repayments of withdrawals are permitted. 
  
 (b) Hardship Withdrawals. 
  

In addition to the withdrawals permitted under Section 6.1(a), a Participant may withdraw the funds in his Employee Savings Account (including
earnings) upon the incurrence of a financial hardship, even if such funds have been in his subaccount for less than two (2) calendar years. However, a Participant must first obtain all normal withdrawals available under Section 6.1(a) and loans
under Section 6.4 before he may obtain a hardship withdrawal under this Section 6.1(b) (and must first obtain all hardship withdrawals available under this Section 6.1(b) before he may obtain any hardship withdrawals of Employee CAP Contributions
under Section 6.2). However, if a Participant makes a hardship withdrawal under this Section 6.1(b), he must suspend all further Employee Savings Contributions and Employee CAP Contributions until the first payday of the first calendar quarter
following six (6) months after such hardship withdrawal. Thereafter, a Participant may resume his Employee Savings Contributions and Employee CAP Contributions, provided that a proper Election is made on or before the 15th day of the month preceding
such calendar quarter. 
  
 (c) Determination of
Hardship. 
  
 A Participant’s request for a hardship
withdrawal under Section 6.1(b) and Section 6.2 shall be accompanied by such application forms, documentation and/or written representations or explanations of the hardship as the Committee may require. The Committee, in accordance with
nondiscriminatory and objective standards, shall authorize a withdrawal on account of financial hardship only upon making a written determination that (i) such withdrawal is necessary in light of immediate and heavy financial needs of the
Participant (as determined in accordance with Section 6.2(d) of the Plan), (ii) the amount to be withdrawn does not exceed the amount required to meet the immediate financial need created by the hardship, grossed up for any federal, state, or local
income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution, and (iii) the amounts to be withdrawn are not reasonably available from other resources of the Participant. 

  

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For purposes of this Article VI, the Participant’s resources are deemed to include those assets of his spouse and minor children that are reasonably
available to the Participant, but does not include property held for the Participant’s child under an irrevocable trust or under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. 
  
 (d) Valuation and Payment of Withdrawal. 
  
 For purposes of making an in-service withdrawal under this Section 6.1, a Participant’s Account shall be valued as of
the Valuation Date on which his application for withdrawal is processed. Payment shall be made as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of such withdrawal request and any necessary settlement of transactions. 
  
 (e) Allocation of Withdrawal for Tax Purposes. 
  
 Amounts withdrawn from the Participant’s Employee Savings Account
pursuant to this Section or otherwise under the Plan shall be withdrawn first from the Participant’s Employee Savings Account, excluding earnings, made prior to January 1, 1987, then from his Employee Savings Account, including earnings, made
after December 31, 1986, and, finally, from earnings on his Employee Savings Contributions made prior to January 1, 1987.” 
  
 Hardship distributions and other in-service withdrawals shall be taken pro rata from all investment funds in which the Participant’s
Account is invested. In addition, no withdrawals may be made from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, Company Matching Contributions made to the Plan or the Ericsson Plan for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2001
(i.e., allocated to a Participant’s Safe-Harbor Matching Account under the Plan or the Ericsson Plan) shall not be distributed from the Plan, except in the event of a Participant’s death, Disability or severance from employment, his
attainment of age 591⁄2, or upon the occurrence of a plan termination that meets the requirements of Code section 401(k)(10). 
  
 6.2 In-Service Withdrawals of Employee CAP and Catch-up Contributions. 
  
 (a) Application. 
  
 After (or concurrently with) withdrawing all amounts available under Section 6.1 (concerning normal withdrawals from the Employee Savings Account,
Rollover Account and Company Match Account and hardship withdrawals of Employee Savings Contributions), a Participant may request that amounts held in the remainder of his Accounts (except for any amounts allocated to the Company CAP Account and the
Safe Harbor Matching Account), including earnings credited to such Accounts (as limited below), be paid to the Participant due to financial hardship. 
  
 A Participant’s request for a hardship withdrawal hereunder shall be accompanied by such application forms, documentation and/or written
representations or explanations of the hardship as the Committee may require. The Committee, in accordance with nondiscriminatory and objective standards, shall authorize a withdrawal on account of financial hardship only upon making a determination
that (i) such withdrawal is necessary in light of immediate and heavy financial needs of the Participant (as determined in accordance with Section 6.2(d)), (ii) the 

  

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amount to be withdrawn does not exceed the amount required to meet the immediate financial need created by the hardship, grossed up for any federal, state,
or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution, and (iii) the amounts to be withdrawn are not reasonably available from other resources of the Participant. For purposes of this Article VI, the
Participant’s resources are deemed to include those assets of his spouse and minor children that are reasonably available to the Participant, but does not include property held for the Participant’s child under an irrevocable trust or
under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. No hardship withdrawals may be made from earnings on Employee CAP Contributions or Catch-up Contributions that accrued after December 31, 1988. 
  
 (b) Valuation and Payment of Withdrawal. 
  
 For purposes of making an in-service withdrawal under this Section 6.2, following the Committee’s favorable
determination, a Participant’s Account shall be valued as of the Valuation Date on which his application for withdrawal is processed. Payment shall be made in a single lump sum as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of
such withdrawal request. A hardship withdrawal shall not cause a termination of participation in the Plan. 
  
 (c) Penalty for Withdrawal. 
  
 Upon the approval of a hardship withdrawal under this Section 6.2, a Participant’s Salary Reduction Agreement (and therefore his ability to make
Employee CAP Contributions and Employee Savings Contributions) shall be automatically suspended. A Participant can elect to reinstate his Salary Reduction Agreement and resume his Employee CAP Contributions and/or Employee Savings Contributions as
of any payday following six (6) months after such suspension, provided that a proper Election is made. 
  
 (d) Immediate and Heavy Financial Need. 
  
 The determination of whether a Participant has an immediate and heavy financial need shall be based on the criteria specified in Section 6.2(a) and shall
be made by the Committee or its designee in accordance with nondiscriminatory and objective standards and on the basis of all relevant facts and circumstances. However, a Participant will be deemed to have an immediate and heavy financial need if
the basis for withdrawal is on account of: (i) medical expenses described in section 213(d) of the Code incurred by the Participant, the Participant’s spouse, or any dependent(s) of the Participant (as defined in section 152 of the Code), or
necessary for those persons to obtain such medical care; (ii) purchase of a principal residence (excluding mortgage payments) for the Participant; (iii) payment of tuition and related fees for the next twelve (12) months of post-secondary education
for the Participant, his or her spouse, children, or dependents; (iv) the need to prevent eviction of the Participant from his or her principal residence or foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant’s principal residence; or (v) such other
events as may be determined by the Internal Revenue Service. 
  
 (e) Lack of Other Resources. 
  
 In satisfying
the requirement that the Participant lack other reasonably available resources with which to meet his immediate and heavy financial need, the Committee may rely upon reasonable written representations by the Participant (unless the Committee has
actual knowledge to the contrary) that the need cannot otherwise be satisfied by: 
  
 (1) Reimbursement or compensation by insurance, or otherwise; 
  

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 (2) Reasonable liquidation of the Participant’s assets to the extent the liquidation
would not itself cause an immediate and heavy financial need; 
  
 (3) The cessation of Employee CAP Contributions or Employee Savings Contributions under this Plan or other plans maintained by the Employing Company and Related Employers; 
  
 (4) By other distributions or nontaxable (at the time of the
loan) loans from all plans maintained by the Employing Company, Related Employer, or any other employer, but only if the amount of such loans would satisfy the financial need; or 
  
 (5) By borrowing from commercial sources on reasonable commercial terms in an amount sufficient to satisfy
the need.” 
  
 (f) Pro Rata Withdrawal. 
  
 Any withdrawals pursuant to this Section 6.2 shall be deemed to be taken pro
rata from each of the Participant’s Accounts and from each applicable investment fund. No hardship withdrawals may be taken from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. No repayments of hardship withdrawals are permitted.

  
 6.3 Age 591⁄2 Withdrawals. 
  
 A Participant may at any time after attaining age 591⁄2, withdraw all or
any portion of his vested Accrued Benefit. Withdrawals shall be taken pro rata from each Account and from each applicable investment fund. No withdrawals may be taken from the self-directed brokerage account or the loan fund. No repayments of
withdrawals are permitted. 
  
 6.4 Loans. 
  
 (a) Loan Amount, Term and Interest Rate. 
  
 The Plan Administrator is authorized to approve or deny applications under
the Plan’s loan program pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.4. 
  
 (1) Any Participant who is actively employed by an Employing Company may borrow from his Accrued Benefit an amount that does not exceed the smallest of: 
  
 (A) 50% of the value of the Participant’s entire vested Accrued Benefit in his Account, less the
balance of all other outstanding loans to the Participant under this Plan; 
  
 (B) $50,000 less the highest outstanding balance of loans to the Participant under all tax-qualified defined benefit and defined contribution plans of any Employing Company, including this Plan, during the one-year
period ending on the day immediately preceding the date of the loan; or 
  

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 (C) such lesser maximum amount as the Plan Administrator may from time to time establish
and apply uniformly to all loans made pursuant to the terms of the Plan. 
  
 (2) The minimum amount of any loan granted under the Plan shall be $1,000. For purposes of this Section 6.4(a), the value of a Participant’s Account shall be determined as of the nearest Valuation Date the
proceeds of such loan are to be distributed to the Participant. 
  
 (3) Loans shall be granted for a maximum term of five (5) years. 
  
 (4) Loans shall bear a rate of interest as determined by the Plan Administrator, under a written procedure established by it (which shall
constitute a part of the Plan), which will provide a return commensurate with the interest rates charged by persons in the business of lending money for loans which would be made under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise specified by the Plan
Administrator, the interest rate shall be the prime rate plus one percent (1%). 
  
 (5) Except as provided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, loans shall require substantially level amortization
(with payments not less frequently than quarterly) over the term of the loan. 
  
 (6) For each loan, the Participant’s Account may be charged a one-time loan origination fee, as established from time to time by the Plan Administrator, which shall be deducted from a Participant’s Account
in addition to the face amount of the loan. 
  
 (b) Frequency
of Loans. 
  
 A Participant shall not have more than one (1)
loan outstanding at any time under this Plan and all other tax qualified plans maintained by any Employing Company. 
  
 (c) Loan Documents and Funding. 
  
 (1) No loan shall be made to any Participant prior to the Participant’s application therefore, acknowledgement of a note payable to
the Trustee on which the Participant shall be personally liable for the amount of the loan in a form prescribed by the Plan Administrator, an authorization for payroll deductions for repayment of the loan, and, within 90 days prior to the making of
the loan, the written consent of the Participant to (i) the making of the loan, (ii) the set-off of the Participant’s vested Account upon acceleration and/or default under the loan, and (iii) the distribution or deemed distribution of all or
any part of the Participant’s vested Account necessary to effect the set-off. Each of the foregoing actions and acknowledgments should be effected in the manner specified by the Plan Administrator from time to time. 
  
 (2) Cash equal to the value of any loan granted under this
Section 6.4 shall be transferred from the investment fund or investment funds in which the Participant’s Account is invested on a pro rata basis, provided that loan proceeds will not be taken from the self-directed brokerage account. In
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from the Employee CAP Account until all other Accounts have been used in full. Upon the transfer of the loan proceeds (less the origination fee) to the
Participant, the Participant shall be bound by the note acknowledged by such Participant, and such note shall be deemed to be transferred to the loan fund. All loans shall be considered a segregated investment of the Trust on behalf of the borrowing
Participant, and the Participant’s note shall thus be held as a directed investment of the Participant’s account in the loan fund, provided that, notwithstanding the nonalienation rule of Section 9.1, the loan fund shall have a first lien
on said note.” 
  
 (d) Repayment. 
  
 Repayment shall be accomplished through regular payroll deductions as
authorized by a salary deduction agreement. Payments by a Participant shall be applied first to outstanding interest and then to reduce the outstanding principal balance of the loan and shall be allocated to the Participant’s Account and
invested in accordance with the Participant’s investment designation as in effect under Section 5.3. A Participant shall be entitled to prepay without penalty the full loan balance by cashier’s check or by such other means as approved by
the Plan Administrator at any time. Partial prepayments are not permitted. 
  
 (e) Leave of Absence. 
  
 (1) A Participant with an outstanding loan who is placed on authorized leave of absence either without pay or at a rate of pay (after applicable employment tax withholdings) that is less than the amount of the
installment payments required under the term of the loan may defer payment of all principal and interest for the shorter of the duration of the absence or one (1) year, followed by the reamortization, on the date on which the Participant returns to
pay status (or, if earlier, the first anniversary of the leave of absence), of the then-outstanding principal and interest (including interest accrued during the absence) in substantially equal installments over the remaining loan term plus the
amount of the leave, provided that in no event shall any loan become due and payable later than the expiration of the five-year limitation prescribed by Section 6.4(a)(3), unless otherwise permitted by that Section. 
  
 (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if the Participant is a
uniformed services employee on military leave, then such Participant may defer payment of all principal and interest for the duration of the absence, followed by the reamortization, on the date on which the Participant returns to pay status, of the
then-outstanding principal and interest (including interest accrued during the absence) in substantially equal installments over the remaining loan term, extended by the period of absence; provided that in no event shall any such loan become due and
payable later than the expiration of the five-year limitation prescribed by Section 6.4(a)(3) (unless otherwise permitted by that Section) plus the period of the military leave.” 
  
 (f) Death or Termination of Employment. 
  
 If, prior to repayment of the total principal amount of and accrued interest on a note held by the loan fund. 
  

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 (1) a Participant incurs a severance from employment or otherwise ceases to be an
employee for any reason other than his death and the said amount is not repaid in full by the end of the 60th day following the day he incurs a severance from employment or otherwise ceases to be an employee, or 
  
 (2) a Participant dies and said amount, including any
further accrued interest, is not repaid in full within 90 days after his death, 
  
 then the entire amount of the loan shall be accelerated and become immediately due and payable and the Participant’s applicable Account balances shall be reduced, in proportion to their investment in the loan fund, by the amount of
said total outstanding principal amount and accrued interest prior to the payment of any benefits to the Participant or his Beneficiary, and the amount of such reduction shall be applied to satisfy the note held by the loan fund. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any loans outstanding as of the date a Participant separates from employment that are transferred to another plan in accordance with Section 8.2(c) shall not be accelerated in accordance with this Section 6.4(f). Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any Participant who incurs an involuntary termination of employment due to a reduction in force, divestiture or outsourcing, and who thereafter remains an inactive Participants, may continue to make installment payments in accordance with
the loan amortization schedule in effect at the time of such termination. 
  
 (g) Default. 
  
 If any
loan repayment required hereunder is not timely paid in full, or if any other default occurs, then, unless otherwise provided by the Plan Administrator, the entire outstanding principal balance and accrued interest shall be accelerated and become
immediately due and payable. 
  
 (h) Further Limitations on
Loans. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in this Section 6.4, the Plan Administrator reserves the right to limit further the amount that may be borrowed hereunder, to limit further the terms and conditions under which loans will be made, or to declare a moratorium on the granting of loans
to Participants, in each case on the basis of uniform and nondiscriminatory rules. No loans shall be made during any period in which the Plan Administrator is determining whether a domestic relations order relating to such Participant’s Accrued
Benefit is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. 
  
 ARTICLE VII

  
 TERMINATION OF SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING

  
 7.1 Retirement, Death, Disability or Layoff. 
  
 Upon Retirement, death, Total and Permanent Disability, or permanent layoff
(as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion), a Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable, and the Committee shall direct the Trustee to make payment of the full value of the Participant’s Accrued
Benefit to him at such times and in such manner as provided in Article VIII hereof. The value of the Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be determined as of the 

  

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Valuation Date on which the distribution is processed. Participants shall not be entitled to any earnings after such Valuation Date. 
  
 7.2 Termination of Service Prior to Retirement. 
  
 All Participants who are Employees under the Plan or the Ericsson Plan on or
after January 1, 2001, shall be fully vested at all times in all amounts credited to their Accounts. Participants who are not Employees under the Plan or the Ericsson Plan on or after January 1, 2001, for any reason (referred to for purposes of this
Section as “Inactive Participants”), including, but not limited to, the fact that their Severance from Employment Date was prior to January 1, 2001, shall be subject to the following vesting rules. 
  
 If an Inactive Participant’s employment terminates prior to Retirement
for any reason other than death, Total and Permanent Disability, or permanent layoff, then such Participant shall be vested in his Company Match Account according to the following schedule: 
  

				
	 Years of Vesting Service

	  	Percent
Vested

	 
	 Less than 2 years
	  	0	%
	 2 or more years
	  	100	%

  
 In addition, an
Inactive Participant shall be 100% vested at all times in that portion of his Accrued Benefit attributable to his Employee Savings Account, Employee CAP Account, and Company CAP Account. The value of a Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit shall
be determined as of the Valuation Date on which the distribution is processed. Participants shall not be entitled to any earnings after such Valuation Date. Such payment shall be made at such times and in such manner as provided in Article VIII.

  
 7.3 Years of Vesting Service. 
  
 For purposes of vesting under Section 7.2, a year of Vesting Service shall
mean any computation period during which the Participant completes a Year of Service with the Employing Companies or a Related Employer. Years of Service credited under the Prior Plans or Merged Plans shall also count as years of Vesting Service
hereunder. Moreover, for Participants who were members of the GE Plan as of December 31, 1989 and who became members of one or more of the Prior Plans as of January 1, 1990, years of service under the GE Plan shall be credited as years of Vesting
Service hereunder. In addition, for Participants who were employees of Ericsson Raynet as of December 31, 1994, years of service under the Raychem 401(k) plan shall be credited as years of Vesting Service hereunder. Furthermore, for Participants who
were employees of Objectory Corporation as of December 31, 1994, years of service with the direct and indirect owners of Objectory Corporation shall be credited as years of Vesting Service hereunder. In the case of an Employee who separates from
Service and who resumes employment with the Employing Companies, but not as a Re-Employed Employee, years of Vesting Service prior to his resumption of employment shall be disregarded. In addition, if a Participant has incurred five (5) consecutive
One Year Periods of Severance, Service after such One Year Periods of Severance shall not increase the Participant’s nonforfeitable percentage in his Accrued Benefit derived from Company Matching Contributions that accrued prior to such five
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 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a year of Vesting Service shall include any computation
period during which a leased employee completes twelve (12) months of service as a leased employee. For purposes of this paragraph, a “leased employee” shall mean any person who is not an Employee and who performs services for an Employing
Company or a Related Employer pursuant to an agreement between the Employing Company or Related Employer and any other person where such services are performed on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one year and such services
are preformed under the primary direction or control of the Employing Company or Related Employer. 
  
 7.4 Forfeiture and Restoration of Non-Vested Accrued Benefit. 
  
 (a) Forfeiture Occurs. 
  
 Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.10, a Participant’s Forfeiture Amount, if any, shall cease to be part of his Accrued Benefit as of the
earlier to occur of (i) in the case where the Participant does not receive a distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit in accordance with Section 7.4(b) below, on the day in which the Participant first incurs five (5) consecutive One Year
Periods of Severance as the result of the termination of his Service or (ii) the day in which the Participant receives a distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit (including a deemed distribution of $0) as the result of his termination of
Service (provided such distribution, if any, is made not later than the close of the second Plan Year following the Participant’s termination of Service). Upon a Participant’s termination of Service, such Participant shall receive a
distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.5. Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.10, the Committee shall determine a Participant’s Accrued Benefit Forfeiture, if any, solely by
reference to the vesting provisions of Section 7.2. A Participant shall not forfeit any portion of his Accrued Benefit for any cause other than that specified herein. 
  
 (b) Restoration of Non-Vested Accrued Benefit. 
  
 In the case of a former Participant who was less than 100 percent vested and whose non-vested Account balance was forfeited
by reason of Section 7.4(a), if such individual returns to Service prior to the earlier of (a) the Plan’s termination and (b) his incurring five (5) consecutive One Year Periods of Severance, such individual’s Forfeiture Amount shall be
restored (unadjusted for any gains or losses) as part of such individual’s Accrued Benefit and credited to his Company Match Account, if the Participant repays to the Plan the full amount of the distribution prior to the lapse of five (5) years
following the Participant’s reemployment by the Employing Companies or a Related Employer (provided that the Participant must be an Employee at the time of repayment). (Any prior deemed distribution of $0 will be considered automatically repaid
upon the Participant’s Reemployment Commencement Date.) As of the Valuation Date that such repayment is processed, and prior to any allocation of (i) the Trust Fund earnings, (ii) Forfeitures, or (iii) Company Matching Contributions or Company
CAP Contributions, there shall be allocated to the Participant’s Company Match Account an amount (the “Restoration Amount”) of the Trust Fund equal to the amount of his previously forfeited non-vested Accrued Benefit. The Restoration
Amount shall be credited first against Forfeitures arising for the Plan Year, and if such Forfeitures are not sufficient to satisfy the Restoration Amount in full, the Restoration Amount shall be further credited against Trust Fund income and gain
for the Plan Year, and if the Restoration Amount thereafter still remains unsatisfied in full, the remainder of such amount shall be satisfied out of Company Matching Contributions for the 

  

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Plan Year, which contributions shall be supplemented for the Plan Year by an amount equal to such remainder. The Restoration Amount shall not be deemed an
Annual Addition or portion thereof for any Plan Year. In addition, the Employing Companies may and, if necessary, shall make a Company Matching Contribution for the purpose of restoring a Participant’s previously forfeited non-vested Accrued
Benefit even though the Employing Companies have no profits. The Committee shall give timely notice to any rehired Employee, if such Employee is eligible to make a repayment, of his right to make such repayment before the expiration of the periods
of the occurrence of the events specified above, and such notice shall also include an explanation of the consequences of not making such repayment. 
  
 7.5 Termination, Partial Termination, or Complete Discontinuance of Company Contributions. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision in this Plan, in the event of a termination or partial termination of the Plan, or a
complete discontinuance of Company Matching Contributions and Company CAP Contributions under the Plan, all affected Participants shall have a fully vested interest in their Accrued Benefit determined as of the date of such event. The value of the
Accrued Benefit shall be determined on the date the Accrued Benefit becomes fully vested. 
  
 ARTICLE VIII 
  
 TIME AND
METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS 
  
 8.1 Time of Payment.

  
 (a) Retirement. 
  
 Except as provided in Section 8.5, in the event of a Participant’s
Retirement, payment of his Accrued Benefit shall commence as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of his distribution. 
  
 (b) Death or Disability. 
  
 In the event of death or Total and Permanent Disability, except in the case of a distribution deferred pursuant to Section 8.5, payment of the
Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall commence as soon as administratively feasible following the processing of his distribution. 
  
 (c) Severance from Employment. 
  
 Upon a Participant’s severance from employment for any reason other than Retirement, Total and Permanent Disability, or death, the Trustee shall
continue to hold the Participant’s Accrued Benefit in Trust until the date the Participant requests a distribution thereof, or, if earlier, the date provided in Section 8.5, at which time the Trustee shall commence distribution of the
Participant’s Accrued Benefit in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.1(a) and Section 8.2; provided, however, that the Committee may make an earlier distribution of the Participant’s Accrued Benefit pursuant to Section
8.1(d). 
  

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 (d) Limitation on Time of Payment. 
  
 Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, unless the Participant otherwise directs, the Trustee shall
commence distribution of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit not later than sixty (60) days after the close of the Plan Year in which the latest of the following events occurs: 
  
 (1) The date the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age;
or 
  
 (2) The Participant’s Severance from
Employment Date. 
  
 Except as provided in Section 8.5 and the
immediately following sentence, a Participant may elect to defer the commencement of the payment of his benefits beyond the dates specified above by submitting a written statement to the Committee describing his benefit and the date on which the
payment of such benefit shall commence. 
  
 Notwithstanding any
other provision of Articles VII through IX of the Plan to the contrary, with respect to any 5-percent owner of the Employer (who either becomes a 5% owner at any time during the five Plan Year period ending in the calendar year in which the
Participant attains age 70-1/2, or who becomes a 5% owner during any subsequent calendar year (“5% owner”), the distribution of a Participant’s entire vested and nonforfeitable interest in the Plan will be made in a lump sum not later
than April 1 following the calendar year in which he attains age 70-1/2 unless the Participant makes a withdrawal under Article VI of the Plan that is sufficient to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements of section 401(a)(9) of the Code and
the regulations thereunder. With respect to any 5% owner, on or before December 31 of such calendar year and of each succeeding calendar year, distribution of the entire amount of any additional balances in the Participant’s Accounts
(determined as of the latest Valuation Date prior to the date of distribution) will be made in a lump sum unless the Participant makes a withdrawal under Article VI that is sufficient to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements of section
401(a)(9) of the Code and the regulations thereunder. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, with respect to an Employee who is not a 5% owner of his Employer, as described in section 416 of the Code, the distribution of his entire vested Accrued Benefit shall be made in a single
lump sum distribution as of the Required Commencement Date or shall commence to be distributed not later than the Required Commencement Date over the life of such Participant or over the joint lives of such Participant and his Beneficiary, or over a
period not extending beyond the life expectancy of such Participant or the joint life expectancies of such Participant and his Beneficiary. Life expectancy of a Participant and his spouse (other than for a life annuity) may be redetermined annually
at the Participant’s election. Life expectancy shall be determined in accordance with the tables set forth in the Treasury Regulations under Code section 401(a)(9). Except as provided in the next sentence, in-service distributions shall not be
permitted for non-5% owners upon attainment of age 70-1/2 except as otherwise permitted under Article VI. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, in-service distributions for non-5% owners shall also be permitted upon attainment of age 70-1/2, to
the extent provided in this Section for 5% owners, but only for Participants who attain age 70-1/2 in Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1999. 
  
 Except as otherwise provided by Treasury Regulations, if distributions of the Participant’s interest has commenced but the Participant dies prior to
his entire interest being distributed to him, the remaining portion of such interest shall be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used as of the date of his death. Except as otherwise provided by 

  

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Treasury Regulations, if the Participant dies before the distribution of his interest has commenced, the entire interest of the Participant shall be
distributed within five (5) years after the death of the Participant. 
  
 Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if any portion of the Participant’s interest is payable to or for the benefit of a Beneficiary over the life of such Beneficiary (or over a period not extending beyond the life
expectancy of such Beneficiary), such portion will be distributed over the life of such Beneficiary or over a period not extending beyond the life expectancy of such Beneficiary, and such distributions shall commence not later than December 31 of
the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant died. However, for purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, if the Beneficiary is the surviving spouse of the Participant, the deceased Participant’s interest shall
commence to be distributed to such surviving spouse on or before the date on which the Participant would have attained age seventy and one-half (70-1/2), or the end of the calendar year following the calendar year that contained the
Participant’s death, if later. If the surviving spouse dies before the distributions to such spouse commence, the distribution of the interest of the deceased Participant shall begin on or before a date determined as if the surviving spouse
were the Participant, excluding the special rules in the preceding sentence applicable when the surviving spouse is the designated Beneficiary. For purposes of this subsection, any amount paid to a child shall be treated as if it had been paid to
the surviving spouse if such amount will become payable to the surviving spouse upon such child reaching majority. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, nothing shall permit any Participant or Beneficiary to elect any form of distribution not
otherwise expressly permitted under Section 8.2 of this Plan. Any payments hereunder must also satisfy the minimum incidental death benefit rules of the Treasury Regulations under Code section 401(a)(9). 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision herein to the contrary, distributions
hereunder will be made in accordance with the Treasury Regulations under Code section 401(a)(9), and any Internal Revenue Service rulings, announcements or notices promulgated under Code section 401(a)(9), including any grandfather or transitional
rules thereunder. Furthermore, any provisions contained herein which reflect Code section 401(a)(9) shall override any distribution options in the Plan inconsistent with Code section 401(a)(9). 
  
 8.2 Method of Payment. 
  
 (a) General. 
  
 After all required accounting adjustments, the Trustee, in accord with the direction of the Participant and the procedures of Section 9.14, shall make
payment of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit under one (1) or more of the following methods: 
  
 (1) By payment in a lump sum in cash and/or Ericsson ADRs; or 
  
 (2) By transfer to an Eligible Retirement Plan, as defined in Section 8.2(c)(2)(B). 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.2, the phrase
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(i) a life annuity to a Participant, (ii) a joint and survivor annuity to a Participant and his Beneficiary, or (iii) any other form of payment having the
effect of (i) or (ii) above. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing
foreign contract employees (as determined by the Committee) who are non U.S. citizens shall be entitled to distributions in the form of an insurance contract providing for (1) a life annuity to a Participant, or (ii) a joint and survivor annuity to
a Participant and his Beneficiary. 
  
 (b) Right to Elect
Partial Distributions. 
  
 Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 8.2(a), Participants who have had a severance from employment for any reason shall have the right to elect a Partial Distribution under this Plan. Furthermore, in the event of such a Participant’s death, his surviving Spouse or
Beneficiary may elect to receive Partial Distributions pursuant to the provisions of this section, in lieu of receiving payment in the form of a lump sum. All partial distributions made under this Section shall be taken pro rata from each Account
and from each investment fund in which the Participant’s Account is invested. Such election for a Partial Distribution shall be made pursuant to any rules and procedures established by the Committee, shall be subject to the minimum distribution
and incidental death benefit requirements of Code section 401(a)(9), and except as provided in Section 8.2(a) above, shall neither be in the term of, or have the effect of, a life annuity or a joint and survivor annuity. A qualifying Participant, or
surviving Spouse or Beneficiary, may elect up to twelve Partial Distributions per Plan Year, provided that no more than one Partial Distribution may be taken in any calendar month. 
  
 (c) Participants’ Right to Elect a Direct Transfer for any Eligible Rollover Distribution. 
  
 (1) General. Notwithstanding any provision of the
Plan to the contrary that would otherwise limit a distributee’s election under this Section, a distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Plan Administrator, to have any portion of an Eligible Rollover Distribution
paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the distributee in a direct rollover. 
  
 (2) Definitions. 
  
 (A) Eligible Rollover Distribution: An Eligible Rollover Distribution is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the
credit of the distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include: (i) any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the life (or life
expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the distributee and the distributee’s designated beneficiary, or for a specified period of 10 years or more; (ii) any distribution to the extent such distribution
is required under Code section 401(a)(9); (iii) the portion of any distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation on employer securities) or (iv) a hardship
distribution under Section 6.1(b) or Section 6.2. 
  

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 (B) Eligible Retirement Plan: An Eligible Retirement Plan is an individual retirement
account described in section 408(a) of the Code, an individual retirement annuity described in section 408(b) of the Code, an annuity plan described in section 403(a) of the Code, an annuity contract described section 403(b) of the Code, a qualified
trust described in section 401(a) of the Code, or an eligible deferred compensation plan described in section 457(b) of the Code that is maintained by an eligible employer described in section 457(e)(1)(A) of the Code, that accepts the
distributee’s eligible rollover distribution. 
  
 (C) Distributee: A distributee includes a Participant or former Participant. In addition, the Participant’s or former Participant’s surviving spouse and the Participant’s or former Participant’s spouse or former spouse
who is the alternate payee under a QDRO, as defined in Code section 414(p), are distributees with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse. 
  
 (D) Direct rollover: A direct rollover is a payment by the Plan to the eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee. 

 
 (3) Timing. If a distribution is one to which Code
sections 401(a)(11) and 417 do not apply, that distribution may commence less than 30 days after the notice required under Treasury Regulation section 1.411(a)-11(c) is given, provided that: 
  
 (A) The Plan Administrator clearly informs the Participant
that the Participant has a right to a period of at least 30 days after receiving the notice to consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution (and, if applicable, a particular distribution option), and 
  
 (B) The Participant, after receiving the notice,
affirmatively elects a distribution. 
  
 (4)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 8.2(c)(1), (2) or (3) above, the following rules shall apply with respect to an Eligible Rollover Distribution: 
  
 (A) no such distribution shall be made to more than one Eligible Retirement Plan, 
  
 (B) no distribution of which only a portion is an Eligible
Rollover Distribution shall be permitted unless the Eligible Rollover Distribution portion amounts to at least $500, 
  
 (C) no Eligible Rollover Distribution shall be made unless the Participant shall have provided such information relating to the recipient
of the distribution as the Plan Administrator may reasonably request, and 
  
 (D) in the event a Participant has not timely made an election for a qualified rollover distribution in accordance with the procedures of the Plan Administrator, he shall be deemed to have elected payment to him or
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 For purposes of this Section 8.2(c)(4), the term “Participant” shall include, as may be
appropriate, the surviving Spouse of the Participant, or an alternative payee under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. 
  
 (d) Special Rule for Transferred Sums. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, with respect to any distributions commencing prior to the date that is ninety (90) days
following the later of (i) April 1, 2001, or (ii) the date notice is given to Participants whose Accounts include sums transferred to the Ericsson Plan from the MPD Technologies, Inc. In-Vest Plan (“MPD Participants”) that payment in an
annuity form will no longer be permitted, distribution of any portion of an MPD Participant’s Account attributable to sums transferred to this Plan from the MPD Plan may be made in any optional payment form available under the MPD Technologies,
Inc. In-Vest Plan, including, without limitation, a single life or joint and survivor annuity, subject to all of the provisions of such Plan relating thereto. 
  

8.3 Investment of Account After Termination. 
  
 Should a Participant’s Account be retained in the Trust after the date on which his participation ends and he has become a former Participant, the
Account will continue to be treated as a part of the Trust Fund. Subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2, the Account will be credited (or debited) with its share of the net income (or loss) attributable to the investments of such Account but shall not be
credited with any further Company Matching Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions, or Catch-up Contributions. 
  
 8.4 Special Limitations on Form of Benefits Distribution. 
  
 Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, (a) except for foreign contract employees who are non U.S.
citizens, a Participant may not elect that any portion of his Accrued Benefit be paid in the form of a life annuity, and (b) except as is provided in the immediately following sentence, upon a Participant’s death prior to the payment in full of
such Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit, the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit, or portion thereof not paid as of the Participant’s death, shall be paid in full to the Participant’s surviving spouse. Payment of a deceased
Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit shall not be paid in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, but shall be paid instead in accordance with the Participant’s Beneficiary election under the Plan if there is no surviving
spouse of the Participant, the surviving spouse cannot be found or other circumstances prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury exist, or if the surviving spouse consents in the manner required in the immediately following sentence to payment of
the Participant’s Accrued Benefit to a designated Beneficiary other than the Participant’s spouse. A Participant’s spouse may consent to the naming of a designated Beneficiary other than the spouse to receive the Participant’s
Accrued Benefit, or portion thereof not distributed on the date of the Participant’s death, but only if such consent (i) is in writing, (ii) designates a Beneficiary (or a form of benefits) which may not be changed without further spousal
consent (or such consent expressly permits designations by the Participant without any requirement of further spousal consent), (iii) acknowledges the effect of the Participant’s election (and the spousal consent), and (iv) is witnessed by a
member of the Committee or a notary public. Any consent by a spouse (or establishment that the consent of a spouse may not be obtained) under the preceding sentence shall be effective only with respect to 

  

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such spouse. If no effective Beneficiary designation shall have been made, or if all designated Beneficiaries predecease the Participant, payment shall be
made to the Participant’s estate. 
  
 8.5 Lump Sum Cashout and Special
Limitation on Involuntary Payment of Benefits. 
  
 Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article VIII (other than the Participant’s election rights under Section 8.2(b)), if following a Participant’s termination of Service the value of the Participant’s vested
Accrued Benefit, determined as of the Valuation Date coinciding with the date a distribution is to commence (or could commence hereunder) does not exceed $5,000 (disregarding any amount held in such Participant’s Rollover Account), the
Committee shall direct the Trustee to distribute the value of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit to the Participant or the Participant’s Beneficiary in a lump sum as soon as administratively feasible (and in no event later than the
end of the second Plan Year following the year of the termination, and only if as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or immediately prior to the distribution, the value of such vested Accrued Benefit does not exceed $5,000 (disregarding any
amount held in such Participant’s Rollover Account)). The preceding sentence shall not apply if the Participant (or, if applicable, his Beneficiary) cannot be found, in which case the provisions of Section 8.10 shall apply. If following a
Participant’s termination of Service for any reason other than death the then value of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit exceeds $5,000 (disregarding any amount held in such Participant’s Rollover Account) as of the Valuation
Date coinciding with the date a distribution is to commence (or could commence hereunder), no distribution of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit to the Participant may occur prior to the earlier of (i) the Participant’s attainment of
age sixty-five (65), (ii) the Participant’s death, (iii) termination of the Plan without the establishment or maintenance of another defined contribution plan (other than an ESOP), or (iv) the date that such Participant’s Accrued Benefit
(disregarding such Participant’s Rollover Account) is reduced to $5,000 or less (by withdrawals, investment experience or otherwise), unless prior to such time the Participant files with the Committee a written request for the payment of his
vested Accrued Benefit, such request expressly to consent to the payment. If the Participant files such a request the Committee shall direct the Trustee to pay such amount to the Participant; provided that (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)(3)
any such request and consent must be received within ninety (90) days of the distribution of the benefit and must expressly consent to the payment. 
  
 8.6 Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. 
  
 During any period in which the issue of whether a Domestic Relations Order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order is being determined (by the Committee,
by a court of competent jurisdiction, or otherwise), the Committee shall direct that a separate account be maintained for the amount, if any, that would have been currently payable to the Alternate Payee during such period if the Domestic Relations
Order is determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. If within eighteen (18) months the Domestic Relations Order (or modification thereof) is determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, the Committee shall direct the Trustee to
pay the segregated account (and any earnings or interest thereon) to the person or persons entitled thereto (to the extent otherwise then payable hereunder and under the terms of the Qualified Domestic Relations Order). If within eighteen (18)
months it is determined that the order is not a Qualified Domestic Relations Order or the issue as to whether such Domestic Relations Order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order is not resolved, then, if such amount would otherwise be currently
payable to the Participant or his Beneficiary, the Committee shall direct the Trustee to pay the segregated account (and any earnings or interest thereon) to the 

  

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person or persons who would have been entitled to such amounts if there had been no Domestic Relations Order. Any determination that a Domestic Relations
Order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order that is made after the close of the eighteen (18) month period shall be applied prospectively only. The Committee shall establish reasonable procedures for determining whether a Domestic Relations Order
is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order and to administer distributions under Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. When the Plan receives a Domestic Relations Order, the Committee shall promptly notify the appropriate Participant and any other
Alternate Payee of the receipt of such order and the Committee’s procedures for determining whether such order is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order. The Committee shall determine whether a Domestic Relations Order is a Qualified Domestic
Relations Order within a reasonable period after receipt of such order, and shall within a reasonable time after such determination notify the Participant and each Alternate Payee of such determination. 
  
 8.7 Payment in the Event of Legal Disability. 
  
 Payments to any Participant, former Participant, or Beneficiary shall be
made to the recipient entitled thereto in person or upon his personal receipt, in form satisfactory to the Committee, except when the recipient entitled thereto shall be under a legal disability, or, in the sole judgment of the Committee, shall
otherwise be unable to apply such payment in furtherance of his own interest and advantage. The Committee may, in such event, in its sole discretion, direct all or any portion of such payments to be made in any one or more of the following ways:

  
 (a) To such person directly; 
  
 (b) To the guardian of his person or his estate; 
  
 (c) To a relative or friend of such person, to be expended for his benefit;
or 
  
 (d) To a custodian for such person under any Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act. 
  
 The decision of the Committee, in each case,
will be final, binding, and conclusive upon all persons ever interested hereunder. The Committee shall not be obliged to see to the proper application or expenditure of any payment so made. Any payment made pursuant to the power herein conferred
upon the Committee shall operate as a complete discharge of all obligations of the Trustee and the Committee, to the extent of the distributions so made. 
  
 8.8 Accounts Charged. 
  
 The Committee shall charge all distributions made to a Participant or to his Beneficiary from his Account against the Account of the Participant when
made. 
  
 8.9 Payments Only from Trust Fund. 
  
 All benefits of the Plan shall be payable solely from the Trust Fund and
neither the Employing Companies, the Committee, nor Trustee shall have any liability or responsibility therefor except as expressly provided herein. 
  

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 8.10 Unclaimed Account Procedure. 
  
 Except to the extent required by ERISA, neither the Trustee nor the Committee shall be obliged to search for, or ascertain
the whereabouts of, any Participant or Beneficiary. The Committee, by certified or registered mail addressed to his last known address of record with the Committee or the Employing Companies, shall notify any Participant or Beneficiary that he is
entitled to a distribution under this Plan, and the notice shall quote the provisions of this Section. If the Participant or Beneficiary fails to claim his benefits or make his whereabouts known in writing to the Committee, and the Committee is
otherwise unable to locate the Participant or Beneficiary after reasonable due diligence, the Committee shall then notify the Social Security Administration or other applicable federal agency of the Participant’s (or Beneficiary’s) failure
to claim the distribution to which he is entitled. The Committee shall request the Social Security Association or other applicable federal agency to notify the Participant (or Beneficiary) in accord with the procedures it has established for this
purpose. If the Social Security Administration or other applicable federal agency cannot locate the Participant or Beneficiary, then upon the first permissible distribution date (such as attainment of age 65, death, or Plan termination, or an
involuntary cashout pursuant to Section 8.5), at any time on or before the end of the second Plan Year following the year of the Participant’s termination of Service), or, if earlier, upon any other permissible forfeiture date, the benefit
shall be treated as a Forfeiture hereunder, provided that the benefit shall be reinstated (without interest or earnings) in the event that the Participant or Beneficiary ever makes a claim therefor. 
  
 While payment is pending prior to the above-referenced permissible
distribution or forfeiture date, the Committee will maintain the Participant’s investments in their respective funds which will be subject to earnings and losses. Any payment made pursuant to the power herein conferred upon the Committee shall
operate as a complete discharge of all obligations of the Trustee and the Committee, to the extent of the distributions so made. 
  
 8.11 Restrictions on Distribution of Employee CAP Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions and Company Matching Contributions. 

 
 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Participant’s
Employee CAP Account, Company CAP Account and Safe-Harbor Matching Account shall not be distributed before the first to occur of the following events: 
  
 (a) the Participant’s Retirement; 
  
 (b) his death; 
  
 (c) his Total and Permanent Disability; 
  
 (d) his severance from employment; 
  
 (e) his attainment of age 591⁄2 (but only to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder); 
  
 (f) the termination of the Plan, provided that neither the Employing Company nor any Related Employer establishes or
maintains a successor defined contribution plan (within the meaning of the applicable Treasury regulations) other than an employee stock ownership plan or a simplified employee pension; or 
  

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 (g) with respect to a Participant’s Employee CAP Account only, the Participant’s hardship, as
specified in Section 6.2 (and only to the extent permitted therein). 
  
 A distribution may be made under (f) above only if it constitutes a total distribution of the Participant’s entire vested account balance in his Account (and any other vested account balance in any other tax-qualified profit-sharing
plan of an Employing Company or a Related Employer). 
  
 ARTICLE
IX 
  
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 9.1 Non-Assignability. 
  
 To the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the provisions of Sections 8.6 and 6.4(c)(2), no right or interest of
any Participant in the Plan or in his Account shall be assignable or transferable or subject to any encumbrance, alienation, anticipation, pledge, or lien in whole or in part, either directly or by operation of law or otherwise, including, but not
by way of limitation, execution, levy, garnishment, attachment, pledge, bankruptcy or in any other manner, except a transfer as a result of death or mental incompetency, and no right or interest of any Participant in the Plan or in his Account shall
be liable for, or subject to, any obligation or liability of such Participant, except as otherwise permitted under Code section 401(a)(13)(C). 
  
 9.2 Extent of Participant’s Rights. 
  
 The Company offers no assurances that the current market value of any security will be equal to the purchase price of such security or that the amount
distributable in cash will be equal to or greater than the amount of any Plan contributions made by or for the benefit of any Participant hereunder. Each Participant assumes all risk in connection with any decrease in the market price of any
investments in any of the Plan’s investment funds. 
  
 9.3 Trustee.

  
 The Company or Committee shall enter into agreement or
agreements with a trustee or trustees selected by the Board or Committee to act under the Plan. The Trustee shall receive all Employee Savings Contributions, Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions, Company CAP Contributions, and Company
Matching Contributions under the Plan; hold, manage and invest the same, reinvest any income therefrom, and distribute such funds in accordance with written instructions and directions of the Committee, except that the Trustee shall immediately
transfer all contributions directed for investment to the appropriate investment funds pursuant to the Participants’ elections. Notwithstanding the above, pending the selection and purchase of such investments, the Plan assets to be invested in
any of the investment funds may be temporarily invested by the Trustee, in its sole discretion, (i) in U.S. Obligations, (ii) in commercial paper generally rated as prime at the time of purchase thereof, and maturing not more than six (6) months
after purchase, or (iii) in certificates of deposit of any bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof. Any trust agreement shall be in such form and contain such provisions not inconsistent with the Plan and the
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appointment of the Trustee and upon such revocation a successor Trustee shall be selected by the Board or Committee. 
  
 9.4 Allocation of Earnings and Contributions to Investment Fund Accounts. 

 
 The following allocation rules shall apply separately to each investment
fund. As of each Valuation Date, the Committee or its delegate shall (i) subtract all distributions and withdrawals from such investment fund since the previous Valuation Date; (ii) allocate the net earnings and gains and losses of the investment
fund earned since the preceding Valuation Date to each Participant’s subaccounts based on each such subaccount’s share of such earnings, gains and losses; and (iii) add to each subaccount the amount of new contributions allocated to such
investment fund. For these purposes, the Committee or its delegate shall adopt uniform rules that conform to applicable law and generally accepted accounting practices. 
  
 9.5 Stock. 
  
 The accounting methods or formulae to be used under the Plan for the purpose of maintaining the balance of a Participant’s Account with respect to
any portion thereof invested in the L M Ericsson Stock Fund shall be determined by the Committee and shall be based upon the so-called unit accounting method, whereby all Plan assets in the Fund are carried as units, as opposed to actual ADRs. Thus,
Participants shall not have any individual ADRs allocated to their Accounts, but rather they shall be allocated an undivided percentage interest, denominated in units, in the entire L M Ericsson Stock Fund, representing the portion of the Fund
allocated to their Accounts. The accounting methods or formulae selected by the Committee may be revised from time to time in order to accomplish the foregoing purposes, but shall at all times conform to the general principles in this Section 9.5.

  
 9.6 Amendment to Vesting Schedule. 
  
 Although the Company reserves the right to amend the vesting schedule at any
time, the Employing Companies shall not amend the vesting schedule (and no amendment shall be effective) if the amendment would reduce the nonforfeitable percentage of any Participant’s Accrued Benefit derived from Company Matching
Contributions (determined as of the later of the date the Employing Companies adopt the amendment, or the date the amendment becomes effective) to a percentage less than the nonforfeitable percentage computed under the Plan without regard to the
amendment. 
  
 In the event the vesting schedule of this Plan is
amended, any Participant who has completed at least two (2) years of Vesting Service may elect to have his Accrued Benefit computed under the Plan without regard to such amendment by notifying the Committee in writing during the election period
hereinafter described. The election period shall begin on the date such amendment is adopted and shall end no earlier than the latest of the following dates: 
  
 (a) The date that is sixty (60) days after the day such amendment is adopted; 
  
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 (c) The date that is sixty (60) days after the day the Participant is given written notice of such
amendment by the Committee. 
  
 Any election made pursuant to this
Section shall be irrevocable. The Committee, as soon as practicable, shall forward a true copy of any amendment to the vesting schedule to each affected Participant, together with an explanation of the effect of the amendment, the appropriate form
upon which the Participant may make an election to remain under the vesting schedule provided under the Plan prior to the amendment, and notice of the time within which the Participant must make an election to remain under the prior vesting
schedule. 
  
 9.7 Alternative Forms of Benefit. 
  
 Although the Company and its authorized delegates reserve the right to amend
the Plan at any time and in any manner, no such amendment shall eliminate or reduce an early retirement benefit or a retirement-type subsidy or eliminate an optional form of benefit with respect to benefits attributable to Service before the
amendment. Moreover, neither any current provision of the Plan nor any amendment to the Plan shall restrict the availability of an alternative form of benefit to a certain select group or classification of Participants or Beneficiaries which favor
the “prohibited group,” or restrict or deny a Participant through the withholding of consent or the exercise of discretion by some person or persons other than the Participant and, where relevant, his spouse, of an alternative form of
benefit. For purposes of this Section, Plan provisions will be considered to favor the prohibited group if the group of Employees to whom the benefit is available does not satisfy either the seventy percent test of Code section 410(b)(1) or the
non-discriminatory classification test of Code section 410(b)(2). For purposes of this Section, an alternative form of benefit encompasses the different forms of benefit payment available under the Plan which provide that (a) a Participant’s
benefits under the Plan may be paid in more than one form, or (b) payment of a particular form of benefit may commence at some time earlier or later than the normal date for the commencement of such benefit. 
  
 9.8 Payment of Expenses. 
  
 Except as provided below, all expenses incident to the administration,
termination, and protection of the Plan and Trust, including but not limited to legal, accounting, and Trustee fees, may be paid by the Employing Companies, or, in the absence of such payments (which are not obligatory), shall be paid from the Trust
Fund, and until paid, shall constitute a first and prior claim and lien against the Trust Fund. However, any and all expenses relating to settlor functions that arise from the creation, design or termination of the Plan must be paid by the Employing
Company and may not be paid by the Trust Fund. 
  
 9.9 Designation of
Beneficiaries. 
  
 A Participant may file with the Committee
or its designee a designation of a Beneficiary or Beneficiaries with respect to all or part of the assets in the Account of the Participant. The designation of Beneficiary filed with the Committee or its designee may be changed or revoked by the
Participant. All designations, changes and revocations of designations, shall be in the form prescribed by the Committee and must be received by the Committee or its designee prior to the death of the Participant. Upon the death of a Participant,
the assets in his account with respect to which such a designation is valid and enforceable shall be distributed in accordance with the Plan to the Beneficiary or Beneficiaries designated. Assets in the Participant’s account 

  

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not affected by such a written designation shall be distributed to the person or persons (share and share alike) in the first of the classes of successive
preference Beneficiaries then surviving the Participant, as follows: (i) spouse, (ii) children, (iii) parents, (iv) brothers and sisters, (v) executors or administrators. Notwithstanding the above, if a married Participant seeks to designate a
Beneficiary other than the spouse of such Participant, the designation shall not be effective unless (a) such spouse shall consent in writing to the designation, the designation designates a Beneficiary (or a form of benefits) that may not be
changed without spousal consent (or the consent of the spouse expressly permits designations by the Participant without any requirement of further spousal consent), the spouse acknowledges the effect of such designation, and such consent is
witnessed by a Plan representative or a notary public, or (b) it is established to the satisfaction of a Plan representative that the consent described in (a) may not be obtained because there is no spouse, the spouse cannot be located or other
circumstances as may be prescribed under Regulations to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. Any consent by a spouse (or establishment that consent of a spouse may not be obtained) shall be effective only with respect to such spouse.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, to the extent permitted or required by applicable law, no one may be a Beneficiary hereunder if he or she is guilty of the murder of a Participant, or the aiding or abetting, solicitation of, or
conspiracy to commit such murder. 
  
 9.10 Participant’s Annual Statement
- Audits. 
  
 There shall be furnished to each Participant at
least annually a statement that will include: 
  
 (a) the amount
of his Account, if any, invested in the then available Plan investment funds, and the Current Market Value of each such investment fund subaccount; 
  
 (b) the number of units, if any, of the L M Ericsson Stock Fund credited to his Account; and 
  
 (c) such other information as may be required by ERISA or as the Committee may from time to time consider appropriate.

  
 The accounts of the Trustee shall be audited annually by
auditors selected by the Committee. 
  
 9.11 Limitation on Contributions.

  
 (a) Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the
contrary, the maximum Annual Addition that may be made to the Account of any Participant during any Plan Year (which shall be the limitation year hereunder) shall be an amount equal to $40,000 (or such larger amount determined by the Secretary of
the Treasury for purposes of Code section 415(c)(1)(A) pursuant to Code section 415(d)) or, if less, one-hundred percent (100%) of the Participant’s Compensation from the Employing Companies and all Related Employers (as defined in Code
sections 414(b) and (c) but as modified by Code section 415(h)) for such year. 
  
 For purposes of this Section, all defined contribution plans of the Employing Companies, whether or not terminated, shall be treated as one defined contribution plan. In addition, all employers who are members of the
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Code sections 414(b) and (c), as modified by section 415(h) of the Code) as the Company shall be treated as a single employer for purposes of this Section.

  
 (b) If in any Plan Year a Participant’s Annual
Addition would exceed the maximum limitation determined under Sections 9.11(a) above (referred to as “Excess Annual Additions”) and the Participant is eligible but has not yet elected and made the maximum Catch-up Contributions pursuant to
Section 3.5 for the Plan Year, to the maximum extent possible, such Excess Annual Additions shall be recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions for the Plan Year. Any Company Matching Contributions that have been made on any Excess Annual Additions
that are recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions shall be forfeited and used to reduce future Company Matching Contributions and/or Company Cap Contributions. 
  

To the extent any Excess Annual Additions cannot be recharacterized as Catch-up Contributions, such excess shall not be allocated to the
Participant’s Account hereunder or to any accounts in any other defined contribution plan, but shall instead be handled in the following manner and order (unless applicable nondiscrimination or other rules require otherwise) until such excess
is eliminated— 
  
 (1) the
Participant’s Employee Savings Contributions or any part thereof (plus earnings thereon to the extent permitted by law) shall be refunded to the Participant; 
  
 (2) the Participant’s portion of the allocation of Company Matching Contributions or any part thereof
shall be placed in a suspense account as provided below; 
  
 (3) the Participant’s portion of the allocation of Employee CAP Contributions or any part thereof (plus earnings thereon to the extent permitted by law) shall be refunded to the Participant. 
  
 (4) the Participant’s portion of the allocation of
Company CAP Contribution s or any part thereof (plus earnings thereon to the extent permitted by law) shall be placed in a suspense account as provided below; 
  

The amounts referenced in (2) and (4) above shall be placed in a suspense account to the extent that the excess Annual Addition is caused by an
allocation of forfeitures, a reasonable error in estimating a Participant’s Eligible Salary, a reasonable error in determining the amount of Employee CAP Contributions that may be made with respect to any Participant under the limits of Code
section 415, or other limited facts and circumstances approved by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. The amounts placed in such suspense account shall be held unallocated for the limitation year (which shall be the Plan Year) in which
such excess arose, and shall be allocated and reallocated in the next following Plan Year to all Participants by way of reducing Company contributions, as more fully provided in Treasury Regulation section 1.415-6(b)(6)(iii). Such suspense account
shall share in the gains and losses of the Trust Fund on the same basis as other Accounts. The above reductions shall be applied to any other defined contribution plans first, and thereafter to this Plan. 
  

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 9.12 Mergers. 
  
 In the event of any merger or consolidation of the Plan with, or transfer in whole or in part of the assets and liabilities of the Trust to, another fund
held under any other plan of deferred compensation maintained or to be established for the benefit of all or some of the Participants in this Plan or their Beneficiaries, the assets of this Plan applicable to such Participants or their Beneficiaries
may be transferred to the other fund only if such other plan and trust are qualified under the Code, such transferee plan authorizes and accepts such transfer of assets and liabilities, and each Participant and Beneficiary would (if the other plan
then terminated) receive a benefit immediately after the merger, consolidation or transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit he would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation or transfer if this Plan had
then terminated. 
  
 9.13 Distribution. 
  
 Distributions, including withdrawals, shall be made as follows: 

 
 (a) Ericsson ADRs in full shares and in cash for any fractional share
value with respect to the number of such ADRs represented by L M Ericsson Stock Fund units allocated to the Participant’s Account, plus cash for the portion of such units not actually invested in L M Ericsson ADRs); provided, however, that the
Participant may elect to receive cash in lieu of such shares, in which case he will receive, for each such share, the actual price thereof as of the Valuation Date on which the distribution is processed (less any withholding taxes that may apply).

  
 (b) In cash with respect to investments made in the
Plan’s investment funds other than Ericsson ADRs. 
  
 9.14 Governing Law.

  
 The Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of North Carolina, except where preempted by Federal law. 
  
 9.15 Amendment of Plan. 
  
 (a) General.

  
 This Plan may be amended by the Company, acting through
its Chief Executive Officer, Board, or any other delegate, at any time and in any manner, as long as, as amended, the Plan continues to be for the exclusive benefit of Employees. However, no amendment shall reduce the Account of any Participant as
of the date of such amendment. 
  
 (b) Amendment by Committee.

  
 This Plan may also be amended by the Committee, provided
the amendment either (a) is deemed by the Committee to be required or advisable with respect to applicable law, or (b) does not materially increase the cost of the Plan to the Company. 
  

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 9.16 Termination. 
  
 (a) General. 
  
 The Company intends to continue this Plan indefinitely but reserves the right to terminate it at any time by action through its Chief Executive Officer,
Board, or any other delegate (including the Committee). Subject to Article XI, each Employing Company may also withdraw from its participation in the Plan at any time. If this Plan is completely or partially terminated, or if there is a complete
discontinuance of contributions under this Plan by the Company, then, all amounts credited to the Accounts of affected Participants shall be 100 percent vested. 
  

9.17 Employment. 
  
 This Plan shall not give any Employee or Participant any right to be continued in the employment of any Employing Company or Related Employer. 

 
 9.18 Delegation of Fiduciary or Administrative Responsibilities. 
  
 The Company and/or the Committee may at any time delegate to any other named
person or body (including a subset of the full Committee), or reassume therefrom, any of their respective fiduciary responsibilities or administrative duties with respect to this Plan, including the power to delegate and reassume such
responsibilities and duties by written action naming the person or body to whom the responsibility has been delegated. However, only the immediate delegatee of the Company or of the Committee, as the case may be, may, if so authorized by the Company
or said Committee, delegate any such responsibilities or duties. 
  
 9.19 Named
Fiduciary. 
  
 The named fiduciary with respect to this Plan
is the Company, acting by and through the Committee, except that as to any matter specified in this Plan or in the Trust Agreement as being the responsibility or function of the Trustee or the Investment Manager, the named fiduciary is such Trustee
or Investment Manager. 
  
 ARTICLE X 
  
 TOP HEAVY PLAN PROVISIONS 
  
 10.1 General. 
  
 If, as of the Determination Date, the Plan shall be a Top-Heavy Plan, as defined in Section 10.2, the provisions of this
Article X shall apply. 
  
 The Determination Date with respect to
the first Plan Year of this Plan shall be the last day of such Plan Year. For all subsequent Plan Years, the Determination Date shall be the last day of the preceding Plan Year. 
  
 10.2 Top Heavy Determination. 
  
 (a) The Plan shall be considered a Top-Heavy Plan, if, as of the Determination Date, either: 
  
 (1) the aggregate of all Account balances of Key Employees
under the Plan exceeds 60% of the aggregate of all Account balances of all Participants under the Plan excluding former Key Employees, or 
  

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 (2) the Plan is part of a Top-Heavy Group, as defined in Section 10.5. 
  
 (b) For purposes of determining whether the Top Heavy rules apply for any
Plan Year: 
  
 (1) if any individual has not
performed services for the Employing Companies at any time during the one (1) year period ending on the Determination Date, any Account Balance (and any accrued benefit) for such individual shall not be taken into account; 
  
 (2) any Account balance for a Participant who is not
currently a Key Employee, but at one time was a Key Employee, shall not be recognized for the Plan Year ending on the Determination Date; 
  
 (3) certain rollover contributions shall not be taken into account to the extent so provided in applicable Treasury Regulations; and

  
 (4) the Account balance for any Participant
shall include aggregate distributions made with respect to such Participant under the Plan during the one (1) year period ending on the Determination Date (five (5) year period for distributions made for reasons other than death, disability, or
severance from employment) including distributions made to former Key Employees excluded above, but shall not include certain trust-to-trust transfers or rollover contributions to the extent so provided in applicable Treasury Regulations.

  
 10.3 Key Employee. 
  
 “Key Employee” means a Participant in the Plan (including a
beneficiary of such Participant), with respect to the Plan Year, who at anytime during the Plan Year that includes the Determination Date is (or was): 
  
 (a) An officer of the Employer whose annual Compensation is in excess of $130,000, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases at the same time and in the
same manner as the adjustments made to Code section 416(i)(1)(A)(i) by the Secretary of the Treasury; provided, however, the maximum number of officers may not exceed (i) three (3) if the Employer has less than 30 employees, (ii) ten percent (10%)
of the Employer’s employees if the Employer employs more than 30 but less than 500 employees, or (iii) 50 if the Employer employs more than 500 employees. For purposes of determining the number of officers taken into account under this
paragraph, employees described in Code section 414(q)(8) shall be disregarded. Officers shall only include those administrative executives who regularly and continuously serve as such. Title shall not be determinative of officer status; 

 
 (b) An individual who is a 5-percent owner of the Employer within the
meaning of Code section 416(i)(1)(B)(i); or 
  
 (c) An individual
who is a 1-percent owner of the Employer within the meaning of Code section 416(i)(1)(B)(ii), and whose annual Compensation exceeds $150,000. 
  

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 For purposes of this Section, Key Employee shall include any beneficiary of such Key Employee or former
Key Employee. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything above to the contrary,
the criteria used in the determination of Key Employees shall be consistent with Code section 416(i)(l) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, which are incorporated herein by reference. 
  
 10.4 Non-Key Employee. 
  
 “Non-Key Employee” shall mean any participant who is not a Key Employee as defined herein and any Beneficiary of a
Non-Key Employee. 
  
 10.5 Top-Heavy Group. 
  
 “Top-Heavy Group” shall mean an aggregation group where the sum as
of the Determination Date of (a) the present value of the cumulative Accrued Benefits for Key Employees under any defined benefit plans included in the group, and (b) the sum of the Account balances of Key Employees under any defined contribution
plans included in the group, exceeds 60% of the same amount determined from all Participants excluding former Key Employees, under all plans included in the group. The Accrued Benefit of any Non-Key Employee shall be determined (i) under the method
which is used for accrual purposes for all plans of the Employing Company or Related Employer, or (ii) if there is no method described in (i), as if such benefit accrued not more rapidly than the slowest accrual rate permitted under Code section
411(b)(1)(C). For purposes of this section, the Determination Date means (i) the last day of the preceding Plan Year if the Plan is not included in an aggregation group, or (ii) if the Plan is included in an aggregation group, the Determination Date
as determined under (i) above that falls within the same calendar year of each other plan included in such aggregation group. 
  
 The aggregation group must include (a) each plan of the Employing Company or Related Employer in which a Key Employee participates, and (b) any other plan
on which a plan covering a Key Employee depends for qualification under the requirements of Code section 401(a)(4) and 410. 
  
 The aggregation group may also include, at the election of the Company, any plan not required to be included in an aggregation group if such group would
continue to meet the qualification requirements of Code sections 401(a)(4) and 410. If such an aggregation group is found not to be Top-Heavy, then no plan in the group shall be considered Top-Heavy. If the aggregation group is found to be
Top-Heavy, then the plan which was not required to be included would not be considered a Top-Heavy Plan solely by reason of the group being Top-Heavy. 
  
 10.6 Minimum Contribution. 
  
 If the Plan is or becomes a Top-Heavy Plan, then notwithstanding any other provisions herein other than as set forth in this Article, the minimum Company
contribution for the Plan Year for each eligible Non-Key Employee shall be three percent (3%) of such Non-Key Employee’s Compensation. For purposes of satisfying this requirement, Company Matching Contributions and Company CAP Contributions
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account, but Employee CAP Contributions and Catch-up Contributions may not be counted for this purpose. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence,
the minimum Company contribution that must be provided for any eligible Non-Key Employee for a Plan Year shall instead be the largest percentage of Compensation provided on behalf of any Key Employee for that Plan Year (including Employee CAP
Contributions) if such Key Employee percentage is less than three percent (3%). For purposes of this Section, an “eligible Non-Key Employee” is any Non-Key Employee Participant who is employed by an Employing Company on the last day of the
Plan Year, regardless of (a) whether such Non-Key Employee has completed one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service, (b) whether such Non-Key Employee has made Employee CAP Contributions, Catch-up Contributions or Employee Savings Contributions to the
Plan, or (c) the level of the Non-Key Employee’s Compensation. 
  
 In the case of a Top-Heavy Group, no minimum contribution will be required (or the minimum contribution will be reduced, as the case may be) for a Participant under this Plan for any Plan Year if the Employing Company maintains another
qualified plan under which a minimum benefit or contribution is being accrued or made for such year in whole or in part for the Participant in accordance with Code section 416(c) and the regulations thereunder. 
  
 ARTICLE XI 
  
 EMPLOYER PARTICIPATION 
  
 11.1 Adoption by Employer. 
  
 Subject to the further provisions of this Article, any Subsidiary, provided
it is a member of the same controlled group of corporations or trades or businesses under common control (as defined in Code sections 414(b) or 414(c)) as the Company, now in existence or hereafter formed or acquired, or, whether or not a member of
the same controlled group, is approved by the Company, and which is otherwise legally eligible, may, with the consent and approval of the Board or Committee, by formal resolution or decision of its own board of directors, adopt the Plan and the
trust agreement executed pursuant to the terms of the Plan (the “Trust”) and, if deemed necessary by the Company or Committee, execute an Adoption Agreement, for all or any classification of its employees. Such adoption shall be
effectuated and evidenced by a formal resolution of the Board or Committee consenting to and containing or incorporating by reference such formal resolution or decision of the adopting Subsidiary. The adoption resolution or decision shall become, as
to such adopting Subsidiary and its employees, a part of the Plan as then or subsequently amended. It shall not be necessary for the adopting Subsidiary to sign or execute the Plan document, but, if deemed necessary by the Company or Committee, such
Subsidiary must complete and execute an Adoption Agreement. The effective date of the Plan for any such adopting Subsidiary shall be that stated in the resolution or decision of adoption of the adopting Subsidiary, and from and after such effective
date, the adopting Subsidiary shall assume all the rights, obligations and liabilities of an Employing Company hereunder. The administrative powers and control of the Company, as now or hereafter provided in the Plan, including the Company’s
sole right of amendment of the Plan and Trust and of appointment and removal of the Committee and Trustee, together with their successors, shall not be diminished by reason of the participation of any such adopting Subsidiary in the Plan and Trust.

  

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 11.2 Withdrawal by Employer. 
  
 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 2.1(a) of the Plan, any Subsidiary, by action of its board of directors and notice
to the Company, Committee, and the Trustee, may withdraw from the Plan and Trust at any time without affecting other Employing Companies not withdrawing, by complying with the provisions of the Plan. A withdrawing Subsidiary may arrange for the
continuation by itself or its successor of this Plan in separate form for its own Employees with such amendments, if any, as it may deem proper, or it may arrange for continuation of the Plan by merger with an existing plan and trust qualified under
sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code and transfer of such portion of the Trust assets as the Committee determines are allocable to the Subsidiary and its employees who are Participants. The Company or Committee may, in its absolute discretion,
terminate a Subsidiary’s participation at any time when (1) the Subsidiary ceases to be a member of the Company’s controlled group of corporations or in the same group of trades or businesses under common control, (2) in the Company’s
or Committee’s judgment such Subsidiary fails or refuses to discharge its obligations under the Plan following such prior notice and opportunity to cure as may be appropriate under the circumstances, or (3) in the Company’s or
Committee’s judgment, such Subsidiary should not be allowed to continue to participate. 
  
 11.3 Adoption Contingent Upon Initial and Continued Qualification. 
  
 The adoption of the Plan and Trust by a Subsidiary as provided in Section 11.1 is made contingent and subject to the condition precedent that the adopting
Subsidiary meets all the statutory requirements for qualified plans under the Code for its Employees. The adopting Subsidiary may, or at the request of the Company or Committee shall, request an initial letter of determination from the appropriate
District Director of Internal Revenue to the effect that the Plan and Trust, as herein set forth or as amended with respect to the adopting Subsidiary, satisfy the requirements of the applicable federal statutes for tax qualification purposes for
such adopting Subsidiary and its employees. In the event the Plan or the Trust in its operation becomes disqualified for any reason as to such adopting Subsidiary and its employees, the portion of the Trust fund allocable to them shall be segregated
as soon as is administratively feasible, pending either (1) the prompt requalification of the Plan and Trust as to such Subsidiary and its employees to the satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Service, so as not to affect the continued qualified
status of the Plan and Trust as to all other Employees, or (2) as provided in Section 11.2 above, the prompt withdrawal of such Subsidiary from this Plan and Trust and a continuation by itself or its successor of a plan and a trust separately from
this Plan and Trust, or by merger with another existing qualified plan and trust with a transfer of its said segregated portion of Trust assets, or (3) the prompt termination of the Plan and Trust as to itself and its employees. 
  
 11.4 No Joint Venture Implied. 
  
 The adoption of the Plan by any Subsidiary shall not create a joint venture
or partnership relation between it and any other Employing Company. Any rights, duties, liabilities and obligations assumed or incurred hereunder by any Employing Company, or imposed upon any Employing Company by the provisions of the Plan, shall
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has executed this Plan on this
             day of                     , 2004, but to be effective, except
otherwise stated, as of September 1, 2004. 
  

			
	SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (USA) INC.
		
	 By:
	 	 
		
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