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                                                                     Exhibit 4.2

                              CONVERGYS CORPORATION

                           RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS PLAN

                               (GUST RESTATEMENT)

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SECTION 1         NAME AND PURPOSE OF PLAN..................................1

SECTION 2         GENERAL DEFINITIONS; GENDER AND NUMBER....................1

SECTION 3         CREDITED SERVICE..........................................4

SECTION 4         ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION.............................6

SECTION 5         CONTRIBUTIONS.............................................7

SECTION 6         LIMITATIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND ALLOCATIONS..............9

SECTION 7         ACCOUNTS.................................................17

SECTION 8         DISTRIBUTIONS............................................20

SECTION 9         WITHDRAWALS DURING EMPLOYMENT; LOANS; TRANSFERS..........25

SECTION 10        TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS.....................................28

SECTION 11        ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN...............................31

SECTION 12        MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS.....................................34

SECTION 13        AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION................................34

SECTION 14        MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS...............................35

SECTION 15        NON-ALIENATION OF BENEFITS...............................35

SECTION 16        MISCELLANEOUS............................................36

SECTION 17        EFFECTIVE DATES..........................................36

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                CONVERGYS CORPORATION RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS PLAN

                                    SECTION 1

                            NAME AND PURPOSE OF PLAN

         1.1 NAME. The plan set forth herein shall be known as the Convergys
Corporation Retirement and Savings Plan (the "Plan").

         1.2 PURPOSE. The Plan is designated as a plan intended to qualify as a
profit sharing plan under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the "Code").

                                    SECTION 2

                     GENERAL DEFINITIONS; GENDER AND NUMBER

         2.1 GENERAL DEFINITIONS. For purposes of the Plan, the following terms
shall have the meanings hereinafter set forth unless the context otherwise
requires:

                  2.1.1 "Affiliated Employer" means Convergys, each corporation
which is a member of a controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of
section 414(b) of the Code as modified by section 415(h) of the Code) which
includes Convergys, each trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which
is under common control (within the meaning of section 414(c) of the Code as
modified by section 415(h) of the Code) with Convergys, each member of an
affiliated service group (within the meaning of section 414(m) of the Code)
which includes Convergys and each other entity required to be aggregated with
Convergys under section 414(o) of the Code.

                  2.1.2 "Approved Absence" means an absence from active service
with an Affiliated Employer by reason of a vacation or leave of absence approved
by the Affiliated Employer, any absence from active service with an Affiliated
Employer while employment rights with the Affiliated Employer are protected by
law and any other absence from active service with an Affiliated Employer which
does not constitute a termination of employment with the Affiliated Employer
under rules adopted by the Affiliated Employer and applied in a uniform and
nondiscriminatory manner.

                  2.1.3 "Beneficiary" means the person or entity designated by a
Participant, on forms furnished and in the manner prescribed by the Committee,
to receive any benefit payable under the Plan after the Participant's death. If
a Participant fails to designate a beneficiary or if, for any reason, such
designation is not effective, his "Beneficiary" shall be his surviving spouse,
or, if none, his estate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the "Beneficiary" of a
married Participant shall be

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deemed to be his spouse unless (a) he has designated another person or entity as
his beneficiary and his spouse has consented to such designation in a written
consent which acknowledges the effect of such designation and is witnessed by a
Plan representative or notary public or (b) his spouse cannot be located.

                  2.1.4     "CMG Plan" means the Convergys CMG Retirement
Savings Plan (formerly known as the MATRIXX Marketing Inc. Profit Sharing/401(k)
Plan).

                  2.1.5    "Broadwing Shares" means common shares of Broadwing
Inc.

                  2.1.6    "Committee" means the Convergys Employee Benefits
Committee.

                  2.1.7    "Convergys" means Convergys Corporation.

                  2.1.8    "Convergys Shares" means common shares of Convergys.

                  2.1.9    "Covered Compensation" means, with respect to any
Participant, for any computation period, the total salary, hourly wages, pay in
lieu of paid time off, differential pay, company-paid short term disability pay,
commissions, team awards, bonuses and overtime paid to him by a Participating
Company during the computation period for services rendered as a Covered
Employee, plus the additional amount of such compensation that the Participating
Company would have paid to the Participant during the computation period for
services rendered as a Covered Employee if the Participant had not entered into
a cash or deferred arrangement described in section 401(k) of the Code or
elected non-taxable benefits under a cafeteria plan described in section 125 of
the Code or elected a qualified transportation fringe under Section 132 of the
Code, but excluding "spot" bonuses, referral bonuses, patent bonuses, severance
pay, relocation pay, imputed income, long term incentive payments (i.e.,
payments earned over a period longer than one year) and any other special forms
of pay and, effective October 27, 2000, hiring bonuses and retention bonuses. In
the case of a Participant on international assignment, his Covered Compensation
shall not be increased or decreased by reason of any international service
adjustments. For purposes of the Plan, an Employee's "Covered Compensation" for
any Plan Year shall not be deemed to exceed $160,000 or such greater amount as
may be permitted for such Plan Year under section 401(a)(17) of the Code.

                  2.1.10   "Covered Employee" means an Employee who is employed
by a Participating Company, subject to the following:

                           (a)      The term "Covered Employee" shall not
include a person who is classified as a job bank employee or who is a co-op or
intern.

                           (b) The term "Covered Employee" shall not include a
person who is a "leased employee" within the meaning of section 414(n) of the
Code. For purposes of the preceding

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sentence, the term "leased employee" means any person (other than an employee of
the recipient) who pursuant to an agreement between the recipient and any other
person (leasing organization) has performed services for the recipient (or for
the recipient and related persons determined in accordance with section
414(n)(6) of the Code) on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at
least one year, and such services are performed under primary direction or
control by the recipient.

                           (c) The term "Covered Employee" shall not include any
person (other than a Foreign Service Employee) who is employed at a location
which is not within one of the States of the United States or any person who is
a Rotational Employee. For purposes of this Section 2.1.10, "Foreign Service
Employee" means an Employee who is a citizen of the United States and who has
been classified by the Participating Company which employs him as a Foreign
Service Employee and "Rotational Employee" means an Employee who is a
nonresident alien employed within one of the States of the United States for a
period not expected to exceed three years.

                           (d) The term "Covered  Employee"  shall not include
an Employee of Convergys Customer Management Group Inc. who is eligible to
authorize salary deferral contributions to the CMG Plan.

                           (e) The term "Covered Employee" shall not include
any employee who is covered by a collective bargaining agreement that does not
specifically provide for coverage under the Plan.

                           (f) The term "Covered Employee" shall not include any
person who is not classified by an Affiliated Employer as a common law employee
of an Affiliated Employer even if a court or administrative agency determines
that such individual is a common law employee and not an independent contractor.

                  2.1.11 "Employee" means any person who is a common law
employee of an Affiliated Employer, including any such person who is absent from
active service with an Affiliated Employer by reason of an Approved Absence.

                  2.1.12   "Entry Date" means January 1, 1999 and the first day
of each calendar month after January 1, 1999.

                  2.1.13 "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended.

                  2.1.14 "Normal Retirement Date" means the date on which a
Participant attains age 59-1/2.

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                  2.1.15   "Participant" means a person who was a Participant in
the Plan on December 31, 1998, or who thereafter becomes a Participant in the
Plan in accordance with the provisions of Section 4, and who remains a
Participant.

                  2.1.16   "Participating Company" means Convergys, Convergys
Information Management Group Inc. and Convergys Customer Management Group Inc.

                  2.1.17   "Plan Accounts" means, collectively, all outstanding
bookkeeping accounts maintained for a Participant in accordance with the
provisions of the Plan.

                  2.1.18   "Plan Year" means the calendar year.

                  2.1.19   "Total Disability" means a physical or mental
disability which, in the opinion of a physician selected or first approved by
the Committee, disables the Participant from performing his duties as an
Employee and is expected to continue for one year or longer.

                  2. 1.20  "Trust" means the trust established in conjunction
with the Plan.

                  2.1.21   "Trustee" means the person or corporation serving as
trustee of the Trust.

                  2.1.22   "Valuation Date" means the last day of each Plan Year
and such other dates as may be selected by the Committee for the valuation of
the Trust assets.

         2.2 GENDER AND NUMBER. For purposes of the Plan, words used in any
gender shall include all other genders, words used in the singular form shall
include the plural form and words used in the plural form shall include the
singular form, as the context may require.

                                    SECTION 3

                                CREDITED SERVICE

         3.1 ELIGIBILITY SERVICE. Each Employee who has completed at least 1,000
Hours of Service during the 12-month period commencing on the day he first
performs an Hour of Service for an Affiliated Employer shall be credited with
one year of Eligibility Service as of the last day of such 12-month period. Each
Employee who fails to complete at least 1,000 Hours of Service during the
12-month period commencing on the day he first performs an Hour of Service for
an Affiliated Employer shall be credited with one year of Eligibility Service as
of the last day of the first Plan Year (commencing on or after the day he first
performs an Hour of Service for an Affiliated Employer) during which he
completes at least 1,000 Hours of Service.

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         3.2 VESTING SERVICE. Each Employee shall be credited with one year of
Vesting Service for each Plan Year during which he completes at least 1,000
Hours of Service.

         3.3 BREAK IN SERVICE. Except for service which was disregarded on
December 31, 1998 under the break in service rules of the CBIS Retirement and
Savings Plan in effect on that date, for purposes of the Plan, no years of
Eligibility Service or Vesting Service shall be disregarded because the Employee
has incurred a break in service.

         3.4 HOURS OF SERVICE. Subject to the rules contained in 29 CFR
ss.2530.200b-2(b) and (c) (which are incorporated herein by reference), an
Employee's "Hours of Service" shall be computed as follows:

                  3.4.1 One Hour of Service shall be credited for each hour for
which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of duties
for an Affiliated Employer during the applicable computation period.

                  3.4.2 One Hour of Service shall be credited for each hour for
which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, by an Affiliated Employer on
account of a period of time during which no duties are performed (irrespective
of whether the employment relationship has terminated) due to vacation, holiday,
illness, incapacity (including disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or
leave of absence. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence:

                           (a)      No more than 501 Hours of Service are
required to be credited under this Section 3.4.2 to an Employee on account of
any single continuous period during which the Employee performs no duties
(whether or not such period occurs in a single computation period);

                           (b)      An hour for which an Employee is directly
or indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, on account of a period during which
no duties are performed is not required to be credited to the Employee if such
payment is made or due under a plan maintained solely for the purpose of
complying with applicable workmen's compensation, or unemployment compensation
or disability insurance laws; and

                           (c)      Hours of Service are not required to be
credited for a payment which solely reimburses an Employee for medical or
medically related expenses incurred by the Employee.

For purposes of this Section 3.4.2, a payment shall be deemed to be made by or
due from an Affiliated Employer regardless of whether such payment is made by or
due from the Affiliated Employer directly, or indirectly through, among others,
a trust fund, or insurer, to which the Affiliated Employer contributes or pays
premiums and regardless of whether contributions made or due to the trust fund,
insurer or other entity are for the benefit of particular Employees or are on
behalf of a group of Employees in the aggregate.

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                  3.4.3 One Hour of Service shall be credited for each hour for
which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or
agreed to by an Affiliated Employer. The same hours of service shall not be
credited both under Section 3.4.1 or Section 3.4.2, as the case may be, and
under this Section 3.4.3. Crediting of Hours of Service for back pay awarded or
agreed to with respect to periods described in Section 3.4.2 shall be subject to
the limitations set forth in that Section.

         3.5 SERVICE WITH PREDECESSOR ENTITIES. For purposes of the Plan, in the
case of an employee of a Predecessor Entity who became an Employee as of the
date on which the Predecessor Entity was acquired by an Affiliated Employer
("Acquisition Date"), from and after the Acquisition Date his service with the
Predecessor Entity shall be deemed to be service with an Affiliated Employer.
For purposes of this Section 3.5, "Predecessor Entity" includes NICE
Corporation, Automated Phone Exchange Incorporated, Telephone Marketing
Services, Inc., Ameritel Corporation, Waveland Associates, Inc., ADI Research,
Inc., WATS Marketing of American, Inc., Software Support, Inc., Maritz, Inc.,
American Transtech, Inc. (ATI") and, effective July 1, 2001, Geneva Technology
Inc. In the case of an employee of Scherers Communications, Inc. ("Scherers")
who became an Employee on August 7, 1996, for purposes of the Plan, his service
with Scherers prior to August 7, 1996 shall be deemed to be service with an
Affiliated Employer. In the case of an employee of AT&T Corp. ("AT&T") who
became an Employee on March 1, 1998, for purposes of the Plan, his service with
AT&T prior to March 1, 1998 shall be deemed to be service with an Affiliated
Employer. In the case of an employee of AccuStaff Incorporated or People Systems
Inc. (collectively, "AccuStaff") who became an Employee during 1998 and who was
supporting Convergys Customer Management Group Inc. immediately prior to
becoming an Employee, for purposes of the Plan, his service with AccuStaff prior
to the date he became an Employee shall be deemed to be service with an
Affiliated Employer. Effective June 15, 1999, in the case of an employee of
Technology Applications, Inc. who became an Employee on June 15, 1999, for
purposes of the Plan, his service with Technology Applications, Inc. prior to
the date he became an Employee shall be deemed to be service with an Affiliated
Employer. In the case of an employee of Keane, Inc. ("Keane") who became an
Employee on February 9, 2001, for purposes of the Plan, his service with Keane
prior to February 9, 2001 shall be deemed to be service with an Affiliated
Employer. In the case of an employee of Geneva Technology Inc. ("Geneva") who
became an Employee of a Participating Company on July 1, 2001, for purposes of
the Plan, his service with Geneva prior to July 1, 2001 shall be deemed to be
service with an Affiliated Employer.

                                    SECTION 4

                          ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

         4.1 ELIGIBILITY. Each Employee (a) who is a Covered Employee, (b) who
has attained age 21 and (c) who has been credited with at least one year of
Eligibility Service shall be eligible to become a Participant in the Plan.
Effective January 1, 2002, the service requirement described in

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subclause (c) in the preceding sentence shall not apply in determining a
non-collectively bargained Employee's eligibility to make salary deferral
contributions to the Plan under Section 5.1 but shall continue to apply in
determining an Employee's eligibility to receive Employer Contributions under
Section 5.2 of the Plan.

         4.2 PARTICIPATION. Each Employee may elect to become a Participant in
the Plan on any Entry Date on which he satisfies the eligibility requirements of
Section 4.1 by following enrollment procedures established by the Committee.
Each Participant shall remain a Participant so long as he remains an Employee
and until his Plan Accounts have been fully distributed or forfeited.

         4.3 TRANSFERS FROM CMG PLAN. Effective January 1, 1999, each person who
was a participant in the CMG Plan on December 31, 1998 and who is not CMG Plan
Eligible on January 1, 1999 automatically shall become a Participant in this
Plan on January 1, 1999 and the amounts credited to his accounts under the CMG
Plan automatically shall be transferred to the corresponding Plan Accounts in
this Plan. If a participant in the CMG Plan becomes a Covered Employee after
January 1, 1999, he automatically shall become a Participant in this Plan on the
date he becomes a Covered Employee and the amounts credited to his accounts
under the CMG Plan automatically shall be transferred to the corresponding Plan
Accounts in this Plan. Until changed by the Participant, in accordance with the
provisions of this Plan, any beneficiary designation, investment direction and
authorization for salary deferral contributions in effect under the CMG Plan
shall continue in effect under this Plan. For purposes of the Plan, the term
"CMG Plan Eligible" means an Employee who is eligible to make 401(k)
contributions to the CMG Plan.

                                    SECTION 5

                                  CONTRIBUTIONS

         5.1 SALARY DEFERRAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Each Participant may authorize
salary deferral contributions, of up to such percentage of his Covered
Compensation as may be fixed by the Committee from time to time, pursuant to
rules prescribed by the Committee. The Committee may prescribe a lower
percentage applicable to Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees. A
Participant may change his authorization for salary deferral contributions from
one permissible percentage to another at such times as the Committee may permit
pursuant to rules prescribed by the Committee. A Participant may suspend his
authorization for salary deferral contributions at such times as the Committee
may permit pursuant to rules prescribed by the Committee. A Participant who has
suspended his authorization for salary deferral contributions may again
authorize salary deferral contributions by the Committee within the time
prescribed by the Committee. Subject to the limitations contained in Section 6,
(a) the amount of Covered Compensation otherwise payable to each Participant on
or after January 1, 1999 shall be reduced by the amount of the salary deferral
contributions authorized by the Participant with respect to such Covered
Compensation and (b) the Participating Companies shall contribute to the Plan,
for each such Participant, an amount equal to

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the amount by which his Covered Compensation has been reduced. Salary deferral
contributions under this Section 5.1 shall be made in cash.

         5.2 EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS. For Plan Years beginning after December 31,
1998 and, with respect to eligible Participants, other than collectively
bargained employees, before January 1, 2002, the Participating Companies shall
contribute to the Plan, for each Participant who authorized salary deferral
contributions under Section 5.1 for a pay period, an amount equal to the lesser
of (a) 4% of the Participant's Covered Compensation with respect to which salary
deferral contributions were authorized for the pay period or (b) 66-2/3% of the
amount of the salary deferral contributions made with respect to such Covered
Compensation under Section 5.1 for the pay period, subject to the limitations
contained in Section 6. Effective January 1, 2002, the Participating Companies
shall contribute to the Plan for each eligible Participant who (a) has satisfied
the eligibility requirements for Employer Contributions under Sections 4.1 and
4.2, (b) who is not a collectively bargained employee and (c) who authorized
salary deferral contributions under Section 5.1 for a pay period, an amount
equal to the sum of 100% of the first three percent of Covered Compensation with
respect to which salary deferral contributions were authorized for the pay
period and 50% of the next 2% of Covered Compensation with respect to which
salary deferral contributions were authorized for the pay period. The
Participating Companies' contributions under this Section 5.2 may be made in
cash or Convergys Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of a
distribution of a Participant's salary deferral contributions under Section 6.2,
any Participating Company contributions (and earnings thereon) under this
Section 5.2 which are attributable to such distributed contributions also shall
be distributed to the Participant at the same time; provided, however, that if
such Participating Company contributions (and earnings thereon) would have been
subject to forfeiture if the Participant had ceased to be an Employee, such
contributions and earnings shall not be distributed but shall be forfeited.

         5.3 ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS. With the consent of the Committee, a
Covered Employee may make a rollover contribution to the Trust as described in
section 401(a)(5), 403(a)(4) or 408(d)(3) of the Code; provided that no Covered
Employee may roll over any amounts which were previously deducted by him under
section 219 of the Code. Any rollover contribution must be made in cash or
Convergys Shares or Broadwing Shares. A Covered Employee who makes a rollover
contribution under this Section 5.3 prior to becoming a Participant shall
thereupon become a Participant, provided that such Participant may not authorize
contributions under Section 5.1 or share in Participating Company contributions
under Section 5.2 prior to the date on which his participation otherwise could
have commenced under Section 4.2.

         5.4 MISTAKE OF FACT; DISALLOWANCE OF DEDUCTION. Any contribution made
by a Participating Company by reason of a mistake of fact or conditioned on its
deductibility under section 404 of the Code, to the extent disallowed, shall be
repaid to the Participating Company, at the Participating Company's election,
provided that such repayment is made within one year after the mistaken payment
of the contribution or within one year of the disallowance of the deduction.
Earnings attributable to such contributions may not be paid to the Participating
Company, but any

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losses attributable thereto shall reduce the amount which may be repaid. All
Participating Company contributions shall be conditioned on their deductibility
under section 404 of the Code.

         5.5 APPLICATION OF FORFEITURES. Any forfeitures arising under the Plan
in any Plan Year shall be applied first, to make any restorals called for under
Section 8.5 and second, to reduce the contributions otherwise required of the
Participating Companies.

                                    SECTION 6

                  LIMITATIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND ALLOCATIONS

         6.1 SECTION 404 LIMITATIONS. In no event shall the Participating
Companies' contributions to the Plan for any Plan Year under Sections 5.1 and
5.2 exceed the limitation described in Section 404 of the Code. If the
Companies' total contributions for any Plan Year could exceed the limitation
described in the preceding sentence, the following adjustments shall be made in
the following order so that such limitations are not exceeded: first, the
amounts to be contributed under Section 5.2 shall be reduced proportionately;
and, second, the amounts to be contributed under Section 5.1 shall be reduced
proportionately.

         6.2 SECTION 401(k) LIMITATIONS. If for any Plan Year the Participating
Companies' contributions under Section 5.1 on behalf of those Participants who
are Highly Compensated Employees exceed the limitations contained in Sections
6.2.1 and 6.2.2, the contributions on behalf of such Participants (together with
the earnings thereon) shall be distributed to such Participants prior to the end
of the following Plan Year in accordance with the provisions of this Section
6.2.

                  6.2.1 The Average Deferral Percentage for those Eligible
Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees must not be more than the Average
Deferral Percentage of all other Eligible Employees multiplied by 1.25.

                  6.2.2 The excess of the Average Deferral Percentage for those
Eligible Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees over the Average
Deferral Percentage of all other Eligible Employees must not be more than two
percentage points and the Average Deferral Percentage for those Eligible
Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees must not be more than the Average
Deferral Percentage of all other Eligible Employees multiplied by two.

         In the event the foregoing limitations are exceeded in any Plan Year,
the dollar amount of the excess shall be determined by reducing the dollar
amount of the contributions included in determining the Average Deferral
Percentage of Highly Compensated Employees in order of their Individual Deferral
Percentages as follows:

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         (a)      The highest Individual Deferral Percentage shall be reduced to
                  the greater of (1) the maximum Individual Deferral Percentage
                  that satisfies the limitation on contributions made under
                  Section 5.1 described in this Section 6.2 or (2) the next
                  highest Individual Deferral Percentage.

         (b)      If the limitation on contributions made under Section 5.1
                  described in this Section 6.2 would still be exceeded after
                  application of the provisions of paragraph (a), the Individual
                  Deferral Percentages of Highly Compensated Employees shall
                  continue to be reduced, continuing with the next highest
                  Individual Deferral Percentage in the manner provided in
                  paragraph (a) until the limitation on contributions made under
                  Section 5.1 described in this Section 6.2 is satisfied.

         After determining the dollar amount of the excess pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, such excess shall be allocated among Highly Compensated
Employees in order of the dollar amount of the contributions made under Section
5.1 as follows:

         (c)      The salary deferral contributions made on behalf of the Highly
                  Compensated Employee(s) with the largest dollar amount of
                  salary deferral contributions allocated to his Salary Deferral
                  Account for the Plan Year shall be reduced by the dollar
                  amount of the excess (with such dollar amount being allocated
                  equally among all such Highly Compensated Employee(s)), but
                  not below the dollar amount of such contributions made on
                  behalf of the Highly Compensated Employee(s) with the next
                  highest dollar amount of such contributions allocated to his
                  Salary Deferral Account for the Plan Year.

         (d)      If the excess has not been fully allocated after application
                  of the provisions of paragraph (c), the contributions made on
                  behalf of Highly Compensated Employee(s) shall continue to be
                  reduced, continuing with the Highly Compensated Employee(s)
                  with the largest remaining dollar amount of such contributions
                  allocated to their Salary Deferral Accounts for the Plan Year,
                  in the manner provided in paragraph (c) until the entire
                  excess determined above has been allocated.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the election of Convergys, in lieu of
making distributions of excess contributions to those Participants who are
Highly Compensated Employees, the Participating Companies may make special
contributions on behalf of those Participants who are not Highly Compensated
Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy the limitations of Section 6.2.1 or
6.2.2. Such special contributions shall be allocated among the Salary Deferral
Accounts of those Participants who are entitled to share in the Participating
Companies' contributions under Section 5.1 for the Plan Year and who are not
Highly Compensated Employees in the proportion that each such Participant's
salary deferral contributions under Section 5.1 for the Plan Year bear to all
such Participants' salary deferral contributions under Section 5.1 for the Plan
Year.

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         For purposes of the Plan, (a) the "Average Deferral Percentage" for a
specified group of Eligible Employees shall be the average of such Eligible
Employees' Individual Deferral Percentages and (b) "Individual Deferral
Percentage" means, with respect to any Eligible Employee for any Plan Year, the
ratio of the salary deferral contributions paid to the Plan for the Eligible
Employee under Section 5.1 to the Eligible Employee's Compensation for such Plan
Year. For purposes of determining the Individual Deferral Percentage of an
Eligible Employee who is a Highly Compensated Employee, this Plan and all other
401(k) plans maintained by any Affiliated Employer in which the Eligible
Employee is eligible to participate shall be treated as a single plan. In the
event this Plan must be combined with one or more plans (other than an employee
stock ownership plan described in section 4975(e)(7) of the Code) in order to
satisfy the requirements of section 401(a)(4) or 410(b) of the Code (other than
the average benefits test described in section 410(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Code),
then all cash or deferred arrangements that are included in such plans shall be
treated as a single arrangement for purposes of section 401(k) of the Code.

         6.3 SECTION 401(m) LIMITATIONS. If for any Plan Year the total
contributions under Section 5.2 on behalf of those Participants who are Highly
Compensated Employees exceed the limitations contained in Sections 6.3.1 and
6.3.2, the contributions on behalf of such Participants under Section 5.2
(together with the earnings thereon) shall be distributed to such Participants
prior to the end of the following Plan Year in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 6.3.

                  6.3.1 The Average Contribution Percentage for those Eligible
Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees must be not more than the Average
Contribution Percentage of all other Eligible Employees multiplied by 1.25.

                  6.3.2 The excess of the Average Contribution Percentage for
those Eligible Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees over the Average
Contribution Percentage of all other Eligible Employees must not be more than
two percentage points and the Average Contribution Percentage for those Eligible
Employees who are Highly Compensated Employees must not be more than the Average
Contribution Percentage of all other Eligible Employees multiplied by two.

         In the event the foregoing limitations are exceeded in any Plan Year,
the dollar amount of the excess shall be determined by reducing the dollar
amount of the contributions included in determining the Average Contribution
Percentage of Highly Compensated Employees in order of their Individual
Contribution Percentages as follows:

         (a)      The highest Individual Contribution Percentage shall be
                  reduced to the greater of (1) the maximum Individual
                  Contribution Percentage that satisfies the limitation on
                  contributions made under Section 5.2 described in this Section
                  6.3 or (2) the next highest Individual Contribution
                  Percentage.

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         (b)      If the limitation on contributions made under Section 5.2
                  described in this Section 6.3 would still be exceeded after
                  application of the provisions of paragraph (a), the Individual
                  Contribution Percentages of Highly Compensated Employees shall
                  continue to be reduced, continuing with the next highest
                  Individual Contribution Percentage in the manner provided in
                  paragraph (a) until the limitation on contributions made under
                  Section 5.2 described in this Section 6.3 is satisfied.

         After determining the dollar amount of the excess pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, such excess shall be allocated among Highly Compensated
Employees in order of the dollar amount of the contributions made under Section
5.2 as follows:

         (c)      The employer contributions made on behalf of the Highly
                  Compensated Employee(s) with the largest dollar amount of
                  employer contributions allocated to his Employer Contribution
                  Account for the Plan Year shall be reduced by the dollar
                  amount of the excess (with such dollar amount being allocated
                  equally among all such Highly Compensated Employee(s)), but
                  not below the dollar amount of such contributions made on
                  behalf of the Highly Compensated Employee(s) with the next
                  highest dollar amount of such contributions allocated to his
                  Employer Contribution Account for the Plan Year.

         (d)      If the excess has not been fully allocated after application
                  of the provisions of paragraph (c), the contributions made on
                  behalf of Highly Compensated Employee(s) shall continue to be
                  reduced, continuing with the Highly Compensated Employee(s)
                  with the largest remaining dollar amount of such contributions
                  allocated to their Employer Contribution Accounts for the Plan
                  Year, in the manner provided in paragraph (c) until the entire
                  excess determined above has been allocated.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the election of Convergys, in lieu of
making distributions to those Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees,
the Participating Companies may make special contributions on behalf of those
Participants who are not Highly Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to
satisfy the limitations of Section 6.3.1 or 6.3.2. Such special contributions
shall be allocated among the Employer Contribution Accounts of those
Participants who are entitled to share in the Participating Companies'
contributions under Section 5.1 for the Plan Year and who are not Highly
Compensated Employees in the proportion that each such Participant's salary
deferral contributions under Section 5.1 for the Plan Year bear to all such
Participants' salary deferral contributions under Section 5.1 for the Plan Year.
That portion of any Employer Contribution Account which is attributed to special
contributions under this Section 6.3 shall at all times be fully vested and
non-forfeitable.

         For purposes of the Plan, (a) the "Average Contribution Percentage" for
a specified group of Eligible Employees, grouped by Compensation, shall be the
average of such Eligible Employees' Individual Contribution Percentages and (b)
"Individual Contribution Percentage" means, with respect to any Eligible
Employee for any Plan Year, the ratio of the contributions paid to the Plan on

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behalf of the Eligible Employee under Section 5.2 to the Eligible Employee's
Compensation for such Plan Year. The Average Contribution Percentage for any
Highly Compensated Employee for any Plan Year who is eligible to have matching
employer contributions made on his behalf or to make after-tax contributions
under one or more plans described in section 401(a) of the Code (other than an
employee stock ownership plan described in section 4975(e)(7) of the Code)
maintained by any Affiliated Employer in addition to this Plan shall be
determined as if all such contributions were made to this Plan. In the event
that this Plan must be combined with one or more other plans (other than an
employee stock ownership plan described in section 4975(e)(7) of the Code) in
order to satisfy the requirements of section 401(a) or 410(b) of the Code (other
than the average benefits test described in section 410(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the
Code), all employee and matching contributions shall be treated as made under a
single plan for purposes of section 401(m) of the Code. At the discretion of the
Committee, contributions under Section 5.1 shall be deemed to be contributions
under Section 5.2 for purposes of applying the limitations contained in this
Section.

         6.4 SECTION 401(m) ALTERNATE LIMITATIONS. The alternate limitations set
forth in this Section 6.4 shall apply if, for any Plan Year, the total
contributions under Section 5.1 on behalf of those Participants who are Highly
Compensated Employees exceed the limitation contained in Section 6.2.1 and the
total contributions under Section 5.2 by or on behalf of those Participants who
are Highly Compensated Employees exceed the limitation contained in Section
6.3.1. If for any Plan Year the total contributions under Sections 5.1 and 5.2
by or on behalf of those Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees
exceed both the limitation contained in Section 6.4.1 and the limitation
contained in Section 6.4.2, to the extent necessary to insure that the sum of
such limitations will not be exceeded, the contributions made on behalf of such
Participants under Section 5.2 (and earnings thereon) shall be distributed to
such Participants prior to the end of the following Plan Year in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.3 governing the determination of the amount of
excess contributions and the order of distribution of such excess contributions.

                  6.4.1 The sum of (a) 125% of the lesser of (i) the Average
Deferral Percentage of those Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated
Employees or (ii) the Average Contribution Percentage of such Eligible
Employees; plus (b) the lesser of (i) 2% plus the greater of the amounts
determined under clause (a) of this Section 6.4.1 or (ii) 200% of the greater of
the amounts determined under clause (a) of this Section 6.4.1.

                  6.4.2 The sum of (a) 125% of the greater of (i) the Average
Deferral Percentage of those Eligible Employees who are not Highly Compensated
Employees or (ii) the Average Contribution Percentage of such Eligible
Employees; plus (b) the lesser of (i) 2% plus the lesser of the amounts
determined under clause (a) of this Section 6.4.2 or (ii) 200% of the lesser of
the amounts determined under clause (a) of this Section 6.4.2.

At the discretion of the Committee, contributions under Section 5.1 shall be
deemed to be contributions under Section 5.2 for purposes of applying the
limitations contained in this Section.

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         6.5 MAXIMUM ANNUAL ADDITIONS. The total Annual Additions allocable to a
Participant's Plan Accounts for any Plan Year shall be limited in accordance
with the following provisions:

                  6.5.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the
contrary, in no event shall a Participant's Annual Additions for any Plan Year
exceed the lesser of (a) $30,000 (or such larger amount as may be determined by
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Plan Years beginning on or after
January 1, 1999) or (b) 25% of his Compensation for such Plan Year.

                  6.5.2 If for any Plan Year, as a result of reasonable error in
estimating a Participant's Compensation or other facts and circumstances
approved by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a Participant's Annual
Additions could exceed the limitations set forth in Section 6.5.1, the following
adjustments shall be made in the following order to the extent necessary to
insure such limitations will not be exceeded: first, the Participating
Companies' contributions for the Plan Year on behalf of the Participant under
Section 5.2 shall be allocated to a suspense account under Section 6.5.3; and
second, the Participating Companies' contributions for the Plan Year on behalf
of the Participant under Section 5.1 shall be allocated to a suspense account
under Section 6.5.3.

                  6.5.3 That portion of the Participating Companies'
contributions for a Plan Year which is allocated to a suspense account under
Section 6.5.2 shall be applied to reduce the contributions otherwise required of
the Participating Companies in the first Plan Year in which they can be applied
without exceeding the limitations of Section 6.5.1. The suspense account shall
not share in the income, expenses, profits or losses of the Trust. The
Participating Companies shall not contribute any amount to the Trust which
results in additional amounts being credited to the suspense account. If the
Plan is terminated, any amount credited to the suspense account which cannot be
allocated to the Participants' Plan Accounts shall be paid to the Participating
Companies.

                  6.5.4 For purposes hereof, "Annual Additions" means, with
respect to any Participant, the sum of all Participating Company and Participant
contributions (other than rollover contributions) and forfeitures allocated to
his accounts for a Plan Year under this Plan and all other defined contribution
plans maintained by any Affiliated Employer. If a Participant in this Plan is a
participant in one or more other defined contribution plans, the limitations
contained in this Section 6.5 shall be applied to reduce the annual additions
which otherwise would have been credited to his accounts in this Plan and such
other plans, beginning with the most current annual additions.

         6.6 HIGHLY COMPENSATED EMPLOYEE. For purposes of the Plan, "Highly
Compensated Employee" means an Employee (a) who, during the Plan Year for which
the determination is being made or the preceding Plan Year, was at any time a
5-percent owner (as defined in section 416(i)(1) of the Code) of any Affiliated
Employer; or (b) who, during the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year for which the
determination is being made, received Compensation in excess of $80,000 (as
adjusted pursuant to section 414(q)(1) of the Code). For purposes of this
Section 6.6, a former Employee shall be deemed to be a Highly Compensated
Employee with respect to a Plan Year if

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such former Employee separated from service (or was deemed to have separated)
prior to the Plan Year, performed no services for an Affiliated Employer during
the Plan Year and was a Highly Compensated Employee actively employed by an
Affiliated Employer for either the Plan Year in which he separated or any Plan
Year ending on or after the Employee's 55th birthday.

         6.7 COMPENSATION. For purposes of this Section 6 "Compensation" means
an Employee's earned income, wages, salaries, and fees for professional services
and other amounts received for personal services actually rendered in the course
of employment with an Affiliated Employer (including, but not limited to,
commissions paid salesmen, compensation for services on the basis of a
percentage of profits, commissions on insurance premiums, tips and bonuses), but
excluding the following: (a) contributions by an Affiliated Employer to a plan
of deferred compensation which are not includable in the Employee's gross income
for the taxable year in which contributed, or contributions by an Affiliated
Employer under a simplified employee pension plan to the extent such
contributions are deductible by the Employee, or any distributions from a plan
of deferred compensation; (b) amounts realized from the exercise of a
non-qualified stock option, or when restricted stock (or property) held by the
Employee either becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a
substantial risk of forfeiture; (c) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or
other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and (d)
other amounts which received special tax benefits.

                  6.7.1 For purposes of Sections 6.1 and 6.5, an Employee's
Compensation for a Plan Year is the Compensation actually paid or includable in
gross income during such Plan Year.

                  6.7.2 For purposes of Section 6, an Employee's Compensation
for a Plan Year is the Compensation actually paid or includable in gross income
during such Plan Year plus the Compensation which would have been paid or
includable in gross income during such Plan Year but for sections 125, 132,
402(a)(8) and 402(h)(1)(B) of the Code.

                  6.7.3 For purposes of the Plan, an Employee's compensation for
any Plan Year shall not be deemed to exceed $160,000 or such greater amount as
may be permitted for such Plan Year under section 401(a)(17) of the Code.

                  6.7.4 For purposes of applying the limitations contained in
Sections 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4, an Employee's Compensation shall not include amounts
paid prior to the date on which he first becomes a Participant.

         6.8 SECTION 402(g) LIMITATION. Notwithstanding any other provision of
the Plan, in no event shall the amount of a Participant's Elective Deferrals
during any Plan Year under this Plan and all other plans, contracts or
arrangements maintained by any Affiliated Employer exceed the amount of the
limitation in effect under Section 402(g)(1) of the Code for such Plan Year. If
a Participant has Excess Deferrals for any Plan Year, and if the Participant so
elects, the Excess Deferrals (plus any earnings and minus any losses allocable
thereto) shall be distributed to the

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Participant from his Salary Deferral Account no later than April 15 following
the Plan Year for which the Excess Deferrals were made. Any election under this
Section 6.8 shall be in writing, shall be filed with the Committee no later than
March 1 following the Plan Year for which the Excess Deferrals were made, shall
specify the amount of the Excess Deferrals for the Plan Year and shall include
the Participant's statement that if such Excess Deferrals are not distributed,
the sum of the Excess Deferrals plus amounts deferred by the Participant for the
Plan Year under sections 401(k), 408(k) and 403(b) of the Code will exceed the
limits imposed by section 402(g) of the Code. For purposes of the Plan (a)
"Elective Deferrals" means the amounts deferred by the Participant for the Plan
Year under sections 401(k), 408(k) and 403(b) of the Code, and (b) "Excess
Deferrals" means that portion of a Participant's Elective Deferrals for a Plan
Year in excess of the limits imposed by section 402(g) of the Code.

         If the salary deferral contributions made on behalf of a Participant
under Section 5.1 would exceed the Code Section 402(g) limit for the calendar
year, the salary deferral contributions for such Participant shall be
automatically suspended for the remainder, if any, of the calendar year. If the
salary deferral contributions made under Section 5.1 by a Participant
nevertheless exceed the Code Section 402(g) limit for the calendar year, the
salary deferral contributions that exceed the Code Section 402(g) limit (plus
any income and minus any losses thereto) shall be distributed to the Participant
no later than the April 15th immediately following such calendar year. Any
salary deferral contributions that are distributed to a Participant in
accordance with this section shall not be taken into account in determining the
Participant's Average Deferral Percentage for the Plan Year in which the salary
deferral contributions were made, unless the participant is a Highly Compensated
Employee.

         If an amount of salary deferral contributions is distributed to a
Participant in accordance with this paragraph, contributions made under Section
5.2 that are attributable to the distributed salary deferral contributions (plus
any income and minus any losses allocable thereto) shall be forfeited.

         6.9 ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE. For purposes of Sections 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4,
"Eligible Employee" means, with respect to any Plan Year, a Covered Employee who
is eligible to authorize salary deferral contributions under Section 5.1 during
the Plan Year.

         6.10 SAFE HARBOR. Effective January 1, 2002, the Plan shall be deemed
to have satisfied the limitations on salary deferral contributions of Highly
Compensated Employees described in Section 6.2 and the limitations on employer
contributions of Highly Compensated Employees described in Section 6.3.

         For each Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 2002, the Employer
shall provide each eligible employee with a notice describing (i) the formula
used for determining safe harbor matching contributions; (ii) any other employer
contributions available under the Plan and the requirements that must be
satisfied to receive an allocation of such employer contributions; (iii) the
type and amount of compensation that may be deferred under the Plan as salary
deferral contributions; (iv)

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how to make a cash or deferred election under the Plan and the periods in which
such elections may be made or changed; and (v) the withdrawal and vesting
provisions applicable to contributions under the Plan. The descriptions
requirement in items (ii) through (v) may be provided by cross references to the
relevant section(s) of an up to date summary plan description.

         The notice shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by
the average eligible employee. Such notice shall be provided within one of the
following periods, whichever is applicable:

(a)      for an employee who is an eligible employee, 90 days before the
         beginning of the Plan Year, within the period beginning 90 days and
         ending 30 days before the beginning of the Plan Year, or

(b)      for any employee who becomes an eligible employee after that date,
         within the period beginning 90 days before the date he becomes an
         eligible employee and ending on the date such employee becomes an
         eligible employee.

         Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, an
eligible employee shall have a reasonable period (not fewer than 30 days)
following receipt of such notice in which to make or amend his salary deferral
contribution election.

         6.11 MILITARY SERVICE. Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to
the contrary, contributions, benefits and service credit with respect to
qualified military service will be provided in accordance with section 414(u) of
the Code.

                                    SECTION 7

                                    ACCOUNTS

         7.1 SALARY DEFERRAL ACCOUNTS. A separate bookkeeping Salary Deferral
Account shall be established and maintained for each Participant which shall
reflect the salary deferral contributions properly allocable to the Participant
under the Plan and the investment thereof. The salary deferral contributions
paid to the Trustee on behalf of a Participant shall be allocated to the
Participant's Salary Deferral Account as soon as administratively practicable
following the date they are received by the Trustee. Each Participant's Salary
Deferral Account shall at all times be fully vested and nonforfeitable. Amounts
allocated to a Participant's Salary Deferral Account shall be invested among
such types of investments as may be permitted by the Committee in accordance
with the investment election(s) made by the Participant.

         7.2 EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION ACCOUNTS. A separate bookkeeping Employer
Contribution Account shall be established and maintained for each Participant
which shall reflect the

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Participating Company contributions properly allocable to the Participant under
the Plan and the investment thereof. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan,
at any relevant time prior to his Normal Retirement Date, the vested and
forfeitable percentages of a Participant's Employer Contribution Account shall
be determined from the following schedule, based upon his full years of Vesting
Service:

VESTING SERVICE           VESTED PERCENTAGE         FORFEITABLE PERCENTAGE

Less than 3 years                 0%                         100%
3 or more years                  100%                         0%

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) in the case of a Participant whose Plan
Accounts include a Retirement Savings Plan Account or a Savings and Security
Plan Account, that portion of his Employer Contribution Account which is
attributable to Company contributions made in Plan Years prior to the current
Plan Year and the two immediately preceding Plan Years shall at all times be
fully vested and nonforfeitable Shares; (b) in the case of a Participant who was
a participant in the CBIS Retirement and Savings Plan on December 31, 1998, his
Employer Contribution Account shall at all times be fully vested and
nonforfeitable; (c) that portion of a Participant's Plan Account attributable to
matching contributions transferred from the Geneva Technology Inc. 401(k) Plan
shall at all times be fully vested and nonforfeitable; and (d) effective January
1, 2002, in the case of a Participant who is not a collectively bargained
employee and who was employed by an Affiliated Employer on January 1, 2002, his
Employer Contribution Account shall at all times be fully vested and
nonforfeitable. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.2, amounts
allocated to a Participant's Employer Contribution Account shall be invested in
Convergys Shares.

                  7.2.1 Effective January 1, 1999, an Eligible Participant may
invest his entire Employer Contribution Account in any of the types of
investments permitted by the Committee. For purposes of the preceding sentence,
"Eligible Participant" means a Participant (a) who has been credited with at
least ten years of Vesting Service or (b) who has attained age 45 and has been
credited with at least five years of Vesting Service.

7.2.2 That portion of a Participant's Employer Contribution Account which is
invested in Broadwing Shares on January 1, 1999 may continue to be invested in
Broadwing Shares or in any of the other types of investments (including
Convergys Shares) permitted by the Committee.

                  7.2.3 For purposes of Section 7.2.1, (a) "Eligible
Participant" means a Participant (i) who has at least ten years of Vesting
Service, or (ii) who has attained age 45 and has at least five years of Vesting
Service, and (b) "Eligibility Period" means, with respect to any Eligible
Participant, the five-consecutive Plan Year period commencing on the later of
January 1, 1993 or the January 1 on which he first became an Eligible
Participant.

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                  7.2.4 Notwithstanding the foregoing, that portion of a
Participant's Employer Contribution Account which is invested in Broadwing
Shares on January 1, 1999 may continue to be invested in Broadwing Shares or in
any of the other types of investments (including Convergys Shares) permitted by
the Committee, and such portion shall not be counted for purposes of determining
the "Restricted" and "Unrestricted" portions of his Employer Contribution
Account under Section 7.2.2.

                  7.2.5 Effective January 1, 2002, a Participant who is not a
collectively bargained employee, regardless of whether or not he is an Eligible
Participant, may elect to exchange the investment of all or any portion of his
Employer Contribution Account from Convergys Shares to one or more of the other
types of investments permitted by the Committee.

         7.3 ROLLOVER ACCOUNTS. A separate bookkeeping Rollover Account shall be
established and maintained for each Participant who makes rollover contributions
which shall reflect such contributions and the investment thereof. Each
Participant's rollover contributions to the Trust shall be allocated to his
Rollover Account as soon as administratively practicable following the date they
are received by the Trustee. Each Participant's Rollover Account shall at all
times be fully vested and nonforfeitable. Amounts allocated to a Participant's
Rollover Account shall be invested in such types of investments as may be
permitted by the Committee in accordance with the investment election(s) made by
the Participant.

         7.4 VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION ACCOUNTS. A separate bookkeeping Voluntary
Contribution Account shall be established and maintained for each Participant
which shall reflect the voluntary post-tax contributions made by the Participant
under the Plan prior to January 1, 1999 and the investment thereof. Each
Participant's Voluntary Contribution Account shall at all times be fully vested
and non-forfeitable. Amounts allocated to a Participant's Voluntary Contribution
Account shall be invested in such types of investments as may be permitted by
the Committee in accordance with the investment election(s) made by the
Participant.

         7.5 VOTING CONVERGYS SHARES. Before each annual or special meeting of
the shareholders of Convergys, the Trustee shall cause to be sent to each
Participant a copy of the proxy solicitation material therefore, together with a
form requesting confidential instructions to the Trustee on how to vote the
number of Convergys Shares credited to the Participant's Plan Accounts. Upon
receipt of such instructions, the Trustee shall vote the Convergys Shares as
instructed. Instructions received by the Trustee from individual Participants
shall be held in the strictest confidence and shall not be divulged or revealed
to any person, including officers or employees of any Affiliated Employer. The
Trustee shall vote any Convergys Shares for which voting instructions have not
been received in the proportions that it votes the Convergys Shares for which
voting instructions have been received.

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         7.6 VALUATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS. The Trustee shall value the Trust
assets at their fair market value as of each Valuation Date. Based upon the
results of such valuation, each outstanding Plan Account shall be adjusted to
reflect the increase or decrease thereof, and any applicable contributions,
withdrawals, distributions or forfeitures, since the preceding Valuation Date.

         7.7 CONSOLIDATION OF PLAN ACCOUNTS. Except to the extent necessary to
accurately reflect the withdrawal, distribution and investment rights and vested
status of a Participant's Plan Accounts, the Committee may consolidate two or
more of a Participant's Plan Accounts or portions thereof.

                                  SECTION 8

                                DISTRIBUTIONS

         8.1 GENERAL. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 8 and Section
9, no amount shall be distributed or withdrawn with respect to a Participant's
Plan Accounts while he remains an Employee.

         8.2 NORMAL RETIREMENT. If a Participant is employed as an Employee on
or after his Normal Retirement Date, his Plan Accounts shall be fully vested and
nonforfeitable. If a Participant ceases to be an Employee on or after his Normal
Retirement Date for any reason other than his death, the Participant's Plan
Accounts may be distributed to him as soon as administratively practicable
following the date on which he ceases to be an Employee. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Plan Accounts of a Participant who is a 5% owner (as defined in
section 416(i)(1) of the Code) of an Affiliated Employer and who remains in
employment shall be distributed as of the last Valuation Date of the Plan Year
in which he attains age 70-1/2 and any assets allocated to the Participant's
Plan Accounts during any subsequent Plan Year shall be distributed as of the
last Valuation Date of such subsequent Plan Year.

         8.3 DISABILITY RETIREMENT. A Participant's Plan Accounts shall be fully
vested and nonforfeitable if he ceases to be an Employee prior to his Normal
Retirement Date by reason of a Total Disability. Subject to Section 8.7, if a
Participant ceases to be an Employee prior to his Normal Retirement Date by
reason of a Total Disability, the Participant's Plan Accounts may be distributed
to him as soon as administratively practicable following the date on which the
Participant ceases to be an Employee.

         8.4 DEATH DURING EMPLOYMENT. A Participant's Plan Accounts shall be
fully vested and nonforfeitable if he dies while an Employee. If a Participant
ceases to be an Employee by reason of his death, the Participant's Plan Accounts
shall be distributed to his Beneficiary in one lump sum as soon as
administratively practicable following the date on which the Participant's death
occurs.

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         8.5 OTHER TERMINATIONS. Subject to Section 8.6, if a Participant ceases
to be an Employee for any reason other than his death or Total Disability, the
vested portion of his Plan Accounts may be distributed to him, and the
forfeitable portions of his Plan Accounts, if any, forfeited as soon as
administratively practicable following the date on which he ceases to be an
Employee.

                  8.5.1 If distribution of the vested portion of the
Participant's Plan Accounts is deferred under Section 8.6, the forfeitable
portions of his Plan Accounts shall not be forfeited until the earlier of (1)
the date on which the vested portion of his Plan Accounts is distributed and (b)
the date on which he incurs a five year Break in Service (from the date on which
he ceased to be an Employee).

                  8.5.2 The amount forfeited with respect to his Plan Accounts
shall be restored if the Participant is reemployed as a Covered Employee prior
to incurring a Five Year Break in Service (from the date on which he ceased to
be an Employee) and if he repays to the Trust the amounts previously distributed
to him from his Plan Accounts, provided that such repayment must be made before
the Participant incurs a Five Year Break in Service (from the date on which such
forfeiture occurred).

                  8.5.3 Restorals under this Section 8.5 shall be made first
from any forfeitures arising in the Plan Year in which the restoral is made and
second from additional Company contributions. Amounts repaid or restored to the
Plan shall be credited to new Plan Accounts, in the name of the Participant, of
the same types as the Plan Accounts from which distributions and forfeitures
were made.

         8.6 DEFERRED DISTRIBUTIONS. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof
to the contrary, if the value of the vested portion of a Participant's Plan
Accounts is in excess of $5,000, distribution of such vested portion shall not
be made before the Participant attains age 70 1/2 without the Participant's
consent. If the Participant dies after ceasing to be an Employee but prior to
the date on which the vested portion of his Plan Accounts has been distributed,
the vested portion of his Plan Accounts shall be distributed to his Beneficiary
in one lump sum as soon as administratively practicable following the date on
which the Participant's death occurs. If a distribution is one to which sections
401(a)(11) and 417 of the Code do not apply, such distribution may commence less
than 30 days after the notice required under section 1.411(a)-11(c) of the
Income Tax Regulations 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.

         8.7 REEMPLOYMENT. If a Participant who ceased to be an Employee is
reemployed as an Employee prior to the date as of which his Plan Accounts are to
be distributed or forfeited, his Plan Accounts shall not be distributed or
forfeited by reason of such cessation of employment.

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         8.8 FORM OF DISTRIBUTION. To the extent that a Plan Account is invested
in investments other than Convergys Shares or Broadwing Shares or distributions
from that Plan Account shall be in cash. To the extent that a Plan Account is
invested in Convergys Shares or Broadwing Shares, distributions with respect to
that Plan Account shall be in Convergys Shares or Broadwing Shares, as the case
may be, or if the recipient so elects, in cash.

         8.9 ALTERNATE PAYEES. In the case of a person who is determined by the
Committee to be an alternate payee (within the meaning of section 414(p)(8) of
the Code) with respect to the vested portion of one or more of a Participant's
Plan Accounts, unless the qualified domestic relations order applicable to the
Participant's Plan Accounts otherwise provides, the alternate payee may elect,
with respect to the alternate payee's interest in the vested portion of the
Participant's Plan Accounts, to have such interest distributed to the alternate
payee in one lump sum as soon as practical after the alternate payee is
determined to be an alternate payee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the value
of the alternate payee's interest in the Participant's Plan Accounts is not in
excess of $5,000, the vested portion of such interest shall be distributed to
the alternate payee as soon as practicable after the alternate payee is
determined to be an alternate payee.

         8.10 AUXCO PARTICIPANTS; CBIS FEDERAL PARTICIPANTS. If the value of the
vested portion of an Auxco Participant's or CBIS Federal Participant's Plan
Accounts is at least $5,000, any distribution with respect to his Plan Accounts
shall be subject to the provision of this Section 8.10. For purposes of this
Section 8.11, "Auxco Participant" means a Participant who was a participant in
the Auxton Computer Enterprises, Incorporated Savings and Profit Sharing Plan on
December 31, 1991 and "CBIS Federal Participant" means a Participant who was a
participant in CBIS Federal Inc. Profit Sharing and Tax Referral Savings Plan as
of December 31, 1991.

                  8.10.1 Distribution of the vested portion of his Plan Accounts
shall be in one lump sum payment, at least annual installments or through the
purchase and distribution of an annuity contract as the Participant or his
Beneficiary (as the case may be) may elect.

                  8.10.2 If the Participant elects an annuity contract, such
annuity contract shall provide monthly payments (a) if the Participant is
unmarried, for the life of the Participant or (b) if the Participant is married,
for the life of the Participant and, if the Participant's spouse is then living,
continuing for the life of the Participant's spouse at 50% of the monthly amount
payable during their joint lives unless the Participant otherwise elects in
accordance with Section 8.14.

         8.11 SAVINGS AND SECURITY PLAN ACCOUNTS; WATS MARKETING PLAN. If a
Participant's Plan Accounts include amounts transferred from the Cincinnati Bell
Inc. Savings and Security Plan or the WATS Marketing of America, Inc. Incentive
Savings Plan and if distribution of the vested portion of his Plan Accounts is
being made by reason of the Participant's retirement or Total Disability, he may
elect to have his Plan Accounts distributed in up to 20 annual installments.

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         8.12 TMS PARTICIPANTS. If value of the vested portion of a TMS
Participant's Plan Accounts is at least $5,000, any distribution with respect to
his Plan Accounts shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 8.12. For
purposes of the Plan, TMS Participant means a Participant who had a TMS Account
under Article XXIA of NICE Computer Profit-Sharing Plan as of December 31, 1990.

                  8.12.1 Distribution of the vested portion of his Plan Accounts
shall be in one lump sum payment, the purchase and distribution of an annuity
contract as the Participant or his Beneficiary (as the case may be) may elect.

                  8.12.2 If the Participant elects an annuity contract, such
annuity contract shall provide monthly payments (a) if the Participant is
unmarried, for the life of the Participant or (b) if the Participant is married,
for the life of the Participant and, if the Participant's spouse is then living,
continuing for the life of the Participant's spouse at 50% of the monthly amount
payable during their joint lives unless the Participant otherwise elects in
accordance with Section 8.14.

         8.13 DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS. Notwithstanding any other provision of
the Plan to the contrary, distribution from a Participant's Plan Account shall
commence to the Participant no later than his required beginning date.
Distributions required to commence under this Section shall be made in the form
provided under this Section 8 and in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(9) and
regulations issued thereunder, including the minimum distribution incidental
benefit requirements. A Participant's "required beginning date" means the
following:

         (a) for a Participant who is not a "five percent owner", April 1 of the
calendar year following the calendar year in which occurs the later of the
Participant's (i) attainment of age 70 1/2 or (ii) the date he ceases to be an
Employee.

         (b) for a Participant who is a "five percent owner", April 1 of the
calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age
70 1/2.

         A Participant is a "five percent owner" if he is a five percent owner,
as defined in Code Section 416(i) and determined in accordance with Code Section
416, but without regard to whether the Plan is top-heavy, for the Plan Year
ending with or within the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70
1/2. The required beginning date of a Participant who is a "five percent owner"
hereunder shall not be redetermined if the Participant ceases to be a five
percent owner as defined in Code Section 416(i) with respect to any subsequent
Plan Year.

         8.14 WAIVER ELECTION. For purposes of Sections 8.10 and 8.12, if a
Participant elects to have his Plan Accounts distributed in the form of an
annuity, not earlier than 90 days, but not later than 30 days, before the date
on which Participant's Plan Accounts are distributed, the Committee shall
provide the Participant an explanation of the terms and conditions of the
annuities available under Section 8.11 or 8.13 (as the case may be), the
Participant's right to make, and the effect of, an

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election to waive such form of annuity, the rights of the Participant's spouse
regarding the waiver election and the Participant's right to make, and the
effect of, a revocation regarding the waiver election. The Plan does not limit
the number of times the Participant may revoke a waiver of such form of annuity
or make a new waiver during the election period.

                  8.14.1 A married Participant's waiver election is not valid
unless (a) the Participant's spouse (to whom the survivor annuity is payable
under Section 8.10 or 8.12, as the case may be), after the Participant has
received the explanation described in this Section 8.14, has consented in
writing to the waiver election, the spouse's consent acknowledges the effect of
the election, and a notary public or a Plan representative witnesses the
spouse's consent, (b) the spouse consents to the alternate form of payment
designated by the Participant or to any change in that designated form of
payment, and (c) unless the spouse is the Participant's sole primary
Beneficiary, the spouse consents to the Participant's Beneficiary designation or
to any change in the Participant's Beneficiary designation. The spouse's consent
to a waiver of the qualified joint and survivor annuity is irrevocable, unless
the Participant revokes the waiver election. The spouse may execute a blanket
consent to any form of payment designation or to any Beneficiary designation
made by the Participant, if the spouse acknowledges the right to limit that
consent to a specific designation but, in writing, waives that right.

                  8.14.2 The Committee will accept as valid a waiver election
which does not satisfy the spousal consent requirements if the Committee
establishes the Participant does not have a spouse, the Committee is not able to
locate the Participant's spouse, the Participant is legally separated or has
been abandoned (within the meaning of State law) and the Participant has a court
order to that effect, or other circumstances exist under which the Secretary of
the Treasury will excuse the consent requirement. If the Participant's spouse is
legally incompetent to give consent, the spouse's legal guardian (even if the
guardian is the Participant) may give consent.

         8.15 DIRECT ROLLOVERS. Any Participant or Beneficiary who is entitled
to receive a distribution from the Plan in the form of an eligible rollover
distribution may elect to have part or all of such distribution paid directly to
an eligible retirement plan. Any election under this Section 8.15 shall be made
on forms furnished and in the manner prescribed by the Committee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the minimum amount which a Participant or
Beneficiary may elect to have paid to an eligible retirement plan is (a)
$200.00, if the entire eligible rollover distribution is being paid to the
eligible retirement plan or (b) $500.00, if less than the entire eligible
rollover distribution is being paid to the eligible retirement plan. For
purposes of this Section 8.15, "eligible rollover distribution" means 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: (1)
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 ten years or more; (2) any distribution to the extent such
distribution is required under section 401(a)(9) of the Code; (3) the portion of
any distribution that is not includable in gross income (determined without

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regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer
securities); and (4) any hardship withdrawal of salary deferral contributions
made in accordance with the provisions of Section 9. For purposes of this
Section 8.15, "eligible retirement plan" means 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, or a qualified trust described in section 401(a) of the
Code, that accepts the distributee's eligible rollover distribution. However, in
the case of an eligible rollover distribution to the surviving spouse, an
eligible retirement plan is an individual retirement account or individual
retirement annuity.

         8.16 MISSING PARTICIPANTS. If a Participant or Beneficiary who is
entitled to receive a distribution under the Plan cannot be located within six
months, after such investigation as the Committee deems appropriate, the amount
otherwise distributable to such Participant or Beneficiary shall thereupon be
forfeited; provided that if such Participant or Beneficiary thereafter makes a
claim for the amount forfeited hereunder, the amount so forfeited (unadjusted
for any gains or losses occurring subsequent to the date of the forfeiture)
shall be restored to the Trust through additional Participating Company
contributions and paid to the Participant or Beneficiary.

                                    SECTION 9

                 WITHDRAWALS DURING EMPLOYMENT; LOANS; TRANSFERS

         9.1 WITHDRAWALS AFTER NORMAL RETIREMENT DATE. Subject to such rules as
the Committee may prescribe, a Participant who is an Employee may elect to
withdraw from his Plan Accounts, on or after his Normal Retirement Date, any
amount he may designate. No Participant may elect to make more than two
withdrawals in any Plan Year. All withdrawals shall be in cash.

         9.2 WITHDRAWALS PRIOR TO NORMAL RETIREMENT DATE. Subject to such rules
as the Committee may prescribe, a Participant who is an Employee may elect to
make withdrawals from his Plan Accounts, prior to his Normal Retirement Date, in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.2.

                  9.2.1 A Participant whose Plan Accounts include amounts
attributable to rollover contributions described in section 402(c)(5), 403(a)(4)
or 408(d)(3) of the Code or voluntary post-tax contributions may elect to
withdraw any portion of such amounts.

                  9.2.2 A Participant whose Plan Accounts include amounts
attributable to salary deferral contributions under section 401(k) of the Code
may elect to withdraw any portion of such amounts (other than income earned on
such contributions after December 31, 1988); provided, however, that (a) he may
not elect to make a withdrawal under this Section 9.2.2 unless he demonstrates
to the satisfaction of the Committee that such withdrawal is necessary to
alleviate a

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Hardship and (b) he may not elect to withdraw more than the amount needed to
alleviate the Hardship. For purposes hereof, "Hardship" means an immediate and
heavy financial need of the Participant or his dependents because of sickness,
disability, or other financial emergency, but only to the extent consistent with
section 401(k) of the Code and any regulations issued by the Secretary of the
Treasury thereunder. The determination of whether a Participant has incurred a
"Hardship" shall be made on the basis of all relevant facts and circumstances. A
financial need shall not fail to qualify merely because it was reasonably
foreseeable or voluntarily incurred. A distribution for any of the following
needs shall be deemed to be made on account of Hardship: (a) medical expenses
described in section 213(d) of the Code incurred by the Participant, the
Participant's spouse or any dependent of the Participant (as defined in section
152 of the Code), (b) purchase (excluding mortgage payments) of a principal
residence of the Participant, (c) payment of tuition for the next twelve months
of post-secondary education for the Participant, his or her spouse, children or
dependents, and (d) the need to prevent the eviction of the Participant from his
principal residence or foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant's
principal residence. In the event of a withdrawal from a Participant's Plan
Accounts under this Section 9.2.2, the Participant's elective contributions and
employee contributions (within the meaning of Treas. Reg.
ss.1.401(k)-1(d)(2)(iii)) to the Plan and all other plans maintained by any
Affiliated Employer shall be suspended for 12 months after the withdrawal and
the Participant's elective contributions (within the meaning of Treas. Reg.
ss.1.401(k)-1(d)(2)(iii)) to this Plan and all other plans maintained by any
Affiliated Employer for the calendar year immediately following the calendar
year in which the withdrawal occurs may not exceed the applicable limit under
section 402(g) of the Code for the calendar year immediately following the
calendar year in which the withdrawal occurs less the amount of such elective
contributions for the calendar year in which the withdrawal occurs.

                  9.2.3 A Participant whose Plan Accounts include employer
matching contributions transferred from the Cincinnati Bell Inc. Retirement
Savings Plan or the Cincinnati Bell Inc. Savings and Security Plan may withdraw
any non-forfeitable portion of such contributions (and the earnings thereon).

                  9.2.4 No Participant may elect to make more than two
withdrawals in any Plan Year. All withdrawals shall be in cash.

         9.3 LOANS. Subject to the provisions of this Section 9.3 and to such
other uniform and nondiscriminatory rules as may be adopted by the Committee
(which rules are incorporated herein by reference), a Participant who is a party
in interest (within the meaning of section 3(14) of ERISA) may, with the consent
of the Committee, borrow from his Plan Accounts.

                  9.3.1 The maximum amount a Participant may borrow is the
lesser of: (a) 50% of the value of the vested (nonforfeitable) portion of the
Participant's Plan Accounts or (b) $50,000 reduced by the highest outstanding
balance of loans from the Participant's Plan Accounts (and from any other
qualified plan maintained by an Affiliated Employer) during the one year period
ending on the day before the date the loan is made.

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                  9.3.2 No Participant may have more than two loans outstanding
at any time.

                  9.3.3 Each loan shall bear a reasonable rate of interest (as
determined by the Committee) and shall be secured by the loaned portion of the
Participant's Plan Accounts. The minimum term of any loan shall be one year and
the maximum term of any loan shall be five years (fifteen years in the case of
where the loan is used to acquire the Participant's principal residence). For
the purpose of this Section 9.3.3, the term of the loan will commence with the
first day of the month in which the loan proceeds are paid to the Participant.
Substantially equal amortization of the loan (with payments not less frequently
than quarterly) shall be required.

                  9.3.4 Any amounts borrowed from a Plan Account shall be deemed
to be made pro rata from the various types of investments (other than loans) of
the Plan Account.

                  9.3.5 Loan principal and interest payments must be made
through payroll deductions, beginning with the first paycheck of the month
following the month in which the loan proceeds are paid to the Participant;
provided that the Participant may prepay the entire outstanding balance on a
loan at any time. Loan principal and interest payments shall be credited to the
Plan Account from which the loan was made. To the extent that the Participant
directs the investment of the Plan Account from which the loan was made, loan
payments to such Plan Account shall be invested according to the Participant's
investment direction in effect at the time of repayment.

                  9.3.6 If the Participant ceases to be an Employee for any
reason (including death), the remaining balance on each outstanding loan shall
become immediately due and payable and shall be satisfied through a distribution
from the Participant's Plan Accounts under Section 8. If the Participant's pay
is insufficient to cover the loan payments due for a period of 90 days or if the
Participant's payroll deductions for loan payments are reduced or suspended for
any reason, unless arrangements for manual payments (satisfactory to the
Committee) are made, the remaining balance on each outstanding loan shall become
immediately due and payable.

                  9.3.7 The Committee, in its discretion, may establish such
loan fees and prescribe such additional terms and conditions for loans as it
deems necessary or appropriate.

         9.4 TRANSFER TO CMG PLAN. If a Participant in this Plan becomes CMG
Plan Eligible after January 1, 1999, he automatically shall become a Participant
in the CMG Plan on the date he becomes CMG Plan Eligible and the amounts
credited to his Plan Accounts automatically shall be transferred to the
corresponding accounts in the CMG Plan. Thereafter, the amounts transferred to
the CMG Plan shall be governed entirely by the terms of the CMG Plan. Until
changed by the Participant in accordance with the terms of the CMG Plan, any
beneficiary designation, investment direction and authorization for salary
deferral contributions in effect under this Plan shall continue in effect under
the CMG Plan.

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                                   SECTION 10

                              TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS

         10.1 GENERAL. If the Plan is or becomes Top-Heavy in any Plan Year, the
provisions of this Section 10 will supersede any conflicting provisions in the
Plan.

         10.2 DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Section 10, the following terms
shall have the meanings hereinafter set forth unless the context otherwise
requires:

                  10.2.1 "Key Employee" means any Employee or former Employee
(and the beneficiaries of any such Employee) who at any time during the
Determination Period was an officer of an Affiliated Employer if such
individual's annual compensation exceeds 50% of the dollar limitation under
section 415(b)(1)(A) of the Code, an owner (or considered an owner under section
318 of the Code) of one of the ten largest interests in an Affiliated Employer
if such individual's compensation exceeds 100% of the dollar limitation under
section 415(c)(1)(A) of the Code, a 5-percent owner of an Affiliated Employer or
a 1-percent owner of an Affiliated Employer who has an annual compensation of
more than $150,000. The "Determination Period" is the Plan Year containing the
Determination Date and the four preceding Plan Years. The determination of who
is a Key Employee will be made in accordance with section 416(i)(1) of the Code
and the regulations thereunder. For purposes of this Section 10.2.1,
compensation from all Affiliated Employers shall be aggregated.

                  10.2.2 For any Plan Year, this Plan is "Top-Heavy" if any of
the following conditions exists:

                           (a)      If the Top-Heavy Ratio for this Plan
exceeds 60% and this Plan is not part of any Required Aggregation Group or
Permissive Aggregation Group of plans,

                           (b)      If this Plan is a part of a Required
Aggregation Group of plans (but not part of a Permissive Aggregation Group) and
the Top-Heavy Ratio for the Required Aggregation Group of plans exceeds 60%, or

                           (c)      If this Plan is a part of a Required
Aggregation Group and a Permissive Aggregation Group and the Top-Heavy Ratio for
the Permissive Aggregation Group exceeds 60%.

                  10.2.3 If an Affiliated Employer maintains one or more defined
contribution plans (including any Simplified Employee Pension Plan) and an
Affiliated Employer has not maintained any defined benefit plan which during the
5-year period ending on the Determination Date(s) has or has had accrued
benefits, the Top-Heavy Ratio for this Plan alone or for the Required or
Permissive

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Aggregation Group, as appropriate, is a fraction, the numerator of which is the
sum of the account balances of all Key Employees as of the Determination Date(s)
(including any part of any account balances distributed in the 5-year period
ending on the Determination Date(s)), and the denominator of which is the sum of
all account balances (including any part of any account balance distributed in
the 5-year period ending on the Determination Date(s)), determined in accordance
with section 416 of the Code and the regulations thereunder. Both the numerator
and the denominator of the Top-Heavy Ratio are adjusted to reflect any
contributions not actually made as of the Determination Date, but which are
required to be taken into account on that date under section 416 of the Code and
the regulations thereunder.

                  10.2.4 If an Affiliated Employer maintains one or more defined
contribution plans (including any Simplified Employee Pension Plan) and an
Affiliated Employer maintains or has maintained one or more defined benefit
plans which during the 5-year period ending on the Determination Date(s) has or
has had any accrued benefits, the Top-Heavy Ratio for any Required or Permissive
Aggregation Group, as appropriate, is a fraction, the numerator of which is the
sum of account balances under the aggregate defined contribution plan or plans
for all Key Employees, determined in accordance with 10.2.3 above, and the
present value of accrued benefits under the aggregated defined benefit plan or
plans for all Key Employees as of the Determination Date(s), and the denominator
of which is the sum of the account balances under the aggregated defined
contribution plan or plans for all participants, determined in accordance with
10.2.3 above, and the present value of accrued benefits under the aggregated
defined benefit plan or plans for all participants as of the Determination
Date(s), all determined in accordance with section 416 of the Code and the
regulations thereunder. The accrued benefits under a defined benefit plan in
both the numerator and denominator of the Top-Heavy Ratio are adjusted for any
distribution of an accrued benefit made in the 5-year period ending on the
Determination Date.

                  10.2.5 For purposes of Sections 10.2.3 and 10.2.4, the value
of account balances and the present value of accrued benefits will be determined
as of the most recent Valuation Date that falls within or ends with the 12-month
period ending on the Determination Date, except as provided in section 416 of
the Code and the regulations thereunder for the first and second Plan Years of a
defined benefit plan. The account balances and accrued benefits of a Participant
(1) who is not a Key Employee but who was a Key Employee in a prior year, or (2)
who has not performed any services for any Affiliated Employer at any time
during the 5-year period ending on the Determination Date will be disregarded.
The calculation of the Top-Heavy Ratio, and the extent to which distributions,
rollovers, and transfers are taken into account, will be made in accordance with
section 416 of the Code and the regulations thereunder. Deductible employee
contributions will not be taken into account for purposes of computing the
Top-Heavy Ratio. When aggregating plans, the value of account balances and
accrued benefits will be calculated with reference to the Determination Dates
that fall within the same calendar year. Distributions made from a terminated
plan during the 5-year period ending on the Determination Date shall be taken
into account for purposes of Sections 10.2.3 and 10.2.4 if the terminated plan
would have been required to be included in an Aggregation Group if it had not
been terminated.

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                  10.2.6 "Permissive Aggregation Group" means the Required
Aggregation Group of plans plus any other plan or plans of any Affiliated
Employer which, when considered as a group with the Required Aggregation Group,
would continue to satisfy the requirements of sections 401(a)(4) and 410 of the
Code.

                  10.2.7 "Required Aggregation Group" means (1) each qualified
plan of any Affiliated Employer in which at least one Key Employee participates,
and (2) any other qualified plan of an Affiliated Employer which enables a plan
described in (1) to meet the requirements of section 401(a)(4) or 410 of the
Code.

                  10.2.8 "Determination Date" means (1) for any Plan Year
subsequent to the first Plan Year, the last day of the preceding Plan Year and
(2) for the first Plan Year of the Plan, the last day of that year.

                  10.2.9 "Valuation Date" means the last business day of each
Plan Year.

                  10.2.10 For purposes of establishing "Present Value" to
compute the Top-Heavy Ratio, any benefit shall be discounted only for mortality
and interest based on the following: (1) Interest Rate, 6%; (2) Mortality table,
the Unisex Pension Table for 1984.

         10.3 MINIMUM CONTRIBUTIONS. Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Plan except 10.3.2 below, for any Plan Year in which this Plan is Top-Heavy, the
Participating Company contributions (other than Salary Deferral Contributions)
and forfeitures allocated on behalf of any Participant who is not a Key Employee
but who is an Employee on the last day of such Plan Year shall not be less than
the lesser of 3% of such Participant's compensation as an Employee, or in the
case where the Participating Companies have no defined benefit plan which
designates this Plan to satisfy section 401 of the Code, the largest percentage
of Participating Employer contributions (including Salary Deferral
Contributions) and forfeitures, as a percentage of the first $200,000 (or such
greater amount as may be permitted under section 401(a)(17) of the Code) of the
Key Employee's compensation, allocated on behalf of any Key Employee for that
Year. The minimum allocation is determined without regard to any Social Security
contribution. This minimum allocation shall be made even though, under other
Plan provisions, the Participant would not otherwise be entitled to receive an
allocation, or would have received a lesser allocation for the year because of
(i) the Participant's failure to complete 1,000 hours of service (or any
equivalent provided in the Plan), or (ii) the Participant's failure to make
mandatory employee contributions to the Plan, or (iii) compensation less than a
stated amount.

                  10.3.1 For purposes of computing the minimum allocation,
"compensation" means Compensation within the meaning of that term as used in
Section 6.5.

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                  10.3.2 For purposes of computing the minimum allocation,
Affiliated Employer contributions and forfeitures allocated under any other
defined contribution plan of an Affiliated Employer, in which any Key Employee
participates or which enables another defined contribution plan (in which a Key
Employee participates) to meet the requirements of section 401(a)(4) or 410 of
the Code, shall be considered contributions and forfeitures allocated under this
Plan. In the case of any non-Key Employee Participant who is also a participant
in any defined benefit plan of an Affiliated Employer which designates this Plan
to satisfy section 401 of the Code, the foregoing provisions of this Section
10.3 shall be applied, but with 7-1/2% substituted for 3%.

                  10.3.3 The minimum allocation required (to the extent required
to be nonforfeitable under section 416(b)) may not be suspended or forfeited
under sections 411(a)(3)(B) or 411(a)(3)(D) of the Code.

                  10.3.4 For purposes of this Section 10.3, the term
"Participant" shall include, with respect to any Plan Year, any Employee who is
an Eligible Employee (within the meaning of Section 6.9) with respect to such
Plan Year.

         10.4 MINIMUM VESTING. Commencing on the first day of the first Plan
Year in which the Plan becomes Top-Heavy, with respect to any Participant who
performs at least one Hour of Service on or after such date, the Plan Accounts
of each such Participant who has been credited with at least two years of
Vesting Service shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable.

         10.5 ADJUSTMENTS TO SECTION 415 LIMITATIONS. In any Plan Year in which
the Plan is Top-Heavy, the denominators of the defined benefit plan fraction and
defined contribution plan fraction in section 415 of the Code shall be computed
using 100% of the dollar limitation instead of 125%.

                                   SECTION 11

                           ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

         11.1 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS COMMITTEE. The Convergys Employee Benefits
Committee shall be responsible for the administration of the Plan and, in
addition to the powers and authorities expressly conferred upon it in the Plan,
shall have all such powers and authorities as may be necessary to carry out the
provisions of the Plan, including the power and authority to interpret and
construe each and every provision of the Plan, to make benefit determination,
and to resolve any disputes which arise under the Plan. In carrying out its
duties under the Plan, including making benefit determinations, interpreting or
construing the provisions of the Plan, and resolving disputes, the Convergys
Employee Benefits Committee (or any individual to whom authority has been
delegated in accordance with Section 11.8) shall have absolute discretionary
authority.

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         11.2 SERVICE OF PROCESS. Unless another person has been appointed by
Convergys to serve as agent for receipt of legal process with respect to the
Plan, the Committee shall be the agent for receipt of legal process with respect
to the Plan.

         11.3 COMPENSATION OF COMMITTEE. The members of the Committee shall not
receive compensation for their services as such, and except as required by law,
no bond or other security need be required of them in such capacity in any
jurisdiction.

         11.4 RULES OF PLAN. Subject to the limitations of the Plan, the
Committee may, from time to time, establish rules for the administration of the
Plan and the transaction of its business. The Committee may correct errors,
however arising, and, as far as possible, adjust any benefit payments
accordingly. The determination of the Committee as to the interpretation of the
provisions of the Plan or any disputed question shall be conclusive upon all
interested parties.

         11.5 NAMED FIDUCIARY. The Committee shall be a named fiduciary of the
Plan with respect to all matters entrusted to it under the terms of the Plan and
the Trust.

         11.6 AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES. The Committee may authorize one or more
agents to execute or deliver any instrument. The Committee may appoint or employ
such agents, counsel (including counsel of any Affiliated Employer or the
Trustee), auditors (including auditors of any Affiliated Employer or the
Trustee), physicians, clerical help and actuaries as in its judgment may seem
reasonable or necessary for the proper administration of the Plan, and the
Committee may certify to the Trustee the expenses chargeable to the Trust for
such services.

         11.7 RECORDS. The Committee shall maintain accounts showing the fiscal
transactions of the Plan and shall keep, in convenient form, such data as may be
necessary for valuation of the assets and liabilities of the Plan. The Committee
shall prepare and submit annually to Convergys a report showing in reasonable
detail the assets and liabilities of the Plan, and giving a brief account of the
operation of the Plan for each Plan Year.

         11.8 DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY. The Committee and/or the Employee
Benefits Review Committee may, by resolution, delegate to any person or persons
any or all of its rights and duties hereunder. Any such delegation shall be
valid and binding on all persons, and the person or persons to whom authority
has been delegated shall, upon written acceptance of such authority, have full
power to act in all matters so delegated until the authority expires by its
terms or is revoked by the Committee and/or the Employee Benefits Review
Committee.

         11.9 BENEFIT CLAIMS. Except to the extent that the provisions of any
collective bargaining agreement provide another method of resolving claims for
benefits under the Plan, the provisions of this Section shall control with
respect to the resolution of such claims. Whenever a claim for benefits under
the Plan filed by any person (herein referred to as the "Claimant") is denied,
whether

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in whole or in part, the Committee shall transmit a written notice of such
decision to the Claimant within 90 days of the date the claim was filed or, if
special circumstances require an extension, within 180 days of such date, which
notice shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the Claimant
and shall contain a statement of (i) the specific reasons for the denial of the
claim, (ii) specific reference to pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial
is based, and (iii) a description of any additional material or information
necessary for the Claimant to perfect the claim and an explanation of why such
information is necessary. The notice shall also include a statement advising the
Claimant that, within 60 days of the date on which he receives such notice, he
may obtain review of such decision in accordance with the procedures hereinafter
set forth. Within such 60-day period, the Claimant or his authorized
representative may request that the claim denial be reviewed by filing with the
Committee a written request therefor, which request shall contain the following
information:

(a)      the date on which the Claimant's request was filed with the Committee;
         provided, however, that the date on which the Claimant's request for
         review was in fact filed with the Committee shall control in the event
         that the date of the actual filing is later than the date stated by the
         Claimant pursuant to this paragraph;

(b)      the specific portions of the denial of his claim which the Claimant
         requests the Committee to review;

(c)      a statement by the Claimant setting forth the basis upon which he
         believes the Committee should reverse the previous denial of his claim
         for benefits and accept his claim as made; and

(d)      any written material (offered as exhibits) which the Claimant desires
         the Committee to examine in its consideration of his position as stated
         pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section.

Within 60 days of the date determined pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section
or, if special circumstances require an extension, within 120 days of such date,
the Employee Benefits Review Committee shall conduct a full and fair review of
the decision denying the Claimant's claim for benefits and shall render its
written decision on review to the Claimant. The Employee Benefits Review
Committee's decision on review shall be written in a manner calculated to be
understood by the Claimant and shall specify the reasons and Plan provisions
upon which the Employee Benefits Review Committee's decision was based.

         11.10 ELIGIBILITY. The members of the Committee shall not be precluded
from becoming Participants in the Plan if they are otherwise eligible.

         11.11 NON-DISCRIMINATION. All determinations required of any Affiliated
Employer and the Committee hereunder shall be made in accordance

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with the provisions hereof and in accordance with other standards and policies
adopted by the Affiliated Employer or the Committee, which standards and
policies shall be consistently observed and applied in a nondiscriminatory
manner to all Employees similarly situated.

         11.12 INDEMNIFICATION. Convergys shall indemnify each member of the
Committee for all expenses and liabilities (including reasonable attorney's
fees) arising out of the administration of the Plan, other than any expenses or
liabilities resulting from the member's own gross negligence or willful
misconduct. The foregoing right of indemnification shall be in addition to any
other rights to which the members of the Committee may be entitled as a matter
of law.

                                   SECTION 12

                              MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS

         All assets of the Plan shall be held in the Trust for the exclusive
benefit of the Participants and their Beneficiaries. Except as to the costs and
expenses of the Plan and Trust not otherwise provided for and except as
otherwise provided herein, in no event shall it be possible for any of the
assets of the Plan to be used for, or diverted to purposes other than for the
exclusive benefit of the Participants and their Beneficiaries. No person shall
have any interest in or right to any part of the assets of the Plan, except as
and to the extent provided in the Plan and the Trust.

                                   SECTION 13

                            AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

         13.1 AMENDMENT. Convergys reserves the right to amend the Plan either
retroactively or prospectively, conditionally or absolutely; provided that
Convergys shall have no right to amend the Plan in such manner as would cause or
permit any part of the assets of the Trust to be used for or diverted to
purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of the Participants and their
Beneficiaries; provided, further, that no amendment may be adopted changing any
vesting schedule unless the nonforfeitable percentage of each Participant's Plan
Accounts (determined as of the later of the date such amendment is adopted or
the date such amendment becomes effective) is equal to or greater than such
nonforfeitable percentage computed without regard to such amendment. If an
amendment is adopted which changes any vesting schedule under the Plan, each
Participant who has been credited with three years of service may elect to have
his nonforfeitable percentage computed under the Plan without regard to such
amendment. The period during which such election may be made shall begin on the
date the amendment is adopted and shall end on the latest of: (a) the 60th day
after the day the amendment is adopted; (b) the 60th day after the day the
amendment becomes effective; or (c) the 60th day after the day the Participant
is issued written notice of the amendment.

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         13.2 TERMINATION. Convergys reserves the right to terminate the Plan,
in whole or in part, either retroactively or prospectively, conditionally or
absolutely. In the event of the termination or partial termination of the Plan
or the permanent discontinuance of Company contributions to the Plan, the Plan
Accounts of all affected Participants shall be fully vested and nonforfeitable.
To the extent permitted by law, if the Plan is terminated, each Participant's
Plan Accounts shall be distributed to him or his Beneficiary, as the case may
be, as soon as practicable thereafter.

                                   SECTION 14

                           MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS

         Notwithstanding any other provision hereof to the contrary, in no event
shall the Plan be merged or consolidated with any other plan, nor shall any of
the assets or liabilities of the Plan be transferred to any other plan, unless
each Participant and Beneficiary would (if the transferee or surviving 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
the Plan had then terminated).

                                   SECTION 15

                           NON-ALIENATION OF BENEFITS

         Except as provided in Code Section 401(a)(13) (relating to qualified
domestic relations orders), Code Section 401(a)(13)(C) and (D) (relating to
offsets ordered or required under a criminal conviction involving the Plan, a
civil judgment in connection with a violation or alleged violation of fiduciary
responsibilities under ERISA, or a settlement agreement between the Participant
and the Department of Labor in connection with a violation or alleged violation
of fiduciary responsibilities under ERISA), Section 1.401(a)-13(b)(2) of
Treasury regulations (relating to Federal tax levies and judgments), or as
otherwise required by law, no benefit under the Plan at any time shall be
subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, assignment (either at law or
in equity), encumbrance, garnishment, levy, execution, or other legal or
equitable process; and no person shall have power in any manner to anticipate,
transfer, assign (either at law or in equity), alienate or subject to
attachment, garnishment, levy, execution, or other legal or equitable process,
or in any way encumber his benefits under the Plan, or any part thereof, and any
attempt to do so shall be void.

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                                   SECTION 16

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

         16.1 DELEGATION. Any matter or thing to be done by any Affiliated
Employer shall be done by its Board of Directors, except that, from time to
time, the Board by resolution may delegate to any person or committee certain of
its rights and duties hereunder. Any such delegation shall be valid and binding
on all persons and the person or committee to whom or which authority is
delegated shall have full power to act in all matters so delegated until the
authority expires by its terms or is revoked by the Board.

         16.2 ADMINISTRATOR AND PLAN SPONSOR. Convergys shall be the
"administrator" and "plan sponsor" of the Plan within the meaning of those terms
as used in ERISA.

         16.3 APPLICABLE LAW. The Plan shall be governed by the laws of the
State of Ohio and applicable federal law.

         16.4 SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS. If any provision of the Plan is held
invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect
any other provision hereof, and the Plan shall be construed and enforced as if
such provision had not been included.

         16.5 HEADINGS. Headings used throughout the Plan are for convenience
only and shall not be given legal significance.

         16.6 COUNTERPARTS. The Plan may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original. All counterparts shall
constitute one and the same instrument, which shall be sufficiently evidenced by
any one thereof.

                                   SECTION 17

                                 EFFECTIVE DATES

         Except as otherwise specifically provided by the terms of the Plan
including the terms of this Section 17, this amendment and restatement is
intended to be effective as of January 1, 1999. With respect to each change made
to satisfy the provisions of (1) the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, or General
Agreement on Trade and Tariffs of 1994, which included the Pension Protection
Act of 1994 ("GATT"), (2) the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act of 1996 ("USERRA"), (3) Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996
("SBJPA"), (4) the Tax Reform Act of 1997 ("TRA'97"), (5) any other changes in
the Code or ERISA or (6) regulations, rulings or other published findings issued
under the Code, ERISA, GATT, USERRA, SBJPA or TRA'97 (collectively the "GUST
Required Changes"), such provisions are effective the first day of the first

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period (which may or may not be the first day of a Plan Year) with respect to
which such change became required because of such provision (including any day
that became such as a result of an election or waiver by an employee or a waiver
exemption issued under the Code, ERISA, GATT USERRA, SBJPA or TRA'97) including,
but not limited to, the following:

         (a) The provisions of Section 6.11 regarding military service are
effective December 12, 1994.

         (b) The following changes are effective for plan years beginning after
December 31, 1996:

             (1)      Elimination of family aggregation requirements;

             (2)      Changes to the definition of highly compensated
                      employee in Section 6.6;

             (3)      Changes to the definition of leased employee in
                      Section 2.1.10(b);

             (4)      Changes to the 401(k) and 401(m) discrimination tests
                      in Section 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 and changes to the method
                      of correction where the plan fails to satisfy the
                      test.

         (c) Changes in the definition of "required beginning date" in Section
8.14 of the Plan are effective January 1, 1997.

         (d) The increase in the cashout limit from $3,500 to $5,000 is
effective January 1, 1998.

         (e) The elimination of the lookback rule for determining whether the
value of a Participant's Account exceeds the cashout limit is effective March
22, 1999.

         (f) The exclusion of hardship withdrawals of salary deferral
contributions from the definition of "eligible rollover distribution" in Section
8.15 is effective January 1, 1999.

         (g) The combined limit on defined benefit and defined contribution
plans under Code Section 415(e) is eliminated effective the first day of the
first limitation year beginning on or after January 1, 2000.

         (h) The addition of safe harbor provisions for deemed satisfaction of
the 401(k) and 401(m) non-discrimination test in Section 6.10 are effective
January 1, 2002.

         (i) Changes in the anti-alienation provisions of Section 15 to include
the exceptions in Code Section 401(a)(13)(C) and (D) are effective for
judgments, orders, and decrees issued and settlement agreements entered into on
or after August 5, 1997.

         (j) The alternate forms of payment described in Sections 8.10, 8.11 and
8.12 are eliminated effective as of the date this restatement is adopted;
provided however that such forms of

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payment shall continue to be made available to Participants with respect to any
distribution with an annuity starting date that is earlier than the earlier of:
(a) the 90th day after the date the Participant has been furnished with a
summary that reflects the amendment and that satisfies the requirements of 29
CFR 2520.104b-3 for pension plans; or (b) January 1, 2004.

         The special effective dates provided above apply the provisions of the
Plan retroactively to any plan that merged into the plan prior to the end of its
remedial amendment period (including the Geneva Technology, Inc. 401(k) Plan)
for compliance with the GUST required changes, except to the extent the merged
plan was separately amended to comply with such GUST required changes.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto caused its name to be
subscribed as of February     , 2002.

                                      CONVERGYS CORPORATION
                                      EMPLOYEE BENEFITS COMMITTEE

                                      By:_________________________________
                                               Committee Chairman

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                                                                    Exhibit 4(a)

                   THIRD RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                               ALLEN TELECOM INC.
            --------------------------------------------------------

         ALLEN TELECOM INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:

         I. The name of the corporation is Allen Telecom Inc.

         II. The name under which the corporation was originally incorporated is
ALN, Inc.

         III. The date on which the original Certificate of Incorporation of the
corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware is
February 3, 1969.

         IV. The corporation filed a Restated Certificate of Incorporation on
November 20, 1984 (the "First Restated Certificate of Incorporation").

         V. The corporation filed a Certificate of Designation of Series C
Junior Participating Preferred Stock (the "Series C Certificate of Designation")
on January 6, 1998.

         VI. The corporation filed a Second Restated Certificate of
Incorporation on May 1, 1998 (the "Second Restated Certificate of
Incorporation") which only restated and integrated and did not further amend the
provisions of the Corporation's First Restated Certificate of Incorporation as
amended and supplemented by the Series C Certificate of Designation and there
was no discrepancy between those provisions and the provisions of the Second
Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

         VII. The corporation filed a Certificate of Designation of Series D
7.75% Convertible Preferred Stock (the "Series D Certificate of Designation") on
March 15, 2002.

         VIII. This Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation only restates
and integrates and does not further amend the provisions of the corporation's
Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation as amended and supplemented by the
Series C Certificate of Designation and the Series D Certificate of Designation
(both of which are attached) and as otherwise heretofore amended or
supplemented, and there is no discrepancy between those provisions and the
provisions of this Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

         IX. This Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted
by the Board of Directors of the corporation in accordance with Section 245 of
the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

         X. The text of the Third Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
corporation is herein set forth in full:

         FIRST. The name of the corporation is

                               ALLEN TELECOM INC.

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         SECOND. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware
is The Corporation Trust Center, No. 1029 Orange Street, in the City of
Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such
address is The Corporation Trust Company.

         THIRD. The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or
promoted is:

                  To carry on and conduct any and every kind of manufacturing,
         distribution and service business; to manufacture, process, fabricate,
         rebuild, service, purchase or otherwise acquire, to design, invent or
         develop, to import or export, and to distribute, lease, sell, assign or
         otherwise dispose of and generally deal in and with raw materials,
         products, goods, wares, merchandise and real and personal property of
         every kind and character; and to provide services of every kind and
         character.

                  To conduct any lawful business, to exercise any lawful purpose
         and power, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which
         corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of
         Delaware.

                  In general, to possess and exercise all the powers and
         privileges granted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware or by any
         other law of Delaware or by this Certificate of Incorporation, together
         with any powers incidental thereto, so far as such powers and
         privileges are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or
         attainment of the business or purposes of the corporation.

         FOURTH. The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall
have authority to issue is fifty-three million (53,000,000), of which three
million (3,000,000) shares shall be Preferred Stock, without par value, and
fifty million (50,000,000) shares shall be Common Stock of the par value of $1
per share. The Preferred Stock shall be issued from time to time in one or more
series with such distinctive serial designations and (a) may have such voting
powers, full or limited, or may be without voting powers; (b) may be subject to
redemption at such time or times and at such prices; (c) may be entitled to
receive dividends (which may be cumulative or noncumulative) at such rate or
rates, on such conditions, and at such times, and payable in preference to, or
in such relation to, the dividends payable on any other class or classes or
series of stock; (d) may have such rights upon the dissolution of, or upon any
distribution of the assets of, the corporation; (e) may be made convertible
into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or classes or of any other
series of the same or any other class or classes of stock of the corporation, at
such price or prices or at such rates of exchange, and with such adjustments;
and (f) shall have such other relative, participating, optional or other special
rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, all as shall
hereafter be stated and expressed in the resolution or resolutions providing for
the issue of such Preferred Stock from time to time adopted by the board of
directors pursuant to authority so to do which is hereby vested in the board.

         Each share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one
vote, in person or by proxy, at any and all meetings of the stockholders of the
corporation, on all propositions before such meetings.

         The number of authorized shares of any class of stock of the
corporation, including but without limitation the Preferred Stock and the Common
Stock, may be increased or decreased by the affirmative vote of the holders of a
majority of the stock of the corporation entitled to vote.

         FIFTH. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by
statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized:

                  To make, alter or repeal the by-laws of the corporation.

                  To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon
         the real and personal property of the corporation.

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                  To set apart out of any of the funds of the corporation
         available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose
         and to abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

                  By a resolution of a majority of the whole board, to designate
         one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the
         directors of the corporation. The board may designate one or more
         directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any
         absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. Any such
         committee, to the extent provided in the resolution or in the by-laws
         of the corporation, shall have and may exercise the powers of the board
         of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the
         corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be
         affixed to all papers which may require it; provided, however, the
         by-laws may provide that in the absence or disqualification of any
         member of such committee or committees, the member or members thereof
         present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not
         he or they constitute a quorum may unanimously appoint another member
         of the board of directors to act at the meeting in the place of any
         such absent or disqualified member.

                  When and as authorized by the affirmative vote of the holders
         of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding having voting power
         given at a stockholders' meeting duly called upon such notice as is
         required by statute, or when authorized by the written consent of the
         holders of a majority of the voting stock issued and outstanding, to
         sell, lease or exchange all or substantially all of the property and
         assets of the corporation, including its good will and its corporate
         franchises, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration,
         which may consist in whole or in part of money or property including
         shares of stock in, and/or other securities of, any other corporation
         or corporations, as its board of directors shall deem expedient and for
         the best interests of the corporation.

         SIXTH. The number of directors of the corporation shall be such as from
time to time shall be fixed by or in the manner provided in the by-laws, which
shall not be less than three.

         SEVENTH. The corporation shall indemnify each director, officer,
employee or agent of the corporation and each person who is or was serving at
the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise in
the manner and to the extent provided in the by-laws of the corporation as the
same may be amended from time to time.

         No director shall be personally liable to the corporation or any
stockholder for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
except for any matter in respect of which such director shall be liable under
Section 174 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code (the Delaware General Corporation
Law) or any amendment thereto or successor provision thereto or shall be liable
by reason that, in addition to any and all other requirements for such
liability, he or she (a) shall have breached his or her duty of loyalty to the
corporation or its stockholders, (b) shall not have acted in good faith or, in
failing to act, shall not have acted in good faith, (c) shall have acted in a
manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law or, in
failing to act, shall have acted in a manner involving international misconduct
or a knowing violation of law or (d) shall have derived an improper personal
benefit. Neither the amendment nor repeal of this paragraph, nor the adoption of
any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this
paragraph, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this paragraph in respect of
any matter occurring, or any cause of action, suit or claim that, but for this
paragraph, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of
an inconsistent provision.

         EIGHTH. Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this
corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this
corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under
the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware

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Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or
receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of
Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of
creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this
corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court
directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of
stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or
arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to
which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or
class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of
this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.

         NINTH. Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State
of Delaware, as the by-laws may provide. The books of the corporation may be
kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the
board of directors or in the by-laws of the corporation. Elections of directors
need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws of the corporation shall so
provide.

         TENTH. Any corporation action upon which a vote of stockholders is
required or permitted may be taken without a meeting or vote of stockholders
with the written consent of stockholders having not less than fifty-one percent
(51%) of all of the stock entitled to vote upon the action if a meeting were
held; provided that in no case shall the written consent be by holders having
less than the minimum percent of the total vote required by statute for the
proposed corporate action and provided that prompt notice be given to all
stockholders of the taking of corporate action without a meeting by less than
unanimous written consent.

         ELEVENTH. The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or
repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the
manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon
stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Allen Telecom Inc. has caused this Third Restated
Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by Robert G. Paul, its President and
Chief Executive Officer, and attested to by Laura C. Meagher, its Secretary,
this 18th day of July, 2002.

                              ALLEN TELECOM INC.

                              By:  /s/ Robert G. Paul
                                   -------------------------------------------
                                     Robert G. Paul, President
                                     and Chief Executive Officer

ATTEST:

/s/ Laura C. Meagher
----------------------------------
Laura C. Meagher, Secretary

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                           CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION

                                       of

                          SERIES C JUNIOR PARTICIPATING
                                 PREFERRED STOCK

                                       of

                               ALLEN TELECOM INC.

                         (Pursuant to Section 151 of the
                General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

         Allen Telecom Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), DOES HEREBY
CERTIFY:

         That, pursuant to authority vested in the Board of Directors of the
Company by its Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and pursuant
to the provisions of Section 151 of the General Corporation Law, the Board of
Directors of the Company has adopted the following resolution providing for the
issuance of a series of Preferred Stock:

         RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority expressly granted to and
vested in the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board of Directors" or the
"Board") by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as
amended, a series of Preferred Stock, without par value (the "Preferred Stock"),
of the Company be, and it hereby is, created, and that the designation and
amount thereof and the powers, designations, preferences and relative,
participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series,
and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:

                            I. DESIGNATION AND AMOUNT

         The shares of such series will be designated as Series C Junior
Participating Preferred Stock (the "Series C Preferred") and the number of
shares constituting the Series C Preferred is 500,000. Such number of shares may
be increased or decreased by resolution of the Board; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no
decrease will reduce the number of shares of Series C Preferred to a number less
than the number of shares then outstanding plus the number of shares reserved
for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or
upon the conversion of any outstanding securities issued by the Company
convertible into Series C Preferred.

                         II. DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS

         (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of
Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to
dividends, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred, in preference to the
holders of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the "Common Stock"), of the
Company, and of any junior stock, will be entitled to receive, when, as
and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose,
dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as
are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common
Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a "Dividend Payment Date"),
commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a
share or fraction of a share of Series C Preferred (the "First Dividend Payment
Date"), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the
greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter
set forth, one hundred times the aggregate per share amount of all cash
dividends, and one hundred times the aggregate per share amount (payable in
kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of
Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by
reclassification or otherwise),

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declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment
Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first
issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series C Preferred. In the event
that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares
of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the
outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its
capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
(including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or
merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then,
in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of Series C Preferred are
then issued or outstanding, the amount to which holders of shares of Series C
Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under
clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such
amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is
the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to
such event.

         (b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as
provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a
dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common
Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately
prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.

         (c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of Series C Preferred
from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares,
unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the
First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue
from the date of the first issuance of a share of Series C Preferred or (ii) the
date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for
the determination of holders of shares of Series C Preferred entitled to receive
a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such
dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid
dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not
bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount
less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on
such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such
shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the
determination of holders of shares of Series C Preferred entitled to receive
payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will
be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment
thereof.

                               III. VOTING RIGHTS

         The holders of shares of Series C Preferred will have the following
voting rights:

         (a) Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each
share of Series C Preferred will entitle the holder thereof to one hundred votes
on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Company. In the
event the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares
of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the
outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its
capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
(including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or
merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then,
in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of Series C Preferred are
then issued or outstanding, the number of votes per share to which holders of
shares of Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to
such event will be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of
shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

         (b) Except as otherwise provided herein, in any other Preferred Stock
Designation creating a series of Preferred Stock or any similar stock, or by
law, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred and the holders of shares of
Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Company having general

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voting rights will vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote
of stockholders of the Company.

         (c) Except as set forth in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation,
as amended, or herein, or as otherwise provided by law, holders of shares of
Series C Preferred will have no voting rights.

                            IV. CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS

         (a) Whenever dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on
the Series C Preferred are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and
unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series
C Preferred outstanding have been paid in full, the Company will not:

             (i) Declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on
         any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon
         liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the shares of Series C
         Preferred;

             (ii) Declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on
         any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon
         liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the shares of Series C
         Preferred, except dividends paid ratably on the shares of Series C
         Preferred and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or
         in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of
         all such shares are then entitled;

             (iii) Redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration
         shares of any stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon
         liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the shares of Series C
         Preferred; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company may at any time redeem,
         purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in
         exchange for shares of any stock of the Company ranking junior (either
         as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the
         shares of Series C Preferred; or

             (iv) Redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any
         shares of Series C Preferred, or any shares of stock ranking on a
         parity with the shares of Series C Preferred, except in accordance with
         a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by
         the Board) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board,
         after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other
         relative rights and preferences of the respective series and classes,
         may determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment
         among the respective series or classes.

         (b) The Company will not permit any majority-owned subsidiary of the
Company to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock
of the Company unless the Company could, under paragraph (a) of this Article IV,
purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.

                              V. REACQUIRED SHARES

         Any shares of Series C Preferred purchased or otherwise acquired by the
Company in any manner whatsoever will be retired and canceled promptly after the
acquisition thereof. All such shares will upon their cancellation become
authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of
a new series of Preferred Stock subject to the conditions and restrictions on
issuance set forth herein, in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company, as amended, or in any other Preferred Stock Designation creating a
series of Preferred Stock or any similar stock or as otherwise required by law.

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                   VI. LIQUIDATION, DISSOLUTION OR WINDING UP

         Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, no
distribution will be made (a) to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior
(either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the
shares of Series C Preferred unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of
Series C Preferred have received $100 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued
and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the
date of such payment; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the holders of shares of Series C
Preferred will be entitled to receive an aggregate amount per share, subject to
the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to one hundred times
the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of shares of Common
Stock or (b) to the holders of shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to
dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the shares of
Series C Preferred, except distributions made ratably on the shares of Series C
Preferred and all such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which
the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution
or winding up. In the event the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on
the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii)
subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv)
issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding
shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a
consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving
corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of
Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the aggregate amount to which
each holder of shares of Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled
immediately prior to such event under the proviso in clause (a) of the preceding
sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of
shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

                        VII. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, ETC.

         In the event that the Company enters into any consolidation, merger,
combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are
exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other
property, then, in each such case, each share of Series C Preferred will at the
same time be similarly exchanged for or changed into an amount per share,
subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to one
hundred times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other
property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each
share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In the event the Company at any
time (a) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable
in shares of Common Stock, (b) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common
Stock, (c) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock in a smaller number
of shares, or (d) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification
of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification
in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the
continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of
whether any shares of Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the
amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or
change of shares of Series C Preferred will be adjusted by multiplying such
amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is
the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to
such event.

                                VIII. REDEMPTION

         The shares of Series C Preferred are not redeemable.

                                    IX. RANK

         The Series C Preferred rank, with respect to the payment of dividends
and the distribution of assets, junior to all other series of the Company's
Preferred Stock.

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                                  X. AMENDMENT

         Notwithstanding anything contained in the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of the Company, as amended, to the contrary and in addition to any
other vote required by applicable law, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation
of the Company, as amended, may not be amended in any manner that would
materially alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the
Series C Preferred so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote
of the holders of at least 80% of the outstanding shares of Series C Preferred,
voting together as a single series.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Designation is executed on
behalf of the Company by its President and attested by its Secretary this 6th
day of January 1998.

                                      ALLEN TELECOM INC.

                                      By:      /s/ Robert G. Paul
                                               ------------------
                                               Robert G. Paul
                                               President

Attest:

/s/ McDara P. Folan
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McDara P. Folan
Secretary

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                           CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
                                       OF
                   SERIES D 7.75% CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
                                       OF
                               ALLEN TELECOM INC.

                         (Pursuant to Section 151 of the
                General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

         Allen Telecom Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the
"COMPANY"), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

         That, pursuant to authority vested in the Board of Directors of the
Company by its Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and pursuant to the
provisions of Section 151 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, the Board of Directors of the Company has adopted the following
resolution providing for the issuance of a series of preferred stock:

         RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority expressly granted to and
vested in the Board of Directors of the Company by the Second Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the "CERTIFICATE OF
INCORPORATION"), a series of preferred stock, without par value, of the Company
be, and it hereby is, created, and that the designation and amount thereof and
the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and
other special rights of the shares of such series, and the qualifications,
limitations or restrictions thereof are as follows:

         1. DESIGNATION AND AMOUNT. There shall be created from the 3,000,000
shares of preferred stock, without par value, of the Company authorized to be
issued pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation, a series of preferred
stock, designated as the "Series D 7.75% Convertible Preferred Stock" (the
"SERIES D PREFERRED STOCK"), and the number of shares of such series shall be
1,150,000. Such number of shares may be decreased by resolution of the Board of
Directors; provided, however, that no such decrease shall reduce the number of
authorized shares of the Series D Preferred Stock to a number less than the
number of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock then issued and outstanding.

         2. DEFINITIONS. As used herein, in addition to those terms otherwise
defined herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

            (a) "ACCUMULATED AUTOMATIC CONVERSION RATIO INCREASES" shall mean,
as of any date, any accumulated automatic increases to the Conversion Ratio that
may occur pursuant to Section 6(g)(ii), as such increases may be equitably
adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 16(d).

            (b) "BOARD OF DIRECTORS" shall mean the Board of Directors of the
Company or, with respect to any action to be taken by the Board of Directors,
any committee of the Board of Directors duly authorized to take such action.

            (c) "BUSINESS DAY" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday
or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to close.

            (d) "CHANGE OF CONTROL" shall mean any of the following events:

                (i) the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related
transactions, of all or substantially all of the Company's assets (determined on
a consolidated basis) to any Person or group (as such term is used in Section
13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act);

                (ii) the Company consolidates with or merges into any other
Person or conveys, transfers or leases all or substantially all its assets to
any Person, or permits any Person to

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consolidate with or merge into, or transfer or lease all or substantially all
its properties to, the Company, and the surviving company, successor, transferee
or lessee is not organized under the laws of the United States or any political
subdivision thereof;

                (iii) the adoption of a plan the consummation of which would
result in the liquidation or dissolution of the Company;

                (iv) the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any Person or
group (as such term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), of
beneficial ownership (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of more
than 50% of the aggregate voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company; or

                (v) during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who
at the beginning of such period composed the Board of Directors of the Company
(together with any new directors whose election by such Board of Directors or
whose nomination for election by the stockholders of the Company was approved by
a vote of 66 2/3% of the directors of the Company then still in office who were
either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination
for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors of the Company then in office.

            (e) "CHANGE OF CONTROL DATE" shall mean the date on which a Change
of Control event described in Section 2(d) occurs.

            (f) "COMMON STOCK" shall mean the common stock, par value $1.00 per
share, of the Company, or any other class of stock resulting from successive
changes or reclassifications of such common stock consisting solely of changes
in par value, or from par value to no par value, or as a result of a
subdivision, combination, or merger, consolidation or similar transaction in
which the Company is a constituent corporation.

            (g) "CONVERSION PRICE" shall mean, initially, $7.70 per share of
Common Stock, subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in Section 9.

            (h) "CONVERSION RATIO" shall mean the number of shares of Common
Stock into which each share of the Series D Preferred Stock may be converted at
any time pursuant to and in accordance with an applicable voluntary or mandatory
conversion provision of this Certificate of Designation, and shall equal (x) the
Liquidation Preference divided by the Conversion Price applicable upon such
conversion, plus (y) Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases, if any,
through the conversion date.

            (i) "DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE" shall mean February 15, May 15, August
15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2002, or, if any such day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

            (j) "EXCHANGE ACT" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

            (k) "HOLDER" shall mean a holder of record of an outstanding share
or shares of the Series D Preferred Stock.

            (l) "ISSUE DATE" shall mean the original date of issuance of shares
of the Series D Preferred Stock.

            (m) "JUNIOR STOCK" shall mean the Common Stock, the Series C Junior
Participating Preferred Stock and each other class of capital stock or series of
preferred stock of the Company established by the Board of Directors after the
Issue Date, the terms of which do not expressly provide

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that such class or series ranks senior to or on parity with the Series D
Preferred Stock as to dividend rights or rights upon the liquidation, winding-up
or dissolution of the Company.

            (n) "LIQUIDATION PARITY STOCK" shall mean Parity Stock the terms of
which expressly provide that it will rank on parity with the Series D Preferred
Stock as to rights upon the liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the
Company.

            (o) "LIQUIDATION PREFERENCE" shall mean, with respect to each share
of the Series D Preferred Stock, $50.00, subject to equitable adjustment from
time to time pursuant to Section 16(d).

            (p) "MARKET VALUE" shall mean the average closing price of a share
of the Common Stock for a five consecutive Trading Day period on the NYSE (or
such other national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which
the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for quotation or, if the Common
Stock is not so listed or authorized for quotation, an amount determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors to be the fair value of the Common Stock).

            (q) "NYSE" shall mean the New York Stock Exchange, Inc.

            (r) "OFFICER" shall mean the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the
President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary of the Company.

            (s) "OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" shall mean a certificate signed by two
duly authorized Officers.

            (t) "OPINION OF COUNSEL" shall mean a written opinion from legal
counsel acceptable to the Transfer Agent. The counsel may be an employee of or
counsel to the Company or the Transfer Agent.

            (u) "PARITY STOCK" shall mean any class of capital stock or series
of preferred stock established by the Board of Directors after the Issue Date,
the terms of which expressly provide that such class or series will rank on
parity with the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividend rights or rights upon
the liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the Company.

            (v) "PERSON" shall mean any individual, corporation, general
partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, limited liability company,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.

            (w) "RECORD DATE" shall mean, with respect to a Dividend Payment
Date, the 15th calendar day prior thereto, or such other date designated by the
Board of Directors with respect to a Dividend Period.

            (x) "SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

            (y) "SECURITIES ACT" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

            (z) "SENIOR STOCK" shall mean each class of capital stock or series
of preferred stock established by the Board of Directors after the Issue Date,
the terms of which expressly provide that such class or series will rank senior
to the Series D Preferred Stock as to dividend rights or rights upon the
liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the Company.

            (aa) "SERIES C JUNIOR PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK" shall mean the
500,000 shares of preferred stock of the Company designated as the Series C
Junior Participating Preferred Stock, none of which have been issued as of the
date of this Certificate of Designation.

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            (bb) "TRADING DAY" shall mean any day on which the Common Stock is
traded for any period on the NYSE (or such other national securities exchange or
automated quotation system on which the Common Stock is then listed or
authorized for quotation).

            (cc) "TRANSFER AGENT" shall mean Fifth Third Bank, the Company's
duly appointed transfer agent, registrar, redemption, conversion and dividend
disbursing agent for the Series D Preferred Stock and transfer agent and
registrar for any Common Stock issued upon conversion of or in payment of any
portion of a dividend on shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, or any
successor duly appointed by the Company.

            (dd) "UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT" shall mean that certain Underwriting
Agreement with respect to the public offering of the Series D Preferred Stock,
dated as of March 14, 2002, among the Company, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.,
McDonald Investments Inc., A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Needham & Company, Inc.
and H.C. Wainwright & Co., Inc.

            (ee) "VOTING STOCK" shall mean, with respect to any Person,
securities of any class or classes of Capital Stock of such Person entitling the
holders thereof (whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of
stock has voting power by reason of contingency) to vote in the election of
members of the Board of Directors or other governing body of such Person. For
purposes of this definition, "CAPITAL STOCK" shall mean, with respect to any
Person, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated) of corporate stock or partnership interests and any and all
warrants, options and rights with respect thereto (whether or not currently
exercisable), including each class of common stock and preferred stock of such
Person.

         3. RANKING. The Series D Preferred Stock will, with respect to dividend
rights and rights upon the liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the
Company, rank (a) senior to all Junior Stock, (b) on parity with all Parity
Stock and (c) junior to all Senior Stock.

         4. LIQUIDATION RIGHTS.

            (a) In the event of any liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of
the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, each Holder shall, subject to the
prior rights of any holders of Senior Stock, be entitled to receive and to be
paid out of the assets of the Company available for distribution to its
stockholders the Liquidation Preference for each outstanding share of the Series
D Preferred Stock held by such Holder, in preference to the holders of, and
before any payment or distribution is made on (or any setting apart for any
payment or distribution), any Junior Stock, including, without limitation, on
any Common Stock. After the payment to the Holders of the Liquidation Preference
for each outstanding share of the Series D Preferred Stock, the Holders shall
not be entitled to convert any share of the Series D Preferred Stock into Common
Stock and shall not be entitled to any further participation in distributions
of, and shall have no right or claim to, any of the remaining assets of the
Company in respect of the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock.

            (b) Upon any liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary, the Company shall not pay to the Holders, and
no Holder shall be entitled to, any additional amount per share of the Series D
Preferred Stock in excess of the Liquidation Preference to compensate any such
Holder for any Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases through the date
of liquidation, winding-up or dissolution.

            (c) Neither the sale, conveyance, exchange or transfer (for cash,
shares of stock, other securities or other consideration) of all or
substantially all the assets or business of the Company (other than in
connection with the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, winding-up or
dissolution of the Company) nor the merger or consolidation of the Company into
or with any other Person shall be deemed to be a liquidation, winding-up or
dissolution, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Section 4.

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            (d) In the event the assets of the Company legally available for
distribution to the Holders upon any liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of
the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, shall be insufficient to pay in
full all amounts to which such Holders are entitled pursuant to Section 4(a), no
such distribution shall be made on account of any shares of Liquidation Parity
Stock upon such liquidation, winding-up or dissolution unless proportionate
distributable amounts shall be paid with equal priority on account of the Series
D Preferred Stock, ratably, in proportion to the full distributable amounts for
which Holders and holders of any Liquidation Parity Stock are entitled upon such
liquidation, winding-up or dissolution.

         5. VOTING; AMENDMENTS.

            (a) The shares of the Series D Preferred Stock shall have no voting
rights except as set forth in Section 5(b) and 5(c) or as otherwise required by
Delaware law from time to time. In exercising the voting rights set forth in
Section 5(b) and 5(c), each Holder shall be entitled to one vote for each share
of the Series D Preferred Stock held by such Holder.

            (b) So long as any shares of the Series D Preferred Stock remain
outstanding, unless a greater percentage shall then be required by law, the
Company shall not, without the affirmative vote or written consent of the
Holders (voting or consenting separately as one class) of at least 66 2/3% of
the outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, authorize, increase the
authorized amount of, reclassify any authorized capital stock or the Company
into, or issue, any shares of any class or series of Senior Stock (or any
security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Senior Stock), or
adopt amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation, including this Certificate
of Designation, or the by-laws of the Company, that would materially affect the
existing terms of the Series D Preferred Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
except as otherwise required by law, the Company may, without the consent of any
Holder, authorize, increase the authorized amount of, or issue shares of Parity
Stock or Junior Stock, and in taking such actions the Company shall not be
deemed to have materially adversely affected the existing terms of the Series D
Preferred Stock. In addition, the Company may, without the consent of any
Holder, enter into a Transaction, as described in Section 9(i), in which the
outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock become convertible into
securities other than the Common Stock, cash or other property, or consolidate
with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or
substantially all its assets to any Person or permit any Person to consolidate
with or merge into, or transfer or lease all or substantially all its properties
to, the Company, as described in Section 13.

            (c) So long as at least 100,000 shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock remain outstanding:

                (i) If, for each of six consecutive Dividend Periods, the
Company fails to pay in cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash
and shares of Common Stock, the full dividend amount payable to the Holders with
respect to such Dividend Period pursuant to Sections 6(a) and 6(b), then the
Holders, voting separately as one class, will be entitled at the next regular or
special meeting of stockholders of the Company to elect one additional director
of the Company. Effective immediately prior to the election of such additional
director, the number of directors that compose the Board of Directors shall be
increased by one director.

                (ii) The Holders may exercise the voting rights set forth in
Section 5(c)(i) at any special meeting of the Holders held for such purpose,
which may be called in accordance with the Company's by-laws or as hereinafter
provided, or at any annual meeting of stockholders held for the purpose of
electing directors, and thereafter at each such annual meeting until such time
as fewer than 100,000 shares of the Series D Preferred Stock are outstanding,
such time as the outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock have been
mandatorily converted or redeemed, or the liquidation, winding-up or dissolution
of the Company, whichever is earliest, at which time such voting rights and the
term of any director elected pursuant to this Section 5(c) shall automatically
terminate.

                (iii) At any time when the voting rights set forth in Section
5(c)(i) shall have vested in the Holders, an Officer of the Company may call,
and, upon written request of the Holders of at

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least twenty-five percent (25%) of the outstanding shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock, addressed to the Secretary of the Company, shall call a special
meeting of the Holders. Such meeting shall be held at the earliest practicable
date upon the notice required for annual meetings of stockholders at the place
for holding annual meetings of stockholders of the Company, or, if none, at a
place designated by the Board of Directors. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this Section 5(c)(iii), no such special meeting shall be called during a period
within the 60 days immediately preceding the date fixed for the next annual
meeting of stockholders in which such case, the election of directors pursuant
to Section 5(c) shall be held at such annual meeting of stockholders.

                (iv) At any meeting held for the purpose of electing directors
at which the Holders voting separately as one class shall have the right to
elect a director as provided in this Section 5(c), the presence in person or by
proxy of the Holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the then outstanding
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be required and shall be sufficient
to constitute a quorum of such class for the election of a director by such
class. The director candidate that receives the highest number of affirmative
votes of the outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock will be elected.

                (v) Any director elected pursuant to the voting rights set forth
in this Section 5(c) shall hold office until the next annual meeting of
stockholders (or his or her earlier death, resignation or removal), unless such
term has previously automatically terminated pursuant to Section 5(c)(ii)) and
any vacancy in respect of any such director shall be filled only by the Holders
at a special meeting called in accordance with the procedures set forth in this
Section 5(c), or, if no such special meeting is called, at the next annual
meeting of stockholders. The Holders shall be entitled to remove any director
elected pursuant to this Section 5(c) without cause at any time and replace such
director as provided in this Section 5(c).

         6. DIVIDENDS; AUTOMATIC CONVERSION RATIO INCREASES.

            (a) Subject to the rights of any holders of Senior Stock or Parity
Stock, each Holder will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the
Board of Directors, out of assets of the Company legally available therefor,
dividends on each share of the Series D Preferred Stock at a rate per annum
equal to 7.75% of the Liquidation Preference, or $3.875 per share annually (or
$0.96875 per share in a full quarterly dividend period), payable quarterly in
arrears on each Dividend Payment Date, to the Holders at the close of business
on the Record Date immediately preceding the relevant Dividend Payment Date.

            (b) Dividends on the outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock will be payable from the most recent Dividend Payment Date or, in the case
of the dividend payable on May 15, 2002, from the Issue Date (each such period,
a "DIVIDEND PERIOD"). Dividends payable on the Series D Preferred Stock with
respect to any period other than a full Dividend Period shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. If a Dividend
Payment Date is not a Business Day, payment of dividends shall be made on the
next succeeding Business Day.

            (c) In the event that the Board of Directors declares a dividend
with respect to a Dividend Period in an amount less than the full amount payable
to the Holders with respect to such Dividend Period pursuant to Sections 6(a)
and 6(b) (such lesser amount, a "PARTIAL DIVIDEND"), such Partial Dividend shall
be distributed to the Holders on a pro rata basis with respect to the
outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock.

            (d) Any dividend on the Series D Preferred Stock shall be, at the
option of the Company, payable in cash, in shares of Common Stock or in a
combination of cash and shares of Common Stock. The Company may not elect to pay
any portion of the dividend with respect to any Dividend Period in shares of
Common Stock unless the covenants set forth in Sections 16(f), 16(g), 16(h) and
16(i) shall have been satisfied with respect to all of the shares of Common
Stock to be issued in payment thereof ("DIVIDEND COMMON STOCK"). If the Company
elects to pay any portion of a dividend in Common Stock:

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                (i) The Company shall furnish written notice of such election by
issuing a press release for publication on the PR Newswire or an equivalent
newswire service, if required by and in accordance with the federal securities
laws or the rules of any stock exchange on which the Series D Preferred Stock or
the Common Stock is then listed or traded, and in any case by first class mail
to each Holder or by publication (with subsequent prompt notice by first class
mail to each Holder), at least ten days in advance of the Record Date for the
relevant Dividend Payment Date.

                (ii) The number of shares of Common Stock to be issued as a
dividend on the applicable Dividend Payment Date per share of the Series D
Preferred Stock will be determined by dividing (w) the difference between the
total declared dividend amount per share of the Series D Preferred Stock to be
paid with respect to the applicable Dividend Period and the amount of the cash
dividend, if any, to be paid per share of the Series D Preferred Stock with
respect to such Dividend Period, by (x) the applicable Discounted Current Market
Value of the Common Stock. The "DISCOUNTED CURRENT MARKET VALUE" of a share of
the Common Stock with respect to a Dividend Payment Date shall equal the product
of (y) 95% and (z) the average closing price of a share of the Common Stock on
the NYSE (or such other national securities exchange or automated quotation
system on which the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for quotation or,
if the Common Stock is not so listed or authorized for quotation, an amount
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors to be the fair value of the
Common Stock) for the ten consecutive Trading Day period ending on and including
the fifth Trading Day before such Dividend Payment Date.

                (iii) No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued in
payment of any dividend on the Series D Preferred Stock. The Transfer Agent is
hereby authorized to aggregate any fractional shares of Common Stock that would
otherwise be distributable as Dividend Common Stock, to sell them at the best
available price and to distribute the proceeds to the Holders in proportion to
their respective interests. The Company shall reimburse the Transfer Agent for
any expenses incurred with respect to such sale, including brokerage
commissions. If the sale by the Transfer Agent of such aggregated fractional
shares of Common Stock would be restricted, the Company shall agree with the
Transfer Agent on other appropriate arrangements for the cash realization of
such fractional shares of Common Stock. If the Company is precluded from paying
cash in lieu of fractional shares to the Holders on the Dividend Payment Date,
such failure shall not trigger an automatic increase in the Conversion Ratio
pursuant to Section 6(g)(ii), and the Company shall, when it becomes legally and
contractually able to, pay to the Holders such cash in lieu of fractional
shares.

            (e) The Company will not declare, pay or set apart any sum for the
payment of any dividend or other distribution in respect of any Parity Stock or
Junior Stock, unless the Board of Directors has declared, and the Company has
not failed to pay, a dividend in the full amount payable to the Holders pursuant
to Sections 6(a) and 6(b) with respect to the Dividend Period in which such
payment of a dividend or other distribution in respect of any Parity Stock or
Junior Stock would occur. Notwithstanding anything in this Certificate of
Designation to the contrary, the Company may:

                (i) declare and pay dividends on Parity Stock which are payable
solely in shares of Parity Stock or Junior Stock;

                (ii) declare and pay dividends on Junior Stock which are payable
solely in shares of Junior Stock;

                (iii) declare and pay dividends on Parity Stock or Junior Stock
by increasing the liquidation value of the Parity Stock or Junior Stock, as
applicable;

                (iv) repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Junior Stock in
exchange for Junior Stock; or

                (v) repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Parity Stock in
exchange for Parity Stock or Junior Stock.

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            (f) If the Board of Directors declares a dividend with respect to a
Dividend Period, the Holders at the close of business on the applicable Record
Date will be entitled to receive the dividend payment on shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock on the corresponding Dividend Payment Date notwithstanding the
conversion thereof subsequent to such Record Date, unless the Company defaults
in payment of such dividend on the corresponding Dividend Payment Date, in which
case such Holders shall be issued on the Dividend Payment Date, in addition to
the shares of Common Stock issued on the conversion date, an additional number
of shares of Common Stock per converted share of the Series D Preferred Stock
equal to the automatic increase in the Conversion Ratio pursuant to Section
6(g)(ii). However, shares of the Series D Preferred Stock surrendered for
conversion during the period between the close of business on any Record Date
and the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the
applicable Dividend Payment Date must be accompanied by payment of an amount in
cash equal to the cash dividend amount payable on that Dividend Payment Date
(or, if the dividend payable on that Dividend Payment Date is payable in Common
Stock in whole or in part, an amount in cash equal to the cash dividend amount
that would have been payable on that Dividend Payment Date if the Company had
elected to pay such dividend solely in cash) on the shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock surrendered for conversion. A Holder on a Record Date who (or
whose transferee) tenders any shares for conversion on the corresponding
Dividend Payment Date will receive any dividend payable by the Company on such
tendered shares of the Series D Preferred Stock on that date, and the converting
Holder need not include payment in the amount of such dividend upon surrender of
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock for conversion.

            (g) The difference between (x) the full amount payable per share of
the Series D Preferred Stock to the Holders with respect to any Dividend Period
pursuant to Sections 6(a) and 6(b) and (y) any lesser (or zero) actual dividend
amount paid per share of the Series D Preferred Stock with respect to such
Dividend Period, resulting from the failure of the Board of Directors to declare
any dividend with respect to such Dividend Period, the declaration by the Board
of Directors of a Partial Dividend with respect to such Dividend Period, or the
failure of the Company to pay on the applicable Dividend Payment Date the
dividend or Partial Dividend declared by the Board of Directors for such
Dividend Period, is referred to as the "DIVIDEND DEFICIENCY." In the event that
a Dividend Deficiency shall occur with respect to any Dividend Period:

                (i) The Holders will not be entitled to receive the amount of
the Dividend Deficiency with respect to such Dividend Period, and the amount of
the Dividend Deficiency with respect to such Dividend Period shall not
accumulate and no interest or sum of money or other property or securities in
lieu of interest will be payable in respect of such Dividend Deficiency.

                (ii) The Conversion Ratio shall automatically increase on the
Dividend Payment Date on which the amount of such Dividend Deficiency would have
been paid by a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 115% of the number of
shares of Common Stock that the Company would have been required to issue as a
stock dividend on each share of the Series D Preferred Stock to pay the Dividend
Deficiency with respect to the applicable Dividend Period in full. Such
automatic increase in the Conversion Ratio shall be deemed to fully satisfy in
all respects the payment of the amount of the Dividend Deficiency with respect
to the applicable Dividend Period, and, except for the voting rights described
in Section 5(c), no other rights or interest will accrue to the Holders as a
result of any Dividend Deficiency, whether or not the earnings or net surplus of
the Company in any calendar or fiscal year of the Company were sufficient to pay
any such Dividend Deficiency in whole or in part.

                (iii) Upon any automatic increase in the Conversion Ratio
pursuant to Section 6(g)(ii), the Company promptly shall deliver to the Transfer
Agent an Officers' Certificate describing in reasonable detail the Dividend
Deficiency requiring the automatic increase in the Conversion Ratio and the
method of calculation thereof in accordance with the provisions of this
Certificate of Designation and specifying the increased Conversion Ratio in
effect following such automatic increase.

                (iv) The Company shall furnish notice of any Dividend Deficiency
and resulting automatic increase in the Conversion Ratio pursuant to Section
6(g)(ii) by issuing a press

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release for publication on the PR Newswire or an equivalent newswire service, if
required by and in accordance with the federal securities laws or the rules of
any stock exchange on which the Series D Preferred Stock or the Common Stock is
then listed or traded, and in any case by distribution of a copy of the
Officers' Certificate described in Section 6(g)(iii) to each Holder by first
class mail or by publication (with subsequent prompt distribution of such notice
by first class mail to each Holder), (A) at least ten days in advance of the
Record Date for the relevant Dividend Payment Date, in the event that the Board
of Directors does not declare a dividend with respect to any Dividend Period or
declares a Partial Dividend with respect to any Dividend Period, or (B) no more
than three days after the relevant Dividend Payment Date, if the Company fails
to pay a dividend or Partial Dividend declared by the Board of Directors with
respect to any Dividend Period.

            (h) Automatic increases in the Conversion Ratio pursuant to Section
6(g)(ii) will occur each time a Dividend Deficiency occurs with respect to a
Dividend Period, and such increases in the Conversion Ratio shall accumulate
with respect to each outstanding share of the Series D Preferred Stock, until
the earlier of (i) such time as such shares of the Series D Preferred Stock are
redeemed for cash or converted into Common Stock, cash or other property as
provided in this Certificate of Designation, or (ii) such time as distributions
of the Company's assets with respect to such shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock are made upon the liquidation, winding-up of dissolution of the Company as
provided in this Certificate of Designation. Upon distribution of the Company's
assets to the Holders with respect to the outstanding shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock upon the liquidation, winding-up of dissolution of the Company
as provided in Section 4 or upon the mandatory redemption of the outstanding
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to Section 11, the Company shall
not pay to any Holder any amount per share of the Series D Preferred Stock in
excess of the Liquidation Preference to compensate such Holder for Accumulated
Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases through the date of liquidation or the
Mandatory Redemption Date.

            (i) The Company shall take all actions required or permitted under
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware to permit the payment of
dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock and automatic increases in the
Conversion Ratio pursuant to Section 6(g)(ii).

            (j) In the event that the Company consummates a transaction
described in Section 2(d)(ii), and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
successor, transferee or lessee is organized would impose a withholding tax on
any dividend payment hereunder, the Company shall:

                (i) furnish written notice to the Holders, by issuing a press
release for publication on the PR Newswire or an equivalent newswire service, if
required by and in accordance with the federal securities laws or the rules of
any stock exchange on which the Series D Preferred Stock or the Common Stock is
then listed or traded, and in any case by distribution of such notice to each
Holder by first class mail or by publication (with subsequent prompt
distribution of such notice by first class mail to each Holder) at least ten
days in advance of the Record Date for the first Dividend Payment Date on which
any dividend payable hereunder would be subject to such withholding tax, whether
or not any dividend is paid on such Dividend Payment Date, which notice shall
state that withholding taxes may be imposed with respect to dividends payable on
the Series D Preferred Stock and that the Company will, as described in Section
6(j)(ii) below, increase the dividend amounts payable on the Series D Preferred
Stock with respect to all Dividend Periods for which such withholding taxes
apply;

                (ii) with respect to the dividend payable on each Dividend
Payment Date for which any such withholding tax may be imposed, increase the
dividend amount payable to the Holders such that the net dividend amount payable
to the Holders on such Dividend Payment Date after giving effect to any such
withholding tax shall be equivalent to the dividend that the Holders would have
received on such Dividend Payment Date absent such withholding tax; and

                (iii) with respect to each dividend for which any such
withholding tax may be imposed, deliver to the Transfer Agent promptly after the
declaration of such dividend an Officers' Certificate describing in detail the
dividend amount that would have been payable on the relevant Dividend Payment
Date before the increase for withholding taxes pursuant to Section 6(j)(ii) and
the

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amount by which such dividend amount was increased to produce a net dividend
amount equal to the dividend amount that the Holders would have received on the
relevant Dividend Payment Date absent such withholding tax.

         7. VOLUNTARY CONVERSION.

            (a) Each Holder shall have the right, at its option, exercisable at
any time and from time to time from the Issue Date, to convert, subject to the
terms and provisions of this Section 7 and Section 11, any or all of such
Holder's shares of the Series D Preferred Stock into such whole number of shares
of Common Stock per share of the Series D Preferred Stock as is equal to the
Conversion Ratio in effect on the date of conversion, plus cash in lieu of any
fractional share of Common Stock as provided in Section 8.

            (b) The conversion right of a Holder shall be exercised by the
Holder by the delivery to the Company at any time during usual business hours at
the Company's principal place of business or the offices of the Transfer Agent
of a written notice to the Company in the form of EXHIBIT B that the Holder
elects to convert the number of its shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
specified in such notice. The conversion of shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock not represented by physical certificates will be effected through the
facilities of the Depositary as described in Section 15. If the shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock that the Holder wishes to convert are represented by
one or more physical certificates, the Holder shall be required to surrender
such physical certificate or certificates to the Company or the Transfer Agent
(properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Company shall so require).
The shares of Common Stock and cash in lieu of any fractional share due to such
Holder surrendering physical certificates shall be delivered to the Holder and
each surrendered physical certificate shall be canceled and retired. Immediately
prior to the close of business on the date of receipt by the Company or its duly
appointed Transfer Agent of notice of conversion of shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock, each converting Holder shall be deemed to be the holder of
record of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Holder's shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock notwithstanding that the share register of the Company
shall then be closed or that, if applicable, physical certificates representing
such Common Stock shall not then be actually delivered to such Holder. On the
date of any conversion, all rights of any Holder with respect to the shares of
the Series D Preferred Stock so converted, including the rights, if any, to
receive distributions of the Company's assets (including, but not limited to,
the Liquidation Preference) or notices from the Company, will terminate, except
only for the rights of any such Holder to (i) receive physical certificates (if
applicable) for the number of whole shares of Common Stock into which such
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock have been converted and cash in lieu of
any fractional share as provided in Section 8, and (ii) exercise the rights to
which he, she or it is entitled as a holder of Common Stock into which such
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock have been converted.

         8. NO FRACTIONAL SHARES UPON CONVERSION. No fractional shares or
securities representing fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon
any conversion of any shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, whether voluntary
or mandatory. If more than one share of the Series D Preferred Stock held by the
same Holder shall be subject to conversion at one time, the number of full
shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the
basis of the aggregate Liquidation Preference of, and any applicable Accumulated
Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases with respect to, all of such shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock as of the conversion date. If the conversion of any
share or shares of the Series D Preferred Stock results in a fraction, an amount
equal to such fraction multiplied by the last reported sale price of the Common
Stock on the NYSE (or such other national securities exchange or automated
quotation system on which the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for
quotation or, if the Common Stock is not so listed or authorized for quotation,
an amount determined in good faith by the Board of Directors to be the fair
value of the Common Stock) at the close of business on the Trading Day next
preceding the conversion date shall be paid to such Holder in cash by the
Company.

         9. ADJUSTMENTS TO CONVERSION PRICE. Any adjustment to the Conversion
Price shall result in a change in the Conversion Ratio. The Conversion Price
shall be subject to adjustment as follows:

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            (a) In case the Company shall at any time or from time to time:

                (i) pay a dividend (or other distribution) payable in shares of
Common Stock on any class of capital stock (which, for purposes of this Section
9 shall include, without limitation, any dividends or distributions in the form
of options, warrants or other rights to acquire capital stock) of the Company
(other than the issuance of shares of Common Stock in connection with the
conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock or as dividends in respect of the
Series D Preferred Stock or any Parity Stock);

                (ii) subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
larger number of shares;

                (iii) combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares;

                (iv) issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification
of the Common Stock; or

                (v) pay a dividend or make a distribution to all holders of
shares of Common Stock (other than a dividend subject to Section 9(b)) pursuant
to a stockholder rights plan, "poison pill" or similar arrangement, then, and in
each such case, the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such event
shall be adjusted (and any other appropriate actions shall be taken by the
Company) so that the Holder of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock thereafter
surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to receive the number of shares of
Common Stock that such Holder would have owned or would have been entitled to
receive upon or by reason of any of the events described above, had such share
of the Series D Preferred Stock been converted into shares of Common Stock
immediately prior to the occurrence of such event. An adjustment made pursuant
to this Section 9(a) shall become effective retroactively (x) in the case of any
such dividend or distribution, to the day immediately following the close of
business on the record date for the determination of holders of Common Stock
entitled to receive such dividend or distribution or (y) in the case of any such
subdivision, combination or reclassification, to the close of business on the
day upon which such corporate action becomes effective.

            (b) In case the Company shall at any time or from time to time issue
to all holders of its Common Stock rights, options or warrants entitling the
holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock (or
securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock) at a
price per share less than the Market Value for the period ending on the date of
issuance (treating the price per share of any security convertible into, or
exchangeable or exercisable for, Common Stock as equal to (i) the sum of the
price paid to acquire such security convertible into, or exchangeable or
exercisable for, Common Stock plus any additional consideration payable (without
regard to any anti-dilution adjustments) upon the conversion, exchange or
exercise of such security into Common Stock divided by (ii) the number of shares
of Common Stock into which such convertible, exchangeable or exercisable
security is initially convertible, exchangeable or exercisable), other than (A)
issuances of such rights, options or warrants if the Holder would be entitled to
receive such rights, options or warrants upon conversion at any time of shares
of the Series D Preferred Stock into Common Stock and (B) issuances that are
subject to certain triggering events (until such time as such triggering events
occur), then, and in each such case, the Conversion Price then in effect shall
be adjusted by dividing the Conversion Price in effect on the day immediately
prior to the record date of such issuance by a fraction (x) the numerator of
which shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on
such record date plus the number of additional shares of Common Stock issued or
to be issued upon or as a result of the issuance of such rights, options or
warrants (or the maximum number into or for which such convertible or
exchangeable securities initially may convert or exchange or for which such
options, warrants or other rights initially may be exercised) and (y) the
denominator of which shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on such record date plus the number of shares of Common Stock which
the aggregate consideration for the total number of such additional shares of
Common Stock so issued (or into or for which such convertible or exchangeable
securities may convert or exchange or for which such options, warrants or other
rights may be exercised plus the aggregate amount of any additional
consideration initially payable upon the conversion, exchange or exercise of
such security)

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would purchase at the Market Value for the period ending on the date of
conversion; provided, however, that if the Company distributes rights or
warrants (other than those referred to above in this Section 9(b)) pro rata to
the holders of Common Stock, the Conversion Price shall not be subject to
adjustment on account of any declaration, distribution or exercise of such
rights or warrants so long as (x) such rights or warrants have not expired or
been redeemed by the Company, and (y) the Holder of any shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to receive upon
such conversion, in addition to the shares of Common Stock then issuable upon
such conversion (the "CONVERSION SHARES"), a number of rights or warrants to be
determined as follows: (i) if such conversion occurs on or prior to the date for
the distribution to the holders of rights or warrants of separate certificates
evidencing such rights or warrants (the "DISTRIBUTION DATE"), the same number of
rights or warrants to which a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal
to the number of Conversion Shares is entitled at the time of such conversion in
accordance with the terms and provisions applicable to the rights or warrants
and (ii) if such conversion occurs after the Distribution Date, the same number
of rights or warrants to which a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock
into which such shares of the Series D Preferred Stock was convertible
immediately prior to such Distribution Date would have been entitled on such
Distribution Date had such shares of the Series D Preferred Stock been converted
immediately prior to such Distribution Date in accordance with the terms and
provisions applicable to the rights and warrants.

            (c) In case the Company shall at any time or from time to time:

                (i) make a pro rata distribution to all holders of shares of its
Common Stock consisting exclusively of cash (excluding any cash portion of
distributions referred to in Section 9(a)(v) above, or cash distributed upon a
merger or consolidation to which Section 9(i) below applies), that, when
combined together with (x) all other such all-cash distributions made within the
then-preceding 12 months in respect of which no adjustment has been made and (y)
any cash and the fair market value of other consideration paid or payable in
respect of any tender offer by the Company or any of its subsidiaries for shares
of Common Stock concluded within the then-preceding 12 months in respect of
which no adjustment pursuant to this Section 9 has been made, in the aggregate
exceeds 10% of the Company's market capitalization (defined as the product of
the Market Value for the period ending on the record date of such distribution
times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such record date) on
the record date of such distribution;

                (ii) complete a tender or exchange offer by the Company or any
of its subsidiaries for shares of Common Stock that involves an aggregate
consideration that, together with (A) any cash and other consideration payable
in a tender or exchange offer by the Company or any of its subsidiaries for
shares of Common Stock expiring within the then-preceding 12 months in respect
of which no adjustment pursuant to this Section 9 has been made and (B) the
aggregate amount of any such all-cash distributions referred to in Section
9(c)(i) to all holders of shares of Common Stock within the then-preceding 12
months in respect of which no adjustments have been made, exceeds 10% of the
Company's market capitalization (as defined in Section 9(c)(i)) on the
expiration of such tender offer; or

                (iii) make a distribution to all holders of its Common Stock
consisting of evidences of indebtedness, shares of its capital stock other than
Common Stock or assets (including securities, but excluding those dividends,
rights, options, warrants and distributions referred to in Sections 9(a) or 9(b)
above or this Section 9(c)), then, and in each such case, the Conversion Price
then in effect shall be adjusted by dividing the Conversion Price in effect
immediately prior to the date of such distribution or completion of such tender
or exchange offer, as the case may be, by a fraction (x) the numerator of which
shall be the Market Value for the period ending on the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution, or, if such
adjustment is made upon the completion of a tender or exchange offer, on the
payment date for such offer, and (y) the denominator of which shall be such
Market Value less the then fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company) of the portion of the cash, evidences of indebtedness,
securities or other assets so distributed or paid in such tender or exchange
offer, applicable to one share of Common Stock (but such denominator shall not
be less than one); provided, however, that no adjustment shall be made with
respect to any distribution of rights to purchase securities of the Company if
the Holder would otherwise be entitled to receive such rights upon conversion at
any time of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock

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into shares of Common Stock unless such rights are subsequently redeemed by the
Company, in which case such redemption shall be treated for purposes of this
Section 9(b) as a dividend on the Common Stock. Such adjustment shall be made
whenever any such distribution is made or tender or exchange offer is completed,
as the case may be, and shall become effective retroactively to a date
immediately following the close of business on the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.

            (d) In the case the Company at any time or from time to time shall
take any action affecting its Common Stock (it being understood that the
issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock (or securities convertible into or
exchangeable for shares of Common Stock, or any options, warrants or other
rights to acquire shares of Common Stock) to any Person at a price per share
less than the Conversion Price then in effect shall not be deemed such an
action), other than an action described in any of Sections 9(a), 9(b), 9(c) or
9(i), then the Conversion Price shall be adjusted in such manner and at such
time as the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith determines to be
equitable in the circumstances (such determination to be evidenced in a
resolution, a certified copy of which shall be mailed to the Transfer Agent and
the Holders along with the Officers' Certificate described in Section 9(h)).

            (e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no adjustment
under this Section 9 need be made to the Conversion Price unless such adjustment
would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% of the Conversion Price
then in effect. Any lesser adjustment shall be carried forward and shall be made
at the time of and together with the next subsequent adjustment, if any, which,
together with any adjustment or adjustments so carried forward, shall amount to
an increase or decrease of at least 1% of such Conversion Price.

            (f) The Company reserves the right to make such reductions in the
Conversion Price in addition to those required in the foregoing provisions as it
considers advisable in order that any event treated for federal income tax
purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights will not be taxable to the
recipients. In the event the Company elects to make such a reduction in the
Conversion Price, the Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1
under the Exchange Act, and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder
if and to the extent that such laws and regulations are applicable in connection
with the reduction of the Conversion Price.

            (g) If the Company shall take a record of the holders of its Common
Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive a dividend or other
distribution, and shall thereafter (and before the dividend or distribution has
been paid or delivered to stockholders) legally abandon its plan to pay or
deliver such dividend or distribution, then thereafter no adjustment in the
Conversion Price then in effect shall be required by reason of the taking of
such record.

            (h) Upon any increase or decrease in the Conversion Price pursuant
to this Section 9, the Company promptly shall deliver to the Transfer Agent and
each Holder an Officers' Certificate describing in reasonable detail the event
requiring the increase or decrease in the Conversion Price and the method of
calculation thereof and specifying the increased or decreased Conversion Price
and Conversion Ratio in effect following such adjustment, and attaching and
certifying the resolution of the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 9(d) (if
applicable).

            (i) Subject to the provisions of Section 12, in the event of any
reclassification of outstanding shares of Common Stock (other than a change in
par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par
value), or in the event of any consolidation or merger of the Company with or
into another Person or any merger of another Person with or into the Company
(other than a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the resulting or
surviving Person and which does not result in any reclassification or change of
outstanding Common Stock), or in the event of any sale or other disposition to
another Person of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company
(computed on a consolidated basis) (any of the foregoing, a "TRANSACTION"), each
share of the Series D Preferred Stock then outstanding shall, without the
consent of any Holder, become convertible at any time, at the option of the
Holder thereof, only into the kind and amount of securities (of the Company or
another issuer), cash

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and other property receivable upon such Transaction by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock into which such share of the Series D Preferred Stock
could have been converted immediately prior to such Transaction, after giving
effect to any adjustment event, including the exercise of the Change of Control
Option contemplated in Section 12. The provisions of this Section 9(i) and any
equivalent thereof in any such securities similarly shall apply to successive
Transactions. The provisions of this Section 9(i) shall be the sole right of the
Holders in connection with any Transaction and such Holders shall have no
separate vote thereon.

             (j) For purposes of this Section 9, the number of shares of Common
Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in treasury of the
Company. The Company shall not pay any dividend or make any distribution on
Common Stock held in treasury of the Company.

         10. MANDATORY CONVERSION.

             (a) At any time on or after February 20, 2005, the Company shall
have the right, at its option, to cause all, but not a portion, of the
outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock to be automatically converted
into that number of whole shares of Common Stock for each share of the Series D
Preferred Stock equal to the Conversion Ratio then in effect, with any resulting
fractional shares of Common Stock to be settled in accordance with Section 8.
The Company may exercise its right to cause a mandatory conversion pursuant to
this Section 10(a) only if the closing price of a share of the Common Stock as
reported on the NYSE (or such other national securities exchange or automated
quotation system on which the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for
quotation or, if the Common Stock is not so listed or authorized for quotation,
an amount determined in good faith by the Board of Directors to be the fair
value of the Common Stock) equals or exceeds 125% of the Conversion Price then
in effect for at least 20 Trading Days in any consecutive 30-day trading period,
including the last Trading Day of such 30-day period, ending on the Trading Day
prior to the Company's issuance of a press release, or, if no press release is
issued, mailing of a notice announcing the mandatory conversion as described in
Section 10(b).

             (b) To exercise the mandatory conversion right described in Section
10(a) or in Section 10(e), the Company shall issue a press release for
publication on the PR Newswire or an equivalent newswire service, if required by
and in accordance with the federal securities laws or the rules of any stock
exchange on which the Series D Preferred Stock or the Common Stock is then
listed or traded, prior to the opening of business on the first Trading Day
following any date on which the conditions described in Section 10(a) or in
Section 10(e), as applicable, are met, announcing such a mandatory conversion.
Whether or not a press release is issued, the Company shall furnish notice of
the Company's intention to mandatorily convert the outstanding shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock by first class mail to each Holder or by publication
(with subsequent prompt notice by first class mail to each Holder), not later
than the 15th day prior to the date on which the mandatory conversion would
occur (the "MANDATORY CONVERSION DATE"). The Mandatory Conversion Date will be a
date selected by the Company and will be at least 15 days but no more than 30
days after the Company issues the press release described in this Section 10(b),
or if no press release is issued, after mailing of the notice described in this
Section 10(b) to the Holders.

             (c) In addition to any information required by applicable law or
regulation, the press release and notice of a mandatory conversion described in
Section 10(a) shall state, as appropriate: (i) the Mandatory Conversion Date;
(ii) the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of each
share of the Series D Preferred Stock; (iii) the number of shares of the Series
D Preferred Stock to be converted; and (iv) that dividends on the shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock to be converted will cease to be payable on the
Mandatory Conversion Date.

             (d) On the Mandatory Conversion Date, dividends will cease to be
payable on the Series D Preferred Stock, and all rights of any Holder with
respect to the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, including the rights, if
any, to receive distributions of the Company's assets (including, but not
limited to, the Liquidation Preference) or notices from the Company, will
terminate, except only for the rights of any such Holder to (i) receive physical
certificates (if applicable) for the number of whole shares

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of Common Stock into which such Holder's shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
have been converted and cash in lieu of any fractional share as provided in
Section 8, and (ii) exercise the rights to which he, she or it is entitled as a
holder of Common Stock into which such Holder's shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock have been mandatorily converted. Any dividend payment declared by the
Board of Directors with respect to the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
called for a mandatory conversion on a date during the period between the close
of business on any Record Date to the close of business on the corresponding
Dividend Payment Date will be payable on such Dividend Payment Date to the
Holder of such share on such Record Date if such share has been converted after
such Record Date and prior to such Dividend Payment Date.

             (e) In addition to the mandatory conversion right described in
Section 10(a), if there are less than 100,000 shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock outstanding, the Company shall have the right, at any time on or after
February 20, 2006, at its option, to cause each outstanding share of the Series
D Preferred Stock to be automatically converted into that number of whole shares
of Common Stock equal to the lesser of (i) the Conversion Ratio then in effect
and (ii) the sum of (x) the Liquidation Preference divided by the Market Value
for the period ending on the second Trading Day immediately prior to the
Mandatory Conversion Date and (y) any Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio
Increases to the Mandatory Conversion Date. Any fractional shares of Common
Stock resulting from such conversion shall be settled in cash in accordance with
Section 8.

             (f) The provisions of Sections 10(b) and 10(d) shall apply to any
mandatory conversion pursuant to Section 10(e). In addition to any information
required by applicable law or regulation, the press release and notice of a
mandatory conversion described in Section 10(e) shall state, as appropriate: (i)
the Mandatory Conversion Date; (ii) the number of shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock to be converted; (iii) that dividends on the shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock to be converted will cease to be payable on the
Mandatory Conversion Date; (iv) the Conversion Ratio then in effect; and (v)
that the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of each
share of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be equal to the lesser of the
Conversion Ratio then in effect and the sum of (x) the Liquidation Preference
divided by the Market Value for the period ending on the second Trading Day
immediately prior to the Mandatory Conversion Date and (y) any Accumulated
Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases to the Mandatory Conversion Date.

         11. MANDATORY REDEMPTION.

             (a) On but not before February 15, 2014 (the "MANDATORY REDEMPTION
DATE"), the Company shall be required to redeem, subject to the legal
availability of funds therefor, all outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock at a price in cash equal to the Liquidation Preference thereof (the
"MANDATORY REDEMPTION PRICE"). The Company shall take all actions required or
permitted under the laws of the State of Delaware to permit such mandatory
redemption.

             (b) Upon mandatory redemption pursuant to this Section 11, the
Company shall not pay to the Holders, and no Holder shall be entitled to, any
additional amount per share of the Series D Preferred Stock in excess of the
Liquidation Preference to compensate any such Holder for any Accumulated
Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases through the Mandatory Redemption Date.

             (c) Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Mandatory
Redemption Price, the right of the Holders pursuant to Section 7 to convert
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock into Common Stock shall terminate at the
close of business on the Business Day preceding the Mandatory Redemption Date,
dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock will cease to be payable on and after
the Mandatory Redemption Date and all other rights of the Holders will terminate
on the Mandatory Redemption Date except for the right to receive the Mandatory
Redemption Price, without interest.

             (d) The Company will furnish written notice of the mandatory
redemption by issuing a press release for publication on the PR Newswire or an
equivalent newswire service, if required by and in accordance with the federal
securities laws or the rules of any stock exchange on which the Series D
Preferred Stock or the Common Stock is then listed or traded, and in any case by
first class mail to each

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Holder or by publication (with subsequent prompt notice by first class mail to
each Holder), at least 15 days in advance of the Mandatory Redemption Date (the
"MANDATORY REDEMPTION NOTICE"). In addition to any information required by
applicable law or regulation, the press release, if any, and Mandatory
Redemption Notice shall state, as appropriate:

                 (i) the Mandatory Redemption Date;

                 (ii) the total number of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
to be mandatorily redeemed;

                 (iii) that each outstanding share of the Series D Preferred
Stock will be redeemed for cash in an amount equal to the Mandatory Redemption
Price;

                 (iv) that dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock to be
mandatorily redeemed will cease to be payable on the Mandatory Redemption Date,
unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Mandatory Redemption Price;

                 (v) that the right of the Holders to voluntarily convert shares
of the Series D Preferred Stock into Common Stock will terminate at the close of
business on the Business Day preceding the Mandatory Redemption Date, unless the
Company defaults in the payment of the Mandatory Redemption Price;

                 (vi) the Conversion Ratio then in effect; and

                 (vii) that if any shares of the Series D Preferred Stock held
by any Holder are represented by one or more physical certificates, such Holder
must surrender to the Company or the Transfer Agent, in the manner and at the
place or places designated, such physical certificate or certificates
representing the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock to be redeemed.

             (e) The mandatory redemption of shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock not represented by physical certificates will be effected through the
facilities of the Depositary as described in Section 15. Each Holder of one or
more physical certificates representing shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
shall surrender such physical certificate or certificates to the Company or the
Transfer Agent (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Company shall
so require and the Mandatory Redemption Notice shall so state), in the manner
and at the place or places designated in the Mandatory Redemption Notice, and
the full Mandatory Redemption Price for such shares shall be payable in cash on
the Mandatory Redemption Date to the Holder, and each surrendered physical
certificate shall be canceled and retired.

             (f) The Company shall comply with any federal and state securities
laws and regulations, to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable, in
connection with the mandatory redemption.

         12. CHANGE OF CONTROL.

             (a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (or if the Company
has mailed or is required by Section 12(d) to have mailed a notice with respect
to a transaction described in Section 2(d)(ii) that is for the purpose of
changing the Company's domicile to a location outside of the United States (a
"FOREIGN DOMICILE CHANGE OF CONTROL")), each Holder shall, in the event that the
Change of Control Ratio (as defined below) is greater than the Conversion Ratio
on the Change of Control Date (or, in the case of a Foreign Domicile Change of
Control, on the date that is two Trading Days before the mailing of the notice
described in Section 12(d)), have a one-time option (the "CHANGE OF CONTROL
OPTION") to convert all of such Holder's outstanding shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock, each such share of the Series D
Preferred Stock being convertible into a number of shares of Common Stock equal
to the sum of (u) the Liquidation Preference divided by an adjusted Conversion

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Price equal to the greater of (i) the Market Value for the period ending on the
Change of Control Date (or, in the case of a Foreign Domicile Change of Control,
the Market Value for the period ending on the date that is two Trading Days
before the mailing of the notice described in Section 12(d)) and (ii) $4.6667
and (v) the amount of any Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases
through the Change of Control Date (or, in the case of a Foreign Domicile Change
of Control, the amount of any Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases
through the Holder's date of conversion pursuant to its exercise of the Change
of Control Option). The "CHANGE OF CONTROL RATIO" shall equal the sum of (w) the
Liquidation Preference divided by the Market Value for the period ending on the
Change of Control Date (or, in the case of a Foreign Domicile Change of Control,
the Market Value for the period ending on the date that is two Trading Days
before the mailing of the notice described in Section 12(d)) and (x) the amount
of any Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio Increases through the Change of
Control Date (or, in the case of a Foreign Domicile Change of Control, through
the date that is two Trading Days before the mailing of the notice described in
Section 12(d)). In lieu of converting shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
into Common Stock upon any Holder's valid exercise of the Change of Control
Option, the Company may, at its option, redeem each share of the Series D
Preferred Stock for cash equal to the product of (y) the Market Value for the
period ending on the Change of Control Date (or, in the case of a Foreign
Domicile Change of Control, for the period ending on the date that is two
Trading Days before the mailing of the notice described in Section 12(d)) and
(z) the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issuable to such
Holder upon conversion in accordance with the first sentence of this Section
12(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control
in which each holder of the Common Stock receives consideration consisting
solely of common stock of the successor, acquiror or other third party (and cash
paid in lieu of fractional shares) that is listed on a national securities
exchange or quoted on the Nasdaq National Market and all of the Common Stock has
been exchanged for, converted into or acquired for common stock of the
successor, acquiror or other third party (and cash paid in lieu of fractional
shares), and shares of the Series D Preferred Stock become convertible solely
into such common stock, the Conversion Price will not be adjusted as described
in this Section 12(a).

             (b) The Change of Control Option must be exercised, if at all,
during the period of not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days commencing on
the third Business Day after notice of a Change in Control has been given by the
Company in accordance with Section 12(c); provided, however, that in the case of
a Foreign Domicile Change of Control, the Change of Control Option must be
exercised, if at all, during the 15 consecutive day period ending on the day
immediately prior to the Change of Control Date commencing upon the Company's
delivery of a notice to the Holders in accordance with Section 12(d).

             (c) In the event of a Change of Control (other than a Change of
Control described in the last sentence of Section 12(a) or a Foreign Domicile
Change of Control), notice of such Change of Control shall be given, within five
Business Days of the Change of Control Date, by the Company by first class mail
to each Holder. Each such notice shall state (i) that a Change of Control has
occurred; (ii) the last day on which the Change of Control Option may be
exercised (with respect to any such Change of Control, the "EXPIRATION DATE")
pursuant to the terms of this Section 12; and (iii) the procedures that Holders
must follow to exercise the Change of Control Option.

             (d) In the event of a Foreign Domicile Change of Control, notice of
such Foreign Domicile Change of Control shall be given at least 15 days prior to
the Change of Control Date by the Company by first class mail to each Holder.
Each such notice shall state (i) that a Foreign Domicile Change of Control is
pending; (ii) the expected Change of Control Date; (iii) the last day on which
the Change of Control Option may be exercised (with respect to such Foreign
Domicile Change of Control, the "EXPIRATION DATE") pursuant to the terms of this
Section 12; and (iv) the procedures that Holders must follow to exercise the
Change of Control Option.

             (e) On or before the Expiration Date, each Holder wishing to
exercise the Change of Control Option shall furnish to the Company or the
Transfer Agent the documentation requested in the notice described in Section
12(c) or 12(d), in the manner and at the place or places designated in such
notice. The conversion or redemption of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
not represented by physical certificates will be effected through the facilities
of the Depositary as described in Section 15.

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Each Holder of one or more physical certificates representing shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock shall be required to surrender such physical
certificate or certificates to the Company or the Transfer Agent (properly
endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Company shall so require and the
notice shall so state). The cash or shares of Common Stock due to such Holder,
as described in Section 12(a), shall be delivered to the Holder and each
surrendered physical certificate shall be canceled and retired.

             (f) The rights of the Holders pursuant to this Section 12 are in
addition to, and not in lieu of, the voluntary conversion rights of the Holders
provided for in Section 7.

         13. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE OF ASSETS.

             (a) The Company, without the consent of any Holder, may consolidate
with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or
substantially all its assets to any Person or may permit any Person to
consolidate with or merge into, or transfer or lease all or substantially all
its properties to, the Company; provided, however, that:

                 (i) subject to the provisions of Section 12, the shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock will become shares of such successor, transferee or
lessee, having in respect of such successor, transferee or lessee the same
powers, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights
and the qualification, limitations or restrictions thereon, that the shares of
the Series D Preferred Stock had immediately prior to such transaction; and

                 (ii) the Company delivers to the Transfer Agent an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such transaction complies
with this Certificate of Designation.

             (b) Upon any consolidation by the Company with, or merger by the
Company into, any other person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of all or
substantially all the assets of the Company as described in Section 13(a), the
successor resulting from such consolidation or into which the Company is merged
or the transferee or lessee to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made,
will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power
of, the Company under the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, and
thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor (if still in
existence) will be released from its obligations and covenants with respect to
the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock.

         14. SEC REPORTS. Whether or not the Company is required to file reports
with the SEC, if any shares of the Series D Preferred Stock are outstanding, the
Company shall file with the SEC all such reports and other information as it
would be required to file with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) under
the Exchange Act. The Company shall supply each Holder, upon request, without
cost to such Holder, copies of such reports or other information.

         15. CERTIFICATES.

             (a) The Series D Preferred Stock certificate shall be substantially
in the form of EXHIBIT A, which is hereby incorporated in, and the form and
terms thereof expressly made a part of, this Certificate of Designation. The
Series D Preferred Stock certificate may have notations, legends or endorsements
required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Company is
subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or
endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Company).

             (b) The Series D Preferred Stock shall initially be issued only in
the form of one or more fully registered global security certificates ("GLOBAL
SECURITY CERTIFICATES") with the global securities legend set forth in EXHIBIT A
hereto, registered in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of The Depository
Trust Company, which will act as securities depositary (the "DEPOSITARY") for
the Series D Preferred Stock. The Global Security Certificates will be deposited
with the Depositary or its custodian. As long as the Depositary or its nominee
is the registered owner of the Global Security Certificates, the Depositary or

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that nominee will be considered the sole owner and holder of the Global Security
Certificates and all of the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock represented
by those Global Security Certificates for all purposes under the Series D
Preferred Stock. Except if the Depositary has notified the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the Global Security
Certificates, has ceased to be qualified to act or there is a continuing default
by the Company in respect of its obligations under the Series D Preferred Stock,
this Certificate of Designation, the Underwriting Agreement or any other
principal agreement or instrument executed in connection with the offering of
the Series D Preferred Stock, owners of beneficial interests in Global Security
Certificates will not be entitled to have the Global Security Certificates or
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock represented by those certificates
registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical
certificates representing shares of the Series D Preferred Stock in exchange and
will not be considered to be owners or holders of the Global Security
Certificates or any of the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock represented by
the Global Security Certificates for any purpose under the Series D Preferred
Stock. All payments on shares of the Series D Preferred Stock represented by the
Global Security Certificates and all related transfers and deliveries of Common
Stock will be made to the Depositary or its nominee as their holder.

             (c) Except with respect to shares of Series D Preferred Stock that
may be represented by physical certificates issued by the Company from time to
time, procedures for conversion or redemption of the shares of Series D
Preferred Stock in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Certificate
of Designation will be governed by arrangements among the Depositary, its
participants and Persons that may hold beneficial interests through its
participants designed to permit the settlement without the physical movement of
certificates. Payments, transfers, deliveries, exchanges and other matters
relating to beneficial interests in Global Security Certificates may be subject
to various policies and procedures adopted by the Depositary from time to time.

             (d) If the Company issues any physical certificate representing
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock from time to time and any such Series D
Preferred Stock certificate shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the
Company shall, at the expense of the Holder, issue, in exchange and in
substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Series D Preferred Stock
certificate, or in lieu of and substitution for the Series D Preferred Stock
certificate lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Series D Preferred Stock
certificate of like tenor and representing an equivalent amount of shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock, but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft
or destruction of such Series D Preferred Stock certificate and indemnity, if
requested, satisfactory to the Company and the Transfer Agent. The Company shall
not be required to issue any physical certificates representing shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock on or after any conversion date with respect to such
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock. In place of the delivery of a
replacement certificate following any such conversion date, the Transfer Agent,
upon delivery of the evidence and indemnity described above, will deliver the
shares of Common Stock pursuant to the terms of the Series D Preferred Stock
evidenced by the certificate.

         16. OTHER PROVISIONS.

             (a) With respect to any notice to a Holder required to be provided
hereunder, such notice shall be mailed to the registered address of such Holder,
and neither failure to mail such notice, nor any defect therein or in the
mailing thereof, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of the
notice or the validity of the proceedings referred to in such notice with
respect to the other Holders or affect the legality or validity of any mandatory
redemption, mandatory conversion, distribution, rights, warrant,
reclassification, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, dissolution,
liquidation, winding-up or other action, or the vote upon any action with
respect to which the Holders are entitled to vote. All notice periods referred
to herein shall commence on the date of the mailing of the applicable notice.
Any notice which was mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given whether or not the Holder receives the notice.

             (b) The shares of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be issuable,
convertible and redeemable only in whole shares.

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             (c) Any calculation of a dollar amount or number of shares of
Common Stock pursuant to any provision of this Certificate of Designation,
including, without limitation, the calculation of Accumulated Automatic
Conversion Ratio Increases, any Market Value, Discounted Current Market Value,
adjusted Conversion Price, Conversion Ratio, Change of Control Ratio or Dividend
Deficiency, shall be calculated to the nearest ten-thousandth of a dollar or
share.

             (d) The Liquidation Preference and the annual dividend rate set
forth in Section 6(a) shall be subject to adjustment whenever there shall occur
a stock split, combination, reclassification or other similar event involving
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock. In addition, Accumulated Automatic
Conversion Ratio Increases shall be subject to adjustment whenever there shall
occur a stock split, combination, reclassification or other similar event
involving the Common Stock. Such adjustments shall be made in such manner and at
such time as the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith determines to
be equitable in the circumstances, any such determination to be evidenced in a
resolution. Upon any such equitable adjustment, the Company shall promptly
deliver to the Transfer Agent and each Holder an Officers' Certificate attaching
and certifying the resolution of the Board of Directors, describing in
reasonable detail the event requiring the adjustment and the method of
calculation thereof and specifying the increased or decreased Liquidation
Preference, annual dividend rate or Accumulated Automatic Conversion Ratio
Increases, and the Conversion Ratio, in effect following such adjustment.

             (e) Shares of the Series D Preferred Stock issued and reacquired
shall be retired and canceled promptly after reacquisition thereof and, upon
compliance with the applicable requirements of Delaware law, have the status of
authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock of the Company undesignated as
to series and may with any and all other authorized but unissued shares of
preferred stock of the Company be designated or redesignated and issued or
reissued, as the case may be, as part of any series of preferred stock of the
Company, except that any issuance or reissuance of shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock must be in compliance with this Certificate of Designation.

             (f) The Company covenants that it shall at all times reserve and
keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of the aggregate of its
authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, for the purpose of effecting
conversion of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, the full number of shares
of Common Stock deliverable upon the conversion of all outstanding shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock not theretofore converted. For purposes of this Section
16(f), the number of shares of Common Stock that shall be deliverable upon the
conversion of all outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be
computed as if at the time of computation all such outstanding shares were held
by a single Holder. The Company shall take all action required to increase the
authorized number of shares of Common Stock if at any time there shall be
insufficient unissued shares of Common Stock to permit such reservation or to
permit the conversion of all outstanding shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
not theretofore converted.

             (g) The Company covenants that any shares of Common Stock issued
upon conversion of or in payment of any dividend on shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

             (h) Prior to the delivery of any shares of Common Stock or other
securities that the Company shall be obligated to deliver upon conversion of
shares of the Series D Preferred Stock or the delivery of any shares of Common
Stock in payment of any dividend on shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, the
Company shall comply with all federal and state laws and regulations thereunder
requiring the registration of such securities with, or any approval of or
consent to the delivery thereof by, any governmental authority. Any share of
Common Stock so delivered shall be freely transferable under the Securities Act.

             (i) The Company shall list the shares of Common Stock required to
be delivered upon conversion of shares of the Series D Preferred Stock or in
payment of any dividend on shares of the Series D Preferred Stock, prior to such
delivery, upon each national securities exchange or quotation system, if any,
upon which the outstanding Common Stock is listed at the time of such delivery.

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             (j) The Company shall pay any and all documentary stamp or similar
issue or transfer taxes payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of
Common Stock or other securities or property upon conversion of shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to the provisions of this Certificate of
Designation; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay
any tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue or
delivery of shares of Common Stock or other securities or property in a name
other than that of the Holder of the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock to
be converted and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the
person requesting such issue or delivery has paid to the Company the amount of
any such tax or established, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company, that
such tax has been paid.

             (k) The headings of the various sections and subsections of this
Certificate of Designation are for convenience of reference only and shall not
affect the interpretation of any of the provisions of this Certificate of
Designation.

             (l) Whenever possible, each provision of this Certificate of
Designation shall be interpreted in a manner as to be effective and valid under
applicable law and public policy. If any provision set forth herein is held to
be invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any rule of law
or public policy, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such
prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating or otherwise adversely affecting
the remaining provisions of this Certificate of Designation. No provision herein
set forth shall be deemed dependent upon any other provision unless so expressed
herein. If a court of competent jurisdiction should determine that a provision
of this Certificate of Designation would be valid or enforceable if a period of
time were extended or shortened or a particular percentage were increased or
decreased, then such court may make such change as shall be necessary to render
the provision in question effective and valid under applicable law.

             (m) The Holders as such are not entitled to any preemptive or
preferential right to purchase or subscribe to any capital stock, obligations,
warrants or other securities of the Company.

             (n) Except as may otherwise be required by law, the shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock shall not have any powers, designations, preferences
and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, other than those
specifically set forth in this Certificate of Designation or the Certificate of
Incorporation.

                            (Signature page follows)

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Designation is
executed on behalf of the Company by its Executive Vice President and attested
by its Secretary this 14th day of March, 2002.

                                  ALLEN TELECOM INC.

                                  By: /s/ Robert A. Youdelman
                                      ------------------------------------------
                                      Robert A. Youdelman
                                      Executive Vice President
Attest:

/s/ Laura Meagher
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Laura Meagher
Secretary

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                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                        FORM OF SERIES D PREFERRED STOCK

                                FACE OF SECURITY

         [Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the Company
or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any
certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name
as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made
to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]1

Certificate Number: [      ]

Number of Shares of Series D Preferred Stock: [      ]

CUSIP No.: 018091 20 7

                   Series D 7.75% Convertible Preferred Stock
                                       of
                               Allen Telecom Inc.

         Allen Telecom Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), hereby
certifies that [ ] (the "HOLDER") is the registered owner of [ ] fully paid and
non-assessable shares of preferred stock of the Company designated as the Series
D 7.75% Convertible Preferred Stock, without par value, liquidation preference
$50.00 per share (the "SERIES D PREFERRED STOCK"). The shares of the Series D
Preferred Stock are transferable on the books and records of the Transfer Agent,
in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate
duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer. The powers, designations,
preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of
the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock represented hereby are issued and
shall in all respects be subject to the provisions of the Certificate of
Designation of Series D 7.75% Convertible Preferred Stock of the Company dated
March 14, 2002, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with
its terms (the "CERTIFICATE OF Designation"). Capitalized terms used herein but
not defined shall have the respective meanings given them in the Certificate of
Designation. The Company will provide a copy of the Certificate of Designation
to a Holder without charge upon written request to the Company at its principal
place of business.

         Reference is hereby made to select provisions of the Series D Preferred
Stock set forth on the reverse hereof, and to the Certificate of Designation,
which select provisions and the 1 Subject to removal if not a global security
certificate. Certificate of Designation shall for all purposes have the same
effect as if set forth in this certificate.

         Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the
Certificate of Designation and is entitled to the benefits thereunder. Unless
the Transfer Agent's valid countersignature appears hereon, the shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock evidenced hereby shall not be entitled to any benefit
under the Certificate of Designation or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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(1) Subject to removal if not a global security certificate.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has executed this Series D Preferred
Stock certificate as of the date set forth below.

                                  ALLEN TELECOM INC.

                                  By:
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                                           Name:
                                           Title:

                                  By:
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                                           Name:
                                           Title:

                                  Dated:
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COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED

FIFTH THIRD BANK, as Transfer Agent,

By:
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         Authorized Signatory

Dated:
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                               REVERSE OF SECURITY

         Dividends on each share of Series D Preferred Stock shall be payable
when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors of the Company from funds
legally available therefor at a rate per annum set forth in the face hereof or
as provided in the Certificate of Designation. Dividends may be paid in cash, in
shares of the Company's common stock, par value $1.00 per share ("COMMON
STOCK"), or a combination thereof.

         The shares of the Series D Preferred Stock shall be redeemable as
provided in the Certificate of Designation. The shares of the Series D Preferred
Stock shall be convertible into the Company's Common Stock in the manner and
according to the terms set forth in the Certificate of Designation.

         The Company shall furnish to any holder upon request and without
charge, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative,
participating, optional and other special rights of each class of the Company's
stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of
such preferences and/or rights.

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers the shares of
Series D Preferred Stock evidenced hereby to:

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(Insert assignee's social security or tax identification number)

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(Insert address and zip code of assignee)

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and irrevocably appoints:
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agent to transfer the shares of Series D Preferred Stock evidenced hereby on the
books of the Transfer Agent. The agent may substitute another to act for him or
her.

Date:
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Signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Series D Preferred
Stock certificate)

Signature Guarantee:(2)
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(2) Signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" (i.e., a
bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union) meeting the
requirements of the Transfer Agent, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Transfer
Agent in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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                                                                       EXHIBIT B

                              NOTICE OF CONVERSION

              (To be executed by the registered holder in order to
                 convert shares of the Series D Preferred Stock)

         The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to convert (the "CONVERSION")
[_____] shares of Series D 7.75% Convertible Preferred Stock (the "SERIES D
PREFERRED STOCK"), into shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per share
("COMMON STOCK"), of Allen Telecom Inc. (the "COMPANY") according to the
conditions of the Certificate of Designation establishing the terms of the
Series D Preferred Stock (the "CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION"), as of the date
written below. If shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the
undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect
thereto and is delivering herewith payment of all applicable taxes or evidence
that such taxes have been paid. No fee will be charged to the holder for any
conversion, except for transfer taxes, if any. A copy of each stock certificate
representing shares of the Series D Preferred Stock to be converted is attached
hereto (or evidence of loss, theft or destruction thereof).(3)

         Date of Conversion:
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         Applicable Conversion Ratio:
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         Number of shares of Series D Preferred Stock to be Converted:
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         Number of shares of Common Stock to be Issued:
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         Signature:
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         Name:
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         Address:(4)
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         Fax No.:
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(3) The Company is not required to issue shares of Common Stock until the
original certificates representing the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock
(or evidence of loss, theft or destruction thereof and indemnity reasonably
satisfactory to the Company and the Transfer Agent) to be converted are received
by the Company or the Transfer Agent. The Company shall issue and deliver shares
of Common Stock by hand or by delivery to an overnight courier not later than
three business days following receipt of the original stock certificates
representing the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock to be converted.
(4) Address where shares of Common Stock and any other payments or certificates
shall be sent by the Company.

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