For us to go ahead and try to predict top line, we're just not prepared to go there,

These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks,

As we've said, fiscal year 2001 is a transition and rebuilding year for Lucent,

Our team is working around the clock to restore an American icon.

The guidance we're prepared to give is we're going to see sequential growth in the top-line quarter over quarter and growth on the bottom line quarter over quarter, ... We need to perform. Performance is our mantra, and out here we are working hard to perform.

It will take the rest of fiscal 2001 to get back on track, ... In the second half of the year the significantly reduced expense levels will take hold.