No Obligation to Continue Service Relationship. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is obligated by or as a result of the Plan or this Agreement to continue the Optionee’s Service Relationship and neither the Plan nor this Agreement shall interfere in any way with the right of the Company or any Subsidiary to terminate the Service Relationship of the Optionee at any time.

No Obligation to Continue Business Relationship. Neither the Plan, this Agreement, nor the grant of this option imposes any obligation on ​ to continue the Participant in the Business Relationship.

The adoption of the Plan does not imply any commitment to continue to maintain the Plan, or any modified version of the Plan, or any other plan for incentive compensation, for any succeeding year.

No Obligation to Continue Employment. Nothing in this Agreement or the Plan shall be construed as constituting a commitment, guarantee, agreement or understanding of any kind or nature that the Company or any Affiliate shall continue to retain the services of the Grantee, nor shall this Agreement or the Plan affect in any way the right of the Company or any Affiliate to terminate the services of the Grantee as an employee or otherwise at any time and for any reason. By executing this Agreement, Grantee acknowledges and agrees that Grantee’s service relationship with the Company or any Affiliate is “at will.” No change of Grantee’s duties to the Company or any Affiliate shall result in, or be deemed to be, a modification of any of the terms of this Agreement or the Plan.

No Right to Continue Service. Neither the Plan, this Certificate, nor any related material is intended to give the Director the right to continue to serve on the Board through the Service Term or otherwise.

The Participant acknowledges that: # the Company is not by this Agreement obligated to continue the Participant as an employee of the Company or an Affiliate; # the grant of the Option is a one-time benefit which does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of options, or benefits in lieu of options; # all determinations with respect to any such future grants, including, but not limited to, the times when options shall be granted, the number of shares subject to each option, the option price, and the time or times when each option shall be exercisable, will be at the sole discretion of the Company; # the value of the Option is an extraordinary item of compensation which is outside the scope of the Participant’s employment or consulting contract, if any; and # the Option is not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.

No Employment Rights. The Plan and this Agreement are not employment or service contracts, and will not be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on Optionee’s part to continue in the employ of the Company or a Subsidiary, or of the Company or a Subsidiary to continue Optionee’s employment. In addition, nothing herein shall obligate the Company or a Subsidiary to continue any relationship that Optionee might have as a Director or consultant for the Company or a Subsidiary.

“Service Relationship” means any relationship as an employee, Non-Employee Director or Consultant of the Company or any Affiliate. Unless as otherwise set forth in the Award Agreement, a Service Relationship shall be deemed to continue without interruption in the event a grantee’s status changes from full-time employee to part-time employee or a grantee’s status changes from employee to Consultant or Non-Employee Director or vice versa, provided that there is no interruption or other termination of Service Relationship in connection with the grantee’s change in capacity.

No Employment Rights. Nothing herein shall constitute a contract of continuing employment or in any manner obligate AT&T or any Executive Officer to continue the employment relationship of, or obligate an Executive Officer to continue in the service of AT&T or any Affiliate.

No Fiduciary Relationship. Each Borrower, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Borrowers, the Subsidiaries and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Banks or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications. The Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and their Affiliates may, in addition to providing or participating in commercial lending facility such as that provided hereunder, be engaged, for their own accounts or the accounts of customers, in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company and its Subsidiaries or other Affiliates, and none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank or their Affiliates has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Borrower, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, hereby agrees not to assert any claims against any of the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the