There will be long term contracts in place that will protect the...

There will be long term contracts in place that will protect the company.

Chris is no fool, and he will have European lawyers who are experts in European law draw up the contracts.

Also, the last thing MB want is to be tied up in any sort of legal dispute.

The potential for negative press and reputational damage that any law suit would bring, and negative sentiment of being associated with replacing one partner for another would out weigh any commercial benefit.

I am assuming there will be clauses that protect NMT/SMS, but I would assume that Mercedes Benz will not want to have a single partner, as they would want exposure to new or improved technologies, and have redundancy in their supply chain.

Chris and NMT have the vision, scale (via partnership), patents and can solve a problem today.

They are more than capable of competing in an open market, and I would expect they continue to innovate and lead, rather than just compete.