Attachment 1

This document pretains to ITC-ASG-20110204-00043 for Assignment on a International Telecommunications filing.

IBFS_ITCASG2011020400043_867270

ATTACHMENT 1 Answer to Question 10 Rule 63.18 (c) Contact Information: All correspondence and other communications concerning this application should be directed to: John L. Clark Goodin, MacBride, Squeri Day & Lamprey, LLP 505 Sansome Street, 9th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 Tel: 415-765-8443 Fax: 415-398-4321 E-mail: jclark@goodinmacbride.com Rule 63.18 (d) Authorizations Blue Casa Communications, Inc. (“Blue Casa”) holds domestic operating authority pursuant to a blanket license under Rule 63.01 and authority to provide global facilities-based and global resale services under File No. ITC-ASG-20050126-00168. Blue Casa (assignment for the benefit of creditors), LLC (“Assignee FBO Creditors”) does not hold or intend to hold any operating authority or conduct any operations for which operating authority is required. Blue Casa Telephone, LLC (“BCT”) is a start-up company with no current operations and intends to operate under domestic operating authority pursuant to a blanket license under Rule 63.01 and under International 214 operating authority assigned from Blue Casa. BCT’s parent, TCAST Communications, Inc. (FRN 0004965265), holds domestic operating authority pursuant to a blanket license under Rule 63.01 and holds authority to provide global facilities-based and global resale services under (old) File No. ITC-96-288.

Answer to Question 11 Rule 63.18(h) Ownership There are no interlocking directorships with any foreign carriers. Assignee FBO Creditors: Blue Casa (assignment for the benefit of creditors), LLC is a special purpose entity organized as a limited liability company under the laws of California to facilitate an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Its address is 1100 La Avenida Street, Building A, Mountain View, CA 94043. Assignee FBO Creditors is subject to 100% indirect ownership and control by two individuals, Michael A. Maidy and Martin Pichinson. Messrs. Maidy and Pichinson share control of Assignee FBO Creditors, in its sole and limited capacity as assignee for the benefit of creditors of Blue Casa Communications, Inc., through a series of intermediate entities in which they have equal 50% direct or indirect ownership interests. There are no individuals or entities that have any direct or indirect ownership or voting interests in Assignee FBO Creditors, other than Messrs. Maidy and Pichinson and such intermediate entities. These individuals’ addresses, citizenship, principal businesses, and attributed interests are as follows: Name and Address Citizenship Principal Business Percentage Indirect Interest in Assignee FBO Creditors (to nearest 1%) Michael A. Maidy United States Financial and Business 100% (shared with Martin 1100 La Avenida St. Bldg. A, Consulting Pichinson) Mountain View, CA 94043 Martin Pichinson United States Financial and Business 100% (shared with Michael 1100 La Avenida St. Bldg. A, Consulting A. Maidy) Mountain View, CA 94043 BCT: Blue Casa Telephone, LLC is a newly-formed start-up company organized as a limited liability company under the laws of California. Upon consummation of the proposed

transaction, BCT will provide local exchange, exchange access, and domestic and international interexchange services to customers in California. BCT’s address is 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-210, Valencia, CA 91355 BCT is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TCAST Communications, Inc. (“TCAST”). TCAST is a California corporation. Its address is 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-210, Valencia, CA 91355. TCAST provides telecommunications and related services in California and various other states. TCAST is owned by the following individuals: Name and Address Citizenship Principal Business Percentage Indirect Interest in BCT (to nearest 1%) Lee Howard United States Telecommunications 14% 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-210, Valencia, CA 91355 James D. Howard United States Telecommunications 14% 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-210, Valencia, CA 91355 Mark Jordan United States Telecommunications 21% 4410 Wavertree Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Bob Carr United States Telecommunications 17% 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-210, Valencia, CA 91355 Larry Taylor United States Telecommunications 15% 25115 Avenue Stanford, Suite B-210, Valencia, CA 91355 Dan Brown United States Telecommunications 15% 930 West Comstock Court Spokane, WA 99302

Answer to Question 13 Description of Transaction Blue Casa is financially-troubled and facing imminent business failure. Due to these circumstances, a two-step transaction is proposed by which Blue Casa’s assets, including its customer base, and its International section 214 authorization will be assigned to Assignee FBO Creditors and then sold to BCT. The first step of this transaction will consist of an assignment of Blue Casa’s assets to Assignee FBO Creditors, which is a special purpose entity organized for the purpose of facilitating an assignment for the benefit of creditors pursuant to California law. The assignment for the benefit of creditors process is designed to both (i) facilitate the expeditious sale of Blue Casa’s assets in order to preserve the going concern and (ii) maximize value and eventual recovery for Blue Casa’s creditors. Assignee FBO Creditors will not operate the assets or provide any services but, instead, will immediately sell the assigned assets to BCT in exchange for a cash payment, which will be held in trust for the benefit of Blue Casa’s creditors. Under the proposed transaction, these two steps will take effect simultaneously, and BCT thereby will be positioned to provide continuing service to the transferred customers under the same rates, terms, and conditions that they enjoyed previously as customers of Blue Casa, without disruption or any other adverse impact on service quality. Thus, the transaction will be virtually transparent to affected customers. In accordance with applicable Commission and state requirements, all affected customers will be provided a minimum of thirty days’ advance written notice of the proposed transaction. Further, closing of the transaction will be subject to receipt of all required Commission and state authorizations..

Answer to Question 20 Rule 63.18(p) Streamlined Processing This application is eligible for streamlined processing under Sections 63.03 and 63.12 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 CFR § 63.03 and § 63.12. With respect to the domestic authority, the application is eligible for streamlining because, immediately following the transaction: (1) the Joint Applicants and their affiliates (as defined in Section 3(1) of the Communications Act, “Affiliates”) combined, will hold less than a ten percent (10%) share of the interstate interexchange market; (2) to the extent that the Joint Applicants or their Affiliates provide U.S. local exchange services or exchange access services, those services will be provided only in geographic areas served by a dominant local exchange carrier that is not a party to the transaction; and (3) none of the Joint Applicants or their Affiliates is dominant with respect to any U.S. domestic telecommunications service. With respect to the international authority, the application is eligible for streamlined processing because none of the exceptions to streamlined filing specified by paragraph (c) of Section 63.12 applies. 3077/001/X126335.v1


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