Attachment Attachment 1

This document pretains to ITC-ASG-20130830-00246 for Assignment on a International Telecommunications filing.

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ATTACHMENT 11 Answer to Question 10 Rule 63.18(c): The names, titles, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of the officers and other contact points to whom correspondence concerning this application is to be addressed are as follows: Assignor: Mr. David J. Weis 11308 Aurora Avenue Urbandale, Iowa 50322 Tel: (515) 224-9229 With a copy to: Michael P. Donahue, Esq. Marashlian & Donahue, LLC 1420 Spring Hill Road, Suite 401 McLean, Virginia 22102 Tel: (703) 714-1319 Fax: (703) 714-1330 Email: mpd@commlawgroup.com Assignee: Mr. Steven J. Sikkink President Alliance Technologies, Inc. 420 Watson Powell Jr. Way Suite 100 Des Moines, Iowa, 50309 Tel: (515) 245-7777 With a copy to: James U. Troup, Esq. Tony S. Lee, Esq. Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, PLC 1300 North 17th St., 11th Floor Arlington, Virginia 22209 Tel: (703) 812-0400 Fax: (703) 812-0486 Email: troup@fhhlaw.com lee@fhhlaw.com 1 Unless otherwise noted, the meaning of each capitalized term is as defined in the Joint Application.

Rule 63.18(d) Authority Held by Applicants: Internet Solver holds blanket domestic Section 214 authority and holds international Section 214 authority granted in File No. ITC-214-20061013-00469 on November 3, 2006. Alliance Connect, LLC (“ACL”) holds blanket domestic Section 214 authority. Responses to Rule 63.18 (e) through (g) are not applicable to this Application. Answer to Question 11 Rule 63.18(h) Ownership Information: The following are the names, addresses, citizenship, and principal businesses of any person or entity that directly or indirectly owns at least ten percent of the equity of the Applicants. Pre-and Post-Transaction Ownership of Internet Solver 1) The following individual owns or controls 10% or more of Internet Solver: Name: David Weis Address: 11308 Aurora Avenue Urbandale, IA 50322 Citizenship: United States Principal Business: Telecommunications Percent Ownership: 100% Other than the interest in Internet Solver, the individual listed above does not hold an attributable interest in any entity that provides telecommunications services. Pre-and Post-Transaction Ownership of ACL 1) The following entity owns or controls 10% or more of ACL: Name: Alliance Technologies, Inc. (“ATI”) Address: 420 Watson Powell Jr. Parkway, Suite 100 Des Moines, IA 50309 Citizenship: United States Principal Business: Telecommunications Percent Ownership: 100% 2) The following entities and individuals own or control 25% or more of ATI (and indirectly own or control 10% or more of ACL): Name: Iowa Network Services, Inc. (“INS”) Address: 4201 Corporate Drive West Des Moines, IA 50266 Citizenship: United States Principal Business: Telecommunications Percent Ownership: 75%

Name: Steven J. Sikkink Address: 2205 40th Street Des Moines, IA 50310 Citizenship: United States Principal Business: Information Technology services and staffing Percent Ownership: 25% Other than the interest in ACL, Mr. Sikkink does not hold an attributable interest in an entity that provides telecommunications services. INS is owned by many rural Iowa ILECs, none of which holds an ownership and/or voting interest of 10% or more in INS. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, INS Wireless, Inc., INS holds a 46.4031% indirect attributable interest in Iowa Wireless Services, LLC (“IWS, LLC”), which is a provider of wireless telecommunications services. IWS LLC is the parent company of Iowa Wireless Services Holding Corporation (“IWSHC”). IWSHC holds AWS and PCS authorizations issued by the FCC. Applicants do not have any interlocking directorates with a foreign carrier. Answer to Question 13 On June 1, 2013, ATI acquired substantially all of the assets of Internet Solver, including Internet Solver’s licenses, authorizations, customer accounts and receivables, customer and vendor contracts and agreements, equipment, and intellectual property. Under the Asset Purchase Agreement, Internet Solver will continue to have sole responsibility for providing service to customers, billing and collecting payment from customers and responding to customer inquiries, and complaints until approval of the transaction by the Iowa Utilities Board. ATI and ACL also executed an intra-corporate assignment agreement whereby ATI will transfer all of the acquired assets to its wholly-owned subsidiary, ACL, upon receipt of all regulatory approvals. The parties have filed the instant application to approve the assignment of assets from Internet Solver to ACL, rather than separate transfer of control and assignment applications as ACL will ultimately be providing service to customers upon completion of the transaction. Internet Solver and ATI have announced the acquisition of Internet Solver; however, because Internet Solver will continue to provide service to customers until the transaction is approved, the parties have not provided notice to customers. Applicants will provide current customers prior written notice of the transfer to ACL as required by Section 64.1120(e) of the Commission’s rules and applicable state customer notice rules.2 As noted, Internet Solver will continue to provide services to all affected customers until receipt of all regulatory approvals. Applicants’ failure to obtain Commission approval for the transfer of assets to ATI was inadvertent. Applicants were not aware of their obligation under the Communications Act and the Commission’s rules to obtain approval for the transaction until consulting with Counsel, and very much regret any inconvenience this filing may cause the Commission or its staff. It is also important to note that under the terms of the transaction, Internet Solver continues in existence and all of Internet Solver’s contracts and activities under its authorizations from the FCC and the Iowa Utilities Board continue to be provided by Internet Solver, and will continue to be provided by Internet Solver until all 2 The Commission defers slamming complaints in Iowa to the Iowa Utilities Board, pursuant to Section 64.1110(a) of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 64.1110(a). See http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/slamming-states-administering-slamming-rules#Iowa (last viewed August 2, 2013).

approvals of the Iowa Utilities Board have been obtained. Internet Solver will therefore in actual practice continue to provide all of the Commission regulated services until all of the regulatory approvals have been obtained. There has not, therefore, in actual practice been a transfer of the physical activities governed by the Commission. By a separate filing, Applicants are requesting Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) to allow Internet Solver to continue providing service to customers while the Commission considers this Application. Answer to Question 20 This Application qualifies for streamlined processing pursuant to Section 63.12 because the Applicants are not affiliated with any foreign carriers; are not affiliated with any dominant U.S. carriers whose international switched or private line services the Applicants seek authority to resell; and do not seek authority to provide switched basic services over private lines to a country for which the Commission has not previously authorized the provision of switched services over private lines. Accordingly, this application should be granted, pursuant to Section 63.12(a), 14 days after the date of public notice listing this international Section 214 Application as accepted for filing.


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