Attachment Attachment 1

This document pretains to ITC-ASG-20190129-00047 for Assignment on a International Telecommunications filing.

IBFS_ITCASG2019012900047_1613898

Attachment 1 to Notice of Pro Forma Assignment of International Section 214 Authorizations from Infonet Services Corporation to BT Americas Holdings Inc. Answer to Question 10 Response to 47 C.F.R. § 63.18(c): (c) The name, title, post office address, and telephone number of the officer and any other contact point, such as legal counsel, to whom correspondence concerning the application is to be addressed: For Assignor and Assignee: A. Sheba Chacko Chief Regulatory Counsel BT Americas Holdings Inc. 11440 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 20191 Telephone: 703-755-6730 Email: sheba.chacko@bt.com With a copy to: Ruth E. Holder Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Manager BT Americas Holdings Inc. 11440 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 20191 Telephone: 703-755-6730 Email: ruth.holder@bt.com Response to 47 C.F.R. § 63.18(d): (d) A statement as to whether the applicant has previously received authority under Section 214 of the Act and, if so, a general description of the categories of facilities and services authorized (i.e., authorized to provide international switched services on a facilities basis): Assignee: BT Americas Holdings Inc. (“Assignee”) has not previously received Section 214 authority from the Federal Communications Commission, although several of its subsidiaries have held such authority. BT Americas Holdings Inc. is a Delaware corporation and the ultimate U.S. holding company for all BT entities in the United States. Assignor is indirectly and wholly owned by Assignee. Assignor: Infonet Services Corporation (“Assignor”), has previously received authority under 47 U.S.C. § 214 as a facilities-based carrier, as well as resale authority, pursuant to 1

Sections 63.18(e)(1) & (2).1 Those authorizations are the subject of this notice of pro forma assignment to BT Americas Holdings Inc., and are identified by the following FCC IBFS File Nos.: ITC-214-19981019-00794 ITC-214-19990609-00340 Answer to Question 11 The following entities directly or indirectly own ten percent or more of the equity of Assignee BT Americas Holdings Inc.: BT Fifty-One, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales, with a registered office address at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ, whose principal business is Finance, directly holds 100 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. BT (International) Holdings Limited, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales, with a registered office address at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ, whose principal business is Holding Company, directly holds 76 percent of BT Fifty- One, and therefore indirectly holds 76 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. BT Holdings Limited, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales, with a registered office address at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ, whose principal business is Holding Company, directly holds 24 percent of BT Fifty-One, and directly holds 100 percent of BT (International) Holdings Limited, and therefore indirectly holds 100 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. British Telecommunications plc, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales, with a registered office address at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ, whose principal business is Communications, directly holds 100 percent of BT Holdings Limited, and therefore indirectly holds 100 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. BT Group Investments Limited, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales, with a registered office address at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ, whose principal business is Holding Company, directly holds 100 percent of British 1 See IBFS File No. ITC-T/C-20041119-00460 and Public Notices DA 05-372 and DA 05-387 for approval of transfer of control of Infonet Services Corporation and its subsidiary, Infonet Broadband Services Corporation, to BT; see also IBFS File No. ITC-T/C-20050502-00189 and Public Notice DA 05- 1408 for notice of pro forma transfer of control inserting BT Americas Holdings Inc. in the ownership chain. Subsequently, Infonet Broadband Services Corp. was merged into and subsumed by its direct parent, Infonet Services Corporation. Although notice of the pro forma transfer is presumed to have been timely filed with the International Bureau, given intervening staff changes, a date-stamped copy has not been located. If necessary, Applicants respectfully request a waiver of 47 C.F.R. § 63.24(f) to provide for late notice of the pro forma ownership change. See 47 C.F.R. § 1.3; see also Numbering Resource Optimization, Order, 18 FCC Rcd 16860, ¶ 9 (2003) (“The Commission may exercise its discretion to waive a rule where the particular facts make strict compliance inconsistent with the public interest.”). 2

Telecommunications plc, and therefore indirectly holds 100 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. BT Group plc, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales, with a registered office address at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ, whose principal business is Communications, directly holds 100 percent of BT Group Investments Limited, and therefore indirectly holds 100 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. Deutsche Telekom AG, a company organized under the laws of Germany, with an address at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn, whose principal business is Communications, directly holds 12.05 percent of BT Group plc, and therefore indirectly holds 12.05 percent of BT Americas Holdings Inc. There are no other individuals or entities that hold ten percent or more of the equity in BT Americas Holdings Inc. Answer to Question 12 Assignee has interlocking directorates with foreign carriers as listed on Exhibit A hereto. Answer to Question 13 Assignor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Assignee, assigned all of its international section 214 authorizations to Assignee effective December 31, 2018, as part of a corporate reorganization designed to streamline the holdings of various BT entities in the United States. Assignee, as the top level United States holding company, serves as an umbrella organization under which various BT United States companies operate, and certain other BT entities also assigned their international section 214 authorizations to Assignee as of December 31, 2018.2 Assignor does not desire to retain any of these authorizations. This assignment is pro forma in nature as ultimate control and ownership of the authorizations at issue did not change. With this pro forma assignment, the following BT entities, wholly owned by Assignee, are operating under the international section 214 authorizations held by their parent, Assignee BT Americas Holdings Inc., pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 63.21(h), as necessary: BT Americas Inc. BT Conferencing Video Inc. BT Communications Sales LLC BT Federal Inc. BT LatAm Inc. BT Procure LLC Infonet Services Corporation Radianz Americas Inc. 2 See Notices of Pro Forma Assignment filed concurrently herewith by BT LatAm Inc. and BT Fifty- Three Limited. 3

Exhibit A to Attachment 1 Directors and Officers of BT Americas Holdings Inc. and Interlocking Directorates with Foreign Carriers The following individuals are officers and/or directors of Assignee BT Americas Holdings Inc.: Jennifer Artley, Director, President and Chair Tammie Briscoe, Director Andrew McGroarty, Director and CFO Richard E. Nohe, Director and Chief Legal Officer Jamie Paul Newell, Secretary Stephane Patrice Jean Calvary, Treasurer Lynn Morzorati Metz, Vice President of Tax Andrew Schmitt, Tax Officer Richard Nohe is also Chief Legal Officer of BT Canada Inc. Andrew Schmitt is also Tax Officer of BT Canada Inc. Andrew McGroarty is also a director and/or officer of the following foreign carriers: Name of Company Country Position Held BT Canada Inc. Canada Director and Chief Financial Officer BT LatAm México, S.A. de C.V. Mexico Director Jamie Paul Newell is also a director and/or officer of the following foreign carriers: Name of Company Country Position Held BT Argentina S.R.L. Argentina Director BT Bulgaria EOOD Bulgaria Director BT Canada Inc. Canada Secretary BT Colombia Limitada Colombia Alternate Director BT de Panama, S.R.L. Panama Director BT Dominican Republic, S.A. Dominican Director and Chairman Republic BT El Salvador, Limitada de Capital El Salvador Director Variable BT Global Costa Rica SRL Costa Rica Director BT Guatemala S.A. Guatemala Director and Secretary BT LatAm Argentina S.A. Argentina Alternate Director BT LatAm Colombia S.A. Colombia Alternate Director BT LatAm Costa Rica, S.A. Costa Rica Director BT LatAm Dominicana, S.A. Dominican Director and Secretary Republic BT LatAm El Salvador, S.A. de CV El Salvador Director and Assistant Vice President A-1

BT LatAm Guatemala, S.A. Guatemala Director and Secretary BT LatAm Honduras, S.A. Honduras Alternate Director BT LatAm Nicaragua, S.A. Nicaragua Director and Secretary BT LatAm Panama, Inc. Panama Director BT LatAm Peru S.A.C. Peru Director and Secretary BT Nicaragua S.A. Nicaragua Director and Secretary BT Peru S.R.L. Peru Director and Secretary BT Sociedad De Responsabilidad Honduras Director Limitada Servicios de Telecomunicaciones Chile Director BT Global Networks Chile Limitada Stephane Patrice Jean Calvary is also a director and/or officer of the following foreign carriers: Name of Company Country Position Held BT Canada Inc. Canada Treasurer BT de Panama, S.R.L. Panama Director BT Dominican Republic, S.A. Dominican Director and Secretary Republic BT El Salvador, Limitada de Capital El Salvador Director Variable BT Global Costa Rica SRL Costa Rica Director BT Guatemala S.A. Guatemala Director BT LatAm Costa Rica, S.A. Costa Rica Director BT LatAm Dominicana, S.A. Dominican Director Republic BT LatAm Guatemala, S.A. Guatemala Director BT LatAm Honduras, S.A. Honduras Director and Vice President BT LatAm México, S.A. de C.V. Mexico Director BT LatAm Nicaragua, S.A. Nicaragua Director and Vice President BT LatAm Panama, Inc. Panama Director BT Nicaragua S.A. Nicaragua Director and Vice President BT Sociedad De Responsabilidad Honduras Director Limitada Lynn Morzorati Metz is also a director and/or officer of the following foreign carriers: Name of Company Country Position Held BT Canada Inc. Canada Vice President of Tax BT Colombia Limitada Colombia Alternate Director BT LatAm El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. El Salvador Director and Assistant Treasurer A-2


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