Attachment FCC Deferral Request

This document pretains to ITC-T/C-20120716-00183 for Transfer of Control on a International Telecommunications filing.

IBFS_ITCTC2012071600183_965162

                                         Exhibit 2

      DESCRIPTION OF TRANSACTION, PUBLIC INTEREST SHOWING
          AND RELATED REQUESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS


       By this application and related applications (the “Applications”), and pursuant to

Sections 214 and 310(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (“the Act”),

Wavecom Solutions Corporation (“Wavecom”) and Hawaiian Telcom, Inc. (“HTI” and,

together with Wavecom, “Applicants”), hereby request the Commission’s consent to the

transfer of control to HTI of various radio station authorizations, a submarine cable

landing license, and domestic and international Section 214 authority held by Wavecom.

As discussed herein, the proposed transfers of control satisfy the Commission’s standards

for approval, do not require any waivers of the Commission’s rules, and accordingly can

be approved expeditiously.

I.     DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSACTION

       A.      Wavecom

       Wavecom, formerly known as Pacific Lightnet, Inc., is a Hawaii corporation and

a facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier providing regulated and unregulated

telecommunications products and services to its customers throughout the State of

Hawaii. Among its services, Wavecom provides local dial tone, high-speed Internet

access, dedicated and switched long distance (intrastate and interstate), special access,

enhanced data services, hosted PBX offerings, managed services, and a recently formed

cloud services business.1 Wavecom provides communications services through an

1
        The cloud service business and related equipment are not included as part of the
Transaction. Prior to the consummation of the Transaction, Wavecom will transfer the
business and relevant equipment and assets of its cloud service business to another entity
that the shareholders of Wavecom either currently own or will form.


interisland submarine fiber optic network, which consists of approximately 400 miles of

undersea fiber that connects the six major islands of Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Maui

and the island of Hawaii. Wavecom’s network also includes about 140 route miles of

terrestrial (land-based) fiber, which includes three SONET fiber rings on Oahu.

       B.      HTI

       HTI, which is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, is the incumbent local

exchange carrier for the State of Hawaii and provides services to all of Hawaii’s major

islands. Its sister company, Hawaiian Telcom Services Company, Inc. (“HTSC”),

provides communications services, including interstate and intrastate long distance, high-

speed Internet, managed services, video services, and wireless services. Together, these

companies offer a wide spectrum of telecommunications products and services to

residential customers, government agencies, large corporate clients and small- and

mid-sized businesses. In addition to the services noted above, HTI and HTSC provide

customer premises equipment, data solutions, billing and collection, and pay telephone

services. As of March 31, 2012, HTI and HTSC served:

           408,883 local access lines, of which 53 percent served residential customers
            and 46 percent served business customers, with the remaining 1 percent
            serving other customers;

           209,845 long distance lines, of which 64 percent served residential customers
            and 36 percent served business customers; and

           104,358 high-speed internet lines, which served 85,518 retail residential lines,
            17,714 retail business lines and 1,126 wholesale business and resale lines.




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