2017-06-13 WIN-Broad

SUPPLEMENT submitted by Windstream Holdings, Inc.

Supplement

2017-06-13

This document pretains to ITC-T/C-20170427-00088 for Transfer of Control on a International Telecommunications filing.

IBFS_ITCTC2017042700088_1237201

                                      Before the
                       FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                Washington, D.C. 20554



    In the Matter of                                 )
                                                     )
    WINDSTREAM HOLDINGS, INC. and                    )
                                                     )   WC Docket No. _______________
    BROADVIEW NETWORKS HOLDINGS, INC.                )
                                                     )    File Nos. ITC-T/C-__________
    Application for Consent to Transfer Control of   )
    Authorizations to Provide Global Facilities-     )
    Based and Global Resale International            )
    Telecommunications Services and to Transfer      )
    Control of Domestic Common Carrier               )
    Transmission Lines, Pursuant to Section 214 of   )
    the Communications Act of 1934, as Amended       )
                                                     )


            CONSOLIDATED APPLICATIONS TO TRANSFER CONTROL OF
          INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC SECTION 214 AUTHORIZATIONS


          Pursuant to Section 214 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (“the Act”),1

and Sections 63.04, 63.18, and 63.24 of the Commission’s Rules,2 Windstream Holdings, Inc.

(“Windstream”) and Broadview Networks Holdings, Inc. (“Broadview”) (collectively,

“Applicants”) request Commission consent to transfer indirect control of certain international

and domestic Section 214 authorizations held by various wholly-owned subsidiaries of

Broadview listed on Exhibit 1 (the “Broadview Authorized Carriers”) to Windstream. Such

authority is necessary to effectuate the transfer to Windstream of Broadview, whose authorized

subsidiaries provide Unified Communications as a Service (“UCaaS”), data services (dedicated



1
      See 47 U.S.C. § 214.
2
      See 47 C.F.R. §§ 63.04, 63.18, 63.24.


internet, MPLS, Ethernet), voice services (local, long distance, POTS, voice over Internet

Protocol (“VoIP”), toll free), and colocation services to small and medium-sized businesses,

enterprise, wholesale, and residential customers.

       The proposed transaction is an all-cash transaction in which Broadview shares of

common stock—with some exceptions—will be converted to the right to receive $6.98 per share.

As described in more detail in Exhibit 2, a newly created subsidiary, Beethoven Merger

Subsidiary, Inc., a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of Windstream created for the transaction,

will be merged with and into Broadview, with Broadview continuing as the surviving company

and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Windstream. Broadview’s subsidiaries will

thereafter exist as indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Windstream. The Applicants seek

consent to the following transfers of control:

Transfer of Control Applications:

       1.      Transfer of control of international Section 214 authority held by Broadview
               Networks, Inc. from Broadview to Windstream, International Section 214
               Authorization (Global and Limited Global Resale Services), IB File No. ITC-214-
               20000128-00044;

       2.      Transfer of control of international Section 214 authority held by BridgeCom
               International, Inc. from Broadview to Windstream, International Section 214
               Authorization (Global Resale Service), IB File No. ITC-214-19971020-00645;

       3.      Transfer of control of international Section 214 authority held by ATX Licensing,
               Inc. from Broadview to Windstream, International Section 214 Authorization, IB
               File No. ITC-214-19920330-00034;

       4.      Transfer of control of international Section 214 authority held by A.R.C.
               Networks, Inc. from Broadview to Windstream, International Section 214
               Authorization (Individual Switched Resale Service), IB File No. ITC-214-
               19960116-00008;

       5.      Transfer of control of international Section 214 authority held by Eureka
               Telecom, Inc. from Broadview to Windstream, International Section 214
               Authorization (Individual Switched Resale Service), IB File No. ITC-214-
               19951226-00060;


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