Attachment Pacnet Pro Forma Ass

This document pretains to SCL-ASG-20150202-00003 for Assignment on a Submarine Cable Landing filing.

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                                                          February 2, 2015



    VIA IBFS


    Marlene H. Dortch
    Secretary
    Federal Communications Commission
    445-12th Street, SW
    Washington, DC 20554

                                    Re:   Cable Landing License of Pacnet Services (USA) Inc. for Unity Cable
                                          System
                                          FCC File No. SCL-LIC-20080516-00010
                                          Notice of Pro Forma License Assignments

    Dear Ms. Dortch:

                    Pacnet Services (USA) Inc., (“Pacnet Services”) and Pacnet Limited (“Pacnet
    Ltd.”) (collectively, the “Parties”), by their attorneys, hereby notify the Commission, in
    accordance with Section 1.767(g)(7) of the FCC Rules, of a series of two immediately successive
    pro forma assignments of the submarine cable landing license referenced above effective as of
    the date of this letter.1

                  Pacnet Services is a company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware.
    Pacnet Services is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Pacnet Ltd.

                     Pacnet Services is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Pacnet Global
    Corporation (S) Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company. Pacnet Global Corporation (S) Pte. Ltd., in
    turn, is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Pacnet Services Corporation Ltd, a Bermuda


    1
                    See FCC, Public Notice, Actions Taken Under Cable Landing License Act, DA No. 09-
                    2188, FCC File No. SCL-LIC-20080516-00010. (Oct. 8, 2009).


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company. Pacnet Services Corporation Ltd is itself a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Pacnet
Ltd. Pacnet Ltd. is a subsidiary of Pacnet International Limited (“Pacnet International”), which
controls and owns an equity and voting share of 90.164 percent in Pacnet Ltd. Pacnet
International is a company formed under the laws of Bermuda.

                 The following entities hold a 10 percent or more interest in the Parties through an
ownership interest in Pacnet International: Ashmore Cayman SPC Limited re Pacnet Segregated
Portfolio (“Ashmore”), which holds 51.233 percent of the issued and outstanding equity, 2
Spinnaker Capital Pacnet Holdings Ltd. which holds 35.307 percent of the issued and
outstanding equity, and Clearwater Undersea Cable Investments, L.P. which holds 13.460
percent of the issued and outstanding equity. No person or entity holds an interest of 10 percent
or more in Pacnet International or the Parties other than those identified above.

              Pacnet Services, along with several other entities, is a licensee on the non-
common carrier Unity Cable System between the United States and Japan. 3 With this letter,
Pacnet Services provides notice of the assignment, on a pro forma basis, of its license for the
Unity Cable System to its parent company, Pacnet Ltd. (“Pro forma Assignment 1”).

                Immediately following Pro forma Assignment 1, Pacnet Ltd. will assign, on a pro
forma basis, its interests in the portions of the Unity Cable System located within U.S. territorial
waters and the above-referenced submarine cable landing license to Pacnet Services (“Pro forma
Assignment 2”).

                 Following Pro forma Assignment 2, Pacnet Ltd. will hold 40 percent
participation, equity and voting interests in the Unity Cable System, subject to the assignment of
the foregoing interests in the portions of the Unity Cable System located in U.S. territorial waters
to Pacnet Services. Within the U.S. territorial waters, Pacnet Services will own and operate two
(2) fiber pairs on the Unity Cable System.

                Pacnet Ltd. and Pacnet Services certify, pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 1.767(g)(7), that
the transaction effected by Pro forma Assignment 1 and Pro forma Assignment 2 was pro forma,
as defined in 47 C.F.R. § 63.24, and that it, together with all previous pro forma transactions,
does not result in a change of the ultimate control of the license.




2
       Three Funds currently hold a 10 percent or greater indirect ownership interest in Pacnet
       International through Ashmore: Asset Holder PCC Limited in respect of Ashmore
       Emerging Markets Liquid Investments Portfolio, incorporated in Guernsey (12.987
       percent), Ashmore Emerging Markets Debt Fund, incorporated in the Cayman Islands
       (10.569 percent), and Asset Holder PCC No. 2 Limited in respect of Ashmore Asian
       Recovery Fund, incorporated in Guernsey (13.986 percent).
3
       See n. 1, supra.


          Please contact the undersigned counsel if you have any questions regarding this
matter.



                                           Respectfully submitted,


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                                            Counselfor Pacnet Limiled
                                            and Pacnet Services (USA) Inc.


                                            Certificate

        1, Sean Gleeson, Acting General Counsel, of Pacnet Limited and Pacnet Services (USA)

Inc., hereby certify under penalty of perjury to the following:


               1.      All of the information contained in the attached notification letter dated
                       February 2, 2015, is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

               2.      Both Proforma Assignment 1 and Proforma Assignment 2, as described
                       in the notification letter, were pro forma transactions as defined in 47
                       C.F.R. § 63.24 and, taken together with all the previous pro forma
                       transactions, do not result in a change in the ultimate control of the cable
                       landing license for the Unity Cable System originally issued to Pacnet
                       Services (USA) Inc. in 2009; and

               3.      No party to this notification is subject to a denial of federal benefits,
                       including FCC benefits, pursuant to Section 5301 of the Anti—Drug Abuse
                       Act of 1988.



                                                  Sean Gleeson
                                                  Acting General Counsel
                                                   Pacnet Limited and
                                                   Pacnet Services (USA) Inc.


Date:   February 2, 2015



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