Attachment Exhibit E#A20

This document pretains to SES-ASG-20020114-00098 for Assignment on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESASG2002011400098_244396

Exhibit E Statement of Ownership, Including Foreign Ownership This attachment is submitted in response to FCC Form 312, Item 34 and Schedule A, Item A20. Response to Items 34 and A20 Both the assignor GUSA, Inc. and the assignee GUSA, LLC, are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Vodafone Americas Asia Inc. Following are the 10 percent and greater direct and indirect owners of Vodafone Americas Asia Inc. (“VAAI”). See attached diagram of ownership. Direct Ownership Name: Vodafone US Partners (“VUSP”) Address: 2999 Oak Road, 10th Floor Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Citizenship: Delaware Principal Business: Holding Company Percent Held: VUSP holds over 96% direct ownership interest in VAAI. Indirect Ownership Name: Vodafone Group Plc Address: The Courtyard 2-4 London Road Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1JX United Kingdom Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Global provider of mobile telecommunications services Percentage Held: 100% direct ownership in VIOL. Vodafone Group Plc is a widely- held, publicly traded company. No single entity holds 10 percent or more of its voting stock. Name: Vodafone International Operations (VIOL) Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 100% direct ownership in VWHL and VIHL.

Name: Vodafone International Holdings Limited (VIHL) Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 74% direct ownership in TL Name: Vodafone Worldwide Holdings Limited (VWHL) Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 26% direct ownership in TL Name: Taskonly Limited (TL) Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 100% direct ownership interest in each Vodaphone Limited and Vodata Limited Name: Vodaphone Limited Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 10% direct ownership interest in Vodafone Luxembourg S.a.r.l. (Lux 1) Name: Vodata Limited Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 90% direct ownership interest in Lux 1. Name: Luxembourg S.a.r.l. (Lux 1) Address: 398 Route d’Esch L-1471, Luxembourg Citizenship: Luxembourg Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 100% direct interest in Luxembourg 2 S.a.r.l. (Lux 2) and 10% direct ownership interest in VUSP.

Name: Luxembourg 2 S.a.r.l. (Lux 2) Address: Same Citizenship: Luxembourg Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: 100% direct ownership interest in Luxembourg 3 S.a.r.l. (Lux 3) and a 89.9911% direct ownership interest in VUSP. Name: Luxembourg 3 S.a.r.l. (Lux 3) Address: Same Citizenship: United Kingdom Principal Business: Holding Company Percentage Held: .0089% direct ownership interest in VUSP. VAAI, the parent of proposed assignee GUSA LLC, has two foreign directors, Christopher Gent and Ken Hydon, both of the United Kingdom. Section 310(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. § 310(b), permits foreign citizens to be directors of companies like VAAI that directly or indirectly control a U.S. corporation holding common carrier radio licenses. The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau previously determined that “[b]ecause the United Kingdom is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), under the Commission’s Foreign Participation Order, we presume that the public interest would be served by authorizing, under Section 310(b)(4), common carrier radio licenses held by entities indirectly owned by Vodafone [Group Plc.] and citizens of the United Kingdom.” AirTouch Communications, Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc., 14 FCC Rcd 9430, 9434 (1999) (footnote omitted). Vodafone Group Plc. will continue to hold its indirect ownership of earth station licensees through U.S.- incorporated subsidiaries Vodafone US Partners and VAAI.

Vodafone Group Pic ownership in Vodafone US Partners vOpaFGnE GROuP PLC vODaFQnE INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS LTp VODAFONE WORLOWi VOUArONE HOLDINGS LTD INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTO Po% 74% TASKONLY LTO ——p—— vODATA vODaAPHONE LTO VOOAFONE LUXEMBOURG SARL ,__J______] voparone , LuxemBoure 2 saRL _ |____ vatarone LUXEMBOURG 3 SARL 0.01% vOOAFONE US PARTNERS GENERAL PARTNERSHIP (__________]


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