Attachment Ownership Statement

This document pretains to SES-MOD-20100628-00835 for Modification on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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Ownership Statement Vizada, Inc. Applicant Vizada, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of MobSat Holding Norway AS (“MobSat AS”). MobSat AS is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of MobSat Group Holding Sàrl ("MobSat Group"), a Luxembourg company and the majority (88.3%) of MobSat Group’s shares are held by another Luxembourg company, Chrysaor S.à r.l. (“Chrysaor”). The largest shareholders of Chryasor are as follows: Apax France VI FCPR (“Apax France”) (organized in France) (57.1% equity and voting interests); Altamir Amboise SCA (“Altamir Amboise”) (organized in France) (22.2% equity and voting interests); MobSat Management Sàrl (“MobSat Management”) (organized in Luxembourg) (9.3% equity and voting interests); and Apax Parallel Investment V, L.P. (“API V”) (organized in Delaware) (16.9% equity and voting interests). The remaining shares of MobSat Group Holding are held by citizens of Canada, the United Kingdom and France, a U.K.-organized trust, and a Luxembourg- organized entity that manages MobSat Management. Apax France is a Fonds Commun de Placements a Risques (the equivalent of a venture capital fund). Altamir Amboise is a Société en Commandite par Actions (the equivalent of a limited partnership). Shares of Altamir Amboise trade publicly in France on the Euronext exchange but investors in Apax France and Altamir Amboise have no control over or right to control the management or voting of shares held by the companies in MobSat Group. The managing partners of Apax France and Altamir Amboise are Apax Partners SA (“APSA”) and Apax Partners & Cie Gérance SA (“APCG”), respectively, both of which are organized in France. As a result of this controlling interest in Apax France, APSA and APCG hold ultimate control of MobSat Group and its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Vizada, Inc. Additional details on APSA, APCG and the minority owners of MobSat Group (e.g. Altamir Amboise, MobSat Management and APIV) may be found in the Order and Declaratory Ruling in which the Commission approved the indirect foreign ownership of Vizada, Inc. in excess of the 25 percent benchmark in section 310(b)(4) of the of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. File No. ISP-PDR-20100514-00009 (June 16, 2010).


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