Attachment Exhibit F

This document pretains to SES-T/C-20150317-00167 for Transfer of Control on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESTC2015031700167_1078792

FCC Form 312 Application for Pro Forma Transfer of Control of Earth Station Licensee Question A.21 EXHIBIT F Public Interest Statement As described in Exhibit E, this application proposes the pro forma transfer of control of earth station licensee Inmarsat Solutions (US) Inc. (“Licensee”). The proposed transaction would streamline the U.S. organizational structure of Licensee’s ultimate parent, Inmarsat plc (a UK public limited company), by deleting one of the U.S. intermediary holding companies above the Licensee. No change in the actual operations of the licensed earth stations will occur. The earth station licenses held by Licensee are classified as common carrier and are subject to the FCC’s prior grant of a foreign ownership declaratory ruling. 1 Counsel for the applicants has confirmed with FCC International Policy Division staff that no new foreign ownership declaratory ruling is required when, as in this case: 1) the only proposed change is the deletion of one of the intermediary holding companies above the licensee; 2) at least one U.S.- organized holding company remains in the ownership chain above the licensee; and 3) each of the foreign entities in the ownership chain was previously approved in the FCC’s foreign ownership declaratory ruling. While the list of call signs referenced in this application includes all current licenses of the same type, Licensee may hereafter file additional requests for authorizations for new or modified facilities or for special temporary authority. Accordingly, the Applicants request that any Commission approval of this application include authority for the Transferee to acquire control of: (1) any authorization issued to Licensee during the pendency of this transfer of control application and the period required for consummation of this transaction; and (2) any applications that are pending at the time of consummation. Such action would be consistent with prior Commission decisions. 2 Commission consent to the proposed transfer is in the public interest. Specifically, FCC grant of the application will serve the public interest by allowing the Licensee’s parent to streamline its U.S. organizational structure and by allowing the Licensee to continue to operate the earth station facilities upon consummation of the transaction. 1 See FCC File No. ISP-PDR-20100628-00014; Public Notice: International Authorizations Granted, TEL-01444, DA 10-1417, 25 FCC Rcd 10332, 10334 (July 29, 2010). Inmarsat Solutions (US) Inc. was known as Stratos Communications, Inc. at the time of the FCC’s Declaratory Ruling. Notice of the name change was submitted to the FCC via IBFS by letter dated February 23, 2012, re Call Signs E000180, E010047, E010048, E010049, E010050, and E050249. After the name change, earth station license E070114 was assigned to Inmarsat Solutions (US) Inc. under IBFS File No. SES-ASG-20140224-00110. 2 Applications of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic, 12 FCC Rcd 19985, 20097 (1997); Applications of Craig McCaw and AT&T, 9 FCC Rcd 5836, 5909 n.300 (1994).


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