Attachment Exhibit A

This document pretains to SES-T/C-20160901-00758 for Transfer of Control on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESTC2016090100758_1148207

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                          DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSACTIONS

          On August 12, 2016, Radiate Holdco, LLC (“Holdco”), a Delaware limited liability

company and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Applicant/Transferee Radiate Holdings,

L.P. (“Radiate Holdings”), entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with

Transferor Yankee Cable Partners, LLC (“Yankee Partners”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary,

Yankee Cable Parent, LLC (the “Yankee Purchase Agreement”). Licensee RCN Telecom

Services (Lehigh) LLC is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Yankee Cable Parent, LLC. At

the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Yankee Purchase Agreement, Holdco will

acquire from Transferor Yankee Partners all of the outstanding membership interests of Yankee

Parent. As a result of these transactions, Yankee Parent will become a wholly-owned, direct

subsidiary of Holdco. All of Yankee Parent’s existing subsidiaries that hold FCC licenses or

authorizations will remain intact and will continue to hold their operating tangible and intangible

assets.

          On August 12, 2016, Holdco also entered into a Membership Interest Purchase

Agreement (the “Grande Purchase Agreement”) with Grande Investment L.P. (“Grande

Investment”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Grande Parent LLC (“Grande Parent”). At the

closing of the transactions contemplated by the Grande Purchase Agreement, Holdco will

acquire from Transferor Grande Investment all of the outstanding membership interests of

Grande Parent. As a result of these transactions, Grande Parent will become a wholly-owned,

direct subsidiary of Holdco. Grande Communications Networks LLC, 1 the wholly-owned

subsidiary of Grande Parent that holds FCC licenses or authorizations, will remain intact and will

1
  Grande Networks (formerly Grande Communications, Inc.) is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of
Grande Parent and is authorized by the FCC and the State of Texas to provide local, long distance, and
international telecommunications services in Texas.


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continue to hold its operating tangible and intangible assets, and will become an indirect, wholly-

owned subsidiary of Transferee Radiate Holdings.

       After the close of the Transactions, Transferee Radiate Holdings will become the indirect

100 percent owner of Yankee Parent, which currently is the 100 percent indirect owner of RCN

Telecom Services, LLC (“RCN-TS”).2 RCN-TS is currently the direct 100 percent owner of

Licensee RCN Telecom Services (Lehigh) LLC. Radiate Holdings also will become the indirect

100 percent owner of Grande Parent, which currently is the direct 100 percent owner of Grande

Networks.




2
 The following entities are direct wholly-owned subsidiaries of RCN-TS that are authorized by the FCC
and state PUCs to provide local, long distance, and international telecommunications services in the
geographic areas indicated: Starpower Communications, LLC (Maryland, Virginia, and Washington,
D.C.); RCN Telecom Services (Lehigh) LLC (Pennsylvania); RCN Telecom Services of Philadelphia
LLC (Pennsylvania); and RCN Telecom Services of Massachusetts, LLC f/k/a RCN BecoCom LLC
(Massachusetts). RCN-TS also (i) wholly owns RCN Telecom Services of Illinois, LLC, which wholly
owns RCN Cable TV of Chicago, Inc. (Illinois) and (ii) is the General Partner in RCN Telecom Services
of New York, LP (RCN-TSNY), and the 100 percent owner of RCN NY LLC 1, a limited liability
company that is a limited partner in RCN-TSNY (New York).



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Document Modified: 2016-09-01 18:50:27

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