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Mergers & Acquisitions: ITC Broadband Holdings Acquiring USConnect Holdings

June 24, 2021 – The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking comment on a Section 214 application filed by USConnect Holdings, Inc. (and its direct and indirect subsidiaries) and ITC Broadband Holdings, LLC requesting authority to transfer control of USConnect Holdings to ITC. Comments are due on or before July 8, 2021, and reply comments are due July 15, 2021.

USConnect is a Delaware holding company that does not provide any services. Through its direct and indirect wholly-owned rural incumbent local exchange carriers and subsidiaries, USConnect Holdings provides video, broadband internet access, telecommunications and interconnected VoIP services in Texas, Georgia, Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. USConnect’s direct and indirect subsidiaries include the following: USConnect Services Co., Inc.; USConnect Acquisitions II, Inc.; USConnect Acquisitions III, Inc.; USConnect Acquisitions IV, Inc.; USConnect Acquisitions V, LLC dba CMS IP Technologies; The Livingston Telephone Company; Telcom Supply, Inc.; Waverly Hall Communications, Inc.; Waverly Hall Telephone, LLC; S&A Communications, Inc.; S&A Telephone Company, Inc.; Mid-South Cellular, Inc.; Corona Holdings, Inc.; South Park, LLC d/b/a South Park Telephone Company; The Rye Telephone Company; CableCo, LLC; Dalton Telephone Company, Inc.; Newcastle Holdings, Inc.; Dalton Telecommunications, Inc.; and Elsie Communications, Inc.

ITC Broadband Holdings is a Delaware holding company corporation that primarily invests in companies providing communications services, and is in the process of building its business. Neither ITC nor any of its direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries hold any FCC authorizations or provide any telecommunications services.