GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

OF THE

UNITED STATES



Public Services Commission



IN RE:



Docket Nos. 653

Order No. 72/2016



Consolidated Application for Transfer of

Control of Virgin Islands Telephone Corp.

d/b/a Innovative Telephone



Innovative Cable TV St. Thomas-St. John, and



St. Croix Cable TV, Inc. d/b/a Innovative

Cable TV St. Croix



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Caribbean Communications Corp. d/b/a )

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WHEREAS, on November 4, 2015, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance

Corporation (hereinafter “CFC”) and ATN, International, Inc., f/k/a Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc.

(“ATN”) (the Applicants) submitted a Consolidated Application for the consent of the Public

Services Commission (“PSC”) to transfer control of the Virginia Islands Telephone Corporation

doing business as Innovative Telephone (“Vitelco”), Caribbean Communications Corporation,

doing business as Innovative Cable TV St. Thomas-St. John (“Innovative Cable STT-STJ), and

St. Croix Cable TV, Inc., doing business as Innovative Cable TV St. Croix (nnovative Cable

STX”, and with Innovative Cable STT-STJ the “Cable Companies”) from CFC to ATN and



WHEREAS, on September 30, 2015 Caribbean Asset Holdings, LLC (“CAH”), which is

CFC’s holding company for its Caribbean telecommunications and cable television businesses,

ATN and ATN”s wholly-owned subsidiary, ATN VI Holdings, LLC (“ATN-VT’), executed a

purchase agreement whereby ATN agreed to acquire indirect control of Vitelco and the Cable

Companies and affiliated cable companies in the British Virgin Islands and St. Maarten, and



WHEREAS, the ATN-VI Holdings, LLC, Caribbean Assets Holdings, LLC, Virgin

Islands Telephone Corporation (VITELCO), and the USVI Cable Companies entered into an

agreement with the Public Services Commission for the transfer of control of VITELCO and the

USVI Cable Companies (the "TOCA"), and