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• Grant of Franchise (a) For and in recognition of the mutual consideration set forth in this Franchise Agreement, the satisfaction of which is hereby acknowledged by both parties, Franchisee is hereby granted a nonexclusive Franchise to construct, place, replace, repair, maintain, extend, and operate its facilities along, across, upon, under, or in the City's Rights of Way, for the purpose of providing a fiber optic network to provide digital data and/or voice transport. The City may, in writing, approve amendments to the locations and to the routes of Franchisee’s fiber optic facilities, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. (b) This Franchise Agreement does not grant Franchisee the authority or right to provide end user "Cable Service." For the purposes of this agreement, "Cable Service" is defined as the one-way transmission to subscribers of video programming or other programming services, and subscriber interaction, if any, which is required for the selection of such video programming or other programming service. (c) The grant of this Franchise Agreement shall not convey title, equitable or legal, to Franchisee in the Rights of Way of the City and shall only give to Franchisee the right to occupy the Rights of Way of the City for the purposes and for the time stated in this Franchise Agreement. The Franchise Agreement does not: (1) Grant Franchisee the right to use Facilities or any other property, telecommunications- related or otherwise, owned or controlled by the City or a third party, without the valid written consent of the City or the third party. (2) Grant Franchisee the authority to construct, to operate, or to maintain any Facilities and any related appurtenances and improvements thereto on any property owned by the City outside a Right of Way, including but not limited to public parks, City Hall, public works facilities, or other public property. The parties agree that the City and Franchisee shall— if it becomes necessary—enter into separate agreements for the placement of Facilities and any related appurtenances and improvements thereto on any City-owned property not located in a Right of Way. (3) Excuse Franchisee from obtaining appropriate access or attachment agreements before locating its Facilities and any related appurtenances and improvements thereto on any property or facilities owned or controlled by the City or by any third party. (d) As noted in subsection (b), Franchisee shall not provide any additional services for which a separate franchise is required by the City without first obtaining a separate franchise or amending this Franchise Agreement. In particular, this Franchise Agreement does not grant Franchisee the right to provide cable service as a cable operator (as defined by 47 U.S.C. § 522(5)) within the City. Xxxxxxxxxx also agrees that this Franchise Agreement does not permit it to operate an open video system without the payment of fees contemplated by 47 U.S.C. § 573(c)(2)(B) and without complying with all FCC regulations promulgated pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 573. Franchisee shall not knowingly allow the use of its Facilities by any third party in violation of this subsection or of any federal, state, or local laws. (e) Nothing in this Franchise Agreement shall be construed as giving Franchisee any exclusive rights or privileges. (f) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Franchisee reserves all rights it may have under applicable federal, state and local laws affecting this Franchise Agreement, including but not limited to K.S.A. 12-2001.

• Term of Franchise From January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012.

• License Grant If Products include software, firmware or documentation, Supplier grants to DXC a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, display, prepare derivative works of the documentation and distribute such works, software, firmware or documentation directly or as integrated into DXC products, and to sublicense such rights to third parties. Supplier shall identify all licenses and deliver to DXC all materials required to meet the requirements of any licenses for third party software that is included in the Products. Supplier shall deliver to DXC the source code for any software licensed under a license that has a source availability requirement (such as the GNU General Public License). If the source code is not included with the material that Supplier has previously delivered, Supplier shall deliver within seven (7) days after DXC’s request the source code for any software licensed under an open source license that has a source availability requirement. Supplier grants DXC the right to duplicate and distribute the materials as necessary.

• License Term The license term shall commence upon the License Effective Date, provided, however, that where an acceptance or trial period applies to the Product, the License Term shall be extended by the time period for testing, acceptance or trial.

• License Terms This license is for one full Semester. It cannot be cancelled or terminated except under the conditions cited in this license.

• Franchise Matters (a) Since June 30, 2003, the Company and its Subsidiaries (i) have maintained records of all franchise activities in which full, true, and complete entries have been made of all material dealings and transactions in relation to their franchise activities, including all offering circulars, Franchise Agreements (as defined below), correspondence with franchisees, written complaints by franchisees, and government audits, (ii) have complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws regarding franchise activities and other franchise-related matters, (iii) have complied with all franchise agreements and other agreements by which the Company or its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly grant any third party franchise rights (whether not such agreement was entered into before or after June 30, 2002, each, a “Franchise Agreement”), (iv) have obtained and maintained in place franchisee agreements which contain provisions requiring the franchisee to (A) indemnify the Company or any Subsidiary, as applicable, with respect to claims relating to the franchisee’s business and (B) to obtain insurance from financially sound and respectable insurers to cover such indemnity, naming the Company as additional insured and loss payee, (v) have timely filed with the applicable Governmental Entities all Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars and other required filings, (vi) each Uniform Franchise Offering Circular delivered to any franchisee, prospective franchisee, or Governmental Entity by the Company or any Subsidiary complied in all material respects as of the date delivered with all requirements of applicable Law, and, when delivered, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have accounted for and administered in accordance with the Franchise Agreements and applicable franchise laws all advertising and marketing funds and cooperatives, if any, which the Company and its Subsidiaries administer and into which monies are paid by their franchisees. Section 3.25(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete and accurate list, as of the date hereof, of all currently effective Franchise Agreements, including the name of the franchisee and the date and expiration date of the applicable Franchise Agreement. The Company has provided the Buyer with true, complete and correct copies of all currently effective Franchise Agreements, including any amendments or modifications thereto, as of the date hereof, and there are no oral agreements, promises or understandings with respect to any currently effective Franchise Agreements. (b) Except as set forth in Section 3.25(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter: (i) the royalty rates and required advertising contributions specified in each currently effective Franchise Agreement remain in effect, are being paid when due and have not been reduced, modified, waived, or otherwise affected by any Franchise Agreement “side letter,” modification, amendment, waiver, or suspension, in whole or in part and each currently effective Franchise Agreement is in full force and effect; (ii) all franchise registrations remain in full force and effect and are not the subject of any existing or threatened action by a Governmental Entity or otherwise intended, in whole or in part, to result in the termination, revocation, modification, suspension, conditioning, or dissolution of any such franchise registration and/or any other circumstance which might or would impair, impede or preclude the Company’s ability routinely to renew or amend (as the case may be) any such franchise registration and/or enter into Franchise Agreements in any jurisdiction; (iii) there are no written, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, franchisee complaints, threats to initiate litigation or arbitration, or threats to file complaints with a Governmental Entity, whether such threats have been filed either with the Company or any Subsidiary and/or any third party (including any Governmental Entity); (iv) there exists no extant formal or, to the Knowledge of the Company, informal, complaint, inquiry, investigation, or judicial or administrative action or proceeding, communicated or commenced (as the case may be) by any Governmental Entity, to or against the Company or any Subsidiary regarding its offer and sale of franchises; the administration of its franchise network; advancing or referring to any complaint received from any franchisee; inquiring of or contesting any element of the Company’s franchise program or franchise relationships (including antitrust issues such as predatory pricing or monopolization); and/or, otherwise related to the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s compliance with any franchise Law; (v) there exists no litigation or other claims asserted by any third party against any of the Company’s franchisees in which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party thereto under any theory, including negligence or “vicarious liability”; (vi) no supply Contract to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party may be unilaterally terminated by the subject supplier as a result of this Agreement, the Offer, the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, if that supply contract is material to the operation of the Company’s network of franchisees, taken as a whole; (vii) since December 31, 2004, neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries has refused to renew any Franchise Agreement; (viii) to the Company’s Knowledge, no franchisee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is currently in default in any material respect under any Franchise Agreement; (ix) since December 31, 2004, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has terminated any Franchise Agreement; and (x) the Company may enter into this Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated hereby without the consent of any Franchisee.

• SOFTWARE LICENSE GRANT Where Product is acquired on a licensed basis the following shall constitute the license grant:

• Grant of License to Use Intellectual Property Without limiting the provisions of Section 3.01 hereof or any other rights of the Collateral Agent as the holder of a Security Interest in any IP Collateral, for the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise rights and remedies under this Agreement at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to the Grantors) to use, license or sublicense any of the IP Collateral now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, and wherever the same may be located (whether or not any license agreement by and between any Grantor and any other Person relating to the use of such IP Collateral may be terminated hereafter), and including in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof, provided, however, that any such license granted by the Collateral Agent to a third party shall include reasonable and customary terms necessary to preserve the existence, validity and value of the affected IP Collateral, including without limitation, provisions requiring the continuing confidential handling of trade secrets, requiring the use of appropriate notices and prohibiting the use of false notices, protecting and maintaining the quality standards of the Trademarks in the manner set forth below (it being understood and agreed that, without limiting any other rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or applicable Law, nothing in the foregoing license grant shall be construed as granting the Collateral Agent rights in and to such IP Collateral above and beyond (x) the rights to such IP Collateral that each Grantor has reserved for itself and (y) in the case of IP Collateral that is licensed to any such Grantor by a third party, the extent to which such Grantor has the right to grant a sublicense to such IP Collateral hereunder). The use of such license by the Collateral Agent may only be exercised, at the option of the Collateral Agent, during the continuation of an Event of Default; provided that any license, sublicense or other transaction entered into by the Collateral Agent in accordance herewith shall immediately terminate at such time as the Collateral Agent is no longer lawfully entitled to exercise its rights and remedies under this Agreement. Nothing in this Section 4.01 shall require a Grantor to grant any license that is prohibited by any rule of law, statute or regulation, or is prohibited by, or constitutes a breach or default under or results in the termination of any contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document evidencing, giving rise to or theretofore granted, with respect to such property or otherwise unreasonably prejudices the value thereof to the relevant Grantor. In the event the license set forth in this Section 4.01 is exercised with regard to any Trademarks, then the following shall apply: (i) all goodwill arising from any licensed or sublicensed use of any Trademark shall inure to the benefit of the Grantor; (ii) the licensed or sublicensed Trademarks shall only be used in association with goods or services of a quality and nature consistent with the quality and reputation with which such Trademarks were associated when used by Grantor prior to the exercise of the license rights set forth herein; and (iii) at the Grantor’s request and expense, licensees and sublicensees shall provide reasonable cooperation in any effort by the Grantor to maintain the registration or otherwise secure the ongoing validity and effectiveness of such licensed Trademarks, including, without limitation the actions and conduct described in Section 4.02 below.

• Exclusivity Without prejudice to the Company’s rights under Section 5.4, the Company agrees not to appoint any other depositary for issuance of depositary shares, depositary receipts or any similar securities or instruments so long as The Bank of New York Mellon is acting as Depositary under this Deposit Agreement.

• Patents, Licenses, Franchises and Formulas The Borrower and its Subsidiaries own or have valid licenses to use all material patents, trademarks, permits, service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses, franchises and formulas, or rights with respect to the foregoing, and have obtained assignments of all leases and other rights of whatever nature, reasonably necessary for the present conduct of their business, without any known conflict with the rights of others except for such failures and conflicts which have not had, and could not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.