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• Guaranty Provisions (a) In consideration of loans, advances or disbursements heretofore or hereafter granted by CoBank to the Borrowers pursuant to the CoBank Loan Agreement or otherwise and for other good and valuable consideration, the adequacy, sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably, completely and immediately guarantees the prompt payment of, when due, whether by acceleration or Continuing Guaranty/Knology Broadband, Inc. Loan No. ML0883T1 otherwise, and the prompt payment and performance of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations, subject to the provisions set forth herein. The liability of Guarantor hereunder shall not be reduced as a result of amounts collected pursuant to any other guaranty, but shall be determined with reference to the amount of CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations prior to collection from any party other than the Borrowers; (b) Subject to the provisions set forth herein, Guarantor further agrees to pay to CoBank, upon demand, (i) all losses and reasonable costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, incurred in attempting to cause the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations to be paid, performed or otherwise satisfied or in attempting to protect or preserve any property, personal or real, securing the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations and (ii) all losses and reasonable costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, incurred in enforcing or endeavoring to enforce this Guaranty and any other CoBank Loan Document to which Guarantor is a party or in attempting to protect or preserve property pledged under any CoBank Loan Document to which Guarantor is a party; (c) Subject to the provisions set forth herein, Guarantor expressly guarantees, within its maximum liability hereunder, any sum or sums which become due and owing to CoBank as a result of any order of a bankruptcy court which requires CoBank to turn over moneys paid by the Borrowers, Guarantor or any other person to CoBank on account of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations; (d) Guarantor assents to all terms and agreements heretofore or hereafter made by the Borrowers, any of their subsidiaries or any other guarantor of the Borrowers with CoBank; (e) Guarantor hereby consents to the following and agrees that its liability will not be affected or impaired by (i) the exchange, release or surrender of any collateral to the Borrowers or any other person, including any other guarantor, pledgor or grantor, or the waiver, release or subordination of any security interest, in whole or in part; (ii) the waiver or delay in the exercise of any of CoBank's rights or remedies against the Borrowers or any other person, including any other guarantor; (iii) the release of the Borrowers or any other person, including any other person guaranteeing any portion of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations; (iv) the renewal, extension or modification of the terms of any of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations or any instrument or agreement evidencing the same; (f) Guarantor waives acceptance hereof, notice of acceptance hereof, and notice of acceleration of and intention to accelerate the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations, and waives presentment, demand, protest, notice of dishonor, notice of default, notice of nonpayment or protest in relation to any instrument evidencing any of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations, and any other demands and notices required by law except as such waiver may be expressly prohibited by law; (g) This is a guaranty of payment and performance and not of collection. Subject to the provisions set forth herein, the liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be absolute, unconditional, direct, complete and immediate and shall not be contingent upon the pursuit of Continuing Guaranty/Knology Broadband, Inc. Loan No. ML0883T1 any remedies against the Borrowers or any other guarantor or person, nor against any security or lien available to CoBank, its successors, successors-in-title, endorsees or assigns. Guarantor waives any right to require that an action be brought against the Borrowers or any other person or to require that resort be had to any security. In the event of a default under the CoBank Loan Documents, or any of them, CoBank shall have the right to enforce its rights, powers and remedies under any of the CoBank Loan Documents, in any order, and all rights, powers and remedies available to CoBank in such event shall be nonexclusive and cumulative of all other rights, powers and remedies provided thereunder (including, without limitation, under the Companion Guaranty) or hereunder or by law or in equity. Accordingly, Guarantor hereby authorizes and empowers CoBank upon acceleration of the maturity of the Note or any other CoBank Loan Agreement Obligation, at its sole discretion, and without notice to Guarantor, to exercise any right or remedy which CoBank may have or any right or remedy hereinafter granted which CoBank may have as to any security, subject to the provisions set forth herein. Guarantor expressly waives any right to require any action on the part of CoBank to proceed to collect amounts due under the Note or any other CoBank Loan Agreement Obligation; (h) Until the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations are paid in full, Guarantor hereby subordinates any and all indebtedness of any Borrower now or hereafter owed to Guarantor to all CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations of the Borrowers to CoBank, and agrees with CoBank that, from and after the occurrence of a default or event of default under any of the CoBank Loan Documents and for so long as such default or event of default exists, Guarantor shall not demand or accept any payment of principal or interest from the Borrowers, shall not claim any offset or other reduction of Guarantor's liability hereunder because of any such indebtedness and shall not take any action to obtain any of the security for the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations; provided, however, that, if CoBank so requests, such indebtedness shall be collected, enforced and received by Guarantor as trustee for CoBank and be paid over to CoBank on account of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations of the Borrowers to CoBank, but without reducing or affecting in any manner the liability of Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guaranty; (i) Guarantor hereby authorizes CoBank, without notice to Guarantor, to apply all payments and credits received from the Borrowers or from any guarantor or realized from any security in such manner and in such priority as CoBank in its sole judgment shall see fit to the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations which are the subject of this Guaranty; (j) The liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty shall not in any manner be affected by reason of any action taken or not taken by CoBank, which action or inaction is consented and agreed to by Guarantor, nor by the partial or complete unenforceability or invalidity of any other guaranty (including, without limitation, under the Companion Guaranty) or surety agreement, pledge, assignment, or other security for any of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations. No delay in making demand on Guarantor for satisfaction of its liability hereunder shall prejudice CoBank's right to enforce such satisfaction. All of CoBank's rights and remedies shall be cumulative and any failure of CoBank to exercise any right hereunder shall not be construed as a waiver of the right to exercise the same or any other right at any time, and from time to time, thereafter; Continuing Guaranty/Knology Broadband, Inc. Loan No. ML0883T1 (k) This Guaranty shall be a continuing one and shall be binding upon Guarantor regardless of how long before or after the date hereof the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations are incurred. This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until a written instrument of termination shall be executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of CoBank. CoBank will only be obligated to execute such an instrument of termination if: (i) all CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations have been paid in full and (ii) CoBank has no further commitment or obligation to extend credit to the Borrowers. If so terminated, this Guaranty and Guarantor's obligations hereunder shall be automatically reinstated if at any time payment in whole or in part of any of the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations is rescinded or restored to the Borrowers or other payor, or must be paid to any other person, upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or reorganization of the Borrowers or other payor, all as though such payment has not been made; and (l) Until the CoBank Loan Agreement Obligations are paid finally and in full, or this Guaranty is released as provided herein, Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any and all rights it may have to enforce any of CoBank's rights or remedies or participate in any security now or hereafter held by CoBank, and any and all such other rights of subrogation, reimbursement, contribution or indemnification against the Borrowers or any other person having any manner of liability for the Borrowers' obligations to CoBank, whether or not arising hereunder, by agreement, at law or in equity.

• Void Provisions If any provision of this Agreement, as applied to either party or to any circumstances, shall be found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable but would be enforceable if some part were deleted or the period or area of application were reduced, then such provision shall apply with the modification necessary to make it enforceable, and shall in no way affect any other provision of this Agreement or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement.

• Agreement Provisions If the Company, on behalf of any Account, purchases Trust Portfolio shares (“Eligible Shares”) that are subject to a Rule 12b-1 plan adopted under the 1940 Act (the “Plan”), the Company, on behalf of its Distributor, may participate in the Plan.

• CHANGE OF CONTROL RELATED PROVISIONS Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5, in no event shall the aggregate payments or benefits to be made or afforded to Executive under said paragraphs (the "Termination Benefits") constitute an "excess parachute payment" under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor thereto, and in order to avoid such a result, Termination Benefits will be reduced, if necessary, to an amount (the "Non-Triggering Amount"), the value of which is one dollar ($1.00) less than an amount equal to three (3) times Executive's "base amount", as determined in accordance with said Section 280G. The allocation of the reduction required hereby among the Termination Benefits provided by Section 5 shall be determined by Executive.

• Lock-Up Provisions (a) The Subject Party hereby agrees not to, during the period commencing from the Closing and ending on the earliest of (x) six (6) months after the date of the Closing and (y) the date after the Closing on which the Purchaser consummates a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization, or other similar transaction with an unaffiliated third party that results in all of the Purchaser’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of the Purchaser Common Stock for cash, securities, or other property (the “Lock-Up Period”): (i) lend, offer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, donate, assign, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Securities, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Restricted Securities, or (iii) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing, whether any such transaction described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) above is to be settled by delivery of Restricted Securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise (any of the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii), a “Prohibited Transfer”). (b) The foregoing shall not apply to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities (I) to any Permitted Transferee or (II) pursuant to a court order or settlement agreement related to the distribution of assets in connection with the dissolution of marriage or civil union; provided, however, that in either of cases (I) or (II), it shall be a condition to such transfer that such transfer complies with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and other applicable law, and that the transferee executes and delivers to the Purchaser an agreement stating that the transferee is receiving and holding the Restricted Securities subject to the provisions of this Agreement applicable to the Subject Party, and there shall be no further transfer of such Restricted Securities except in accordance with this Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the term “Permitted Transferee” shall mean: (1) the members of the Subject Party’s immediate family (for purposes of this Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean with respect to any natural person, any of the following: such person’s spouse or domestic partner, the siblings of such person and his or her spouse or domestic partner, and the direct descendants and ascendants (including adopted and step children and parents) of such person and his or her spouses or domestic partners and siblings), (2) any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the Subject Party or the immediate family of the Subject Party, (3) if the Subject Party is a trust, to the trustor or beneficiary of such trust or to the estate of a beneficiary of such trust, (4) in the case of an entity, officers, directors, general partners, limited partners, members, or stockholders of such entity that receive such transfer as a distribution, or related investment funds or vehicles controlled or managed by such persons or their respective affiliates, (5) to any affiliate of the Subject Party, and (6) any transferee whereby there is no change in beneficial ownership. The Subject Party further agrees to execute such agreements as may be reasonably requested by the Purchaser that are consistent with the foregoing or that are necessary to give further effect thereto.

• EXCULPATION PROVISIONS EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO SPECIFICALLY AGREES THAT IT HAS A DUTY TO READ THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND AGREES THAT IT IS CHARGED WITH NOTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; THAT IT HAS IN FACT READ THIS AGREEMENT AND IS FULLY INFORMED AND HAS FULL NOTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERMS, CONDITIONS AND EFFECTS OF THIS AGREEMENT; THAT IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED BY INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL OF ITS CHOICE THROUGHOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS PRECEDING ITS EXECUTION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; AND HAS RECEIVED THE ADVICE OF ITS ATTORNEY IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; AND THAT IT RECOGNIZES THAT CERTAIN OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS RESULT IN ONE PARTY ASSUMING THE LIABILITY INHERENT IN SOME ASPECTS OF THE TRANSACTION AND RELIEVING THE OTHER PARTY OF ITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH LIABILITY. EACH PARTY HERETO AGREES AND COVENANTS THAT IT WILL NOT CONTEST THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF ANY EXCULPATORY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS ON THE BASIS THAT THE PARTY HAD NO NOTICE OR KNOWLEDGE OF SUCH PROVISION OR THAT THE PROVISION IS NOT “CONSPICUOUS.”

• Continuing Security Interest; Assignments under the Credit Agreement This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Secured Obligations, (ii) the Termination Date and (iii) the termination or expiration of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, (b) be binding upon each Grantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure, together with the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Secured Parties and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c), any Lender Party may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, all or any portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes, if any, held by it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Lender Party herein or otherwise, in each case as provided in Section 8.07 of the Credit Agreement.

• Inconsistencies with Other Documents; Independent Effect of Covenants (a) In the event there is a conflict or inconsistency between this Agreement and any other Loan Document, the terms of this Agreement shall control; provided that, other than for purposes of Article XI, any provision of the other Loan Documents which imposes additional burdens on any Borrower or its Subsidiaries or further restricts the rights of such Borrower or its Subsidiaries or gives the Administrative Agent or any Lender additional rights shall not be deemed to be in conflict or inconsistent with this Agreement and shall be given full force and effect. (b) Each Borrower expressly acknowledges and agrees that each covenant contained in Article VIII, IX, or X hereof shall be given independent effect. Accordingly, no Borrower shall engage in any transaction or other act otherwise permitted under any covenant contained in Article VIII, IX, or X if, before or after giving effect to such transaction or act, such Borrower shall or would be in breach of any other covenant contained in Article VIII, IX, or X.

• Covenants and Continuing Agreements So long as any amount owing in respect of the Obligations (whether or not due) shall remain unpaid, Borrower covenants that, unless otherwise consented to by Lender in writing, it shall:

• Liability Provisions (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Main Agreement or this Appendix B, BNYM shall not be liable under this Appendix B under any theory of tort, contract, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for lost profits, for exemplary, punitive, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages, or for any other damages which are not direct damages regardless of whether such damages were or should have been foreseeable and regardless of whether any entity has been advised of the possibility of such damages, all and each of which damages is hereby excluded by agreement of the parties. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of the Main Agreement or this Appendix B, BNYM's cumulative, aggregate liability to the Company for any Loss, including Loss arising from Claims for indemnification pursuant to the Main Agreement and this Appendix B, that arises or relates to a term of this Appendix B, the recovery of which is not otherwise excluded or barred by another provision of this Agreement, shall not exceed the fees paid by Company to BNYM for use of the particular Component System with respect to which the claim of Loss was made for the six (6) months immediately prior to the date the last claim of Loss relating to the particular Component System arose. (c) In the event of a material breach of this Appendix B by BNYM with respect to the operation of a particular Component System, Company's sole and exclusive termination remedy shall be to terminate the Licensed Rights granted by this Appendix B to the particular Component System with respect to which the material breach occurred by complying with the notice and cure period provisions in the Main Agreement applicable to a material breach of the Agreement, but the Company shall not be entitled to terminate any other provision of the Agreement or the Licensed Rights with respect to any other Component System. For purposes of clarification: The foregoing sentence is not intended to restrict, modify or abrogate any remedy available to a Company under another provision of the Agreement for a breach of Appendix B by BNYM other than the termination remedy.