exv10w28






Exhibit 10.28




Execution Copy (w/NC)

Class B Common Units




EMPLOYEE EQUITY AGREEMENT




          This EMPLOYEE EQUITY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of October 20, 2009 by
and between Communications Infrastructure Investments, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(the “Company”), and Martin Snella (“Employee”). Unless otherwise provided in this
Agreement, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings set forth in Section 9
hereof.




          WHEREAS, the Company desires to issue to Employee four hundred fifty thousand (450,000) of
the Company’s Class B Common Units in consideration of certain services rendered by Employee to
one or more of the Company’s subsidiaries, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein and in the LLC Agreement.




          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereto agree as follows:




          Section 1. Issuance.




          (a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and the LLC
Agreement, on the date of this Agreement, the Company will issue to Employee, in consideration
of certain services rendered by Employee to the Company, four hundred fifty thousand (450,000) of
the Company’s Class B Common Units (the “Employee Units”). Common Unit Threshold B related
to such Employee Units shall be $15,000,000.00. Such Employee Units shall receive distributions from
the Company pursuant to the LLC Agreement when the aggregate distributions previously made with
respect to Issued Common Units pursuant to the LLC Agreement are equal to or greater than such Common
Unit Threshold B.




          (b) The Employee Units are being issued as profits interests for federal income tax
purposes pursuant to Revenue Procedures 93-27 and 2001-43 (or pursuant to any subsequent
authority)
and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or the LLC Agreement, any
allocation or
distribution pursuant to the LLC Agreement with respect to the Employee Units issued pursuant
to this
Agreement shall be adjusted to the extent necessary so that such Employee Units shall be
treated as
profits interests for federal income tax purposes.




          Section 2. Closing Conditions. The obligation of the Company to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby and issue Employee Units hereunder is subject to Employee’s
execution and delivery of (i) a counterpart signature to the LLC Agreement and (ii) a Non
Disclosure and Developments Agreement.




          Section 3. Representations and Warranties of Employee. In connection with the
issuance of the Employee Units hereunder, Employee represents and warrants to the Company as of
the date hereof as follows:




          (a) Employee has had an opportunity to ask questions and receive answers
concerning the terms and conditions of the Employee Units. Employee has reviewed, or has had
an opportunity to review a copy of the LLC Agreement.




          (b) Each of this Agreement and the LLC Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligation of Employee, enforceable against Employee in accordance with its terms,
except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
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affecting creditors’ rights generally and limitations on the availability of equitable remedies,
and the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and the LLC Agreement by Employee
does not and will not conflict with, violate, or cause a breach of any agreement, contract, or
instrument to which Employee is a party or any judgment, order, or decree to which Employee is
subject.




          (c) As a condition precedent to the issuance of the Employee Units pursuant to this
Agreement, Employee shall execute and deliver to the Company and the Internal Revenue Service
(the “IRS”) a timely, valid election under Section 83(b) of the Code (the “83(b)
Election”). Employee
understands that under Section 83(b) of the Code, the Treasury regulations promulgated
thereunder, and
certain IRS administrative announcements (including Revenue Procedures 93-27 and 2001-43), in
the absence of an effective election under Section 83(b) of the Code, the excess of the fair
market value of the
Employee Units on the date on which any forfeiture restrictions applicable to such Employee
Units lapse
over the price paid for such units is reportable as ordinary income at that time. For this
purpose, the term
“forfeiture restrictions” means the restrictions on transferability, the repurchase and
forfeiture provisions
and the vesting conditions imposed under Section 5 and Section 6 hereof.
Employee understands that (i)
in making the 83(b) Election, Employee may be taxed at the time the Employee Units are
acquired
hereunder to the extent the fair market value of the Employee Units exceeds the purchase price
for such
units and (ii) in order to be effective, the 83(b) Election must be filed with the IRS within
thirty (30) days
after the date upon which the Employee Units were issued to Employee hereunder. Employee
hereby
acknowledges that: (x) the foregoing description of the tax consequences of the 83(b)
Election is not
intended to be complete and, among other things, does not describe state, local or foreign
income and
other tax consequences; (y) none of the Company, the Investor Members or any of the their
respective
affiliates, officers, employees, agents or representatives (each, a “Related Person”)
has provided or is
providing Employee with tax advice regarding the 83(b) Election or any other matter, and the
Company
and the Investor Members have urged Employee to consult Employee’s own tax advisor with
respect to
income taxation consequences of purchasing, holding and disposing of the Employee Units; and
(z) none
of the Company, the Investor Members or any Related Person has advised Employee to rely on any
determination by it or its representatives as to the fair market value specified in the 83(b)
Election and
will have no liability to Employee if the actual fair market value of the Employee Units on
the date hereof
exceeds the amount specified in the 83(b) Election.




          (d) None of the Company, the Investor Members or any Related Person has made
any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the future performance of the
Company or the present or future value of the Employee Units to be purchased by Employee. Employee further
acknowledges that: (i) all forecasts, projections or illustrations of amounts that might be
realized as a result of Employee’s purchase of the Employee Units that the Company, the Investor Members or
a Related Person shared with Employee (collectively, “Illustrations”), if any, were
purely hypothetical; (ii) none of the Company, the Investor Members or any Related Person intended for Employee to rely
upon such Illustrations in the process of making an investment decision, and (iii) Employee has not
relied on such Illustrations in the process of making an investment decision.




          Section 4. Representations and Warranties of the Company. In connection with the
issuance of the Employee Units hereunder, the Company represents and warrants to Employee as of
the date hereof as follows:




          (a)
Organization, Limited Liability Company Power. The Company is a limited liability
company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware. The Company possesses all requisite limited liability company power and authority
necessary to own and operate its properties, to carry on its businesses as presently conducted and
to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.





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          (b) Employee Units Duly Issued. When issued pursuant to this Agreement, all of
the Employee Units will be duly authorized, validly issued and will have been issued by the
Company in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws.




          (c)
Authorization; No Breach; Consents. The execution, delivery and performance
by the Company or its officers of this Agreement and the LLC Agreement and the offer, sale and
issuance of the Employee Units hereunder have been duly authorized by the Company. Each of this
Agreement and the LLC Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable
in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and limitations
on the availability of equitable remedies.




          Section 5. Vesting. The Employee Units issued to Employee pursuant to this Agreement
will “vest” as provided in this Section 5. The provisions of this Section 5 will
be in all respects subject to the provisions of Section 6 below.




          (a) General. The vesting start date is May 21, 2009 (the “Vesting Start
Date”). The issuance date is October 20, 2009 (the “Issuance Date”). The vesting end date is May
21, 2013 (the “Vesting End Date”). Subject to Section 5(b) below, (i) on October 20, 2010 (the
“First Vesting Date”), one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) Employee Units of the Employee Units acquired by Employee
hereunder shall vest and become Vested Units and (ii) thereafter, on a monthly basis measured
from the First Vesting Date through the Vesting End Date, a number of Employee Units equal to 1/48 of
the aggregate number of Employee Units acquired by Employee hereunder shall vest and become Vested
Units; provided that all of the Employee Units will immediately vest and become Vested
Units five
months after the consummation of a Sale of the Company if Employee has remained continuously
employed by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company from the date hereof through the such
Sale
of the Company is consummated and such Employee does not voluntarily terminate such Employee’s
employment with the Company prior to the date five-months after the consummation of the Sale
of the
Company and (A) all of the consideration paid in respect of such Sale of the Company consists
of cash or
Marketable Securities, (B) the consideration paid in respect of such Sale of the Company is
not all cash or
Marketable Securities and the Board determines in the Board’s sole discretion that the Sale of
the
Company constituted a Management Control Acquisition or (C) the Board determines in the
Board’s sole
discretion that the Employee Units shall immediately vest and become Vested Units. As of any
date, the
term “Vested Units” means the Employee Units that have vested as of such date pursuant
to this Section 5
and the term “Unvested Units” means the Employee Units that are not Vested Units as of
such date.




          (b) Termination of Vesting. Notwithstanding Sections 5(a) above, if Employee
ceases to be employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to a Sale of the
Company, then
vesting will cease, with the effect that from and after the date of such cessation the number
of the
Employee Units issued to Employee pursuant to Section 1 above that will be Vested
Units will be the
number of such units that constitute Vested Units as determined pursuant to Section
5(a) above as of the
date such employment ceased, whether or not a Sale of the Company occurs thereafter.




          (c) Transfer. Employee may transfer Vested Units or Unvested Units only in
accordance with the LLC Agreement and Section 10(b) below. Furthermore, Employee may
not agree to
offer or sell, grant any call option with respect to, pledge, hypothecate, borrow against,
grant a lien,
security interest or other encumbrance in or on, dispose of or enter into any swap or
derivative transaction
with respect to any Vested Unit or Unvested Unit or any interest therein without the prior
written consent
of the Board. Any attempted or purported transfer, sale, grant, pledge, hypothecation or other
agreement
in violation of this Agreement shall be void ab initio.






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          (d) Rights as a Member. Employee shall be the record owner of the Employee Units
until or unless such Employee Units are forfeited or repurchased pursuant to Section 6
below or transferred in accordance with the terms of the LLC Agreement, and as record owner shall
be entitled to all rights granted to owners of Common Units.




          Section 6. Repurchase and Forfeiture of Units.




          (a) Repurchase Option. If Employee ceases to be employed by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries (the “Termination” of Employee), the Unvested Units shall
automatically, and without
any action on the part of the Company, be forfeited and cease to exist as of the date of the
Termination,
and the Vested Units shall either (i) if such Termination was by the Company for subjection
(iv) of the
definition of Cause set forth in Section 9 herein, be, automatically, and without any
action on the part of
the Company, forfeited and cease to exist as of the date of the Termination (ii) if such
Termination was by
the Company for subjection (i), (ii) or (iii) of the definition of Cause set forth in
Section 9 herein, be
subject to repurchase by the Company (or its nominee) pursuant to the terms and conditions set
forth in
this Section 6, or (iii) if such Termination was for any reason other than a
Termination by the Company
for Cause, be retained by Employee.




          (b) Purchase Price. The purchase price for each Vested Unit shall be the Fair Market
Value (as defined below) for such unit as of the date of the Termination. The “Fair Market
Value” of any
Vested Unit on any date means the amount that would be distributed to the owner of such Vested
Unit if
the Company were to sell all of its assets for their fair market value, pay its indebtedness
and other
obligations, and distribute all remaining cash to the Members in accorance with the provisions
of the liquidating provisions of the LLC Agreement, all as determined in good faith by the Board.




          (c) Repurchase Procedures. The Company (or its nominee) may elect to purchase all
or any portion of the Vested Units by delivering written notice (the “Repurchase
Notice”) to the holder or
holders of such Vested Units within 90 days following the last day of the Employment Period.
The
Repurchase Notice shall set forth the number of Vested Units to be acquired from each holder
of
Employee Units, the aggregate consideration to be paid for such Vested Units and the time and
place for
the closing of the transaction. At any time prior to the closing of such transaction, the
Company may
rescind the Repurchase Notice for any reason (including for no reason at all) without
liability to the
holders of Employee Units. The Vested Units to be repurchased by the Company shall first be
satisfied to
the extent possible from the Employee Units held by Employee at the time of delivery of the
Repurchase
Notice. If the number of Vested Units then held by Employee is less than the total number of
Vested
Units that the Company has elected to purchase, the Company shall purchase the remaining
Vested Units
to be purchased from the other holder(s) of Employee Units under this Agreement, pro rata
according to
the number of Vested Units held by such other holder(s) at the time of delivery of such
Repurchase
Notice (determined as close as practicable to the nearest whole units).




          (d) Closing of Repurchase. The closing of the purchase of such Employee Units
pursuant to Sections 6(c) above shall take place on the date designated by the Company
in the Repurchase
Notice. The Company (or its nominee) shall pay for such Employee Units to be purchased by
delivery, at
the sole option of the Company, of either (i) a check or wire transfer of immediately
available funds or (ii)
an unsecured promissory note in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Board and
Employee;
provided that such promissory note shall (A) accrue interest at the then Applicable
Federal Rate as
published by the Internal Revenue Service, (B) have a stated maturity of five years, (C)
provide that the
principal and all accrued interest thereon shall be due and payable in arrears at maturity,
(D) allow for
voluntary prepayments of principal and interest without penalty or premium and (E) be
subordinated to
any indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company and its Subsidiaries. In connection with
the
purchase of Employee Units hereunder, the Company shall be entitled to
receive customary





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representations and warranties from the sellers regarding such sale of units (including
representations and warranties regarding good title to such units, free and clear of any liens or
encumbrances).




          (e) Termination of Repurchase Option. The right of the Company to repurchase Employee
Units pursuant to this Section 6 shall terminate upon the first to occur of a Sale of the
Company or a Qualified Public Offering.




          Section 7. Non-Compete. Employee hereby agrees that during Employee’s employment and
for a period of one year after Employee’s Termination, Employee will not directly or indirectly
engage or participate in (whether as an employee, consultant, proprietor, partner, director or
otherwise) any position (i) of a business development/mergers and acquisitions nature, with any
person, firm, corporation or business that engages in owning or operating fiber networks in the
United States, or (ii) a sales, sales management, or sales engineering nature if such position
involves products or services similar to the Company’s being sold to one or more of the Company’s
top 50 customers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 7 shall not apply (i) in any case
where the Termination of Employee by the Company was not for Cause, (ii) at any time after July 31,
2012 or (iii) at any time after 5 months after the Sale of Company shall have been consummated. For
avoidance of doubt, this Section 7 will apply in any case where the Employee voluntarily terminates
their employment with the Company or where the Employee is terminated with Cause.




          Section 8. Withholding. If the Company or any of its subsidiaries determines in their
sole discretion that they are or could be obligated to withhold any tax in connection with the
issuance of Employee Units, or in connection with the transfer of, or the lapse of restrictions
on, the Employee Units, the Company, or the applicable subsidiary, may, in its discretion,
withhold the appropriate amount of tax in cash from the Employee’s wages or other remuneration.
The Employee further agrees that, if the Company or the applicable subsidiary does not withhold an
amount sufficient to satisfy the withholding obligation of the Company or the subsidiary, the
Employee will on demand reimburse the Company or the subsidiary in cash for the amount
underwithheld.




          Section 9. Definitions.




          “Affiliate” shall mean, as to any Person, any other Person which directly or
indirectly controls, or is under common control with, or is controlled by, such Person. As used in
this definition, “control” (including, with its correlative meanings, “controlled by” and “under
common control with”) shall mean possession, directly or indirectly, of power to direct or cause
the direction of management or policies (whether through ownership of securities or partnership or
other ownership interests, by contract or otherwise).




          “Board” means the board of managers of the Company.




          “Business Day” means a day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a statutory or civic
holiday in the State of Colorado.




          “Cause” means (i) any continued or repeated absence from the Company, unless such
absence is (A) in compliance with Company policy or approved or excused by the Board or (B) is the
result of Employee’s permitted vacation, illness, disability or incapacity, (ii) use of illegal
drugs by Employee or repeated public drunkenness or commission by Employee of any act of moral
turpitude, (iii) conviction of, or a plea of guilty or no contest or similar plea with respect to,
a felony (other than a driving-related offense, including alcohol-related driving offenses) or
(iv) the commission by Employee of an act of fraud or embezzlement.







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          “Common Unit Threshold B” has the meaning set forth in the LLC
Agreement.



          “Common Units” has the meaning set forth in the LLC
Agreement.




          “Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as in effect from time
to time.




          “Employment Period” means the period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the
day on which Employee ceases to be employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.




          “Investor Members” has the meaning set forth in the LLC
Agreement.



          “Issued Common Units” has the meaning set forth in
the LLC Agreement.




          “LLC Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company
Operating Agreement of Communications Infrastructure Investments, LLC, dated as of February 9,
2009, as in effect from time to time.




          “Management Control Acquisition” means a Sale of the Company with respect to which (i)
immediately prior to such Sale of the Company, either (A) Dan Caruso is serving the Company as
Chief Executive Officer or (B) John Scarano is serving the Company as either Chief Operating
Officer or Chief Executive Officer and (ii) after giving effect to the consummation of the Sale of
the Company, neither Dan Caruso nor John Scarano is offered the opportunity to serve as the Chief
Executive Officer of the combined company resulting from such Sale of the Company.




          “Marketable Securities” means securities of a class listed on a national securities
exchange or quoted on Nasdaq or a successor thereof (a) which the holders thereof would have the
right to sell in a Public Sale (whether pursuant to Rule 144 or exercise of registration rights or
otherwise) within 180 days following their issuance to the holders, disregarding for this purpose
any lock-up agreements or other contractual restrictions on transfer and (b) which can be
reasonably expected to be able to be sold in Public Sales within 180 days of their issuance
without having any material adverse effect upon the market for other securities of the same class.




          “Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability
company, an association, a joint share company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated
organization and a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.




          “Public Offering” means an underwritten public offering and sale of any common
ownership interest of the Company or any securities issued with respect to, or in exchange for any
common ownership interest of the Company pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act.




          “Public Sale” means any sale of securities registered pursuant to a registration
statement under the Securities Act or pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144 or Rule 145 adopted
under the Securities Act or any substantially equivalent sale made in compliance with successor
provisions of the federal securities laws and regulations as amended.




          “Qualified Public Offering” means a Public Offering after which the Company’s common
equity securities will be traded on a U.S. national securities exchange or on the NASDAQ Stock
Market.








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          “Sale of the Company” means any of the following: (a) a merger or consolidation
of the Company or its Subsidiaries into or with any other Person or Persons, or a transfer of units
in a single transaction or a series of transactions, in which in any case the Members of the
Company or the members of its Subsidiaries immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, sale,
exchange, conveyance or other disposition or first of such series of transactions possess less than
a majority of the voting power of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ or any successor entity’s
issued and outstanding capital securities immediately after such transaction or series of such
transactions; or (b) a single transaction or series of transactions, pursuant to which a Person or
Persons who are not direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiaries of the Company acquire all or
substantially all of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ assets determined on a consolidated basis,
in each case, other than (i) the issuance of additional capital securities in a Public Offering or
private offering for the account of the Company or a (ii) a foreclosure or similar transfer of
equity occurring in connection with a creditor exercising remedies upon the default of any
indebtedness of the Company.




          “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to
time.




          “Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, association or other business entity of which (i) if a corporation, a
majority of the total voting power of units entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency) to vote in the election of directors thereof is at the time owned or controlled,
directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or
a combination thereof, or (ii) if a limited liability company, partnership, association or other
business entity, a majority of the limited liability company, partnership or other similar
ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any
Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof. For purposes hereof, a
Person or Persons shall be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a limited liability
company, partnership, association or other business entity if such Person or Persons shall be
allocated a majority of limited liability company, partnership, association or other business
entity gains or losses or shall be or control the managing director or general partner of such
limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity.




          Section 10. Miscellaneous.




          (a) Consent to Amendments. No modification, amendment or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement shall be effective against any party hereto unless such
modification,
amendment or waiver is approved in writing by such party. No other course of dealing between
the
Company and Employee or any delay in exercising any rights hereunder will operate as a waiver
by any
of the parties hereto of any rights hereunder.




          (b) Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements contained in this
Agreement by or on behalf of any of the parties hereto will bind and inure to the benefit of
the respective
successors and permitted assigns of the parties hereto whether so expressed or not. In
addition to other
transfer restrictions set forth in this Agreement and the LLC Agreement, Employee may not
transfer any
units purchased hereunder until the transferee of such units shall have agreed in writing to
be bound by
the provisions of this Agreement affecting the units so transferred.




          (c) Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be
interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any
provision of this
Agreement is held to be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision will be
ineffective
only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of
this Agreement.











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          (d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more
counterparts, any one of which need not contain the signatures of more than one party, but all
such
counterparts taken together will constitute one and the same Agreement.




          (e) Descriptive Headings; Interpretation. The descriptive headings of
this
Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a substantive part of this
Agreement.
The use of the word “including” in this Agreement will be by way of example rather than by
limitation.




          (f) Governing Law. ISSUES AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE
CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY, ENFORCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
AND THE EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES HERETO SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT
GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CHOICE OF LAW OR CONFLICT OF LAW RULES OR PROVISIONS
(WHETHER OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION) THAT WOULD
CAUSE THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE
OF DELAWARE. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FOREGOING, THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE SHALL CONTROL THE INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF
THIS AGREEMENT (AND THE SCHEDULE HERETO), EVEN THOUGH UNDER DELAWARE’S
CHOICE OF LAW OR CONFLICT OF LAW ANALYSIS, THE SUBSTANTIVE LAW OF SOME
OTHER JURISDICTION WOULD ORDINARILY APPLY.




          (g) Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY
OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION, OR CAUSE OF ACTION (I) ARISING UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT OR (II) IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO
THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF
THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED HERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR
HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, EQUITY, OR OTHERWISE.
EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH
CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION, OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL
WITHOUT A JURY AND THAT THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL
COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN
EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY.




          (h) Notices. All notices, demands or other communications to be given or delivered by
reason of the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been
given (i) on the date of personal delivery to the recipient or an officer of the recipient, or (ii)
when sent by telecopy or facsimile machine to the number shown below on the date of such confirmed
facsimile or telecopy transmission (provided that a confirming copy is sent via overnight mail), or
(iii) when properly deposited for delivery by a nationally recognized commercial overnight delivery
service, prepaid, or by deposit in the United States mail, certified or registered mail, postage
prepaid, return receipt requested. Such notices, demands and other communications will be sent to
each party at the address indicated for such party below:










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     If to the Company to:


Communications Infrastructure Investments, LLC

901 Front Street, Suite 200

Louisville, CO 80027

Attention: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)




     with a copy (which will not constitute notice to the Company’) to:


Communications Infrastructure Investments, LLC

901 Front Street, Suite 200

Louisville, CO 80027 

Attention: General Counsel




     If to Employee to:



          The address listed on the signature page hereto.



or to such other address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party has
specified by prior written notice to the sending party.




          (i) No Strict Construction. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the
negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or
interpretation arises, this Agreement will be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties
hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof will arise favoring or disfavoring any party by
virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement.




          (j) Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, this
Agreement and the other agreements referred to in this Agreement embody the complete agreement and
understanding among the parties to this Agreement with respect to the subject matter of this
Agreement, and supersede and preempt any prior understandings, agreements, or representations by or
among the parties or their predecessors, written or oral, which may have related to the subject
matter of this Agreement in any way.




          (k) Time is of the Essence. Time is of the essence for each and every provision of
this Agreement. Whenever the last day for the exercise of any privilege or the discharge or any
duty hereunder shall fall upon a day that is not a Business Day, the party having such privilege or
duty may exercise such privilege or discharge such duty on the next succeeding day which is a
Business Day.




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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on the date first
written above.




	 	 	 	 	 
	 	COMPANY:



COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott E. Beer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	SCOTT E. BEER 	 
	 	 	Title:  	GENERAL COUNSEL 	 
	 
	 	EMPLOYEE:

 	 
	 	/s/ Martin Snella
 	 
	 	Martin Snella 	 
	 
	 	Address:   8762 Portico Lane

                Longmont, CO 80503 	 
	 



Communications Infrastructure Investments, LLC

Employee Equity Agreement Signature Page






 









 








COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS, LLC




COUNTERPART SIGNATURE PAGE AND

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND




     The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees, as follows:



     1. Acknowledgment. The undersigned hereby acknowledges that the undersigned’s
execution of this Counterpart Signature Page and Agreement to be Bound is a condition
precedent to the
undersigned’s receipt of membership interest units (“Units”) of Communications
Infrastructure
Investments, LLC (the “Company”), pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Amended and Restated
Operating Agreement, dated February 9, 2009 (the “Operating Agreement”). The undersigned
hereby
acknowledges that the undersigned has read a copy of the Operating Agreement by and among the
Company and the other parties named therein.



     2. Counterpart Signature Pages. The undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that
the
undersigned’s signature below shall constitute an executed counterpart signature page to the
Operating
Agreement.



     3. Operating Agreement. The undersigned hereby agrees to be bound by and subject to
the
terms and conditions of the Operating Agreement.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Communications Infrastructure

Investments, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott E. Beer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	SCOTT E. BEER 	 
	 	 	Title:  	GENERAL COUNSEL 	 
	 	 	Dated:  	October 20, 2009 	 
	 
	 	Executive

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Martin Snella
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Martin Snella 	 
	 	 	Dated: 	 11/14/09