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EXHIBIT 4.13
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PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
Dated as of , 1995
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*
Section of Section of
Trust Indenture Act Guarantee
of 1939, as amended Agreement
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310(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1(a)
310(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1(c)
310(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
311(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2(b)
311(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2(b)
311(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2(a)
312(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2(b)
313 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3
314(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4
314(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
314(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5
314(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
314(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4
314(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
315(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1(d)
315(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7
315(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1(c)
315(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1(d)
315(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.12
316(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4(a), 2.6
316(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9
316(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1
317(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10, 2.11
317(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1(e)
318(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1
318(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inapplicable
3.18(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1
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*This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of the
Declaration and shall not affect the interpretation of any of its
terms or provisions.
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PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
This GUARANTEE AGREEMENT ("Guarantee Agreement"), dated as of , 1995, is
executed and delivered by AirTouch Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the "Guarantor"), and ___________________ a Delaware banking corporation, as
trustee (the "Preferred Guarantee Trustee"), for the benefit of the Holders (as
defined herein) from time to time of the Preferred Securities (as defined
herein) of ATI Financing, a Delaware statutory business trust (the "Trust
Issuer").
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust (the
"Declaration"), dated as of ___________________, 1995, among the trustees of the
Trust Issuer named therein, the Guarantor as Sponsor and the holders from time
to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust Issuer, the
Trust Issuer is issuing on the date hereof $ aggregate stated Liquidation Amount
of Preferred Securities designated the ______% Trust Originated Preferred
Securities (the "Preferred Securities");
WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the Preferred Securities, the
Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent set
forth in this Guarantee Agreement, to pay to the Holders of the Preferred
Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein) and to make certain other
payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
WHEREAS, the Guarantor is also executing and delivering a guarantee agreement
(the "Common Securities Guarantee Agreement") in substantially identical terms
to this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the holders of the Common
Securities (as defined herein) except that if an Event of Default (as defined in
the Indenture (as defined herein)), has occurred and is continuing, the rights
of holders of the Common Securities to receive Guarantee Payments under the
Common Securities Guarantee are subordinated to the rights of Holders of
Preferred Securities to receive Guarantee Payments under this Guarantee
Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each Holder of Preferred
Securities, which purchase the Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit the
Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the
benefit of the Holders.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1.1. Definitions and Interpretation.
In this Guarantee Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) Capitalized terms used in this Guarantee Agreement but not defined
in the preamble above have the respective meanings assigned to
them in this Section 1.1;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee Agreement has the same
meaning throughout;
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(c) all references to "the Guarantee Agreement" or "this Guarantee
Agreement" are to this Guarantee Agreement as modified,
supplemented or amended from time to time;
(d) all references in this Guarantee Agreement to Articles and
Sections are to Articles and Sections of this Guarantee Agreement
unless otherwise specified;
(e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same meaning
when used in this Guarantee Agreement unless otherwise defined in
this Guarantee Agreement or unless the context otherwise requires;
and
(f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule thereunder.
"Common Securities" means the securities representing common undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust Issuer.
"Covered Person" means any Holder or beneficial owner of Preferred
Securities.
"Event of Default" means a default by the Guarantor on any of its
payment obligations under this Guarantee Agreement.
"Guarantee Payments" means the following payments or distributions,
without duplication, with respect to the Preferred Securities, to the extent not
paid or made by the Trust Issuer: (i) any accrued and unpaid Distributions (as
defined in the Declaration) that are required to be paid on such Preferred
Securities to the extent the Trust Issuer shall have funds available therefore,
(ii) the redemption price, including all accrued and unpaid Distributions to the
date of redemption (the "Redemption Price") to the extent the Trust Issuer has
funds available therefor, with respect to any Preferred Securities called for
redemption by the Trust Issuer, and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary
dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust Issuer (other than in
connection with the distribution of Subordinated Notes to the Holders in
exchange for Preferred Securities as provided in the Declaration), the lesser of
(a) the aggregate of the Liquidation Amount and all accrued and unpaid
Distributions on the Preferred Securities to the date of payment, and (b) the
amount of assets of the Trust Issuer remaining available for distribution to
Holders in liquidation of the Trust Issuer (in either case, the "Liquidation
Distribution"). If an event of default under the Indenture has occurred and is
continuing, the rights of holders of the Common Securities to receive payments
under the Common Securities Guarantee Agreement are subordinated to the rights
of Holders of Preferred Securities to receive Guarantee Payments.
"Holder" shall mean any holder, as registered on the books and records
of the Trust Issuer of any Preferred Securities; provided, however, that, in
determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Preferred
Securities have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, "Holder"
shall not include the Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Guarantor.
"Indemnified Person" means the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, any
Affiliate of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, or any officers, directors,
shareholders, members, partners, employees, representatives or agents of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
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"Indenture" means the Indenture dated as of _______________, 1995, as
supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, each among the Guarantor (the
"Subordinated Note Trust Issuer") and _____________, as trustee, as originally
executed, and as may be amended from time to time, pursuant to which certain
subordinated debt securities of the Subordinated Note Trust Issuer are to be
issued to the Property Trustee of the Trust Issuer.
"Liquidation Amount" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning set forth in the definition
of Guarantee Payment.
"Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities" means, except as
provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Holder(s) of Preferred Securities a vote by
Holder(s) of Preferred Securities, voting separately as a class, and the
aggregate Liquidation Amount (including the stated amount that would be paid on
redemption, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to
the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of all Preferred
Securities voted by such Holders represents more than 50% of the above stated
Liquidation Amount of all Preferred Securities.
"Officer's Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed by an Authorized Officer of such Person. Any Officer's
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Guarantee Agreement shall include:
(a) a statement that the officer signing the Certificate has read the
covenant or condition and the definition relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation on which the statements or opinions contained in such Certificate
are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such officer, he or she has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such officer to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has
been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Person" means a legal person, including any individual, corporation,
estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, limited
liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.
"Preferred Guarantee Trustee" means _________________ until a Successor
Preferred Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment
pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement and thereafter means each such
Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
"Redemption Price" has the meaning set forth in the definition of
Guarantee Payments.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee, any vice- president, any assistant vice-president, the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer,
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any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or assistant trust officer or any
other officer of the Corporate Trust Department of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of
the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred
because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
"Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee" means a successor Preferred
Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Preferred Guarantee
Trustee under Section 4.1.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended.
"25% in Liquidation Amount of the Securities" means, except as provided
by the Trust Indenture Act, Holder(s) of Preferred Securities a vote by
Holder(s) of Preferred Securities, voting separately as a class, and the
aggregate Liquidation Amount (including the stated amount that would be paid on
redemption, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to
the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of all Preferred
Securities voted by such Holders represents more than 25% of the above stated
Liquidation Amount of all Preferred Securities.
ARTICLE II
TRUST INDENTURE ACT
SECTION 2.1. Trust Indenture Act; Application.
(a) This Guarantee Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Guarantee Agreement and
shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions; and
(b) if and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee
Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Section 310
to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall
control;
SECTION 2.2. Lists of Holders of Securities.
(a) The Guarantor shall provide the Preferred Guarantee Trustee with a
list, in such form as the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of
the names and addresses of the Holders of the Preferred Securities ("List of
Holders") as of such date, (i) within 14 days after January 1 and June 30 of
each year, and (ii) at any other time within 30 days of receipt by the Guarantor
of a written request for a List of Holders as of a date no more than 14 days
before such List of Holders is given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee provided
that the Guarantor shall not be obligated to provide such List of Holders at any
time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of Holders
given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee by the Guarantor. The Preferred
Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of Holders previously given to it on
receipt of a new List of Holders.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its obligations
under Section 311(a), 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.3. Reports by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
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Within 60 days after May 15 of each year, the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the Preferred Securities such reports as
are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and
in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of
the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.4. Periodic Reports to Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
The Guarantor shall provide to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee such
documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 (if any) and the
compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act in the
form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.5. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
The Guarantor shall provide to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee such
evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in
this Guarantee Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section
314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be
given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an
Officer's Certificate.
SECTION 2.6. Events of Default; Waiver.
The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities
may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all of the Preferred Securities, waive
any past Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such Event
of Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom
shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee
Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or
Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 2.7. Event of Default; Notice.
(a) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the
occurrence of an Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class postage
prepaid, to the Holders of the Preferred Securities, notices of all Events of
Default known to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, unless such defaults have been
cured before the giving of such notice, provided, that, the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the
board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors
and/or Responsible Officers of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
have received written notice, or a Responsible Officer charged with the
administration of the Declaration shall have obtained written notice, of such
Event of Default.
SECTION 2.8 Conflicting Interests.
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The Declaration shall be deemed to be specifically described in this
Guarantee Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso
contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.9 Limitation on Suits by Holders
No Holder shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any
provision of this to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at
law upon or under or with respect to this Guarantee Agreement or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
such Holder previously shall have given to the Guarantee Trustee written notice
of a continuing Event of Default, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the
Holders of not less than 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Securities shall have
made written request upon the Guarantee Trustee to institute such action, suit
or proceeding in its own name as Guarantee Trustee hereunder and shall have
offered to the Guarantee Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby
(including the reasonable fees of counsel for the Guarantee Trustee), and the
Guarantee Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and
offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such
action, suit or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written
request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 2.9; it
being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and
every Holder with every other taker and Holder and the Guarantee Trustee, that
no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or
by availing of any provision of this Guarantee Agreement to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of the any other Holders, or to obtain or seek to obtain
priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right
under this Guarantee Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders. For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section 2.9, each and every Holder and the
Guarantee Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law
or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Guarantee Agreement, the
right of any Holder to receive payment of distributions on a Preferred Security
on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Preferred Security (or,
in the case of redemption, on or after the date fixed for redemption), or to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such
Holder.
SECTION 2.10. Covenant of Guarantor to Pay to Guarantee Trustee Whole Amount
Due on Default in Guarantee Payments.
The Guarantor covenants that in case default shall be made in the
payment of any Guarantee Payment as and when the same shall become due and
payable and which payment has not been extended in accordance with the
provisions of this Guarantee, and such default shall have continued for a period
of 90 days or upon demand of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantor will
pay to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders, the
whole amount that then shall have become due and payable, and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expense of collection, including a reasonable compensation to the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any expenses or liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee hereunder other than through its
negligence or bad faith.
In case the Guarantor shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon
such demand, the Guarantee Trustee, in its own name and as Preferred Guarantee
Trustee of an express trust, shall be
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entitled and empowered to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in
equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such
judgment or final decree against the Guarantor or any other obligor upon such
Preferred Guarantees, and collect in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Guarantor or any other such obligor wherever situated the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable.
If an Event of Default with respect to the Preferred Guarantees occurs
and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders by such appropriate
judicial proceedings as the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Guarantee Agreement or in aid
of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy.
SECTION 2.11 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any
receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, composition or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the
Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Preferred Guarantees or the property of
the Guarantor or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee (irrespective of whether the Guarantee Payments shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and
irrespective of whether the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have made any
demand on the Guarantor for the payment of overdue Guarantee Payments) shall be
entitled and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention
in such proceeding or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of Guarantee
Payments owing and unpaid and to file such other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed
in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable
or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and, in the
event that the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee any
amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any
other amounts due the Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee
Agreement.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Subordinated Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 2.12 Requirement of an Undertaking to Pay Costs in Certain Suits Under
the Guarantee Agreement. All parties to this Guarantee Agreement agree, and
each Holder by such Holder's acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed,
that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement
of any right or remedy under this Guarantee Agreement, or in any suit against
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as
Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay
the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this
Section 2.12 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of such Holders,
holding in the aggregate more than 10% of Liquidation Amount, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the Guarantee
Payments, on or after the due date expressed in such Security.
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ARTICLE III
POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF
PREFERRED GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
SECTION 3.1. Powers and Duties of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(a) This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, and the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee Agreement to a
Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Preferred
Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor Preferred Guarantee
Trustee. The right, title and interest of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
automatically vest in any Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee, and such
vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing
documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such
Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Guarantee Agreement for the
benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(c) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any
Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have
occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Guarantee Agreement, and no implied covenants shall be read into
this Guarantee Agreement against the Preferred Guarantee Trustee. In case an
Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to
Section 2.6), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights
and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement, and use the same degree of
care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or
use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(d) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be construed to
relieve the Preferred Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except
that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and
after the curing or waiving of all such Events of
Default that may have occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall be determined solely by the
express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement, and the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except
for the performance of such duties and obligations as
are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement,
and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Guarantee Agreement against the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee; and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Guarantee Agreement;
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but in the case of any such certificates or opinions
that by any provision hereof are specifically required
to be furnished to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to
examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Declaration;
(ii) the Preferred Guaranty Trustee shall not be liable for
any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee,
unless it shall be proved that the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts upon which such judgment was made;
(iii) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it
in good faith in accordance with the direction of the
Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee
Agreement; and
(iv) no provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall require
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its
own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds
or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the
terms of this Guarantee Agreement or adequate indemnity
against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured
to it.
(e) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may authorize one or more persons
(each a "Paying Agent") to pay Guarantee Payments and any such Paying Agent
shall comply with Section 317(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any Paying Agent
may be removed by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee at any time and a successor
Paying Agent or additional Paying Agents may be appointed at any time by the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
SECTION 3.2. Certain Rights of Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:
(i) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may rely and shall be
fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon
any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented
by the proper party or parties.
(ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by
this Guarantee Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced
by a Direction or an Officer's Certificate.
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(iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee
Agreement, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem it
desirable that a matter be proved or established before
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officer's
Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be
promptly delivered by the Guarantor.
(iv) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to see
to any recording, filing or registration of any
instrument (or any rerecording, refiling or registration
thereof).
(v) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel,
and the written advice or opinion of such counsel with
respect to legal matters shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such
counsel may be counsel to the Guarantor or any of its
Affiliates and may include any of its employees. The
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any
time to seek instructions concerning the administration
of this Guarantee Agreement from any court of competent
jurisdiction.
(vi) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be under no
obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested
in it by this Guarantee Agreement at the request or
direction of any Holder, unless such Holder shall have
provided to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee such adequate
security and indemnity as would satisfy a reasonable
person in the position of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee, against the costs, expenses (including
attorneys' fees and expenses) and liabilities that might
be incurred by it in complying with such request or
direction, including such reasonable advances as may be
requested by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee; provided
that, nothing contained in this Section 3.2(a)(vi) shall
be taken to relieve the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, upon
the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation
to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Guarantee Agreement.
(vii) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to
make any investigation into the facts or matters stated
in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, Subordinated Note, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make
such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may see fit.
(viii) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the
trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys, and the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not
be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the
part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder.
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(ix) Any action taken by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee or
its agents hereunder shall bind the Holders of the
Preferred Securities, and the signature of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient
and effective to perform any such action. No third party
shall be required to inquire as to the authority of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee to so act or as to its
compliance with any of the terms and provisions of this
Guarantee Agreement, both of which shall be conclusively
evidenced by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee's or its
agent's taking such action.
(x) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee
Agreement the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action
hereunder, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee (i) may
request instructions from the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy
or right or taking such other action until such
instructions are received, and (iii) shall be protected
in acting in accordance with such instructions.
(b) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose
any duty or obligation on the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or
acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it
in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with
applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right,
power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
(c) The Guarantor assumes responsbility for being and remaining
informed of the financial condition of the Issuer Trustee and of all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of non-payment of amounts owing under the
Preferred Securities which diligent inquiry would reveal and agrees that the
Holders of the Preferred Securities shall have no duty to advise the Guarantor
of information known to any of them regarding such condition or any such
circumstances.
SECTION 3.3. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee.
The recitals contained in this Guarantee shall be taken as the
statements of the Guarantor, and the Preferred Guarantee Trustee does not assume
any responsibility for their correctness. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee makes
no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Guarantee Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
PREFERRED GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1. Preferred Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.
(a) There shall at all times be a Preferred Guarantee Trustee which
shall:
(i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and
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(ii) be a corporation organized and doing business under the
laws of the United States of America or any State or
Territory thereof or of the District of Columbia, or a
corporation or Person permitted by the Securities and
Exchange Commission to act as an institutional trustee
under the Trust Indenture Act, authorized under such laws
to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000, and subject
to supervision or examination by Federal, State,
Territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
supervising or examining authority referred to above,
then, for the purposes of this Section 4.1(a)(ii), the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth
in its most recent report of condition so published.
(b) If at any time the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be
eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2(c).
(c) If the Preferred Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any
"conflicting interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all
respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
SECTION 4.2. Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Preferred Guarantee
Trustees.
(a) Subject to Section 4.2(b), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may be
appointed or removed without cause at any time by the Guarantor.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in accordance
with Section 4.2(b) until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee has been
appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by
such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor.
(c) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee appointed to office shall hold
office until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed
or until its removal or resignation. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may resign
from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an instrument
in writing executed by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the
Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a Successor Preferred
Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by
instrument in writing executed by such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee and
delivered to the Guarantor and the resigning Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(d) If no Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have been
appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 60
days after delivery to the Guarantor of an instrument of resignation, the
resigning Preferred Guarantee Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee. Such
court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem
proper, appoint a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
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ARTICLE V
GUARANTEE
SECTION 5.1. Guarantee.
The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to
the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of amounts theretofore
paid by the Trust Issuer), as and when due, regardless of any defense, right of
set-off or counterclaim that the Trust Issuer may have or assert. The
Guarantor's obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct
payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing
the Trust Issuer to pay such amounts to the Holders.
SECTION 5.2. Waiver of Notice and Demand.
The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee
Agreement and of any liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment,
demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Trust
Issuer or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest,
notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other
notices and demands.
SECTION 5.3. Obligations Not Affected.
The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor
under this Guarantee Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason
of the happening from time to time of any of the following:
(a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the
performance or observance by the Trust Issuer of any express or implied
agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Preferred Securities to
be performed or observed by the Trust Issuer;
(b) the extension of time for the payment by the Trust Issuer of all or
any portion of the Distributions, Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or
any other sums payable under the terms of the Preferred Securities or the
extension of time for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out
of, or in connection with, the Preferred Securities (other than an extension of
time for payment of Distributions, Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or
other sum payable that results from the extension of any interest payment period
on the Subordinated Notes or any extension of the maturity date of the
Subordinated Notes permitted by the Indenture);
(c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of
the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy
conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities, or
any action on the part of the Trust Issuer granting indulgence or extension of
any kind;
(d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any
collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of
creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of,
or other similar proceedings affecting, the Trust Issuer or any of the assets of
the Trust Issuer;
(e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in the Preferred
Securities;
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(f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or
hereby incurred; or
(g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a
legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being the intent of
this Section 2.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be
absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.
There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or
obtain consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the
foregoing.
SECTION 5.4. Rights of Holders.
(a) The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting of
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee in
respect of this Guarantee Agreement or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement.
(b) If the Preferred Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce this Guarantee
Agreement, Holders of 25% in Liquidation Amount may, after a period of 30 days
has elapsed from such Holder's written request to the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee to enforce this Guarantee Agreement, institute a legal proceeding
directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this Guarantee
Agreement, without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Trust
Issuer, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee or any other Person.
SECTION 5.5. Guarantee of Payment.
This Guarantee Agreement creates a guarantee of payment and not of
collection.
SECTION 5.6. Subrogation.
The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holder of any
Preferred Securities in respect of any amounts paid by the Guarantor pursuant to
the provisions hereof; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be
entitled to enforce, or to receive any payments arising out of or based upon
such right of subrogation until the Distributions due on all Preferred
Securities shall have been paid in full. The Guarantor shall not exercise its
right of subrogation if such exercise would adversely affect the irghts of
Holders of any outstanding Preferred Securities.
SECTION 5.7. Independent Obligations.
The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are
independent of the obligations of the Trust Issuer with respect to the Preferred
Securities, and that the Guarantor shall be liable as hereunder to make
Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement
notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a)
through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3 hereof.
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ARTICLE VI
LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION; CORPORATE EXISTENCE
SECTION 6.1. Limitation of Transactions.
So long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, if there shall
have occurred an Event of Default or an Event of Default under the Declaration,
then (a) the Guarantor shall not declare or pay any dividend on, or make any
distribution with respect to, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make any
distribution with respect to, any of its capital stock; and (b) the Guarantor
shall not make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or
repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities issued by the Guarantor which
rank pari passu with or junior to the Subordinated Notes, provided, that, the
foregoing restriction in this Section 6.1 (a) shall not apply to any stock
dividends paid by the Guarantor, or any of its subsidiaries, where the dividend
stock is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid.
SECTION 6.2. Ranking.
This Guarantee Agreement will constitute an unsecured obligation of the
Guarantor and will rank (i) subordinate and junior in right of payment to all
other liabilities of the Guarantor, (ii) pari passu with the most senior
preferred or preference stock now or hereafter issued by the Guarantor and with
any guarantee now or hereafter entered into by the Guarantor in respect of any
preferred or preference stock of any Affiliate of the Guarantor, and (iii)
senior to the Guarantor's common stock.
SECTION 6.2. Corporate Existence.
The Guarantor covenants that so long as any of the Preferred Guarantees
are Outstanding, it will maintain its existence, will not dissolve, sell or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets and will not
consolidate with or merge into another entity or permit one or more other
entities to consolidate with or merge into it; provided that the Guarantor may,
without violating the covenants in this Section 6.2 contained, consolidate with
or merge into another entity or permit one or more other entities to consolidate
with or merge into it, or sell or otherwise transfer to another entity all or
substantially all of its assets as an entirety and thereafter dissolve, if the
surviving, resulting or transferee entity, as the case may be, (i) shall be
organized and existing under the laws of one of the States of the United States
of America, (ii) assumes, if such entity is not the Guarantor, all of the
obligations of the Guarantor hereunder and (iii) is not, after such transaction,
otherwise in default under any provisions hereof.
ARTICLE VII
TERMINATION
SECTION 7.1. Termination.
This Guarantee Agreement shall terminate upon (i) full payment of all
Distribution due with respect to the Securities or the Redemption Price of all
Securities, (ii) upon the distribution of the Subordinated Notes to the Holder's
of all of the Preferred Securities or (iii) upon full payment of the amounts
payable in accordance with the Declaration upon liquidation of the Trust Issuer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee Agreement will continue to be
effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder
of Preferred Securities
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must restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred Securities or under
this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
ARTICLE VIII
INDEMNIFICATION
SECTION 8.1. Exculpation.
(a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or accountable
in damages or otherwise to the Guarantor or any Covered Person for any loss,
damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted
by such Indemnified Person in good faith in accordance with this Guarantee
Agreement and in a manner that such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be
within the scope of the authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this
Guarantee Agreement or by law, except that an Indemnified Person shall be liable
for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of such Indemnified
Person's negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or
omissions.
(b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying in good
faith upon the records of the Guarantor and upon such information, opinions,
reports or statements presented to the Guarantor by any Person as to matters the
Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other Person's
professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care
by or on behalf of the Guarantor, including information, opinions, reports or
statements as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities, profits,
losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from
which Distributions to Holders of Preferred Securities might properly be paid.
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification.
(a) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Guarantor
shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person from and against any
loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of any act
or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith in
accordance with this Guarantee Agreement and in a manner such Indemnified Person
reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such
Indemnified Person by this in accordance with this Guarantee Agreement, except
that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any
loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of
negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.
(b) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, expenses
(including legal fees) incurred by an Indemnified Person in defending any claim,
demand, action, suit or proceeding shall, from time to time, be advanced by the
Guarantor prior to the final disposition of such claim, demand, action, suit or
proceeding upon receipt by the Guarantor of an undertaking by or on behalf of
the Indemnified Person to repay such amount if it shall be determined that the
Indemnified Person is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in Section
8.2(a).
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 9.1. Successors and Assigns.
All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement
shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of
the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities then outstanding.
SECTION 9.2. Amendments.
Except with respect to any changes that do not adversely affect the
rights of Holders (in which case no consent of Holders will be required), this
Guarantee Agreement may only be amended with the prior approval of the Holders
of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount (including the stated amount that
would be paid on redemption, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid
Distributions to the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of
all the outstanding Preferred Securities. The provisions of Section 12.2 of the
Declaration with respect to meetings of Holders of the Securities apply to the
giving of such approval.
SECTION 9.3. Notices.
All notices provided for in this Guarantee Agreement shall be in
writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and shall be
electronically communicated or hand delivered or sent by overnight courier,
addressed to the relevant party as follows:
(a) If given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, at the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee's mailing address set forth below (or such other address as
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may give notice of to the Holders of the
Preferred Securities):
(a) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor's mailing address set
forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may give notice of to the
Holders of the Preferred Securities):
AirTouch Communications, Inc.
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(a) If given to any Holder of Preferred Securities, at the address set
forth on the books and records of the Trust Issuer.
For all purposes of this Guarantee Agreement, a notice or communication
will be deemed effective:
(a) if delivered by hand or sent by overnight courier, on the
day it is delivered unless (i) that day is not a Business Day in the
city specified (a "Local Business Day") in the address for notice
provided by the recipient or (ii) if delivered after the close of
business on a Local Business Day, then on the next succeeding Local
Business Day or
(b) if sent by facsimile transmission, on the date transmitted,
provided that oral or written confirmation of receipt is obtained by
the sender unless the date
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of transmission and confirmation is not a Local Business Day, in which
case, on the next succeeding Local Business Day.
Any notice, direction, requires, demand, consent or waiver by the
Sponsor, or any Holder of Securities to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to
have been sufficiently given, made or filed, for all purposes, if given, made or
filed in writing at the principal office of the Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 14.1.
Any notice, request, consent or waiver by the Company or the Trustee
upon the Depository shall have been sufficiently given, made or filed, for all
purposes, if give or made in accordance with the provisions of this Section 14.1
at the address shown for such Depository in the Register or at such other
address as the Depository shall have provided for purposes of notice.
All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in
person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail,
postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or
cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given,
such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date
of such refusal or inability to deliver.
SECTION 9.4. Benefit.
This Guarantee Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Holders of
the Preferred Securities and, subject to Section 3.1(a), is not separately
transferable from the Preferred Securities.
SECTION 9.5. Governing Law.
THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND
INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above
written.
AirTouch Communications, Inc.
By:
Name:
Title:
as Preferred Guarantee Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
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