Exhibit 1

0167-EX-RR-2000 Text Documents

Claircom Licensee Corporation

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Claircom Licensee Corporation
FCC Form 405
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                                                EXHIBIT NO. 1

                           PUBLIC

           Claircom Licensee Corporation ("Claircom") is operating an experimental ground station

pursuant to an experimental license granted by the Federal Communications Commission

("FCC") for the purpose of testing new equipment and software for use in the air—to—ground

("ATG") telephone service (Call sign KF2XJD, FCC File No. 4422—EX—PL—94).‘ The

experimental license authorizes Claircom to use a pilot channel at 849.9813 MHz and voice

channels at channel block 6 (849.8000—849.9765 MHz) to operate the experimental ground

station at 50 watts effective radiated power at the site of Claircom‘s existing ATG station at the

Seattle—Tacoma Airport in Seattle, Washington." The Commission renewed Claircom‘s

experimental license effective December 4, 1998. See File No. 4422—EX—RR—98. Claircom‘s

experimental license expires on December 1, 2000. Extension of the experimental license is in

the public interest because it will enable Claircom to continue testing new ATG products and

services in a "real—world" environment, thus improving ATG call quality and benefiting the

American flying public.

          During the past two years, Claircom has used the experimental license to test new ATG

products such as software, repeaters, hardware and antennas to determine how they work in a

real—world environment. The primary use of the experimental license has been to test the use of

repeaters to extend ATG coverage and airplane telephone services to areas, such as airport gates,


‘ On October 18, 1994, the Commission granted the experimental license to Claircom Communications Group, L.P.
The Commission granted a pro formg application to assign the experimental license to Claircom on July 12, 1995.
(FCC File No. 22739—CG—AL—94).

 The FCC also waived the station identification requirements contained in Section 5.152 of its rules.


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that are blocked from the ground station. For example, repeaters will allow ATG customers to

make telephone calls while an airplane is at an airport gate. The tests have enabled Claircom to

demonstrate to the other ATG carrier, GTE Airfone Incorporated, that the repeater system will

not interfere with its operations.

          During testing conducted pursuant to the experimental license, Claircom took measures

to ensure that interference would not occur to other users. Claircom has coordinated its

operations with the other ATG provider to ensure that in—band interference does not occur, and

power and spectrum control has prevented interference to users outside the ATG frequency band.

Claircom will continue to conduct its testing in accordance with the technical standards in Part

22 of the FCC‘s rules and the terms ofits experimental license. Claircom has not received any

interference complaints, and does not expect to receive any. In any event, Claircom will remedy

any interference complaints received as a result of its testing. In addition, the experimental

ground station will continue to meet the distance separation requirements in Section 22.859 of

the FCC‘s rules. 47 C.F.R. § 22.859. The ATG spectrum reserved for use by Claircom for its

experimental license is not in use and has not been assigned to any ATG licensee."

          Although Claircom has completed testing for its repeater project, Claircom has other field

tests it would like to conduct with the experimental ground station at the Seattle—Tacoma Airport.

Specifically, Claircom would like to use the experimental ground station to conduct field tests to

further refine and verify the compatibility of new features that will be added to its ATG service,

such as packet data services. In addition, Claircom seeks to improve the ATG call hand—off

process, on board dial tone and radio link management ("RLM"). Such improvements can not be


* Claircom agrees to abide by any final action taken by the Commission with respect to the future use of the vacant
ATG pilot channels. Public Notice, Report No. MSD—94—8 (March 2, 1994).



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duplicated in a laboratory. The use of the ground station at the Seattle—Tacoma Airport will

allow Claircom to determine the effects of real—world conditions on RLM between the air

terminals and ground stations. For example, Claircom is unable to reproduce the effects of such

real—world factors as doppler frequency shifts, fading and multipath distortions on its ground

station and ATG service in the laboratory environment. The proposed experiments are expected

to enable Claircom to improve its ATG products and coverage, thus greatly enhancing ATG

customer service.

          For good cause shown, Claircom requests a two—year extension of its experimental

license to operate its experimental ground station at the Seattle—Tacoma Airport. Claircom also

requests a continuation of the FCC‘s waiver of Section 5.152 ofits rules because the

experimental ground station is not capable of station identification. Such a waiver is customary

in the ATG service.




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