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LETTER submitted by Alaska

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2004-06-01

This document pretains to SAT-AMD-20040322-00057 for Amended Filing on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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201 E. 56th, Suite 114 Anchorage, AK 99518 Greg Berberich James Rowe President ('FAX 07)(907) 563-4000 562-3776 Executive Director jrowe@arctic.net www.alaskatel.ora Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12* Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 RE: contactME0 Communications, LLC JUN 0 1 2004 File No. SAT-AMD-20040322-0057 PObGy- internationalBureau Dear Ms. Dortch: The Alaska Telephone Association' supports the application of contactMEO Communications, LLC for authority to launch and operate satellites as described in File No. SAT-AMD-20040322-0057. All the members of this association are rural local exchange carriers. Among them they serve the most remote communities in the continental United States and most of those communities are physically accessible only by air or water and by communications, only over satellite. The contactMEO application, if approved, will permit placement of a satellite at 121 degrees West Longitude. That location will provide good coverage of Alaska and will allow rural Alaskans access to affordable broadband services conspicuously lacking at this time. We look forward to enjoying the promises of Section 254(b)(3) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which guaranteed that customers in rural, insular and high cost areas would have access to telecommunications and information services reasonably comparable to those in urban areas and that they would be available at reasonably comparable rates. Granting this application will facilitate that goal. - Sincerely, James Rowe cc: Donald Abelson Thomas S. Tycz The Alaska Telephone Association is a trade association comprised of rural Alaska local exchange telephone companies. Its active members are Alaska Telephone Company; Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative;Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative, Inc.; Bush-Tell, Inc.; Copper Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.; Cordova Telephone Cooperative; KPU Telecommunications;Matanuska Telephone Association; Nushagak Electric & Telephone Cooperative, Inc.; OTZ Telephone Cooperative;Summit Telephone Company, Inc., TelAlaska, Inc.; United Utilities, Inc.; and Yukon Telephone Company, Inc.


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