Attachment letter

letter

LETTER submitted by TelAlaska

letter

2004-09-10

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

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September 10, 2004 RECENED & INSPECTED Lo ca Michael K. Powell, Chairman SEP 1 4 200 Federal Communications Commission 445 12" Street, SW. FCC— MAILROOM (meeed Washington, DC 20554 Re: ContactMEO Communications, LLC; File No. SAT—AMP&cefved Es 200403220057 SEP 2 0 z0n Eyecom Cable Dear Chairman Powells Poly Branch Intemational Bureay TelAlaska Inc., a well—established Alaskan—owned family of companies ee serving more than 25 Alaska communities, vigorously supports the application of contactMEO Communications, LLC for authority to establish and operate an advanced Ka—band satellite network as outlined in File. No. SAT—AMD—20040322—0057 Our companies, which include Mukluk and Interior Telephone for local service and NetWorks for advance service, have been challenged for more than a decade to bring the education, safety, economic, and lifestyle benefitsof affordable broadband to remote rural Alaska. We believe that approval of this application could be a milestone in resolving the impossible economic barrier to providing our customers with the foundation for realizing the great promise of broadband service. Companies like ours could build a business case for providing service in small remote communities without depending solely on public funding. We have experience and a relationship of trust and confidence with contactMBEOCommunications and David Drucker. His company is providing broadcast facilities and Intemet access services to TelAlaska in such remote locations as Dutch Harbor, King Cove, and Sand Point on Alaska‘s Aleutian Chain. He has proven an ability to serve our market and to do so with absolute commitment and determination. Based upon our experience with this company, TelAlaska is prepared to subscribe to contactMBO‘s Ka—band services to augment our existing distributions networks ContactMEO‘s current programis the most promising we have seen and we believe the time has long passed to move forward if Alaska‘s needs are to be met, and its great potential realized for the benefit of Alaskans, our .I.E | Hlasha state, and the nation: 201. sa wro Archoroge A sosie corseaams re: sorsssceon inniteidesta.con

We are strongly supportive ofthis application and encouraged that there may be a means for us to economically and technically serve the needs of remote rural communities, especially those where no service is now available The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Section 254(b)3, guarantees remote high cost areas of America the same access tothe Internet highway as other Americans who literally have access to the word via a road system.. We urge you to grant Contact MBO‘s application on an expeditious basis. Juck Rhyner, President and Chief Executive Officer Cc: Commissioner Kathleen Q. Aberathy Commissioner Michael JH. Copps Commissioner Kevin J. Marin Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelsetein Donald Abelson, Chicf, International Bureau Thomas S. Tyez, Chiet, Satellite Division:


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