Attachment ex parte

This document pretains to SAT-LOI-20050312-00062 for Letter of Intent on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATLOI2005031200062_616385

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                                   January 10,2008


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Marlene H. Dortch
Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 lzthStreet, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554

       Re: Ex Parte Presentation
           File Nos. SAT-LOI-20050312-00062 and -00063

Dear Ms. Dortch:

       On January 9 and 10,2008, Stacy Fuller of The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
(“DIRECTV”) spoke by telephone with Ren6e Crittendon, Legal Advisor to
Commissioner Adelstein; Angela Giancarlo, Legal Advisor Commissioner McDowell;
and Aaron Goldberger, Legal Advisor to Chairman Martin, to discuss DIRECTV’s
pending Application for Review of the International Bureau’s grant of authority to
Spectrum Five, LLC (“Spectrum Five”) to serve the U. S. market from foreign-licensed
“tweener” satellites.

        In each call, Ms. Fuller expressed DRECTV’s ongoing concern that Spectrum
Five’s proposed operations would disrupt DBS service received by millions of
Americans. Although the International Bureau authorized Spectrum Five to operate on a
noninterference basis in the absence of coordination with existing DBS operators,
Spectrum Five has neither submitted the characteristics for a proposed non-interfering
system nor initiated - much less completed - coordination with DRECTV. Indeed, in
the nearly three years since filing its applications, Spectrum Five has yet to even call
DIRECTV to discuss coordination. Accordingly, neither DIRECTV nor the Commission
has any basis upon which to determine whether Spectrum Five has devised an alternative
method of operation that would not cause harmfbl interference to existing DBS services.

         Ms. Fuller also argued that, if the Commission were to deny DIRECTV’s
Application for Review, it should at a minimum require Spectrum Five to demonstrate its
ability to comply with the terms of its license. Specifically, Spectrum Five should be


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Marlene H. Dortch
January 10,2008
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required to submit to the Commission for review and comment by interested parties a
technical showing of how its satellite(s) would operate on a non-interference basis or in
accord with any coordination agreements reached. Such a showing should be submitted
within two years of licensing (i.e., by November 29,2008) so that the Commission and
all interested parties have an opportunity to evaluate Spectrum Five’s proposed
operations well before construction of the satellite(s) has reached a point where any
necessary design revisions could be claimed to impose an undue economic burden.

                                             Sincere1y yours,



                                             William M. Wiltshire
                                             Counselfor The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

cc:    Angela Giancarlo
       Renke Crittendon
       Aaron Goldberger
       Helen Domenici
       Robert Nelson



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