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This document pretains to SAT-MOD-20031118-00333 for Modification on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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. ..I MSV-I Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission The Portals 445 Twelfth Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 Dear Ms. Dortch: The Yurok Tribe (“Tribe”) requests that the Commission rake action as soon as posslble on the application of Mobde Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC (Yh4SV”) to operate t e r r e s a base stations to supplement its Mobile Satellite Service (‘.MSS’). Obtaining this license is MSV’s hrst step toward bddmg its next generation system. . Implementing a new system requires +cant investment and improved system design and can take an appreciable amount of time. The Commission’s expeditious actlon is uitical to assure continuity of service to the Tribe. Granting the relief requested by MSV is consistent with the Commission’s couunitment to bringing telecommunications to Native American lands and to other remote and rural areas. MSV’s application was fled some t h e ago and we understand that the technical issues have been fully bnefed for much longer. We ask that you act as soon as possible on tlus application. The Yurok Tribe has installed MSVs satellite dispatch service in various TaibaI offices and vehicles, including the Tribal Department of Public Safety, Fisheries, Watershed , Restoration, United Indun Health Service Health Cliaic, and other Tribal offices. It was done so because there were no wireline or wireless telephone s d c e or other communications service option available on most of the Yurok Reservation. The Yuok Tribe has chosen to use the MSV system to provide communicatioos on and off the Reservation until such time as more traditional telephone service is available. The Yurok Reservation follows the n z r o w and winding IUamath River canyon approximately 45 d e s from the confluence of the Klamath and T~inifyRivers to the Pa&c Ocean. The geography of the Reservation makes it extremely ddfficult for telephone service to be provided. Use of the MSV network has provided the Yurok Tkibe with extensive and quality communications coverage witbout incurring the capital costs associated with a terrestrial based system.

w -2- June 14,2004 P For these reasons,the Yurok Tribe supports Mobile.Satehte Ventures petition before the FCC. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Peggy O’Nedl, Yurok Tribe Planning and Community Department Director, at (707)482-1350. Howard McConnell Chauperson Yurok Tribe


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