Attachment opposition

This document pretains to SAT-MOD-20080516-00106 for Modification on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATMOD2008051600106_653379

                                 Before the
                   FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C. 20554



In the Matter of

GLOBALSTAR LICENSEE LLC                       )
                                              )
Application for Minor Modification of Space   )     File No. SAT-MOD-20080516-00106
Station License                               )




            OPPOSITION OF GLOBALSTAR TO PETITIONS TO DENY




William F. Adler                              William T. Lake
Vice President - Legal and                    Josh L. Roland
Regulatory Affairs                            WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE
GLOBALSTAR, INC.                                AND DORR L.L.P.
461 S. Milpitas Blvd.                         1875 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Milpitas, CA 95035                            Washington, D.C. 20006
(408) 933-4401                                (202) 663-6000

                                              Counselfor Globa lstar Licensee LL C
                                              and GUSA Licensee LLC




 July 9,2008


                                     TABLE OF CONTENTS


I.      INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY...................................................                       1

11.     GLOBALSTAR AND OPEN RANGE HAVE SET FORTH A CLEAR
        TIMETABLE FOR THE ROLLOUT OF MSS/ATC SERVICES..................5

111.    GLOBALSTAR HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT IT MEETS THE
        COMMISSION’S ATC GATING CRITER...........................................                        6

        A.       Globalstar Will Remain First and Foremost an MSS Provider.. ............6

        B.       Globalstar Complies with the Geographic and Temporal Coverage
                 Requirements in the Commission’s ATC Rules.. ...........................               .8

        C.       Globalstar Has Satisfied the Commission’s In-Orbit Spare
                 Requirement ....................................................................       -10

        D.       Globalstar Does Not Seek To Deploy ATC Services in a Separate
                 Band fiom Its MSS Services.. .......................................................   11

        E.       The GlobalstarDpen Range Offering Will Meet the Commission’s
                 Integrated Service Requirement. ..............................................         .12

IV.     THE GLOBALSTAWOPEN RANGE SPECTRUM LEASE EXEMPLIFIES
        THE KIND OF PARTNERSHIP THE COMMISSION CONTEMPLATED
        IN ITS MSS/ATC PROCEEDING AND OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH
        ALL APPLICABLE COMMISSION RULES AND POLICIES ...................17

V.      NO TECHNICAL BASIS HAS BEEN PRESENTED FOR DENYING
        GLOBALSTAR’S APPLICATION ....................................................                   21

VI.     GLOBALSTAR WILL COMPLY WITH THE INTERFERENCE
        PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN ITS EXISTING ATC
        AUTHORIZATION........................................................................

VII.    GLOBALSTAR HAS JUSTIFIED ITS CONTINGENT, SHORT-TERM
        REQUESTS FOR WAIVER OF THE COMMISSION’S RULES ................24

Conclusion. ......................................................................................... .27


                                 Before the
                   FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C. 20554



In the Matter of

GLOBALSTAR LICENSEE LLC                         )

Application for Minor Modification of Space     )      File No. SAT-MOD-20080516-00106
Station License




            OPPOSITION OF GLOBALSTAR TO PETITIONS TO DENY


I.      INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY.

        Globalstar hereby opposes the petitions filed by Iridium” and Sprint? to deny the

above-referenced Application.’ Neither petitioner has shown any reason why the

Commission should deny Globalstar’s request that its authority to operate an Ancillary

Terrestrial Component (“ATC”) in the Big LEO Mobile Satellite Service (“MSS”) band

be modified to authorize the use of air interface protocols in addition to the cdma2000




L’     Petition To Deny of Iridium Satellite LLC, IBFS File No. SAT-MOD-20080516-
00106 (filed June 23, 2008) (“IridiumPetition”).
2’    Petition To Deny of Sprint Nextel Corporation, IBFS File No. SAT-MOD-
200805 16-00106 (filed June 23,2008) (“Sprint Petition”).

1/     Globalstar Licensee LLC, Application for Minor Modification of Space Station
License, FCC File No. SAT-MOD-20080516-00106 (filed May 16,2008) (“Globalstar
Application”).


and IS-95 air interface protocols referred to in its existing ATC Authorization? The only

other party to file, the U.S. GPS Industry Council (“USGPSIC”), filed comments

requesting that Globalstar confirm that it will comply with certain requirements in its

existing ATC Authorization.” As Globalstar confirms herein, its modified ATC

operations will comply with those requirements. Therefore, the Commission should

grant the relief requested in the Globalstar Application expeditiously for the reasons

stated therein.

          Neither Iridium nor Sprint asserts that Globalstar’s use of the additional protocols

in its ATC operations will result in any greater potential interference than the use of the

protocols encompassed by Globalstar’s existing ATC Authorization. Instead, their very

similar petitions oppose Globalstar’s Application solely on the basis of the short-term

challenges that Globalstar faces as a result of the aging of its first-generation

constellation. Though, as discussed herein, Globalstar currently complies with all ATC

gating criteria, Iridium and Sprint nowhere suggest that, once Globalstar’s second-         .


generation constellation and ground system are operational, any doubt will exist in that

regard.

          The Commission should view the Indium and Sprint petitions with extreme

skepticism, as both would have the effect of stifling competition and innovation in the

wireless marketplace. Iridium makes no pretense that its own operations might be


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31
       See Globalstar LLC, Request for Authority to Implement an Ancillary Terrestrial
Component for the Globalstar Big LEO Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) System, Order
and Authorization, 2 1 FCC Rcd 398 (2006) (“Globalstar ATC Authorization”).
‘’     See Comments and Request for Clarification of the U.S. GPS Industry Council,
File No. SAT-MOD-20080516-00106 (filed June 23,2008) (“USGPSIC Comments”).

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adversely affected by Globalstar’s proposed ATC operations. Iridium simply seeks to

impede its competitors, a tactic that the Commission mentioned with disfavor in its first

decision in the MSS/ATC proceedings.61 Unlike Iridium,7/ Globalstar already has

invested $420 million in cash of its $1.2 billion commitment through 2014 to its second-

generation infrastructure; and its new constellation, construction of which is well

underway, is scheduled to be launched starting in the third quarter of 2009 -just over a

year from now.8/ Given that nothing in Iridium’s petition demonstrates actual or

potential interference fiom Globalstar’s ATC operations, Iridium has no standing to

challenge Globalstar’s Application.”


6/     See, e.g., Flexibility For the Delivery of Communications By Mobile Satellite
Service Providers in the 2 GHz Band, the L-Band, and the 1.6/2.4 GHz Bands, Report
and Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 1 8 FCC Rcd 1962 (2003) (“ATC Report
and Order”) at 7 63 (noting that Iridium has been far less concerned in the MSS/ATC
proceedings with the public interest than with its goal to “prevent all other MSS licensees
from trying to improve the efficiency of their respective MSS systems through deploying
ATC” systems.).
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7/      See, e.g., “Iridium Satellite Announces Q1 2008 Results,” Press Release (Apr. 28,
2008) (Indicating that Iridium does not plan to even execute a contract for a second-
generation constellation until mid-2009 at the earliest). Iridium acknowledges that it has
not determined how it would pay for its second-generation system, which purportedly
would cost more than $2 billion. See, e.g., “Iridium Launches $2 Billion ‘Next’ Plans.”
Communications Daily (Feb. 20. 2007).
8’       As discussed in the Globalstar Application, in December 2006 Globalstar
executed a contract with Thales Alenia Space (“Thales Alenia”) for the design,
manufacture, and delivery of Globalstar’s second-generation constellation of 48 LEO
satellites. See Globalstar Application at n.30. Since October 2007, approximately 200
employees at Thales Alenia have been employed full time on the project and substantial
progress has been made. Specifically, the satellite Bus and Payload designs are complete,
the antenna subsystems are undergoing testing, the prototype and engineering
qualification satellites are under construction and will begm testing next month, and the
contract is on schedule to deliver production satellites in July 2009.

9’      In order to establish standing to challenge Globalstar’s Application, Iridium must
allege sufficient facts to show that it would suffer a “direct injury” if the Commission
were to grant the Application. See, e.g.,Hispanic Information and Telecommunications
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       For its part, Sprint has made only generalized assertions that Globalstar’s planned

ATC services might adversely affect its operations, and has provided no technical basis

for denying Globalstar’s Application. As Globalstar and Open Range have shown,

together they will provide affordable, reliable broadband service to rural markets well

ahead of any BRS operators, who will not serve those markets in the foreseeable future, if

at all.@’ Having already had its objections thoroughly considered and addressed in IB

Docket No. 07-253, Sprint, like Iridium, is left only with insubstantial protectionist

claims.“/ Globalstar demonstrated in its Application and further shows herein that its



Network, Inc., 18 FCC Rcd 23872 (WTB 2003) (“HIT”’) at 719; Alaska Native Wireless
LLC, 17 FCC Rcd 423 1 (WTB 2002) at 7 8; Black Crow Wireless, LP, 16 FCC Rcd
15643 (WTB 2001) at 7 4. To establish such a “direct injury,” Iridium must demonstrate
that the harm that would result to it would be “both certain and great.. .actual and not
theoretical.” See Wisconsin Gas Co. v. FERC, 758 F.2d 669,674 (D.C. Cir. 1985 (per
curiam). Finally, Iridium also must establish that there is a “causal link between the
claimed injury and the challenged action by demonstrating that the injury can be traced to
the challenged action and the injury would be prevented or redressed by the relief
requested.” See H I W at 7 19. Iridium has not purported to make any of these required
showings. Iridium’s suggestion that it “could be harmed financially” is too vague and
speculative to establish the likelihood of injury necessary to confer standing under this
standard. See Iridium Petition at 1 (citing FCC v. Sanders Brothers Radio Station, 309
U.S. 470 (1940)).
lo’
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        For example, in their pending application to merge their BRS businesses, Sprint
and Clearwire Corporation have committed to provide service only to the country’s most
populous areas, where customers already have ready access to broadband services.
Specifically, the companies have suggested that they will provide service by August 2009
only to “areas within a minimum of nine of the nation’s most populous 100 Basic
Trading Areas (BTAs) and at least one BTA less populous than the nation’s 200thmost
populous BTA,” and by August 201 1 only to “areas within a minimum of nine additional
BTAs in the 100 most populous BTAs, and at least one additional BTA less populous
than the nation’s 200th most populous BTA.” See File No. 0003462540, “Description of
the Transaction and Public Interest Statement” (amended Jun. 24,2008) at Exhibit 1, note
2.

u’     The Commission correctly concluded in its recent ATC ModzJication Order -
over Sprint’s objections - that Globalstar’s provision of ATC services in its S-band
spectrum assignment up to 2495 MHz can be accomplished without causing harmful
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proposed ATC operations will comply with all applicable rules governing the provision

of ATC services, and the expeditious grant of its Application would serve the public

interest.

11.     GLOBALSTAR AND OPEN RANGE HAVE SET FORTH A CLEAR
        TIMETABLE FOR THE ROLLOUT OF MSS/ATC SERVICES.

        As Globalstar has shown,12/ the satellites that will comprise its second-generation

constellation are scheduled to be launched beginning in the third quarter of 2009.

Globalstar currently projects that all of the first 24 satellites will have become fully

operational by mid-2010, joining the eight satellites that were launched in 2007 to form

the core of the second-generation constellation.’3’ Globalstar’s second-generation ground

network is scheduled to be completed and operational by mid-201 1.

        Globalstar and Open Range have a complementary rollout schedule for their

combined MSS/ATC service offerings. For their initial offering, Globalstar’s SPOT

satellite messenger device is being adapted to incorporate IEEE 802.16e WiMAX

broadband capabilities, allowing users to make use of Globalstar’s first-generation SPOT

services as well as nomadic and mobile broadband service.’41 Once Globalstar’s second-

generation constellation and ground facilities are operational, Globalstar and Open Range

will offer their customers an additional second-generation mobile device that will have


interference to BRS Channel 1 licensees. See Spectrum and Service Rules for Ancillary
Terrestrial Components in the 1.6/2.4 GHz Big LEO Bands, Report and Order and Order
Proposing Modification, 23 FCC Rcd 72 10 (2008) (“ATC Modification Order”) at 77 2 1-
36.
E’      See Globalstar Application at 15.
u’    Id. at 16. With 32 fully operational satellites, Globalstar will indisputably meet
the ATC gating criteria related to satellite coverage.



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WiMAX capability along with MSS voice and higher speed duplex data capabilities, in

addition to the SPOT technology. Because the deployment of the GlobalstarDpen Range

terrestrial network will parallel that of Globalstar’s second-generation constellation, the

second-generation GlobalstarDpen Range device will be available to the public as soon

as Globalstar’s second-generation constellation and ground infrastructure become

operational.

111.   GLOBALSTAR HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT IT MEETS THE
       COMMISSION’S ATC GATING CRITERIA.

       In their effort to defeat Globalstar’s Application, Iridium and Sprint erroneously

link Globalstar’s compliance with the Commission’s ATC gating criteria to the status of

Globalstar’s current satellite constellation. By doing so they ignore the substantial

showing that Globalstar has made as to its compliance with each of those criteria. In

addition, Iridium and Sprint mischaracterize many of the gating criteria in an attempt to

hold Globalstar to a higher burden than these rules in fact require.

       A.       Globalstar Will Remain First and Foremost an MSS Provider.

       Iridium’s assertion that Globalstar will cease to remain “first and foremost a

satellite” provider or will “migrate [its] service toward terrestrial-on1y operation’’ is

preposterous.15/ First, Globalstar has committed $1.2 billion to its second-generation

network and as of March 3 1,2008, had paid its vendors $420 million under contracts.”


141
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       Id.
-      See Iridium Petition at 4.
fil
      Globalstar, Inc., Quarterly Report (SEC Form 10-Q), filed May 12,2008, Capital
Expenditures at 30-32, available at
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1366868/000110465908032046/0001104659-
08-032046-index.htm.

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Second, the maximum annual payment that Globalstar can expect to receive from Open

Range during the first six years of their lease agreement is $10.3 million.u’ In contrast,

when its replacement satellites are in service, Globalstar’s MSS revenue should return to

the level of 2006 before the satellites seriously degraded, and then increase. MSS-related

revenue was $137 million in 2006, more than 13 times the maximum annual revenue

expected from the Open Range lease. Moreover, Globalstar continues to bring to the

marketplace new MSS products and services - such as the SPOT offering and other mass

consumer market products - to expand and broaden its MSS customer base. The fact that

Globalstar seeks, as other MSS carriers have sought,”’ to enhance its revenue and the

attractiveness of its MSS services to consumers by incorporating an ATC does not

remotely alter the nature of its worldwide core MSS business. Rather, it will make

innovative products and services available to the public to complement both its MSS

service offerings and the wireless services of terrestrial operators for underserved market

segments, just as the Commission intended when it adopted the ATC rules.’91

       Globalstar’s financial commitments leave no doubt that it will remain “first and

foremost” an MSS provider. They also flatly contradict Sprint’s contention that the

Commission should delay action on Globalstar’s Application until Globalstar has “made


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17’    Id. at 19
u’      See Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC, Order and Authorization, 19 FCC
Rcd 22144 (Int’l Bur. 2004); New IC0 Satellite Services G.P - Application to Modify
Letter of Intent Authorization, FCC File No. SAT-MOD-20071 130-00167 (filed No. 30,
2007); TerreStar Networks, Inc. - Application for 2 GHz band Mobile Earth Terminal
Blanket License, FCC File No. SES-AMD-20070907-01253(filed Sept. 7,2007).
E?‘     See ATC Report and Order at 1 2 3 (ATC is intended “to allow MSS operators to
develop new and innovative service offerings that satellite-only MSS systems cannot
offer today.”).

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the investment necessary to ensure continuous, robust, two-way MSS coverage.”a’

Globalstar has more than adequately demonstrated its financial commitment to deploy its

second-generation system.

        B.     Globalstar Complies with the Geographic and Temporal Coverage
               Requirements in the Commission’s ATC Rules.

        Contrary to Iridium’s and Sprint’s contentions, Globalstar has shown that it

complies with the geographic and temporal coverage requirements applicable to MSS

carriers seeking ATC authority. Section 25.143 of the Commission’s rules requires that

nongeostationary MSS licensees “be capable of providing mobile satellite services on a

continuous basis throughout the fifty states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands” and

that “at least one satellite will be visible above the horizon at an elevation angle of at

least 5 deg. at all times ... .”a’
                                 As Globalstar’s Applicationz’ and other filings with the

Commission221make clear, the Globalstar system has met and continues to meet these


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20’
        See Sprint Petition at 12.

2’      47 C.F.R. 5 25.143@)(2)(iii).
22’     See Globalstar Application at 16.
23/     See Globalstar Licensee LLC Request for Interim Operating Authority - Call Sign
S2115 - FCC File No. SAT-STA-20070713-00098(filed July 13,2007); Globalstar
Licensee LLC Request for Interim Operating Authority - Call Sign S2 115 - FCC File
No. SAT-STA-20080104-00003 (filed Jan. 4,2008) (collectively, “Requestsfor Interim
Operating Authority”). Sprint’s suggestion (see Sprint Petition at 12) that Globalstar be
required to “submit detailed, up-to-date technical data regarding the performance of its
MSS constellation” before the Commission grants its Application is misplaced.
Globalstar has submitted such information in its Requestsfor Interim Operating
Authority and in its MSS Annual Reports filed pursuant to section 25.143(e) of the
Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. 6 25.143(e), all of which contain a detailed discussion of
the status of Globalstar’s satellites. Moreover, the coverage limitations caused by
Globalstar’s aging first-generation constellation, which as Globalstar has shown are
wholly out of its control, have no bearing on whether or not Globalstar has met the
standards for the limited, short-term contingent waiver of the coverage requirements that
it seeks.
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coverage requirements at all times through its provision of Simplex data services. While

duplex voice and data services do not currently meet the requirement, Globalstar has

provided its voice customers with complementary access to an on-line Optimum Satellite

Availability Tool (“OSAT’’) which enables them to predict exactly when voice and

duplex data service will be available in their locations. The OSAT mitigates the

temporary adverse impact of the gaps caused by the S-band degradation. And in any

event, any gaps in voice and other duplex services will be entirely eliminated in about

two years, once the first 24 satellites that will comprise Globalstar’s second-generation

constellation become operational.241

       The rules adopted in the Above 1 GHz MSS (“Big LEO”) Proceeding make clear

that data services are one of the many types of services that an MSS carrier may offer to

satisfy its coverage requirements.251Accordingly, Globalstar continues to meet the

coverage requirements. Neither Iridium nor Sprint has pointed to anything in the

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-      See note 13, supra.

        See, e.g., Amendment of the Commission’sRules To Establish Rules and Policies
Pertaining To a Mobile Satellite Service in the 1610-1626.5/2483.5-2500MHz
Frequency Bands, Report and Order, 9 FCC Rcd. 5936 (1994) at 7 3 (“[Tlhe Big LEO
service can offer an almost limitless number of services, including ubiquitous voice and
data mobile services, position location services, search and rescue communications,
disaster management communications, environmental monitoring, paging services,
facsimile transmission services, cargo tracking, and industrial monitoring and control.”);
Applications of Constellation Communications, Inc., Loral/Qualcomm Partnership, L.P.,
Mobile Communications Holdings, Inc., Motorola Satellite Communications, Inc., and
TRW Inc., for Authority To Construct, Launch, and Operate, Low Earth Orbit Satellite
Systems To Provide Mobile Satellite Services in the 1610- 1626.5 MHz/2483.5-2500
MHz Bands, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 11 FCC Rcd 18502 (1996) at 7 1 (“[Big
LEO systems] are capable of providing a wide range of voice and data services to hand-
held terminals on a global basis.”); Amendment of Part 25 of the Commission’s Rules To
Establish Rules and Policies Pertaining To the Second Processing Round of the Non-
Voice, Non-Geostationary Mobile Satellite Service, Notice of Proposed Rule Makzng, 1 1



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.   Commission’s MSS rules or rulemaking proceedings that establishes the contrary. If,

    however, the Commission concludes that Globalstar’s reading of these requirements is

    incorrect, then Globalstar has made an adequate showing for a temporary waiver of this

    requirement.-261

            C.         Globalstar Has Satisfied the Commission’s In-Orbit Spare
                       Requirement.

            The Commission similarly should reject Iridium’s and Sprint’s contentions that

    Globalstar fails to meet the in-orbit spare requirement. As Globalstar showed in its

    Application,”l counting all satellites that are providing both L- and S-band

    communications to support duplex voice and data service, and the satellites that are

    providing only L-band service to support Globalstar’s growing Simplex data products,

    there are now 48 satellites in commercial service and two spare satellites capable of

    providing service.a’

            There is no provision in the Commission’s rules or ATC rulemaking orders that

    would preclude treatment of any one of the satellites with a fully functioning L-band

    subsystem as an in-orbit spare for purposes of the ATC gating requirements. As Indium

    has acknowledged, the real purpose of the in-orbit spare requirement is “to ensure that




    FCC Rcd 19841 at 7 27 (“Big LEO systems, for example, can also provide two-way,
    worldwide, mobile data services.”).
    26/     See Globalstar Application at 24-25.
    271
    -       See id. at 15-16.

            Since Globalstar filed its Application, the last of the eight spare satellites
    launched in May and October of 2007 became operational, increasing the number of in-
    orbit spares from one to two.

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MSS providers continue to invest in their satellite                    Globalstar obviously

is doing that on a massive scale.

       D.      Globalstar Does Not Seek To Deploy ATC Services in a Separate
               Band from Its MSS Services.

       Iridium and Sprint erroneously argue that Globalstar is impermissibly seeking to

deploy ATC services in a separate band from its MSS services?        That argument is

based on a gross mischaracterization of the Commission’s ATC orders and Open Range’s

business plans.’-’l The Commission has required that an MSS licensee meet the gating

criteria in “each band” in which it is licensed, in order to ensure that a non-operational

MSS licensee in one band is not able to acquire an operational licensee in another band

and use the latter’s operational status to claim ATC rights across both spectrum

This requirement was adopted in response to the concerns of Cingular and CTIA that IC0

Global (a non-operational MSS licensee in the 2 GHz band) might acquire Globalstar (an

operational MSS licensee in the Big LEO band) and then seek to claim eligibility for


       See Iridium Petition at 12 (citing ATC Report and Order at 7 81).

       See Iridium Petition at 8; Sprint Petition at 5.
=’     Open Range has secured the right to lease both L- and S-band spectrum and
intends to use both. See Globalstar, Inc., Quarterly Report (SEC Form 10-Q), filed May
12,2008, Exhibit 10-3, “Spectrum Manager Lease Agreement,” at 1, available at
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1366868/000110465908032046/0001104659-
08-032046-index.htm (granting Open Range “the right to use up to 20 MHz of spectrum
covered by the FCC Licenses that is authorized today or in the future for Ancillary
Terrestrial Component (“AT,”) service.”).
32/    See Flexibility For the Delivery of Communications By Mobile Satellite Service
Providers in the 2 GHz Band, the L-Band, and the 1.6/2.4 GHz Bands, Memorandum
Opinion and Order and Second Order on Reconsideration, 20 FCC Rcd 46 16 (2005)
(“ATC MO&O’) 7 34 (citing Petition for Reconsideration of Cingular Wireless LLC in
IB Docket Nos. 01-1 85 and 02-364 (filed July 7,2003) (“Cingular Petitionfor
Reconsideration”) at 15).


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ATC in the 2 GHz band based on Globalstar’s satisfaction of the gating criteria in the Big

LEO band?’     The requirement has no applicability to Globalstar, which is licensed to

provide MSS services only in the paired Big LEO bands. The Commission has never

required, and it would make no sense to require, an MSS licensee such as Globalstar to

meet the ATC gating requirements in both its uplink and downlink fi-equency

assignments.

       E.      The Globalstar/Open Range Offering Will Meet the Commission’s
               Integrated Service Requirement.

        Globalstar has shown that it will comply with the requirement that its ATC

service offering be “integrated” with its MSS service at all stages of the parallel rollout of

the Globalstadopen Range wireless broadband network and Globalstar’s second-

generation satellite system. While both the second-generation MS S system and

Globalstar/Open Range ATC ground network will require a period of time for full

deployment, as Globalstar demonstrated in its Application,3’ they will result in a suite of

robust and fully integrated two-way MSS/ATC services that meet all of the


=’       At the time that the pleadings were filed, IC0 planned to acquire the assets of
Globalstar in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale. See Cingular Petition for Reconsideration at
15-16 (“Given the fact that at least one non-operational2 GHz licensee has already
announced its intention to acquire an operational licensee in another band, the
Commission should clarify its rules now rather than waiting to react to an attempt to
abuse its ATC processes.”); Petition for Reconsideration of CTIA in IB Docket Nos. 01-
185 and 02-364 (filed July 7,2003) at 8 (“An MSS licensee should not be able to avoid
its satellite obligations . . . in one band by claiming it has satisfied those obligations in
another band.”); Reply to Oppositions to Petition for Reconsideration of CTIA in IB
Docket Nos. 01-185 and 02-364 (filed Sept. 4, 2003) at 9 (“CTIA reiterates its belief that
an MSS licensee should not be able to avoid its satellite obligations . .. in one band by
claiming it has satisfied those obligations in another band .. .. CTIA notes that several
MSS licensees either have, or may seek to obtain, licenses in more than one MSS band,
and that accordingly, the Commission should clarify this obligation so there is no dispute
as to MSS licensees’ obligation in this regard.”).

       See Globalstar Application at 16-2 1.

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Commission’s “safe harbor” integration requirements.35/ In the meantime, Globalstar and

Open Range will offer integrated MSS/ATC services that make use of the capabilities of

their existing facilities and also satisfy the Commission’s “safe harbor’’ integration

requirements.

       Sprint’s contention that the proposed first-generation GlobalstarDpen Range

device does not “contain all the hardware and software necessary to acquire and

communicate with both the operator’s MSS system’s signal and its ATC system’s

signal”s’ is incorrect. Section 25.149@)(4) of the Commission’s rules requires that, to

qualify for the safe harbor, an MSS ATC provider offer “a dual-mode handset that will

communicate with both the MSS network and the MSS ATC component to provide the

proposed ATC service.”22‘The Commission has made clear that in this context “dual-

mode” means that the device “actually incorporates the capability to communicate with

both the satellite and the ATC base stations,” as contrasted to a handset in which “the

capability to access the satellite [is] merely a component available at the point of sale”

and is not in fact housed within the device?’   Globalstar has shown that the first- and

second-generation GlobalstadOpen Range MSS/ATC devices will be fully dual-mode in

this respect?   Contrary to Iridium’s and Sprint’s claims, both generations of the device



       See ATC Report and Order at 7 87; 47 C.F.R. § 25.149(b)(4).

       See Sprint Petition at 3 (citing ATC MO&O at 7 29).

       47 C.F.R. 5 25.149(b)(4).
28/    See ATC M o d i 0 at 7 28 and n. 75 (citing Petition for Reconsideration of Cingular
Wireless LLC in IB Docket Nos. 01-185 and 02-364 (filed July 7,2003) at 11).
3 9/
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        Similarly, Iridium’s suggestion that the first-generation Globalstar/Open Range
device is not integrated because it “does not allow for dual-mode communication in
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will in fact enable the user to communicate with both Globalstar’s satellites and the

GlobalstarDpen Range ATC base stations.@/ Moreover, as Globalstar’s Application

specifies, “the MSS and ATC components of the device will reside withm a single

device, and it thus will not be possible for customers to purchase the device without

receiving both the MSS and ATC capabilities.”a/

        Even if a temporary waiver of the integration requirement were needed - and it is

not - the Commission’s precedent in granting a temporary waiver of the integration

requirement to Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC (“MSV’9)B/indicates that one

should be granted here as well. The Commission concluded that MSV had met the dual-

mode integration requirement even though its proposed first-generation handset required

the addition of an external apparatus to communicate with the satellite, based on MSV’s

demonstration that it would take all reasonable measures to provide a dual-mode handset

pending the launch of its second-generation satellite.43/ In Globalstar’s case, its proposed

first-generation MSS/ATC device already is capable of communicating with its satellites

without the need for any external equipment. Moreover, once Globalstar’s second-

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either the L-band or S-band,” see Iridium Petition at 9, is merely a restatement of
Iridium’s argument discussed above about a nonexistent requirement that ATC and MSS
be deployed equally in Globalstar’s uplink and downlink spectrum.

        See Globalstar Application at 17.
-
411
        Id. at 19.
-
421
        See Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC, Order and Authorization, FCC
File Nos. SAT-MOD-20031118-00333, SAT-AMD-20031118-00332, and SES-MOD-
20031 118-01879, 19 FCC Rcd 221 14 (Int’l Bur. 2004) at 7 21 (“We find that MSV’s
proposal to deploy dual-mode handsets that will initially require use of a plug-in booster
for MSS communication is a reasonable temporary solution that will enhance economic
efficiency.”).



                                            - 14-


generation satellite system is operational, Globalstar and Open Range also will make

available to their customers a dual-mode MSS/ATC device that supports MSS service, in

addition to the SPOT service.@’ Globalstar’s first-generation device thus represents a         .


reasonable interim solution to the integration requirement.

       There is no substance to Iridium’s and Sprint’s contention that the

Globalstadopen Range device fails to meet the Commission’s integration requirement

because it is not a traditional “handset.’@’ The ATC rules do not require that an

MSS/ATC provider use a traditional “handset” to meet the integration requirement. To

the contrary, the Commission explicitly recognized in the ATC rulemaking proceeding

that a “handset” for purposes of the rules includes “all types of communicating terminals

operated by an individual user and capable of transmitting voice, data or both .... In other

words, the terms “phone,” “handset” and “terminal” are used interchangeably to refer to

end-user devices.’@ Both the first- and second-generation Globalstar/Open Range

devices thus are “handsets” within the rules.

       Iridium and Sprint also miss the mark in arguing that the Globalstadopen Range

service is not integrated because “Globalstar and Open Range are different companies




        Iridium asserts with absolutely no support that “Globalstar will require users to
purchase entirely new equipment to access its second generation satellite system.”
Iridium Petition at 17-18 . In fact, Globalstar’s second-generation constellation will be
backward compatible with its first-generation constellation, and customers will continue
to be able to use their existing handsets after the second-generation constellation becomes
operational.
-
45‘
       See Iridium Petition at 10; Sprint Petition at 4.
-
46/
       See ATC Report and Order at 7 23 n. 42.


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that intend to offer two different services.”g/ The Commission has specifically

recognized that an MSS licensee may partner with a terrestrial provider to implement its

ATC system,@’and Globalstar is not the only MSS licensee to have considered such an

                 The Commission also has never required that an MSS licensee’s MSS

and ATC services be identical. To the contrary, the ATC rules specifically “allow MSS

operators to develop new and innovative service offerings that satellite-only MSS

systems cannot offer today.”3’ As the Commission recognized, “MSS operators may

choose to deploy a variety of new services through ATC-enabled MSS systems,”

including, among others, “ubiquitous .. . broadband services,” as Globalstar plans to do in

partnership with Open Range?’

       In any event, the first-generation MSS/ATC service offering Globalstar has

proposed does not, as the petitioners assert, involve two distinct services of

disproportionate value. Instead, the first-generation device is ideally suited to unmet

needs of customers in rural and underserved areas. Globalstar/Open Range MSS/ATC


       See Sprint Petition at 4; Iridium Petition at 11.

@/       See ATC Report and Order at 7 44 (“[Nlothing prohibits MSS providers from
affiliating with terrestrial providers, through stock ownership, joint ventures, or other
means, if a business relationship proves advantageous in the provision of integrated
mobile services and as long as such arrangements comply with our rules and policies
governing transfers of control.”).
491
-
       See, e.g.,“Inmarsat Says It Could Support ATC with 1-4 Satellites, In Talks With
Potential Partners,” Communications Daily (Mar. 13, 2006).

       See ATC Report and Order at 7 23.

        Id. The Commission also has indicated that permissible MSS/ATC offerings need
not include any voice component, by making clear that the ATC rules also cover
“personal digtal assistants (PDAs), laptop computers, and other digital devices
communicating via MSS/ATC.” See ATC M o d i 0 at 730.

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services will be deployed initially in rural towns in which terrestrial wireless services are

limited at best. As residents travel outside these towns, they often lose cell phone

coverage, particularly in areas that are not near major highways. The emergency

messaging and tracking capabilities provided by SPOT will prove invaluable to

Globalstar/Open Range customers by providing a vital communications link that simply

does not exist in such areas today. Since its commercial launch in the United States in

November 2007, the SPOT product has been credited with facilitating over 40 rescues

and has saved numerous lives?’ The commercial success of the SPOT product confirms

that, far fiom being a “low function” device,53/it is likely on its own to be highly valued

by Globalstar/Open Range customers. Finally, and most importantly, for public policy

considerations, the modified SPOT product will allow Globalstar/Open Range to deploy

WiMAX service in rural areas much more quickly and at a far lower cost than they would

be able to do if they were to attempt to modify an existing Globalstar phone.

IV.    THE GLOBALSTAWOPEN RANGE SPECTRUM LEASE EXEMPLIFIES
       THE KIND OF PARTNERSHIP THE COMMISSION CONTEMPLATED
       IN ITS MSS/ATC PROCEEDING AND OTHERWISE COMPLIES WITH
       ALL APPLICABLE COMMISSION RULES AND POLICIES.

       Globalstar has complied with all applicable Commission rules and policies

regarding spectrum leases. The Commission specifically has recognized the possibility

that an MSS provider might choose to implement ATC through a spectrum leasing

arrangement, noting in the ATC rulemaking proceeding that an MSS licensee may “enter




52’    A representative listing of the rescues that the SPOT product has enabled is
available at www .findmespot.corn.
-
53’    Sprint Petition at 3.

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an agreement to lease some or all of the access to its authorized MSS spectrum to a

terrestrial licensee” so long as the applicable ATC gating requirements are met?

       M l e Iridium observes that the Commission’s Part 1 spectrum leasing rules do

not cover MSS carriers seeking to enter into leasing arrangements,s’ that fact has no

bearing on the lawfulness of the Globalstar/Open Range leasing arrangement. The

Commission’s decision not to include satellite services among the services covered by the

Part 1 leasing rules was based on the Commission’s express recognition that its satellite

licensing policies already provided licensees with broad flexibility to lease their

spectrum.56/ In particular, in considering whether to grant terrestrial wireless licensees

the flexibility to lease their spectrum, the Commission made clear that it hstorically has

“permitted licensees of satellite systems operating on a non-common carrier basis, such

as most Big and Little Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems, to offer capacity on their

satellites to individual customers on individualized terms, ranging fkom short-term leases

to sales.’’2/ As the Commission noted, the primary requirement in such leasing



       See ATC Report and Order at 7 3 n. 5.
”’
-      Iridium Opposition at 13.
%’        See Promoting Efficient Use of Spectrum through Elimination of Barriers to the
Development of Secondary Markets, Second Report and Order, Order on
Reconsideration, and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemakmg, 19 FCC Rcd
17503 at 7 66 n. 166 (citations omitted) (“We . . . note that there already exists a robust
secondary market for parties seeking to gain access to spectrum in our satellite services
. . .. By encouragmg satellite licensees to sell unused spectrum to other parties willing to
put the spectrum into use, we allow parties flexibility to transfer satellite bandwidth to
more efficient uses in response to changing market conditions and consumer demands,
and we allow marketplace forces to determine which companies succeed.”).

       See Promoting Efficient Use of Spectrum through Elimination of Barriers to the
Development of Secondary Markets, Notice ofproposed Rulemakng, 15 FCC Rcd 24203
(2000) at 7 66 (citations omitted).

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arrangements is that the licensees “remain responsible for ensuring that their satellites

operate withm the relevant power limits and in conformance with [the Commission’s]

international obligations and with International Telecommunications Union

                    which Globalstar has plainly done in its arrangement with Open

Range.

         Contrary to Iridium’s claims,59/ no provision in the Commission’s rules requires a

satellite licensee to provide notice to or seek prior approval fi-om the Commission when

entering into a spectrum leasing arrangement. Iridium would have the Commission

impose on satellite licensees a more onerous filing requirement than it applies to

terrestrial wireless licensees - somethmg the Commission specifically has chosen not to

do.

         In any event, Globalstar in fact has notified the Commission in writing of the

existence and terms of the leasing arrangement in order to keep the Commission

informed. The procedure Globalstar and Open Range followed was exactly the same

procedure required of other spectrum lessors under Part 1 of the Commission’s rules

governing “Spectrum Manager” leasing arrangements.@’

         Iridium’s and Sprint’s contention that Globalstar will impermissibly transfer

either de jure or de facto control over its licensed spectrum to Open Range under the


”’
-
        Id. In the case of leases in the Fixed Satellite Service, the Commission has
specified that “licensees are not obligated to obtain Commission approval for those leases
nor inform the Commission of the parties to whom they have leased transponders.” Id.
-
591
         See Iridium Petition at 13.
601
-       See 47 C.F.R. tj 1.9020(e) (“A licensee that seeks to enter into a spectrum
manager leasing arrangement must notify the Commission of the arrangement in advance
of the spectrum lessee’s commencement of operations.”).

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companies’ leasing arrangement is wild speculation unworthy of detailed response.

Globalstar and Open Range specifically certified in writing that Globalstar will retain

both de jure and de facto control over its licensed spectrum at all times during the term of

the lease, whether used to provide MSS or ATC services. The rules do not require more.

Moreover, the Lease Agreement is now public record. The Commission may see for

itself that Open Range’s operations on Globalstar’s spectrum at all times will be subject

to Globalstar’s ultimate de jure and de facto control, and that Sprint and Iridium have

either erred or attempted to mislead the Commission in their c o m e n t s to the contrary.‘/

          Iridium argues that the Globalstadopen Range leasing arrangement must be

analyzed under the Intermountain Microwave standards established in 1963                However,

the very decision that Iridium cites for this proposition in fact confirms that use of those


       See Globalstar, Inc., Quarterly Report (SEC Form 10-Q), supra note 16, at
Exhibit 10.3, Spectrum Manager Lease Agreement (cited in Sprint Petition at 6 and
Iridium Petition at 14) (“Lease Agreement”). Specifically, Section 4 of the Lease
Agreement states that

          Notwithstanding any other provision, and at all times during the term of this
           Lease Agreement, Lessor shall retain de jure and de facto control of the Leased
           Spectrum as required under the Communications Laws. This Lease Agreement
           (i) does not and will not vest in Lessee, or constitute, create or have the effect of
           constituting or creating, direct or indirect de facto or de jure control over Lessor
           or the Leased Spectrum, which ownership or control will remain exclusively and
           at all times in Lessor and its affiliates, and (ii) does not and will not constitute the
           transfer, assignment, or disposition in any manner, voluntary or involuntary,
      .    directly or indirectly, of the Leased Spectrum or the transfer of control of Lessor
           within the meaning of Section 3 1O(d) of the Communications Act. Lessee will
           not take any action inconsistent with or contrary to the Lessor’s de jure and de
          facto control, as those terms are construed by the FCC, over the Leased Spectrum.
           Lessee will not hold itself out to the public as the owner of the FCC Licenses or
          the Leased Spectrum.

See Lease Agreement at Section 4.
62‘
-         See Iridium Petition at 15.

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standards is no longer appropriate in many contexts, including spectrum leases?’ As the

Commission specifically recognized in that case, “[tlhere have been significant changes

in the communications industry since the Intermountain Microwave de facto standard

was established over 40 years ago, including the rise of new technologies for the industry

and the Commission’s increasing efforts to afford quick and effective means for parties to

adapt to markets and to the needs of consumers .... Under these circumstances, we no

longer believe that it is necessary to continue to require that a licensee exercise

immediate direct control over every facility that may be operating in connection with the

provision of services using its spectrum.99a’

     .   In sum, there is nothing improper in the GlobalstarQen Range leasing

arrangement, and Globalstar and Open Range have made all filings in connection with

the arrangement that may be required.

V.       NO TECHNICAL BASIS HAS BEEN PRESENTED FOR DENYING
         GLOBALSTAR’S APPLICATION.

         Neither Iridium nor Sprint has provided any technical or operational justification

for their requests that the Commission deny Globalstar’s Application. Iridium, on the

one hand, never even addresses in its pleading Globalstar’s request to deploy the

additional air interface protocols proposed in the Application, let alone challenges them.



a’      See Facilitating the Provision of Spectrum-Based Services to Rural Areas and
Promoting Opportunities for Rural Telephone Companies To Provide Spectrum-Based
Services; 2000 Biennial Regulatory Review Spectrum Aggregation Limits For
Commercial Mobile Radio Services; Increasing Flexibility To Promote Access to and the
Efficient and Intensive Use of Spectrum and the Widespread Deployment of Wireless
Services, and To Facilitate Capital Formation, Report and Order and Further Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, 19 FCC Rcd 19078 (2004) (cited in Iridium Petition at 15).

@’       Id. at 7 108.

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Sprint, on the other hand, raises only general, unsupported arguments as to why certain of

the protocols Globalstar has proposed should not be permitted. Neither company’s

petition meets the standards set forth in the Commission’s rules for petitions to deny?’

          Sprint has not challenged on any technical or operational grounds Globalstar’s

request for authority to deploy WiMAX Time Division Duplex (“TDD”) in its S-band

ATC spectrum allocation, or Globalstar’s request for waiver of section 25.149(a)(1) of

the Commission’s rulesa’ to allow it to operate in the non-forward band mode.

Globalstar is committed to participating in, and subscribing to, any WiMAX standards

that are adopted by the Wireless Communications Association International (“WCA’’). In

fact, Globalstar has already endorsed the Sprint Proposal to the WCA Best Practices

Committee regarding WiMAX 802-16e-2005 Synchronization. Contrary to Sprint’s

claims, Globalstar has provided an extensive technical analysis demonstrating that its use

of WCDMA, TD-CDMA, and LTE protocols in both its L- and S-band ATC spectrum

allocations would produce no greater potential threat of interference than that produced

using the cdma2000 system protocols encompassed by Globalstar’s existing ATC

Authorization,67/as required by the Commission’s rules.@’ Absent some analysis

demonstrating that Globalstar’s technical showing is in error, Sprint’s petition must be

denied.


@’     The Commission’s rules require that any petition to deny an application “contain
specific allegations of fact . . . to support the specific relief requested.” See 47 C.F.R. 5
25.154(a).

          47 C.F.R. 25.149(a)(l).

          See Globalstar Application at 6-7 and attached Technical Exhibit at 5-9.
-
          See 4’7 C.F.R. 5 25.254 at Note.


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       Sprint’s assertion that Globalstar should not be permitted to apply for authority to

deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) because it “is not even standardized” is equally

erroneous. LTE is an evolving standard being defined by 3GPP, with input provided by

Sprint itself. Release 8 of 36 series of 3GPP standards, which has now been finalized,

defines the current standards for LTE. Release 8 of 36.104 and 36.101 establishes

specific out-of-band emissions requirements for LTE base stations and user

equipment intended, among other h n g s , to protect BRS operations. In its Application,

Globalstar provided a technical analysis demonstrating that MSS/ATC equipment using

LTE will meet those requirements.@’

        Finally, the Commission has already considered and decided the level of

protection to which BRS channel 1 licensees are entitled?’ The Commission adopted

specific out-of-band emission limits and coordination principles that it concluded will

“ensure that ATC operations in the S-band do not cause harmful interference to BRS

Channel 1 operations in the 2496-2502 MHz band.’9a’ Sprint’s alleged concerns in the

instant proceedinp’ about the scope of Globalstar’s obligations under the ATC rules,

including in particular its obligation to avoid causing harmful interference to other

services, were fully addressed, and the time for challenging the Commission’s decision

on this issue has expired.




@’     See Globalstar Application, Technical Exhibit at Section 1.2.3.

       See ATC Modfieation Order.

a’     Id. at 7 32.
22/    See Sprint Petition at I 3.

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VI.    GLOBALSTAR WILL COMPLY WITH THE I N T E B R E N C E
       PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN ITS EXISTING ATC
       AUTHORIZATION.

       The USGPSIC submitted comments in response to Globalstar’s Application

requesting that Globalstar confirm that its modified ATC operations will protect Radio

Navigation Satellite Service (“RNSS”) operations in the 1559-1610 MHz band fiom out-

of-band emissions to the same extent as Globalstar is required to do under to its existing

ATC Authorization.22/ In addition, USGPSIC requests that Globalstar be required to

apply to its ATC base stations filters to reduce emissions in the 1559- 1610 MHz band?’

Globalstar hereby confirms that, if granted the modified ATC authority sought in the

instant Application, it will comply with the stricter out-of-band emission limits requested

by the NTIA - and agreed to by Globalstar - in Globalstar’s original ATC application

proceeding.751 While filtering is a common method of meeting out-of-band emission

limits, Globalstar and its manufacturers must remain fi-ee to meet those emissions limits

in the most cost-effective way under the circumstances prevailing at the time that a

particular base station is designed and deployed.

VII.   GLOBALSTAR HAS JUSTIFIED ITS CONTINGENT, SHORT-TERM
       REQUESTS FOR WAIVER OF THE COMMISSION’S RULES.

       As discussed in it Application and reinforced herein, Globalstar believes that it

satisfies each of the Commission’s gating criteria applicable to MSS carriers seeking to

deploy ATC services. However, in the event the Commission concludes otherwise,

Globalstar has justified the contingent, short-term requests for waiver of the


-
73‘    See USGPSIC Comments.
-
’4     Id
75/    See Globalstar ATC Authorization at 77 19-24.

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Commission’s rules it has requested. As Globalstar has shown in its Application and in

its pleadings requesting expansion of the spectrum on which it is authorized to provide

ATC services,76/the Globalstadopen Range MSS/ATC service offering will produce

substantial public interest benefits by providing broadband access to millions of rural

Americans who now have limited or no access to such service. Currently, broadband

service to rural parts of the country lags far behind that which is available in more

populated areas, and where such services do exist, they are typically highly localized and

expensive. Existing wireless service providers have failed to address this service

disparity. As Globalstar and others have shown,=’ MSS/ATC networks can provide a

workable, cost-effective solution to the lack of broadband service in rural areas.

       In asserting that Globalstar’s Application fails to satisfy the Commission’s waiver

standards, Iridium’s and Sprint’s pleadings selectively focus on the short-term limitations

associated with Globalstar’s first-generation satellite system, entirely ignoring the

substantial, tangible commitments that Globalstar has made to the deployment of its

second-generation constellation and ground network. The Commission should resist

these anticompetitive attempts to delay action on Globalstar’s Application solely because

of technical problems with Globalstar’s existing constellation that are beyond its control



76/    See Globalstar Application at 2 1-23; Comments of Globalstar, Inc. in IB Docket
No. 07-253 (filed Dec. 19, 2007) (“Globalstar ATC Comments”) at 5-8; Reply Comments
of Globalstar, Inc. in IB Docket No. 07-253 (filed Jan. 3,2008) (“Globalstar ATC Reply
Comments”) at 9- 12.

         See, e.g. Globalstar Application at 4-6; Globalstar ATC Comments at 5-8;
Globalstar ATC Reply Comments at 9-12; Comments of Open Range Communications,
Inc. in IB Docket No. 07-253 (filed Dec. 129,2007) at 4-6; Comments of Main Street
Broadband LLC in IB Docket No. 07-253 (filed Jan. 3,2008) at 1-2; Reply Comments of
Main Street Broadband LLC in IB Docket No. 07-253 (filed Jan. 3,2008) at 1-2.

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and are being aggressively addressed through the launch of eight ground spare satellites

at a cost of $120 million and construction and deployment of the second-generation

constellation. At the same time, Open Range has demonstrated that it has the expertise

and h d i n g available to it to ensure that its terrestrial network will be deployed in

parallel with Globalstar’s second-generation constellation and ground system. That

funding is not available to Open Range indefinitely, however, and is contingent on the

Commission’s expeditious approval of Globalstar’s Application.

        In light of these facts, Globalstar submits that, to the extent the Commission

determines that any are required, then the public interest would be served by a grant of

the limited, contingent, and short-term waivers that Globalstar has requested and the

prompt approval of Globalstar’s Application. By granting the temporary rule waivers

that Globalstar has requested, the Commission can help to ensure that Globalstar’s and

Open Range’s plans will move beyond the conceptual stage and become a reality, to the

great benefit of consumers.




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                                      Conclusion

       For all these reasons and those stated in Globalstar’s Application, the Commission

should promptly grant the Application and the limited rule waivers requested therein and

authorize Globalstar to offer ATC services using WiMAX TDD, WCDMA, TD-CDMA,

and LTE packet-switched data protocols.

                                                   Respectfully submitted,




William F. Adler                                   William T. Lake
Vice President - Legal and                         Josh L. Roland
Regulatory Affairs                                 WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE
GLOBALSTAR, INC.                                     AND DORR L.L.P.
461 S. Milpitas Blvd.                              1875 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Milpitas, CA 95035                                 Washington, D.C. 20006
(408) 933-4401                                     (202) 663-6000
                                                   Counselfor Globalstar Licensee LLC
                                                   and GUSA Licensee LLC


July 9,2008




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                            CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

      I, Josh L. Roland, do hereby certiQ that a copy of               Opposition of
Globalstar To Petitions To Deny was served by hand this        ay of July, 2008, on the
following parties, unless otherwise noted:                                         .

Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary                    Jim Ball, ChieP
Federal Communications Commission               Policy Division, International Bureau
445 12* Street, sw                              Federal Communications Commission
Room CY-B402                                    445 1 2 Street,
                                                          ~     sw
Washington, DC 20554                            Washington, DC 20554

Helen Domenici, ChieP                           Howard GribofP
International Bureau                            International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission               Federal Communications Commission
445 12* Street, sw                              445 12* Street, sw
Washington, DC 20554                            Washington, DC 20554

Robert Nelson, ChieP                            Michael Senkowski*
Satellite Division, International Bureau        Peter Shields
Federal Communications Commission               Jennifer D. Hindin
445 12* Street, sw                              Wiley Rein LLP
Washington, DC 20554                            1776 K Street, NW
                                                Washington DC 20006
Regina Keeney*                                  Counsel to Iridium Satellite LLC
Charles Logan
Stephen Berman                                  Stephen Baruch*
Lawler, Metzger, Milkman                        Philip Bonomo
  & Keeney, LLC                                 Leventhal Senter & Lerman PLLC
2001 K Street, NW                               2000 K Street, NW
Suite 802                                       Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006                            Washington, DC 20006
Counsel to Sprint Corporation                   Counsel to the U S . GPS Industry
                                                Council




*By United States Postal Service, First Class postage prepaid, and electronic mail.



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