Attachment LightSquared - Japan

This document pretains to SAT-MOD-20101118-00239 for Modification on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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                               Japan GPS Council        1—1 09
                            Tojo Bldg. 8F, 3—16—10 Yushima, Bunkyo—ku
                                     Tokyo, 113—0034 Japan
                            TEL 81(3)38389—6844, FAX 81(3)3839—2166


June 3, 2011                                                                             .
                                                       s2358       SAT—MOD—20101118—00239    182010003539
The Honorable Julius Genachowski                       LightSquared Subsidiary LLC
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, SW
Room 8B201
Washington, DC 20554

               Re : Request for replacing my previous letter by the attached one


      I apologize my clumsiness of mistyping in my previous letter to you, dated May 27.The
attached is corrected one. Please replace old one by new one.

                                                               Respectfully submitted,


                                                               zo_ u. [—
                                                               Hiroshi N1sh1guch1
                                                               Secretary General

Co (by Email): JGPSC memberships.


           —            .       Tojo Bidg. 8F, 3—16—10 Yushima, Bunkyo—ku
           JUN ~6 20”                    Tokyo, 118—0034 Japan
                    .           TEL 81(3)3839—6844, FAX 81(3)3839—2166
       FCC Mail Room
  May 27, 2011

  The Honorable Julius Genachowski
  Chairman
  Federal Communications Commission
  445 12"" Street, SW
  Room 8$B201
  Washington, DC 20554

               Re:LightSquared Application Request for Modification of its Authority for
                 Ancillary Terrestrial Component (FCC File No. SAT—MOD—20101118—0039)

         I write to you on behalf of the memberships of the Japan GPS Council. The Japan GPS
  Council (JGPSC) is the non—profit association composed of the major firms and organizations
  of the civil GPS applications and users in Japan. Its activities are to concentrate proper
  understandings on that the GPS is the civil/military dual technology, and so are centered on
  creating a better environment of peaceful civil utilization of the GPS.

        US and Japan have enjoyed a unique cooperative relationship on GPS since before the
  1998 political communication between Clinton—Obuchi established a formal cooperative
  framework. This relationship has enabled GPS to become a global standard for positioning,
  navigation and timing, and has provided a solid foundation for billions of dollars in
  commercial investment, and development of products, applications and services.

       . US and Japanese firms are global leaders, in.commercial markets of the GPS products
  and services, and as a result of clear and non—preferential policies have worked through   _
  healthy competition in open markets to build robust industries serving a wide range of users
  in both countries.

         US and Japan have worked in close cooperation at the domestic level as well as in
  international fora to protect and preserve spectrum for GPS in order to safeguard national
  security applications as well a maintain flexibility and opportunity for continued commercial
  innovation and critical public infrastructure.

        Any threat to the integrity or availability of GPS in US markets Awou‘lvd undermine and
— devalue the substantial investment that Japanese firms have made to serve users and
  customers in the US. Japanese firms provide products and equipment for high—precision
  applications to US customers, Japanese automotive manufacturers and aftermarket equipment
  suppliers are major suppliers of navigation equipment and services to US consumers, and
  Japanese airlines rely on GPS for safety when operating in US skies.

         If allowed to proceed as proposed, the interference emanating from LightSquared .
  transmitters cold require billions of dollars of reengineering costs on the part of Japanese
  manufacturers toserve established customers in the US, and could also result in lost markets


where mitigation option would not be feasible.

      Any policy which would allow degradation of GPS service in the US would also raise
question as to the integrity of the stated US commitment to maintain GPS as a stable and
reliable global standard for positioning, navigation and timing.

      We look forward to responding to any questions.

                                                            Respectfully submitted,

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                                                            Hiroshi Nishiguchi
                                                            Secretary General

C (by Email): JGPSC memberships.



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