Attachment 2002SES res to ex pa

This document pretains to SAT-PDR-20020425-00071 for Petition for Declaratory Ruling on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATPDR2002042500071_1071842

p ARTNERS RESIDENT IN WASHINGTON PAWL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WY HARTON 8 GARRISON H ENK BRANDS DALE M. SARRO ROBERT E. MONTGOMERY JR. PHILLIP L. SPECT 1615 L STREET, NW, 1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS R OBERT P.F. ARKER WARREN B. RUDMAN STu ART G. STE!NGOLD NEW YORK, NY 100196064 WwASHINGTON, DC 2o0se—56904 TELEPHONE (212) 373—3000 PARTNERS NOT RESIDENT IN WASHINGTON TELEPHONE (202) 2237300 FACSIMILE (212) 787—3990 NEALE M. ALBERT* RUBEN KRAIEM* FACSIMILE (202) 223—7420 MARK H. ALCOTT DANIEL J. KRAMER® 62. RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT—HONORE ALLAN AREFA* DAVI LAKKDHIR ROBERT A. ATKINS* STEVEN . LANDERS®* LLOYD K. GARRISON (1946—1991) 75008 PARIS, FRANCE JOHN_F. BAUGHMAN* NGE* DANIEL J. BELLER DANIEL ‘j, LEFFELL* RANDOLPH E. PAUL (1946—1956) TELEPHONE 133 1) 53 43 14 14 MITCHELL L. BERG®* MARTIN LONDON SIMON H. RIFKIND (1950—19985) FACSIMILE (33 1) 53 43 OO 23 MARK 5. BERGMAN JEFFREY D. MARELL® BRUCE BIRENBOIM® MARCO V. MASO LOUIS 5. WEISS (1927—1 950 RICHARD S. BORISOFF* EDWIN_S. MAYNARD® JOHN F. WHARTON (1927—1977) FUKOKU SEIMEI BUJLDING JOHN F. BREGLIO®* TOBY S. MYERSO RICHARD J. BRONSTEIN* KEVIN J. O‘BRIEN® 2—2 UCHISAIWAICHO 2—CHOME YEANETTE K. CHAN YOHN_J. O‘NEHL CHIYODA—KU, TOKYO 100—0011, JAPAN YVONNE Y.F. CHAN* KELLEY D. PARKER* DOUGLAS A. CIFU* MARC E. PERLMUTIER* TELEPHONE (81—3) 3597—8 101 LEWIS R. CLAYTON MARK F. ERANTZ* FACSIMILE (81—3) 3s907—8120 JAY COHEN EONARD_V. QOUIGLEY* RUSSELL E. COLWELL* VALERIE E. RADWANER® Doug R. DAVIS* AR R. MO VAMES DUBIN ICHAEL B. REEDE® 2918 CHINA WORLD TOWER 1i LESLIE GORDON FAGEN CARL L. ISNER* WRITER‘S DIRECT DIAL NUMBER MARC FALCONE WALTER AN®* NO.1 JIANGUOMENWAIL DAJIE PETER L. FELCHER® IDNEY S ROSDE!TCHER PETER FISCH RICHARD ‘A. ROSEN® BEWJING, 100004 202—223—7340 PEOPLE‘S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ROBERT C. FLEDER® MARTIN FLUMENBAUM ANDREW N. ROSENBERG®* STEVEN B. ROSENFELD ANDREW J. FOL PETER J. R ENBERG® TELEPHONE (G6—10) es05—6022 HARRIS B. FREIDUS® JEFFREY D. SAFERSTEIN® WRITER‘S DIRECT FACSIMILE FACSIMILE t86—10) e505—6830 MICHAEL E. GERTZMAN* JEFFREY B. SAMUEL PAUL D. GINSBERG® TERRY E. SCHIMEK* ERIC S. GOLDSTEIN* KENNETH M. SCHNEIDER® 202—223—7440 I2TH FLOOR, HONG KONG CLUB BUILDING ERIC GODDISON® CHARLES H. GOOGE, JR.* OBERT B. SCHUMER JAMES H. SCHWAB* 3A CHATER ROAD, CENTRAL BRUCE A, G PLA ICHAEL J. SEGAL®* GAINES GWATHMEY, H1* STEPHEN J. SHIMSHAK* WRITER‘S DIRECT E—MAIL ADDRESS HONG KONG ALAN HALPERIN® AVID_R. SICULAR® TELEPHONE (52) 2536—9033 CLAUDIA _HAMMERMAN® MOSES SILVERMAN® pspector@paulweiss.com FACSIMILE (B52) 2536—9622 ALBERT P. HAND®* GERARD E. HARPER STEVEN SIMKIN® ROBERT S. SMITH ROBERT M. HIRSH* MARILYN SOBEL* STEVEN R. HOWARD® AIDAN SYNNOTT® NICHOLAS C. HOWSON® JUDITH R. THOYER®* ALDER CASTLE JEH CHARLES JOHNSON MARK A. UNDERBERG® 10 NOBLE STREET MEREDITH J. KANE® MARIA vULLO® ROBERTA A. KAPLAN® THEODORE V. WELLS, JR LONDON EC2ZV 700U, U.K. BRAD S. KARP® EVEN L. WOLFRAM* TELEPHONE (44 20) 7367 1600 JOHN C. KENNEDY* LISA YANO* RED KINMONTH* RDAN E. YARETT* FACSIMILE (44 20) 7367 1650 ALAN W. KORNBERG ALFRED D. YOUNGWOOD *NOT AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE DC BAR. December 2, 2002 BY HAND Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 — 12th St., S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Re: SES AMERICOM, Inc., Petition for Declaratory Ruling SAT—PDR—20020425—00071 (filed April 25, 2002) Dear Ms. Dortch: On behalf of SES AMERICOM, Inc. ("SES AMERICOM"), we hereby respond to an ex parte filing submitted by DIRECTV, Inc. ("DIRECTV") in the above— referenced docket.‘ The DIRECTV Ex Parte consists of materials presented to Bryan Tramont of the Chairman‘s office in a meeting on November 8, 2002, and addresses SES AMERICOM‘s Petition for Declaratory Ruling related to the USAT—S1 Direct Broadcast Satellite ("DBS") satellite, which will be used to provide the proposed "AMERICOM2Home" service platform." Most of the DIRECTV Ex Parte consists of I Ex Parte Notice, DIRECTV, Inc., File No. SAT—PDR—20020425—00071 (November 12, 2002) (the "DIRECTV Ex Parte"). 2 See SES AMERICOM, Inc., Petition for Declaratory Ruling To Serve the U.S. Market Using BSS Spectrum from the 105.5° W.L. Orbital Location, SAT—PDR—20020425—00071 (filed April 25, 2002) (the "SES AMERICOM Petition"). Doc#: DC1:131594_1

PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND. W HARTON 8 GARRISON Marlene H. Dortch nature of the United Kingdom‘s USAT—S1 filing." In particular, an Argentine filing proposes a satellite with U.S. coverage seven degrees from the DIRECTV satellites at 101° W.L., and INTELSAT proposes a satellite with U.S. coverage less than six degrees from an EchoStar satellite at 61.5° W.L. In any case, such filings do not "poison the are" for existing and future U.S. satellites. As SES AMERICOM has explained in this proceeding, the U.S. BSS Plan assignments are protected via the priority provisions and coordination requirements contained in the ITU Radio Regulations governing the BSS Plans.‘"" DIRECTV also speculated that "SES AMERICOM‘s apparent strategy is to use USAT—S1‘s ITU date priority to force the US to coordinate its later—filed modification, and in the process negotiate the use of USAT—S1 MOD—A‘s transmit beam." ‘‘ DIRECTV suggested that there is no other reason for the USAT—S1 MOD—A filing." As SES AMERICOM has explained, however, the USAT—S1 MOD—A filing was developed to permit coordination of coverage of Alaska and Hawaii, to the extent feasible. Moreover, since coordination and spectrum efficiency are generally optimized between satellites with homogeneous performance and coverage, coordination may well be facilitated by tailoring the coverage patterns more closely to those of U.S. DBS systems."" In particular, the additional flexibility introduced by the later filing may help to address DIRECTV‘s concerns about constraints on its future systems to protect USAT—S1."" Discussions with DIRECTV (and EchoStar) are essential, however, for exploring the possibilities that this filing brings for covering Alaska and Hawaii and for facilitating coordination.‘" It should be noted that SES . AMERICOM made several attempts to meet with DIRECTV even prior to the MOD—A ° iSee ARGSAT—A at 94° W.L.; CAN—BSS1 at 82° W.L.; CAN—BSS2 at 91° W.L.; CANBSS2 at 91° W.L.; CAN—BSS3A at 72.7° W.L.; CAN—BSS3B at 72.3° W.L.; CAN—BSS4A at 129.2° W.L.; CAN—BSS4B at 128.8° W.L.; CAN—BSSS5 at 138° W.L.; INTELSAT KUEXT 304E at 56° W.L.; INTELSAT KUEXT304.5E at 55.5° W.L.; INTELSAT KUEXT 310E at 50° W.L.; MEX—TDH2 at 69.2° W.L.; and MEX—TDHI1A at 77° W.L. All of these modification filings were made prior to the United Kingdom‘s USAT—S1 filing. 10 iSee, eg., SES AMERICOM Reply at 8. N DIRECTV Ex Parte at 8. 12 Td. 13 See SES AMERICOM Reply at 11, n. 36; SES AMERICOM Abelson Letter at 4, n.19. 14 See SES AMERICOM Reply at 11, n.36. 15 See SES AMERICOM Abelson Letter at 4, n.19. Doc#: DCI: 131594_1

a PAUL, WYEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON 8 CGARRISON Marlene H. Dortch Finally, DIRECTV claimed that "SES AMERICOM does not have a satellite license for USAT—S1."* As SES AMERICOM has explained, SES — AMERICOM, through its subsidiary SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Ltd., does have the necessary approval from Gibraltar to employ the orbital location and frequencies for USAT—S1, as specified in the SES AMERICOM Petition."" The significance of the Gibraltar license has been explained in two letters to the Commission from the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority."" These documents demonstrate that the Gibraltar license fully satisfies the Commission‘s rules for U.S. market entry. Respectfully submitted, Phillip L. Spector Attorney for SES AMERICOM, Inc. co: Bryan Tramont Office of the Chairman Donald Abelson Thomas Tycz International Bureau James Barker, Esq. Attorney for DIRECTV Pantelis Michalopoulos, Esq. Attorney for EchoStar 24 DIRECTV Ex Parte at 2. 25 iSee SES AMERICOM Petition at 19—21; SES AMERICOM Reply at 37—42; SES AMERICOM Abelson Letter at 3. 26 iSee Letters to Donald Abelson, Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, from Paul J. Canessa, Chief Executive, Gibraltar Regulatory Authority (April 22, June 25, 2002). Doc#: DC1: 131594_1


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