Attachment ex parte

ex parte

Ex PARTE PRESENTATION NOTIFICATION LETTER submitted by TELESAT

ex parte

2004-06-21

This document pretains to SAT-STA-20030903-00300 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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EX PARTE OR &AT%FILED ORIGINAL Wiley Rein &Fielding LLP JL J \.I RECEIVED - - Bert W. Rein 1776 K STREET NW June 7,2004 202.719.7080 WASHINGTON, OC 20006 brein@wrf.com PHONE 202.719.7000 FAX 202.719.7049 Virginia Office 7925 JONES BRANCH DRIVE Federal Communications Commission SUITE 6200 445 12th Street. SW McLEAN, VA 22102 *- ‘‘1Y dQflch PHONE 703.905.2800 Washington, DC 20554 ‘i-8 ‘t3rn~fio,, FAX 703.905.2820 a’hreau Re: DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC, Request for Special Temporary Authority to Relocate DIRECTV 3 to 82” W.L. and To Conduct Telemetry, Tracking and www.wrf.com Command (“TTAC”) Operations for an Interim Period, File No. SAT-STA- 20030903-00300 Dear Ms. Dortch: Telesat Canada (“Telesat”), by its attorneys, pursuant to Section 1.1206 of the rules of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”),’ provides this notice of an oral ex parte presentation in the above-referenced proceeding in which DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC (“DIRECTV”) seeks special temporary authority to relocate the DIRECTV 3 satellite to the Canadian 82” W.L. broadcast satellite service orbital location. i On June 4,2004, Bert W. Rein of Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, counsel to Telesat Canada (“Telesat”), had a phone conversation with Roderick Porter, Deputy Chief, International Bureau, FCC. The purpose of the call was to reiterate Telesat’s immediate customer need for prompt grant of the long pending STA request. During the call, the participants discussed the provision in Telesat’s and DIRECTV’s commercial arrangement that requires Telesat to return the DIRECTV 3 satellite to DIRECTV in the event that DIRECTV experiences two catastrophic failures with its satellite system. Telesat explained that this “repatriation” provision is of commercial, not regulatory, significance. Specifically, the parties decision to include in the commercial arrangement of a highly contingent return of the satellite from a Canadian orbital location to a U.S. orbital location should not impede with regulatory approval of the initial transfer where, as here, that transfer would be approvable without the “repatriation” provision. I 47 C.F.R. $1.1206.

Wdey Rein & Fielding LLP Ms. Marlene H. Dortch June 7,2004 Page 2 Should you have any questions, please contact the undersigned counsel for Telesat. Thank you. Sincerely, Bert W. Rein cc: Roderick Porter, IB Karl Kensinger, IB


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