Attachment letter

letter

LETTER

letter

2005-08-11

This document pretains to SAT-STA-20050601-00113 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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a ORIGINAL on sareuire Receiveq Cc July 29, 2008 08 1 1 sup5 ; Hand Delivery Via i Polcy &r, [rmisel Ms. Cassandra C. Thomas AEcEIVEp . ’:n""fllsursau Acting Chief, Satellite Division f CC International Bureau m Federal Communications Commission 29 2005 445 12" Street, SW Fedent Contunicate Washington, DC 20054 Buus .og.Pnntttn RE: XM Radio Inc. Request for STA to Operate In—Store SDARS Signal Boosters File No. SAT—STA—20050601—00113 Dear Ms. Thomas: On June 1, 2005, XM Radio Inc. ("XM®) filed the above—captioned request for Special ‘Temporary Authority ("STA") to operate up to 5000 in—store signal boosters in adition to the 5000 that have already been authorized. XM herein responds to the questions it received from the Commission on July 14, 2005 regarding this request." 1) XM and Sitius have installed and are operating approximately 3210 in—store signal boosters. A large number of additional boosters are either in the process of being delivered to or installed in stores. XM and Sirius expect the deployment rate to level off after mid—2006 to approximately 8—10% per year. 2): Of the additional 5000 in—store signal boosters for which XM and Sirius have sought authority in their June 2008 STA requests, approximately 3000 will use the newly— developed single receive antenna configuration and 2000 will use the already—authorized dual—receive antenna configuration. The choice of which antenna to use is determined on a store—by—store basis. XM and Sirius do not currently plan to replace any already— deployed in—store boosters with the single receive anterna configuration. 3): XM and Sirius estimate that approximately 4000 of the new in—store signal boosters will be deployed over the next two years. XM and Sirius expect that the total number of in— store signal boosters (Ze., the number of already deployed in—store signal boosters plus ‘ See Letter from Cassandra C. Thomas, FCC to William Bailey, XM, File No. SAT—STA— 20050601—001 13 (Fuly 14, 2003). wsecersnseameesin mm mo tm reise nts . q ceeent * hm « on

Ms. Cassandra C. Thomas Acting Chief, Satellite Division July 29, 2008 Page2 the number of new in—store signal boosters) will exeeed approximately 8500 within the next two years. Please contact the undersigned with any questions regarding this matter. Very truly yours, oo on William Bailey Senior Vice President, Regulatory and Government Affairs ee: Stephen Duall, CC


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