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Ex PARTE PRESENTATION NOTIFICATION LETTER submitted by Inmarsat Hawaii Inc.

Notice of Ex Parte Presentation

2012-12-21

This document pretains to SES-AMD-20120823-00781 for Amended Filing on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESAMD2012082300781_979089

inmarsat » | Inmarsat Inc. 1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC. 20036 USA December20, 2012 T +1 202—248—5150 F +1 202—248—5177 W inmarsat.com VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 Twelfth Street, S.W. ‘ Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Notice of Ex Parte Presentation; IBFS File Nos. SES—LIC—20120426—00397; SES—AMD—20120823—00781: Call Sign E120072 Dear Ms. Dortch: On Wednesday, December 19, 2012, Diane Cornell and Chris Murphy of Inmarsat, Inc. ("Inmarsat") and Giselle Creeser of GC Consulting Inc., met with the following staff members of the International Bureau regarding the above—captioned application proceedings: Andrea Kelly, Stephen Duall, Paul Blais, Hsing Liu, Alyssa Roberts, and Chip Fleming.1 During the meeting, the attendees discussed a numberof issues relating to Inmarsat‘s proposed application for a gateway earth station license for its planned Global Xpress Ka ‘ band network and market access for its 15 F2 (AOR) satellite that will be located at 55° W.L. Inmarsat provided a general update on the status of the Global Xpress global satellite system development progress, including information about recent partner agreements that have been signed and anticipated demand for the type of services that Global Xpress will provide. Inmarsat indicated that the program deployment continues to be on schedule and that the licenses and authorizations that are under consideration at the Commission continue to be critical for system implementation. | Lino Lakes Earth Station. Inmarsat explained that the Lino Lakes, Minnesota gateway earth station is now well under development and on time for commencement of operations. Inmarsat discussed the pleadings that werefiled in response to the Commission Public Notice and noted that the only party to file against the application was Iridium and that the filing did not provide any technical showing that there were interference concerns with the Lino Lakes earth station. In addition, Inmarsat explained that it is in coordination discussions with Iridium about the Lino Lakes gateway earth station and thatit is hopeful that an agreement ‘ can be reached in the near term. | * Alyssa Roberts and Chip Fleming participated via teleconference.

15 F2 (AOR) Satellite. Inmarsat also discussed the 15 F2 satellite construction status. Inmarsat explained that the satellite construction continues to progress on schedule. Inmarsat also explained that it intends to file a showing that the 15 F2 satellite has met the first three milestones for geostationary satellites under 47 C.F. R. 25.164. Please contact the undersigned if you have any questions regarding this submission. Respectfully yours, Is/ Diane Cornell Chris Murphy ge: Robert Nelson Andrea Kelly Stephen Duall Alyssa Roberts Paul Blais Kathyrn Medley Chip Fleming Hsing Liu Donna Bethea Murphy, Iridium Joseph Godles forIridium David B. Kagan, Globe Wireless LLC Chris Gray, Globe Wireless LLC William J. Gordon, Gogo LLC Robert A. Wirick, American Airlines Will Ris, American Airlines Chris Benich, Honeywell Chris Weissinger, Encompass Digital Media, Inc. Kevin Steen, VT iDirect, Inc. Cynthia Harty, VT iDirect, Inc. Gopi Sundaram, Skyware Global Audrey L. Allison, The Boeing Company Bruce A. Olcott for The Boeing Company Mike Gregg, TracStar Systems Inc., dba Cobham SATCOM John C. Smith, ARINC Incorporated Edward A. Yorkgitis, Jr. For ARINC Incorporated


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