Attachment Letter

Letter

REQUEST FOR SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION submitted by FCC

Letter

2003-12-12

This document pretains to SES-LIC-20011130-02259 for License on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESLIC2001113002259_348890

Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 t t I t % * U P I In reply, please reference: Call Sign E01 0332 File Number: SESLIC2001113002259 December 12,2003 Maritime Telecommunications Network, Inc. c/o Raul Rodriguez Leventhal Senter & Lerman PLLC Suite 600,2000 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Telephone: 202-429-8970 Dear Mr. Rodriguez, After consideration of your letter of November 13, 2003, we are modifying and reissuing our earlier request for additional information, as follows: In order to complete the review of Maritime Telecommunications Network’s application for operation on vessels in the Ku Band, we require the following information within 30 days of the date of this letter, Failure to do so may result in dismissal of the application: Points of Communication Identification of specific points of communication by satellite name and by orbital location. Any number of points of communication may be identified. Use of ALSAT is not acceptable for the type of operation for which you are seeking authorization Muting Please clarify that emissions will cease if a correction of more than 0.5 degrees in the pointing direction of the antenna is required to maintain lock on the satellite. You should respond to this question by preparing an engineering showing that provides compelling evidence that the antenna tracking, pointing and control system will cause transmissions to cease if pointing error exceeds 0.50 degrees and not resume until pointing error is within 0.20 degrees. Affidavits Please either: Provide an affidavit or declaration from the operator of each satellite adjacent to and within six degrees of the points of communication identified by the applicant, attesting or declaring that each such operator is aware of and acknowledges the applicant’s proposed operation in the Ku Band, and does not object to that operation. or take the following actions:

1. Prepare an interference analysis for the earth stations and the antennas for which you are seeking authorization that shows that the proposed operations are compatible with adjacent satellite operations, and serve a copy of this analysis on operators of potentially affected satellites adjacent to and within six degrees of the satellite providing space segment services to the ESV applicant, under cover of a notice; 2. In the cover notice, notify potentially affected adjacent operators of your understanding that your proposed operation will be consistent with the satellite system coordination agreements between your segment provider and such adjacent satellite operators; 3. In the cover notice, clearly notify the recipient that the recipient’s failure to reply within 30 calendar days from the date of notice will be construed as assent to the grant of the applicant’s ESV earth station application; 4. File the correspondence prepared in accord with 1-3 above as a supplement to the application already on file, so that the Commission may place the supplement filing on .. public notice for a period of 30 days. 24 Hour Contact The name and telephone number of a contact person in the United States, available seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, for cessation of emissions in the event of need to resolve interference issues. Subiect to Outcome of Rule Making Acknowledgement that any license will be subject to the outcome of any future Rule Making. We note that applicant has petitioned for appropriate waiver of Section 2.106 of the Commission’s rules, for non-conforming use of FSS frequency bands for an ESV application. We note that you, in a letter filed with the Commission on June 14, 2002, provided a statement attesting that the maximum pointing error is within 0.2 degrees, under normal operating conditions. Please file your response, in accord with Part 1 of the Commission’s rules, with Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20554 and copy me. Sincerely, W L C G Wm Howden, Chief, Systems Analysis Branch, Satellite Division


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