Attachment Question 43a

This document pretains to SES-MFS-20130424-00334 for Modification w/ Foreign Satellite (earth station) on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESMFS2013042400334_993897

                               RESPONSE TO QUESTION 43a

        With respect to the geographic service requirements in Section 25.148(c) of the
Commission’s rules,1 DBS service to Alaska and Hawaii is not technically feasible from the 77°
W.L. orbital location, as the Commission recognized in granting EchoStar’s request for authority
to transfer the EchoStar 8 satellite to QuetzSat for re-flagging under Mexican authority.2




1
    47 C.F.R. § 25.148(c).
2
    See Radio Station Authorization, File No. SAT-T/C-20090217-00026 (granted Sept. 17, 2010).



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