Letter to FCC re Agr

AGREEMENT submitted by SkyTerra Subsidiary LLC and the U.S. GPS Industry Council

Ex Parte Letter

2009-08-13

This document pretains to SES-MOD-20090429-00536 for Modification on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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August 13, 2009 Via Electronic Filing (IBFS) Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Re: Ex Parte Letter SkyTerra Subsidiary LLC File Nos. SAT-MOD-20090429-00046, SAT-MOD-20090429-00047, SES- MOD-20090429-00536 Dear Ms. Dortch: We are pleased to inform you that, in connection with the above-referenced applications of SkyTerra Subsidiary LLC (“SkyTerra”) to modify its Ancillary Terrestrial Component authorization (the “ATC Modification Application”), the U.S. GPS Industry Council (“Council”) and SkyTerra have agreed on out-of-band emissions (“OOBE”) limits for the operation of low- power base stations with a maximum EIRP of -4 dBW/MHz that are intended to be deployed indoors (“femtocells”) and personal computer (“PC”) data cards communicating with such base stations.1 Specifically, SkyTerra will limit OOBE for femtocells and data cards communicating with such femtocells to less than -114.7 dBW/MHz and -111.7 dBW/MHz in the 1559-1605 MHz band, respectively. These limits are intended to reduce the potential for harmful interference to GPS receivers operating indoors, thereby addressing the concerns expressed by the Council in its Comments regarding the ATC Modification Application.2 SkyTerra and the Council therefore urge the Commission to adopt the OOBE limits set forth in this letter as a license condition to the grant of the ATC Modification Application. 1 The reference to “PC data cards” is intended to mean RF devices that work in conjunction with a PC or laptop computer, including external PC devices, such as USB modems, Type II PC cards, and ExpressCards, and internal PC devices that provide the same data communications functionality as such external devices. The reference is not intended to include handsets that are capable of voice and data transmissions independent of a PC, even if such device could function as an external PC modem. 2 See Comments of the U.S. GPS Industry Council (July 10, 2009). The Council is separately filing a letter withdrawing its Comments, as a result of this agreement. 401365679v3

Please direct any questions regarding this matter to the undersigned. Respectfully submitted, SkyTerra Subsidiary LLC The U.S. GPS Industry Council By: /s/ By: /s/ Bruce D. Jacobs Raul R. Rodriguez Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Leventhal Senter PLLC 2300 N Street, NW 2000 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Washington, DC 20006-1809 Counsel for SkyTerra Subsidiary LLC Counsel for the U.S. GPS Industry Council cc (via email): William Bell Howard Griboff Kathyrn Medley Robert Nelson 2 401365679v3

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Renee Williams, a secretary with the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, hereby certify that on this 13th day of August 2009, I served a true copy of the foregoing by first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, upon the following: Tom Houtman Jennifer D. Hindin Director, Product Development Carl R. Frank SkyWave Mobile Communications, Inc. Colleen King SkyWave Mobile Communications, Corp. Wiley Rein LLP 1145 Innovation Drive, Suite 288 1776 K Street NW Ottawa, Ontario Washington, DC 20006 Canada K2K 3G8 Counsel for Amtech Systems LLC Diane J. Cornell John P. Janka Inmarsat, Inc. Latham & Watkins LLP 1101 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 555 Eleventh Street, NW Suite 1200 Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036 Washington, DC 20004-1304 Counsel for Inmarsat, Inc. /s/ Renee Williams


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