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This document pretains to SES-REG-20181113-03779 for Earth Station Registration on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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Champion Teleport Inc is the surviving entity of AlphaStar. AlphaStar was one of the first four original satellite TV broadcasting companies. The company was established in 1995 and has a full-service Fixed-Satellite Service FSS earth station using C band, Ku band, Ka-band, and Microwave as well as C band and Ku Mobile Trucks. Because of the long history of the company, it accumulated thousands of clients in the USA and abroad. The company also has affiliations with other FSS earth stations in the USA and abroad and is in the process of acquiring one additional FSS earth station. The main business of the company in C band is ON DEMAND satellite service for back up, backhauling, disasters recovery, emergencies and events, national, regional and local. Sometimes Broadband and TV serviced were offered to remote and rural areas. The services cover the entire USA market and almost every city in the country. Services were provided to government, business and consumer. Because it is ON DEMAND services, the clients can utilize the services as needed when needed for the year(s)), month (S) week( s) day(s) and of the hour(s). Rarely does the client plans or budget in advance for our services since he uses us or others FSS earth stations as needed or in emergencies Also, small operators like us cannot predict who are their clients in the future, typically needs for ON DEMAND services are not always known in advance. Champion Teleport, INC is a small FSS earth station business which services mostly small business and remote as well as the rural market. The requirement by the FCC to register C band receive only dishes for the ON DEMAND satellite services faces resistance by our clients. This requirement could lead to the demise of ON DEMAND sector of satellite services. Major operators are more expensive and are not usually willing to accept ON DEMAND services nor are they equipped and trained to do it. Frankly many hassles for major players for this huge number of transactions. This does not mean the market is small, it is only unpredictable and involved small transactions. It is difficult to get an ON DEMAND client to register C band receive only dishes. They are not willing to spend the money or the time to register. Also, they would not want a given FSS earth station to register for them to avoid being tied to them. If the ON DEMAND clients do not register their C band dishes by the deadline imposes by the FCC, small FSS earth stations will not have a future business as we can not guarantee protection from interference. This is a dilemma the FCC should consider regarding the small FSS earth stations operators like ourselves who offer on ON DEMAND services The FCC should ask three questions and hopefully answer them positively First, does the FCC wants to protect the small FSS earth station segment of the satellite industry

Second, does the FCC wants to protect the ON DEMAND satellite services? Third, what to do with future and unpredictable ON DEMAND clients, should they be protected or left open to interference. The current clients will not accept interference nor would the future clients. We have listed some of current and our prior clients addresses for C band on demand services. The remaining ON DEMAND FCC earth stations are very few probably two dozens and giving protection to their current and future clients should not have an appreciable impact. Some information in the attached forms regarding the locations and other specifications are coming from third parties at their own discretion. We have not considered or added future clients to our list as we cannot determine who they are. The information provided in the forms included is to the best of our knowledge and is provided on a good faith basis and it is subject to corrections if needed. Please give the small FSS earth stations providing on ON DEMAND services a chance to survive.


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