Attachment letter

This document pretains to SES-STA-20031209-01841 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2003120901841_353480

                          Federal Communications Commission
                                Washington, D.C. 20554
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                                                                           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



Document Created: 2003-12-12 12:03:27
Document Modified: 2003-12-12 12:03:27

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