Attachment Reply

This document pretains to SES-STA-20060307-00373 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, DC 20554 In re: Satamatics, Inc. ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) Stratos Communications, Inc. ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) SkyWave Mobile Communications, Inc. ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) Telenor Satellite Inc. ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 ) File No. SES-STA-200600307-00373 REPLY OF INMARSAT VENTURES LIMITED Inmarsat Ventures Limited (“Inmarsat”) replies to the comments of Mobile Satellite Ventures LLC (“MSV”) on these requests to extend the term of existing special temporary authority (“STA”) to continue to provide longstanding Inmarsat services. Significantly, MSV does not oppose an extension of these STAs. Nor does MSV raise any interference concerns. Moreover, by all accounts, Stratos, SkyWave, Satamatics and Telenor have complied with all of the terms and conditions of their existing STAs. Thus, there is no reason these STAs should not be extended. The only issue MSV raises is the same one it has raised many times before in other contexts—MSV’s desire to obtain the right to use certain additional segments of the L- Band. Contrary to MSV’s assertions, there is nothing “extraordinary” or “temporary” about

Inmarsat’s current use of those band segments over its global MSS network. They are the very same band segments that Inmarsat has been using for years, and that Inmarsat needs to continue to use in order to serve commercial and United States Government customers both here and abroad. The facts are that (i) MSV does not “own” any L-Band spectrum, or have any L- Band spectrum to “loan” to or “recall” from Inmarsat, and (ii) in any event, this is not the proper venue for resolving the international spectrum dispute that MSV raises.1 Moreover, in contrast with Inmarsat’s intention to maintain the “status quo” during the pendency of that spectrum dispute, it should not be lost that MSV seeks to increase its spectrum holdings (at Inmarsat’s expense) without MSV providing the substantiation, or participating in the international negotiations, that longstanding Commission policy mandates must first occur.2 Inmarsat thus urges the Bureau to extend the STAs without any new conditions. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Diane J. Cornell John P. Janka Vice President, Government Affairs Jeffrey A. Marks INMARSAT, INC. LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 1100 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1425 555 Eleventh Street, N.W. Arlington, VA 22209 Suite 1000 Telephone: (703) 647 4767 Washington, D.C. 20004 Telephone: (202) 637-2200 March 16, 2006 1 Because these issues have been fully briefed many times before, Inmarsat incorporates by reference its prior submissions. See, e.g., Opposition of Inmarsat Ventures Limited, File No. SES-LFS-20050930-01352, et seq. (filed Dec. 7, 2005) at 9-17. 2 See FCC Hails Historic Agreement on International Satellite Coordination, Rep. No. IN 96- 16 (rel. Jun. 25, 1996) (“Spectrum allocations to individual operators will be reviewed annually on the basis of actual usage and short-term projections of future need.”). 2

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Jeffrey A. Marks, hereby certify that on this 16th day of March, 2006, I caused to be served a true copy of the foregoing “Reply of Inmarsat Ventures Limited,” by first class mail, postage pre-paid (or as otherwise indicated) upon the following: James Ball* Andrea Kelly* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554 Cassandra Thomas* Scott Kotler* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554 Howard Griboff* Karl Kensinger* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554 Roderick Porter* Gardner Foster* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554 Fern Jarmulnek* John Martin* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554 Robert Nelson* JoAnn Ekblad* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554

Stephen Duall* Richard Engelman* International Bureau International Bureau Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20554 Keith H. Fagan Jennifer A. Manner Telenor Satellite, Inc. Vice President, Regulatory Affairs 1001 Wootton Parkway Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC Rockville, MD 20852 1002 Park Ridge Boulevard Reston, Virginia 20191 Bruce D. Jacobs Alfred M. Mamlet David S. Konczal Marc A. Paul Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Brendan Kasper 2300 N Street, N.W. STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP Washington, DC 20037-1128 1330 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20036-1795 Ani Tourian Brian Hester SkyWave Mobile Communications, Corp. Satamatics, Inc. 30 Edgewater Street, Suite 110 P.O. Box 393 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Buckeystown, MD 21717 *Via Electronic Mail /s/ Jeffrey A. Marks 2


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