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2006-03-21

This document pretains to SES-STA-20060307-00375 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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    BY HAND                                                              New Jersey      Washington, D.C.

    Marlene H. Dortch
                                            wdaral Communications CommissKx.
    Secretary                                      Affice of Secratery
    Federal Communications Commission
    445 12th Street, S.W.
    Washington, DC 20554

    Re:     Satamatics, Inc., File No. SES—STA—20060307—00373

            Stratos Communications, Inc., File Nos. SES—STA—20060307—00374; SES—STA—
            20060307—00375; SES—STA—20060307—00376; SES—STA—20060307—00377; SES—STA—
            20060307—00378

            SkyWave Mobile Communications, Inc., File No. SES—STA—20060307—00372

            Telenor Satellite Inc., File Nos. SES—STA—20060308—00384; SES—STA—20060308—
            00385; SES—STA—20060308—00386; SES—STA—20060308—00387; SES—STA—20060308—
            00388; SES—STA—20060308—00389; SES—STA—20060308—00390; SES—STA—20060308—
            00391; SES—STA—20060308—00392

    Dear Ms. Dortch:

                   Inmarsat‘s March 16, 2006 Reply in these proceedings did not reflect all of the
    file numbers listed above. Inmarsat therefore resubmits its Reply correcting the file numbers and
    respectfully requests that the Commission include the attached Reply in each of the above—
    captioned dockets.

                   Please contact the undersigned with any questions concerning this matter.

                                                 Respectfully submitted,



                                                 John P. Janka
                                                                    A
                                                 Jeffrey A. Marks


    cc:   Jennifer Manner, MSV
          Bruce D. Jacobs, David S. Konczal, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP


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                                                                                                                                                                                   CORRECTED
                                                                                                                                                                                  March 21, 2006

                                                 Before the
                            FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                     Washington, DC 20554

     In re:   Satamatics, Inc.                                                                                                                            File No. SES—STA—20060307—00373




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              Stratos Communications, Inc.                                                                                                                File No.   SES—STA—20060307—00374
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060307—00375
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060307—00376
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060307—00377
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060307—00378

              SkyWave Mobile Communications, Inc.                                                                                                         File No. SES—STA—20060307—00372

              Telenor Satellite Inc.                                                                                                                      File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00384
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00385
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00386
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00387
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00388
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00389
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00390
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00391
                                                                                                                                                          File No.   SES—STA—20060308—00392

                             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


                                                                                   CORRECTED
                                                                                   March 21, 2006

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.‘ 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.*

               Inmarsat thus urges the Bureau to extend the STAs without any new conditions.

                                                   Respectfully submitted,



                                                     Is/
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




   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.
   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.").


                                                                                   CORRECTED
                                                                                  March 21, 2006

                                 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 12"" Street, S.W.                             445 12"" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                               Washington, DC 20554

Cassandra Thomas*                                 Scott Kotler®
International Bureau                              International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission                 Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, S.W.                             445 12‘ Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                              Washington, DC 20554

Howard Griboff*                                   Karl Kensinger*
International Bureau                              International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission                 Federal Communications Commission
445 12" Street, S.W.                              445 12"" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                              Washington, DC 20554

Roderick Porter*®                                 Gardner Foster®
International Bureau                              International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission                 Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, S.W.                             445 12"" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                              Washington, DC 20554

Fern Jarmulnek*                                   John Martin*
International Bureau                              International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission                 Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, S.W.                             445 12"" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                              Washington, DC 20554

Robert Nelson*                                    JoAnn Ekblad*
International Bureau                              International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission                 Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, S.W.                             445 12"" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                              Washington, DC 20554


                                                                      CORRECTED
                                                                     March 21, 2006

Stephen Duall*                         Richard Engelman*
International Bureau                   International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission      Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, S.W.                  445 12"" 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



                                                 Is/
                                         Jeffrey A. Marks



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