Attachment Ex Parte

Ex Parte

LETTER submitted by Richard A. Zyvoloski

letter

2006-05-26

This document pretains to SES-STA-20060316-00454 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2006031600454_528081

RECEIVED s« . «.ORIGINAL MSV NOV 2 7 2006 ferii Mobile Satellte Ventures i> Sateite Diston IntornationalBureau November 22, 2006 Via Hand Delivery FILED/ACCEPTED Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Srroms Nov 22 2006 Federal Communications Commission FodenlConmnestrs Commsoen 445 12th Strees, S.W. sufiey Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Pending Applications to Operate with an Uncoordinated Inmarsat Satellite File Numbers Attached as Exhibit A Dear Ms. Dortch: To date,the Intemational Bureau ("Bureau") has granted Special Temporary Authority ("STA") for the operation of30,000 Broadband Global Area Network ("BGAN®) terminals in the United States." Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC (MSV") has opposed the grant of applications to operate BGAN terminals due to the potential that their use on uncoordinated Inmarsatsatelltes will cause harmful interference to MSV‘s licensed operations." Recently, it has come to light hat Inmarsat has onl5,547 BGAN subscribers worldwide, the vast majority of which presumably operate outside the United States," This new information helps to demonstrate that: () any absence of interference from BGAN operations to date demonstrates nothing regarding the potentialinterference that will resultif more and more BGAN terminals are operated in the future; and (i) Inmarsatand its distributors have greatly exaggerated the demand for the BGAN service. Since grant of the BGAN $TAs, Inmarsat and itsdistributors have contended that BGAN service has been provided in the United States without interference.". Inmarsat and its distributors, however, have never revealed how many of the 30,000 BGAN terminals authorized ! See, eg., Stratos Communications, Ic., Request for Special Temporary Authority, File No. SES—STA—20060310—00419 (filed March 10, 2006; granted with conditions on May 12, 2006) * See, eg., Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC, Petition to Hold in Abeyance, File No. SES—LRS—20060303—00343, File No. SES—AMD—200603 16—00448 (Call Sign EO60076) (April 14, 2006). * See Exhibit B, ataching excerpts from Inmarsat Group Limited‘s Form 6—K filed with the SEC on November 15, 2006, available at hitps/fwwwsee.gouArchives/edgar/data/1291398/0001 19312506235898/0001 193 125—06.— 235898—index hm * See Inmarsat Ventures Limited, Reply, File No. SES—STA—20061019—01868 (Call Sign £O60179) (November 8, 2006), at 1, 2.


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