Attachment Joint Response

Joint Response

REPLY submitted by Skywave, Stratos and Telenor

Joint Response

2007-05-31

This document pretains to SES-STA-20070514-00650 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2007051400650_570664

                                        Before the
                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                  Washington, DC 20554

In the matter of




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Skywave Mobile Communications, Inc.                                                                           File No. SES—STA—20070516—00666

Stratos Communications Inc.                                                                                   File No.   SES—STA—20070514—00648
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070514—00649
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070514—00650
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070514—00652
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070514—00653

Telenor Satellite Inc.                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00587
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00591
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00592
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00595
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00597
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00600
                                                                                                              File No.   SES—STA—20070509—00601


                                       JOINT RESPONSE

               Skywave Mobile Communications, Inc., Stratos Communications Inc., and

Telenor Satellite Inc. (together, the "Licensees") and Inmarsat Ventures Limited ("Inmarsat")

respond to the comments of Mobile Satellite Ventures LLC ("MSV*") on these requests for

special temporary authority ("STA") to continue provision of longstanding Inmarsat services

using the Inmarsat—4 satellite at 53° W.L. ("I—4").

               MSV does not oppose grant of the STAs, nor does it claim that the transition of

longstanding services from an earlier generation Inmarsat spacecraft to I—4 has adversely affected

the interference environment. Indeed, by all accounts, each Licensee has fully complied with the

conditions of its STA, including the requirement that it operate on a non—harmful interference

basis. Thus, there is no reason that the Commission should not renew these STAs to provide


Inmarsat services pursuant to the terms on which the Licensees have been providing these

services while their underlying applications for "full" authority remain pending.

               Nevertheless, MSV suggests that the Commission modify the conditions

applicable to the Licensees‘ STAs to: (1) exclude from the STA renewals certain frequency

bands that are the subject of an international dispute between Inmarsat and MSV ("Disputed

Spectrum"); and (2) "establish a firm expiration date for these STAs" if Inmarsat and MSV have

not entered a new international spectrum coordination agreement. The Licensees and Inmarsat

already have fully responded to these suggestions of MSV on multiple occasions, including, but

not limited to: (i) in earlier STA proceedings;‘ and (ii) in joint pleadings2 opposing requests by

MSV to exclude the Disputed Spectrum from existing authorizations and to impose conditions in

granting pending applications." Because these issues have been fully briefed, and in the interest

of conserving Commission resources, the Licensees and Inmarsat incorporate their earlier

pleadings by reference for inclusion in the record here.




    iSee, e.g., Joint Reply, File Nos. SES—STA—20060710—01131 et al. (Aug. 1, 2006); Reply of
    Inmarsat Ventures Limited, File Nos. SES—STA—20060511—00788 et al. (May 31, 2006);
    Joint Opposition, SES—STA—20060511—00790 et al. (May 31, 2006).
*   Joint Letter to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, Call Signs EQ10011 et al. (Jul. 6, 2006) (responding
    to MSV‘s letter request that the Commission exclude certain frequency bands from existing
    authorizations to provide Inmarsat services); Joint Letter to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, File
    Nos. SES—MFS—20051122—01614 et al. (Jul. 6, 2006) (responding to MSV‘s request to add
    three conditions to pending applications to communicate with I—4).
3   See also Opposition of Inmarsat, File No. SES—MFS—20060118—00050, et al. (Mar. 16, 2006)
    (responding to MSV‘s Petition to Hold in Abeyance Telenor Satellite Inc.‘s application to
    provide non—BGAN Inmarsat service over I—4).


               For these reasons, the Licensees and Inmarsat urge the Bureau to grant the

requested STAs subject only to the conditions pursuant to which the Licensees currently provide

Inmarsat services.

                                                 Respectfully submitted,




       Is/                                              Is/
Keith H. Fagan                                   Diane J. Cornell
Senior Counsel                                   Vice President, Government Affairs
TELENOR SATELLITE, INC.                          INMARSAT, INC.
1101 Wootton Parkway                             1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW
10th Floor                                       Suite 1200
Rockville, MD 20852                              Washington, DC 20036


       Is/
Alfred M. Mamlet
Marc A. Paul
Brendan Kasper
STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP
1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Counsel to SkyWave Mobile Communications
Corp. and Stratos Communications, Inc.

May 31, 2007


                                CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

       I, Jeffrey A. Marks, hereby certify that on this 31° day of May, 2007, I caused to be

served a true copy of the foregoing "Joint Response," by first class mail, postage pre—paid (or as

otherwise indicated) upon the following:

James Ball*                                        Stephen Duall*
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

JoAnn Ekblad*                                     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

Gardner Foster*                                   Howard Griboff*
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*                                   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

Karl Kensinger*                                   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

John Martin*                                      Robert Nelson*
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*                      Cassandra Thomas*
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

Bruce D. Jacobs                       Jennifer A. Manner
Tony Lin                              Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP   Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC
2300 N Street, NW.                    1002 Park Ridge Boulevard
Washington, DC 20037—1128             Reston, Virginia 20191


*Via Electronic Mail



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