Attachment Joint Response

Joint Response

RESPONSE TO REPLY COMMENTS submitted by "Licensees" & Inmarsat

Joint Response

2007-09-26

This document pretains to SES-STA-20070907-01245 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2007090701245_595808

                                                                                                      Before the
                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                  Washington, DC 20554

In the matter of




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SkyWave Mobile Communications,                                                                          File No. SES—STA—20070907—01250
Inc.

Stratos Communications, Inc.                                                                            File No.   SES—STA—20070907—01 245
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070907—01246
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070907—01247
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070907—01 248
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070907—01249

Vizada Satellite, Inc.                                                                                  File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01239
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01234
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01233
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01236
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01237
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01235
                                                                                                        File No.   SES—STA—20070905—01238


                                       JOINT RESPONSE

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

Vizada 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 the nominal 53° W.L. orbital location ("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 pénding.

               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 pleadings* 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.




!   See, eg., 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 E010011 er 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).
*   See also Opposition of Inmarsat, File No. SES—MFS—20060118—00050, et al. (Mar. 16, 2006).


               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,




       1s/                                              Is/
Keith H. Fagan                                   Diane J. Cornell
Senior Counsel                                   Vice President, Government Affairs
VIZADA 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.

September 26, 2007


                                CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

       I, Jeffrey A. Marks, hereby certify that on this 26‘" day of September, 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*                                     Chip Fleming*
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

Robert Nelson*                                    Roderick Porter®*
International Bureau                              International Bureau
Federal Communications Commission                 Federal Communications Commission
445 12"" Street, S.W.                             445 128" Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554                              Washington, DC 20554


 Cassandra Thomas*                     Jennifer A. Manner
 International Bureau                  Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
 Federal Communications Commission     Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC
 445 12"" Street, S.W.                 1002 Park Ridge Boulevard
 Washington, DC 20554                  Reston, Virginia 20191

 Bruce D. Jacobs
 Tony Lin
 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
 2300 N Street, N.W.
 Washington, DC 20037—1128


~\*Via Electronic Mail



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                                         Jefi‘re'}kh. Marks



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