Attachment Motion

Motion

MOTION submitted by BT Americas, Inc.

Motion to Designate Proceedings As "Permit-but-Disclose"

2007-11-02

This document pretains to SES-STA-20070910-01260 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2007091001260_604386

ORIGINAL Before the Federal Communications Commission FILED/ACCEPTED Washington, D.C. 20554 NOV 2 2007- Federal Communications Cornmission Omce of the Secretary In the matter of ) BT AMERICAS INC. ) File No. SES-STA-20070910-0 1260 MOTION TO DESIGNATE PROCEEDINGS AS “PERMIT-BUT-DISCLOSE” BT Americas Inc. (“BTA”) requests that the Commission designate BTA’s above- captioned request for extension of special temporary authority as “permit-but-disclose” under the Commission’s rules governing ex parte communications. The extension request seeks continuing authority for BTA to offer Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (“BGAN”) service. The Commission recently granted a request by Inmarsat to designate a number of pending proceedings relating to BGAN service, including BTA’s previoius STA extension request, as permit but disclose for exparte purposes.’ Similar treatment is warranted for BTA’s most recent extension request for the reasons presented in the Inmarsat motion. Grant of permit but disclose status here will serve the public interest by facilitating discussion with Commission staff concerning the issues raised by BTA’s BGAN STA request. 47 C.F.R. 8 1.1200 et seq. ’See Motion of Inmarsat Ventures Limited to Designate Proceedings as “Permit-But-Disclose,” File Nos. SES-STA-20070814-01092 etc., grant stamp dated October 10,2007.

For the foregoing reasons, BTA respectfully requests that the Commission classify the above-captioned STA extension requests as “permit-but-disclose” for ex parte rule purposes. Respectfully submitted, BT AMERICAS INC. RV Linda J. Cicco BT Americas Inc. 11440 Commerce Park Drive Reston, VA 20 191 (703) 755-6733 November 2,2007 2

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, LINDA J. CICCO, hereby certify that on this 2nd day of November, 2007, I caused to be served a true copy of the foregoing by first class mail, postage prepaid, (or as otherwise indicated) upon the following: Stephen Duall* Jennifer Hindin International Bureau Chin Yo0 Federal Communications Commission Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP 445 1 2 ' ~Street, S.W. 1776 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20554 Washington, DC 20006 Counselfor Amtech Systems LLC JohnP. Janka Bruce Posey Jeffrey A. Marks Brad Jones LATHAM & WATKINS LLP iPass, Inc. 555 Eleventh Street, N.W. 3800 Bridge Parkway Suite 1000 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Washington, D.C. 20004 Telephone: (202) 637-2200 Lawrence J. Movshin Alfred M. Mamlet Robert G. Morse Marc A. Paul WILKINSON, BARKER KNAUER, LLP Brendan Kasper 2300 N Street NW, Suite 700 STEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP Washington, D.C. 20037 1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW Counsel to MVS USA, Inc. Washington, DC 20036 Counsel to Sky Wave Mobile Communications C o p and Stratos Communications, Inc. Eric Fishman Keith H. Fagan Holland & Knight LLP Senior Counsel 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW VIZADASATELLITE, INC. Washington, DC 20006 1101 Wootton Parkway Counsel for Thrane & Thrane Airtime Ltd. 10th Floor Rockville, MD 20852

Peter Rohrbach Jennifer A. Manner Karis Hastings Vice President, Regulatory Affairs Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary LLC 555 13'h Street, NW 1002 Park Ridge Boulevard Washington, DC 20004 Reston, Virginia 20 191 Telephone: (202) 637-5600 Counsel to VIZADA Services, LLC Bruce D. Jacobs David S. Konczal Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 2300 N Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20037-1 128 Counsel for MSV * Via Electronic Mail Linda J. Cicco 2


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