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2007-10-31

This document pretains to SES-STA-20071010-01406 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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In the matter of                                       )
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Satamatics, Inc. Request for Renewal of                ) File No. SES—STA—20071010—01406
Special Temporary Authority                            )
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       MOTION TO DESIGNATE PROCEEDING AS "PERMIT—BUT—DPISCLOSE."

                   Satamatics, Inc. ("Satamatics") requests that the Commission designate File No.

 SES—STA—20071010—01406 as "permit—but—disclose" under the Commission‘s rules governing ex

parte communications.‘ This proceeding involves an earth station application to offer Inmarsat

 services in the United States.

                   The ex parte tules provide that "[w}here the public interest so requires in a

 particular proceeding, the Commission and its staff retain the discretion to modify the applicable

 ex parte tules by order, letter or public notice."" A change in the status to permit—but—disclose in

 this proceeding clearly is warranted in light of the issues raised, and in order to harmonize the

 status of this proceeding with that of numerous pending proceedings that also involve the

 applications to provide Inmarsat services, and which the Commission already has designated

 permit—but—disclose.

                   Virtually all pending applications seeking authority to provide Inmarsat services

 have been opposed by Mobile Satellite Ventures, Inc. ("MSV"). The Commission routinely has

 granted permit—but—disclose status in considering similar applications to provide Inmarsat
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services, finding the change in ex parte status "will facilitate resolution of the complex policy

issues raised in the application.‘" n3 As in the other currently pending proceedings to provide

Inmarsat services, permit—but—disclose status in File No. SES—STA—20071010—01406 would serve

the public interest by facilitating discussion with Commission staff to address the issues raised in

this proceeding.

               For the foregoing reasons, Satamatics respectfully requests that the Commission

designate the ex parte status of this proceeding as "permit—but—disclose."

                                                    Respectfully submitted,




                                                    Alfred M. Mamlet               7
                                                    Marc A. Paul
                                                    Brendan Kasper
                                                    StEPTOE & JOHNSON LLP
                                                    1330 Connecticut Ave., NW.
                                                    Washington, D.C. 20036
                                                    Telephone: (202) 429—3000


October 11, 2007




* See, eg., Public Notice, Rep. No. SES—00955 (rel. Aug. 15, 2007) (granting motion seeking
  permit—but—disclose status for application to provide Inmarsat services); Public Notice, Rep.
  No. SES—00894 (rel. Jan. 24, 2007) (same); Public Notice, Rep. No. SES—00825 (rel. May 31,
  2006) (same, with regard to 18 separate applications); Public Notice, Rep. No. SES—00807
  (rel, Mar. 29, 2006) (same, with regard to three separate applications).


                                CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

        I, Brendan Kasper, an attorney with the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, hereby
certify that on this 11th day of October 2007, I served a true copy of the foregoing Motion to
Designate Proceeding as "Permit—But—Disclose" by first class mail, postage pre—paid (or as
otherwise indicated) upon the following:


Stephen Duall*                                    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                                   Diane J. Cornell
Tony Lin                                          Vice President, Government Affairs
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP               Inmarsat, Inc.
2300 N Street, N.W.                                1101 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20037—1128                         Washington DC 20036

John P. Janka
Jeffrey A. Marks
Latham & Watkins LLP
555 Eleventh Street, N.W., Suite 1000
Washington, D.C. 20004



* By electronic mail




                                                     Brendan Kasper                7



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