Attachment 20150427110311.pdf

20150427110311.pdf

DECISION submitted by IB-FCC

Grant

2015-04-21

This document pretains to SES-STA-20150407-00197 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2015040700197_1086327

1B2015000641 E960474 SES—STA—20150407—00197 Omnitracs, LLC. Approved by OMB 3060—0678 APPLICATION FOR EARTH STATION SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY APPLICANT INFORMATIONEnter a description of this application to identify it on the main menu: Omnitracs STA 1. Applicant Name: Omnitracs,LLC. Phone Number: 858—795—3095 DBA Name: Fax Number: 858—784—1576 Street: 717 N. Harwood Street E—Mail: scadirci@omnitracs.com Suite 1300 City: Dallas State: TX Country: USA Zipcode: 75201 — Attention: Sally Cadirci | File# SEJ—S1¢— 206227—20147 Call Sign EMKOGI C —ntDate O4/2a//zers" {or otheridentifier) | GranTeD s | International Bureau Approved: _///{/4 wl e csmm " m A,.,-Am.—"—‘—.‘.__—'wl

Conditions: Applicant: Omnitracks, LLC File No.: SES—STA—20150407—00197 Call Sign: E960474 Omnitracks, LLC is granted special temporary authority, for 60days, to operate its mobile earth stations with the Permitted List satellites, in the 14018.712—14033.288 MHz, 14090.085—14100.085 MHz, 14200—14450 MHz (Earth—to—space) and the 11700—12200 MHz (space to Earth) frequency bands under the remote control of a new hub station at 2055 Flavelle Boulevard, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada under the following conditions. 1. Operations under this STA shall not cause harmful interference to; or claim protection from; any other lawfully operating station. Operations must cease immediately upon notice interference. 2. Grant of this authorization is without prejudice to any determination that the Commission may make regarding pending applications or future requests for special temporary authority. 3. Any action taken or expense incurred as a result of operations pursuant to this STA is solely Omnitracks, LLC‘s risk. 4. This action is issued pursuant to Section 0.261 of the Commission‘s rules on delegated authority, 47 C.F.R. § 0.261, and is effective immediately. Petitions for reconsideration under Section 1.106 or applications for review under Sections 1.115 of the Commission‘s rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 1.106, 1.115, may be filed within thirty days of the date of the public notice indicating that this action was taken. qt s a ’3 42 w,/{ gowodi Le85 » sessmmPolse«0t—c0lth. $ File 2r/29(5¢ Call Sign E0 ¢g4_ »niDae C4 :if,lfl,- S (or other identif Term Dates , £ 4 GRANTED ¥rrer enmms PS — ctape ercan en un fnaoeraa es International Bureau eteaAevingrem

EXHIBIT A DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED SPECIAL TEMPORARY OPERATIONS Pursuant to Section 25.120 of the Commission‘s rules,‘ Omnitracs, LLC ("Omnitracs") requests a special temporary authorization ("STA") for a 60—day period to permit flexibility to operate mobile earth stations authorized in the 11.7—12.2 GHz (downlink) and 14.0;14.5 GHz (uplink) frequency bands ("Ku band") under an existing license (Call Sign E960474 or "Boatracs license"), consistent with technical parameters specified under either the existing Boatracs license or the license modification application concurrently filed herewith ("Modification Application"). Proposed Boatracs License Modifications. In its Modification Application, Omnitracs requested the following license modifications: (1) the addition of a new remote kcontrol/hub station to the remote contrql/hub stations specified in the existing Boatracs license—i.e., Canadian—licensed remote control/hub station (Call Sign €CZ294) at 2055 Flavelle Boulevard, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada LSK 1Z8, Telephone: (905) 403—2114; and (2) the modification of the specific operating frequencies listed on the existing Boatracs license to include 14018.712—14033.288 MHz and 14090.085—14100.085 MHz for uplinks (transmit mode) (in addition to the currently licensed 14200.000—14450.000 MHz) and 12066.375—12069.375 MHz, 11957.500—11960.500 MHz, and 11710.500— 11713.500 MHz for downlinks (receive mode) (all of which are included within the currently licensed 11700.000—12200.000 MHz band for downlinks). 47 C.F.R. § 25.120.

Omnitracs further stated that all other technical parameters specified under the existing Boatracs license will remain the same. This STA application requests authority for Omnitracs to begin operation of the Boatracs MESs pursuant to the technical parameters set forth in the Modification Application to facilitate the transition of the Boatracs customers from Omnitracs to Shaw Satellite Services Inc. ("Shaw") as set forth below. Transition ofBoatracs Customers from Omnitracs to Shaw. On or about May 31, 2015, Omnitracs plans to discontinue service to the end—user customers served by the Boatracs license. Upon the service discontinuance, the customers will be migrated to Shaw, the proposed assignee of the Boatracs license pursuant to a separate license assignment application that the Commission recently placed on public notice ("Assignment Application")." The Modification Application is intended to facilitate Shaw‘s ability to serve the Boatracs customers following consummation of the license assignment and the migration of the customers to Shaw‘s network, as well as to prevent any customer disruption during the transition of the Boatracs MESs from Omnitracs‘ network to Shaw‘s network. For a variety of technical reasons, the Boatracs customers cannot be transitioned from Omnitracs® network to Shaw‘s network pursuant to a flash cut, but instead must be transitioned on a rolling basis over a period of time to ensure the maximum effective successful MES transition. Specifically, existing MESs authorized under the Boatracs license will be retuned on a rolling basis to communicate with Shaw‘s Canadian— licensed remote control/hub station and to operate on the same frequencies authorized under Shaw‘s existing Canadian license to operate similar Ku—band MESs throughout Canada. The parties do not anticipate the replacement of any MESs as part of this process. * See Satellite Communications Services re: Satellite Radio Applications Acceptedfor Filing, Public Notice, Rpt. N. SES—O01734 (Mar. 25, 2015) (accepting assignment application filing, File No. SES—ASG—20150313—00147).

Up to 75 percent of the existing Boatracs MESs are expected to be retuned and transitioned within an initial three—day period. Maximizing the transition of the remaining 25 percent of the Boatracs MESs, however, will require up to several weeks of additional time because some MESs could, for example, be temporarily turned off. Therefore, an STA is required to permit a limited transition period during which most of the Boatracs MESs are expected to operate under the proposed technical modifications within a few days of receiving a software upgrade in the normal course, while other devices will be required to operate under the existing authorized technical parameters until their transition can be completed. Thus, Omnitracs is filing this STA application to enable Omnitracs to commence the transition of the Boatracs customers as soon as reasonably possible and to enable Omnitracs to complete the transition prior to May 31, 2015 without disruption to the operations of the Boatracs customers. During the transition period (%.e., from Commission action on this STA application until consummation of the proposed license assignment), Omnitracs will provide service to the Boatracs customers using a combination of Omnitracs‘ network and Shaw‘s network. To the extent that Omnitracs provides service to initially transitioned Boatracs customers using Shaw‘s network facilities during the transition period covered by the proposed STA, Omnitracs will do so pursuant to an arrangement with Shaw and under Omnitracs‘ ultimate supervision and oversight. Throughout the transition period, all Boatracs customers will be provided service via U.S.—licensed and non—U.S.—licensed satellites specified on the FCC‘s Permitted Space Station List, including the Anik F2 and Galaxy 25 (formerly Telstar 5) satellites. No later than May 31, 2015, the transition will be deemed complete, the Boatracs license and Boatracs customers will be assigned to Shaw (assuming that the Assignment Application previously has been granted by the Commission), and Omnitracs will discontinue service.

Contact information for Omnitracs can be found in the FCC Form 312 associated with this Exhibit. In addition, pursuant to the Commission‘s request, a U.S. point of contact will be made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for inquiries regarding the Boatracs MESs that are being operated by Omnitracs during the transition period under an arrangement with Shaw and using Shaw‘s remote control/ hub station and associated frequencies, as follows: Joe Guerriero Senior Vice President & General Counsel ViaWest (an affiliate of Shaw) Phone: (720) 891—2524 joe.guerriero@viawest.com Public Interest Statement. Commission grant of this STA application will serve the public interest by ensuring continuity of service to the Boatracs customers, facilitating the orderly transition of services without disruption to Shaw‘s Canadian—licensed remote control/hub station and associated frequencies, and enabling the provision of harmonized subscfiber equipment throughout the United States and Canada, thus resulting in economies of scale.

2. Contact Name: Paul Besozzi Phone Number: 202—457—5292 Company: |Squire Patton Boggs Fax Number: 202—457—6315 Street: 2550 M St., NW E—Mail: paul.besozzi@squirepb.com City: ‘Washington State: DC Country: USA Zipcode: 20037 — Attention: Relationship: Legal Counsel (If your application is related to an application filed with the Commission, enter either the file number or the IB Submission ID of the related application. Please enter only one.) 3. Reference File Number or Submission ID 4a. Is a fee submitted with this application? @, IfYes, complete and attach FCC Form 159. If No, indicate reason for fee exemption (see 47 C.F.R.Section 1.1114). C3 Governmental Entity 3 Noncommercial educational licensee g4 Other(please explain): 4b. Fee Classification CGB — Mobile Satellite Earth Stations 5. Type Request @ Use Prior to Grant { Change Station Location C Other 6. Requested Use Prior Date 04/10/2015 7. City 8. Latitude (dd mm ss.s h) 0 0 0.0

9. State 10. Longitude (dd mm ss.s h) 0 0 0.0 11. Please supply any need attachments. Attachment 1: Exhibit A Attachment 2: Attachment 3: 12. Description. (If the complete description does not appear in this box, please go to the end of the form to view it in its entirety.) Request for a 60—day STA to permit flexibility to operate Boatracs mobile earth stations. See Exhibit A. 13. By checking Yes, the undersigned certifies that neither applicant nor any other party to the application is Yes C No subject to a denial of Federal benefits that includes FCC benefits pursuant to Section 5301 of the Anti—Drug Act of 1988, 21 U.S.C. Section 862, because of a conviction for possession or distribution of a controlled substance. See 47 CFR 1.2002(b) for the meaning of "party to the application" for these purposes. 14. Name of Person Signing 15. Title of Person Signing Jordan Copland Chief Financial Officer WILLFUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND / OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1001), AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION AUTHORIZATION (U.S. Code, Title 47, Section 312(a)(1}), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.S. Code, Title 47, Section 503).

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