1.65 Letter on ASTRA

LETTER submitted by Gogo LLC

Letter re ASTRA 4A Licensing Jurisdiction

2016-08-24

This document pretains to SES-STA-20160729-00699 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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SatCom Law LLC 1317 F St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20004 T 202.599.0975 www.satcomlaw.com August 24, 2016 By Electronic Filing Ms. Marlene H. Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Gogo LLC Section 1.65 Letter File No. SES-STA-20160729-00699, Call Sign E120106 Dear Ms. Dortch: Gogo LLC (“Gogo”), by its attorney and pursuant to Section 1.65 of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.65, hereby updates the above-referenced request for special temporary authority to allow up to 200 Earth Stations Aboard Aircraft terminals to communicate with the ASTRA 4A satellite (the “STA Request”). In the STA Request, Gogo indicated that ASTRA 4A was licensed by Luxembourg (STA Request, Narrative at 1), but Gogo has learned that the satellite is instead licensed by Sweden. Sweden, like Luxembourg, is a member of the World Trade Organization. Accordingly, under the Commission’s DISCO II market access framework, there is a presumption that allowing U.S.-licensed earth stations to communicate with ASTRA 4A will serve the public interest. 1 Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this matter. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Karis A. Hastings Karis A. Hastings Counsel for Gogo LLC karis@satcomlaw.com cc: Paul Blais Merissa Velez 1 See Amendment of the Commission’s Policies to Allow Non-U.S. Licensed Space Stations providing Domestic and International Service in the United States, Report & Order, 12 FCC Rcd 24094, 24112, ¶ 39 (1997) (“DISCO II”).


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