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To: Jim Parkinson who wrote (6588)	8/8/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 10852

The orbital slots are what Mr. Schwartz considers beachfront property. They are extremely scarce. They own: 129 W T7 120W 116.8W SatMexV 113 Sol2 109 Sol1 another slot for SatMex--can't recall location 97W T5 93W T6 89W T4 77W T8 69W T9 37.5W Orion1 12W Orion2 139E Orion3 47W 64W(Brazil) The above are C and Ku Orion has 6 Ka-band slots(127W, 89W, 81W, 47W, 78E,127E) Cyberstar has 3 Ka-band slots(115W, 28E, 106E) For the future, they have 10 V-band slots, G* has 4 GEO slots at 2 GHz, and more applications have been filed. They also have the DBS frequencies at 61.5W and 166W, as well as orbital assets related to Agila and L-Star. Throw in the 3 shared slots for EuropeStar, possibly Andesat, and perhaps those 2 available Canadian slots in cahoots with Teleglobe, and you can see they have staked a claim in space. I would imagine as Russia crumbles even further that many of their slots, which are numerous, will come up for grabs. For the ITU, if you don't use it, you lose it. LMT has a JV going that will suck up some of these, but not all. I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think of now.