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To: jopawa who wrote (5177)	1/22/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10852

SkyBridge To Address Interference Concerns With ITU Demonstration SkyBridge L.P. yesterday used an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) meeting to show it can deliver its proposed broadband services without causing interference to incumbent services. Through a demonstration at Long Beach, Calif., SkyBridge hoped to demonstrate the absence of any perceptible impact on DBS viewers from non-geostationary (NGSO) operations, by receiving live programming signals from EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] and DirecTv Inc. with standard consumer equipment. The company hoped a successful technical display would move it closer to confirmation of provisional power limits established at the 1997 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-97) that allow radio frequencies among geostationary (GSO) and NGSO systems to be shared. SkyBridge was seeking to convince the ITU's JTG 4-9-11 group of its ability to operate its system without causing interference to GSO systems. The JTG 4-9-11 group is responsible for making recommendations on the international parameters for frequency sharing. SkyBridge is a broadband wireless local loop access technology that will be operational in 2001. SkyBridge plans to construct and launch a constellation of 80 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites that will deliver broadband capacity to telecommunications operators around the world. That capacity, in the Ku-band, would be used to provide high-speed access to the Internet and other interactive multimedia applications, such as videoconferencing and telemedicine.