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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (6238)	6/2/1999 1:50:00 AM
From: SafetyAgentMan	Respond to of 10852

From SkyReport.Com SkyBridge Fights Companies' Spectrum Plans SkyBridge, the controversial Ku-Band satellite project proposed by Alcatel and Loral, asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny Ka-Band applications from @Contact, Hughes, Lockheed Martin and TRW. SkyBridge said Hughes' plan to use 20 satellites in middle-earth-orbit will cause time delays and prevent the company from providing "high-quality voice, data, graphics and video telecommunications," as Congress mandated. TRW's satellite plans, which will add supplemental Ka-Band to its previous proposal for higher frequency V-Band, will only use Ka-Band spectrum when interference or coordination problems make the use of other frequencies impossible. In its opposition, Skybridge criticized that move as a "classic example of spectrum warehousing." Skybridge also said Lockheed Martin's plans fail to explain how it will operate its non-geostationary orbit system in conjunction with geostationary orbit birds. It added that Lockheed's plan to provide fixed satellite services using both Ka-band and V-band frequencies is "highly speculative." SkyBridge has FCC approval to operate its low-earth-orbit satellite system in the Ku-Band, but only if it doesn't interfere with DBS services and commercial satellite operators using the same frequencies.