Intelsat reiterated its support for increasing earth station...

Intelsat reiterated its support for increasing earth station fees to better capture the work done by full-time employees on behalf of FCC International Bureau licensees. The company continued urging the commission to consider collecting regulatory fees from non-U.S. licensed satellite operators with U.S. market access, it said in an ex parte filing in dockets 13-140, 12-201 and 08-65 (http://bit.ly/1aonWFz). Last year, two-thirds of the work conducted by the bureau on behalf of applicants filing for new satellites benefited non-U.S. licensed satellite operators, it said. “Yet, U.S. satellite licensees were the ones who paid the agency’s costs associated with the work done for the benefit of those non-U.S.-licensed operators.” The filing recounts a meeting last week with staff members from the Office of Managing Director and from the Enforcement and International bureaus.