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Mr K S Wong
Assistant Director
office of the Telecommunications Authority
5/F Wing Shan Tower
173 Des Voeux Road Central
HONG KONG
Department of Trade and Industry
Telecommunications
and Posts Division
Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9SS
Enquiries
44 (0)71 215 5000
BY FAX PAGE 1 of
010-852-845-2870
Direct line
44 (0)71 215 1816
Facsimile
44 (0)71 215 4161
Date
1 November 1993
Dear Mr Wong.
ACCESS TO INTELSAT
1. George Wicks of the UK Signatory Affairs office wrote to you recently about the arrangements that have been agreed in Intelsat for users of satellite capacity to work directly with the Intelsat management rather than through a Signatory.
2. These arrangements are set out in Intelsat Document BG-96-54-Rev 1 (copy attached). From the correspondence that gave rise to Mr Wicks' letter, it seems likely that you would wish this facility to be made available to operators in Hong Kong and I would like to explore with you how we can do this.
3. One of the requirements for instituting this arrangement is that the relevant Party to the Intelsat Treaty (the UK in the case of Hong Kong) must undertake the responsibility previously discharged by the Signatory for ensuring that transmitting Earth Stations can be shut down should they be mis-used. Clearly, if this was possible, we could only make such an undertaking on your behalf.
4. In the UK, we would make use of the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, under which all radio transmitting equipment is licensed. Those licences and the Acts provide for the transmitters to be shut down when they are being misused. will shortly write to Intelsat to tell them how they would go about requesting such a close-down.
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