# Presentation: 549174

## “Considerations in the creation of a secondary market for radio spectrum”

- Mike Antonovich
- Senior Vice President, Broadcast Services
- PanAmSat
- FCC Public Forum
- May 31, 2000

## PANAMSAT BROADCAST SERVICES:

**A global business unit for the sales, provision and service of “contribution” services for the world’s broadcasters, news       agencies, business television and distance learning networks,    resellers and value-added service providers**
**Integrated satellite capacity and teleport facilities booked, managed and provided on a global basis.  **
**A network of nearly 2,000 teleport and transportable uplink antennas to collect and retransmit signals to/from virtually anywhere in the world**
**More than 6,000 hours of transmissions performed a month to more than 1,000 customers in 80 countries; supporting a reseller and service provider network that serves many more customers**

## THE WORLD’S LARGEST SINGLE-SOURCE PROVIDER OF    OCCASIONAL-USE SPACE SEGMENT AND TELEPORT SERVICES:MORE THAN 160 PATHS ON 13 SATELLITES

- Revised August 12, 1999.
- Capacity subject to change without notice.

**THE WORLD’S LARGEST SINGLE-SOURCE PROVIDER OF    OCCASIONAL-USE SPACE SEGMENT AND TELEPORT SERVICES:****MORE THAN 160 PATHS ON 13 SATELLITES**

## BROADCAST SERVICES GLOBAL REACH

**PAS-1R**

**PAS-3**

**PAS-2**

**PAS-8**

**Galaxy**

**PAS-5**

**PAS-4**

**PAS-7**

**US West Coast**

**Europe**

**Hong Kong**
**Singapore**

## How it works:	

- Specific inventory has been set aside for long-term use by Broadcast Services to support an active and ongoing need for capacity by the customers
- Additional unsold capacity intended for sale to fulltime customers is made available on rolling 30, 60, 90 windows
- Customers with excess inventory establish PanAmSat as a resale agent for their partial-day or fractional satellite capacity
- PanAmSat actively markets, manages and provides services to our customers on the above inventory

## How it works:

- A 24/7 Global Scheduling Center to take customer orders
- Dedicated staff for carrier access and network monitoring
- Teleport facilities and operators to perform services
- Local interconnect to the customers
- Staff engineers and Special Events people to design, construct and deliver complex services on short notice
- Booking, billing and management systems
- Simple contracting mechanisms

## What has worked well in creating the secondary “spot” market for geostationary satellites?

**Radio spectrum allocated on a reasonably secure basis**
**FCC licenses and authorizations to meet the public interest standard**
**Enough bandwidth and a long enough license to justify taking on the business risks**
**Clear standards for managing interference**
**The due diligence standard: use it or lose it!**
**Significant capital investments in management systems and service personnel **
**Teleports, access and customer service centers**
**Sales, service and support professionals**

## What has worked well in creating the secondary “spot” market for geostationary satellites?

**A ready and willing user community**
**Broadcasters with a need for opportunistic bandwidth to cover preplanned and spontaneous news events**
**Distance learning and business television networks with a need for partial day or fractional transponder capacity**
**Development and improvements in the enabling technologies**
**Development of SNG vehicles, compressed digital video systems, Internet-based video**

## Can this model work for other radio spectrum?

**Yes:**
**With enough bandwidth is set aside long enough to justify the infrastructure development and deployment costs**
**With the ability to operate in a managed interference environment**
**With the MPEG/DVB and IP-based standards for transmitting video and data in place, a market can be found - “build it and they will come”**
**With the cooperation and support of the customers and service providers**