# Presentation: 070494

## Teamwork, Technology and TransformationFocusing on Broadband, Consumers and Homeland Security

**Teamwork, Technology ****and Transformation****Focusing on Broadband, Consumers and Homeland Security**

**International Bureau Annual Report**
**January 13, 2005**

## Vision and Mission: Foundations for Success

**To connect the globe for the good of consumers through a commitment to prompt authorizations, innovative spectrum management and responsible global leadership**

- Competition

- Broadband

- Spectrum

- Media

- Homeland
- Security

- Modernization

## Teamwork: IB People

_**Tools for Success**_
_**Educational Opportunities**_

- FCC University
- Formal Training

- Telecommuting Guidelines for Managers (Flexibility and Accountability)
- Technology where and when staff need it

_**Leading by Example**_
- Worked to Expand FCC University Course Offerings
- Co-chaired FCC Information Technology Steering Committee
_**Putting Forward Our “FCC Best”**_
- Co-Chaired Two of Three Main Committees
- IB Staff participating and leading sub-groups to benefit the FCC and the Surrounding Community.

- Brownbag Training Sessions
- Executive Roundtables
- International Speakers Series

- Engineering Graduate Degree Program

## Drive  down international calling rates 
Expand  service options for U.S. consumers
Protect citizens and the services they use

Ensure  a competitive environment
Increase the number of competitors and consumer choices
Streamline licensing processes

Encourage efficient use of spectrum
Promote broadband deployment
Facilitate implementation of innovative technologies

Maintain FCC’s Global leadership role on critical issues
Ensure reliable service along U.S. borders

- Expand  service options for U.S. consumers
- Protect citizens and the services they use
- Ensure  a competitive environment
- Increase the number of competitors and consumer choices
- Streamline licensing processes
- Encourage efficient use of spectrum
- Promote broadband deployment
- Facilitate implementation of innovative technologies
- Maintain FCC’s Global leadership role on critical issues
- Ensure reliable service along U.S. borders

**2004 Accomplishments: Summary**

- Consumers
- Business
- Technology
- The Globe

## 2004 Accomplishments: Broadband

**Efficient Spectrum Assignment**
- New U.S. Satellite Broadband Licensees in the Ka and Ku bands.
- Continued Implementation of Satellite Licensing Reform
- New  satellite providers approved.  4 New Providers Added to the Permitted List, 1 additional foreign system authorized access to the U.S. market
- DBS auction yielding new digital DBS entrant
**Policies To Facilitate Broadband Services At Sea**
-  Earth Stations on Vessels (R&O, December 2004)
**Global Broadband Outreach**
- ITU
- ITU Meeting on Global Standards  for UWB (June 2004).
- WTSA (October 2004)
- Ongoing Study Group and Working Party Participation
- Regional Outreach
**Broadband Education And Oversight**
- 1st Annual Rural Satellite Forum (January 2004)
- Global broadband policy analysis and deployment review.

***Improving Access to Broadband Services Where and How Consumers Need Them***

## Prompt Licensing 
Satellite Space Station
Satellite Earth Station
International Section 214
Further Implementation of Satellite Licensing Reform
International Telecommunications E-Filing NPRM (June 2004)
MyIBFS E-filing Launch   (October 2004)
Increased MVPD Competition: Direct Broadcast Satellite 
Prompt Licensing
U.S. Canadian Negotiations
Initial DBS Orbital Spacing Review

Orbit Act Compliance Review

- Prompt Licensing
- Satellite Space Station
- Satellite Earth Station
- International Section 214
- Further Implementation of Satellite Licensing Reform
- International Telecommunications E-Filing NPRM (June 2004)
- MyIBFS E-filing Launch   (October 2004)
- Increased MVPD Competition: Direct Broadcast Satellite
- Prompt Licensing
- U.S. Canadian Negotiations
- Initial DBS Orbital Spacing Review
- Orbit Act Compliance Review

- Satellite Systems Coordination
- Merger and Acquisition Review
- Major Transactions
- Newscorp Transfer (January 2004)
- Intelsat/Loral (February 2004)
- AT&T Latin America Corp (DIP)/LATAM- (February) 2004
- Allegiance/XO, Cable and Wireless (DIP) ( March 2004)
- Thermo Capital and Globalstar (March 2004}
- Carlyle Group/PanAmSat       (August 2004}
- Cingular/AT&T (October 2004)
- Over 400 other transactions
- Agency-wide foreign ownership review
- Circuit Status Report

_**More Choice**_

_**Reliable Service**_

_**Lower Costs**_

**2004 Accomplishments: Competition**

**Enforcement of International Settlements Policy (ISP)**
**Mexico Accounting Rate Waiver Petitions **
**Restoration of U.S. carrier circuits and an elimination of to anti-competitive behavior on Philippine Routes**
**Review and Reform of Existing Policies and Rules**
**ISP Reform Report & Order (March 2004)**
**Part 43 International Reporting Reform NPRM (April 2004)**
**Consumer Outreach on International Calling Rates**

## Driving Down the Cost of Connecting

**Driving Down the Cost of Connecting**

**Reporting Year**

## Bilateral Meetings and Conferences
Davos (January 2004)
APEC Tel (March 2004)
CITEL
Regulator Workshops (March 2004)
Jamaica Internet Forum II (May 2004)
ITU
International Visitors Program
Over 300 visitors from 71 different countries
Industry Analysis and Research
On-site Regulator Training
Morocco (May 2004)
Jamaica (July 2004)
Brazil (July 2004)
Africa (August 2004)
CAFTA (august 2004)

USTTI Courses

**Davos (January 2004)**
**APEC Tel (March 2004)**
**CITEL**
**Regulator Workshops (March 2004)**
**Jamaica Internet Forum II (May 2004)**
**ITU**
**International Visitors Program**
**Over 300 visitors from 71 different countries**
**Industry Analysis and Research**
**On-site Regulator Training**
**Morocco (May 2004)**
**Jamaica (July 2004)**
**Brazil (July 2004)**
**Africa (August 2004)**
**CAFTA (august 2004)**
**USTTI Courses**

_**Advancing the Global Dialogue on Competition**_

**2004 Accomplishments: Competition**

## 2004 Accomplishments: Media

**Around the Globe**
- Outreach on media regulation, ownership, and competition, DTV, and other media-related topics
- Participation in ITU activities

**Along U.S. Borders**
- Continued work to facilitate the DTV transition so that broadcasters can maximize facilities along the border
- Commenced negotiations with Mexico to create a new MOU to permit more opportunities for LPTV in border area
- Held ongoing discussions with Mexico and Canada to permit U.S. digital In Band On Channel (IBOC) audio systems to become operational for AM and FM stations in the border area
- Minimized interference to U.S. stations along the border
- Mexico
- Canada
- Treaty Enforcement
- Ongoing Negotiations

## 2004 Accomplishments: Homeland Security

**2004 Accomplishments: ****Homeland Security**

**Ensuring A Secure and Reliable Infrastructure**
**Orbital Debris Report & Order (June 2004)**
**Licensing of commercial providers of satellite services to U.S. Military**
**Rapid review and authorization of service for first responders and emergency personnel**
**Emergency Preparedness Activities**
**Protecting Public Safety Services Along the Border **
**DOD study group**
**Providing Technical Expertise to Other Federal Agencies**
**Leading the International Community on Communications Network Reliability and Security Issues**
**CITEL PCC III**
**ITU Study Group 17**
**NRIC**
**MSRC**

## 2004 Accomplishments: Spectrum

**Fostering New and Innovative Spectrum Use**
- Enhanced Mobile Satellite Systems with Ancillary Terrestrial Component
- Broadband Services via Earth Stations on Vessels
- Regulatory Framework for Satellite Services in the V-Band
**Assigning Spectrum Efficiently**
- 2000 new or modified earth stations approved
- 62 new or modified space stations approved
- 37 satellite system coordination agreements with 16 administrations
- Milestone Enforcement
**Maximizing Cross-Border Spectrum Usage **
- Digital TV Transition
- Public Safety Services
**Steering the Global Debate**
- ITU
- WRC-07 prep
- Improving Global Use of Spectrum

## 2004 Accomplishments : Modernization & Improved Performance

**2004 Accomplishments : ****Modernization & Improved Performance**

**Nearly 40% of all outreach activities are ITU-related**
**IB staff represent the FCC on 51 ITU Study Groups, Task Groups and Working Parties**
**76% of these activities are WRC-related**
**IB staff hold 43 leadership positions on ITU groups**

- _ITU-Related Activities_
- Telecommunications (ITU-T)
- Spectrum                  (ITU-R)
- Development           (ITU-D)

## 2004 Accomplishments : Modernization & Improved Performance

**2004 Accomplishments : ****Modernization & Improved Performance**

**Average Processing Time**
**Space Station**
**GSO                103 days**
**NGSO             125 days**
**Earth Stations**
**New Licenses   37 days**
**International Section 214**
**Streamlined      25 days**

**Swift Licensing**

- Reduced Backlogs of Older Filings

- Increased Electronic Filing

## Swift Licensing 

- Swift Licensing

**Reduced Backlogs of Older Filings**

- Increased Electronic Filing

**Space Station Filings**** **
**36% Reduction**
**Proceedings Pending More Than One Year**
**No Backlog**
**Petitions for Reconsideration and Applications for Review Pending More Than One Year**
**Two remaining proceedings to be completed 1Q 2005**

**2004 Accomplishments : ****Modernization & Improved Performance**

## Swift Licensing 

- Swift Licensing

- Reduced Backlogs of Older Filings

**Increased Electronic Filing**

_**Voluntary IBFS Filings in 2004**_
**Accounting Rate               Changes                  100%**
**Space Station          98%**
**Earth Station           94%**
**International                          Section 214               93%**
_**Mandatory E-Filing**_
**Space Station ****(October 2004)**
**Earth Station ****(October 2004)**
**International Telecom (****NPRM 2004)**

**2004 Accomplishments : ****Modernization & Improved Performance**

## 2004 Accomplishments: Modernization

***New MyIBFS Filing Environment Designed                            through Collaboration and Partnership with Filers***

**Phase 1 – ****Completed October 2004**
- MyIBFS Workspace
- Interactive EZ filing process

**Phase 2  - ****Beginning 2005**
- Further implementation of Satellite                                             Licensing Reform
- Schedule S Technical Form

## Technology: A Transformative Force

**Technology: A Transformative Force**

## Transformation: Spectrum Approaches

- Explore Innovative Spectrum Approaches
- Prepare for WRC 07
- Work on Global Spectrum Approaches Within the ITU

**Transformation:**** Spectrum Approaches**

**Service Specific allocations and assignments**

**Satellite/ Terrestrial sharing  arrangements**

**Flexible, creative, spectrum policy approaches to encourage new technologies**

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**First MSS/ATC License Issued November 2004 **

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

**2005**

## Transformation: Satellite Services

- Expand Consumer Choice
- Increase Access to Broadband by Satellite
- Improve Speed of Disposal

**Transformation:**** Satellite Services**

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**2005**

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

## Transformation: Satellite Services

- Expand Consumer Choice
- Increase Access to Broadband by Satellite
- Improve Speed of Disposal

**Transformation:**** Satellite Services**

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**2005**

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

## Transformation: Satellite Services

- Expand Consumer Choice
- Increase Access to Broadband by Satellite
- Improve Speed of Disposal

**Transformation:**** Satellite Services**

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**2005**

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

## FCC Satellite Forum 2005:Satellite Services on the Move

**March 2005**
**Federal Communications Commission**

***Showcasing satellite trends and development for U.S. consumers and businesses.***

## Transformation: International Calling Rates for U.S. Consumers

- Review of Mobile Termination Rates
- Review and Reform of Reporting Requirements

**Transformation:**** International Calling Rates for U.S. Consumers**

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**Establishment of Benchmarks**

**131**** Benchmark Compliant Countries**

**162   ****Countries at or below the benchmark rate**

**87%****                   of minutes settled at or below benchmarks**

**95%****                   of minutes settled at or below benchmarks**

**2005**

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

## Transformation: Homeland Security & Cross-Border Activities

**Transformation:**** Homeland Security & Cross-Border Activities**

- Continued Negotiations with Canada and Mexico on:
-      -Public Safety Spectrum
-      -800 MHz
-      -DTV Transition
-      -LPTV
- NRIC/MSRC activities
- Orbital Debris Rules
- Executive Branch Coordination on Mergers

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**Coordination with Canada and Mexico related to radio broadcast services**

**Executive Branch Coordination Agreements on Mergers/ Acquisitions**

**DTV Transition**
**Public Safety Spectrum**
**Interference Mitigation**
**Extensive coordination with Executive Branch on transactions that raise security issues**

**E-911 **

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

**2005**

## Transformation: Global Leadership

**1994**

**2001**

**2004**

**2005**

**132**** Independent Regulators**

**14 ****         Independent Regulators**

**Policy Makers Driving Market Change**

**New Technology Driving Market Change**

**(Then)**

**(Now)**

## Managing the Transformative Effects of Technology on a Global Scale 

**International Bureau’s Unique Role**
- Sharing the FCC  experience with managing the disruptive impact of innovative technology
- Framing global issues
- Providing guidance and assistance to other countries
**ITU**
- World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
- WRC-07
- Development of standards for next generation systems (NGN)
- Enhance global network security standards
**Regional Outreach and Coordination**

## International Bureau