Talk:Intelsat

message: I'm not so sure about this sentence: "This arrangement allows the company to lobby politicians in Washington while filing tax from Bermuda."  
I'm pretty sure the reason that Intelsat's main offices and operations are in Washington DC is because it was an international treaty organization.  Their building, on Connecticut Ave NW, is designed to look like a giant satellite, and was build in the mid-eighties. Before privatization, it was administered by the State Department; everything from parking permits to the color and type of shades used on the windows was regulated by functionaries from State.  After privatizing, they weren't about to just move out of their million-dollar building.  
Besides, lots of companies lobby Washington with their own lobbying offices in DC, while being incorporated elsewhere (like Delaware) and operating still elsewhere; in fact one could make an argument that being located entirely in the District puts Intelsat at a disadvantage with Congress because DC has no congressional representation (ie, no Senators or congressman to go to bat for the home-town company).
Frankly I think this whole article is poorly written and could use a clean-up; and contains a few too many possibly POV sentences like the one above (like the whole paragraph about their reliability in the sixties...were they more or less reliable than other satellite operators?)  There's lots missing, too, that's interesting: nothing about their long relationship with COMSAT; nothing about their unique staffing when they were a treaty organization (engineers from all over the world on special diplomatic visas, living tax-free in the US) and nothing about the process of privatizing (like having special legislation passed to allow them to privatize; and still more special legislation to convert those aforementioned diplomatic visas into H1-B's).  There's also a little too much satellite-industry jargon--blocks?  
Thoughts?
--Free-world 02:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Reason It Is In Washington

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message: Intelsat satellite history is being added and updated with factual information. dnjh (talk) 04:20, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Satellite history 

message: I don't know the correct start date for this logo, but I do know it was well after 1973, probably closer to 1993.  I'm not sure about the end date.  The earlier logo was the word INTELSAT with orbits and satellites circling around it. 72.84.142.21 (talk) 00:36, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  INTELSAT logo 1973 to 1998 wrong start date 

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message: "Intelsat, established in August 1964, was the largest user of NASA communications launch services." (pp. 12–13) A neat factoid maybe. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 22:33, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest user