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Domsats (COMSTAR and SBS)

In: The Rise and Fall of COMSAT

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  • David J. Whalen

    (University of North Dakota)

Abstract

The Intelsat Definitive Agreements of 1971 effectively ended (by 1979) Comsat’s management of the consortium. Intelsat transformed itself over the next few years into a fully formed independent international organization. Comsat had earlier tried to extend its US monopoly on international satellite communications—granted to Comsat by the Communications Satellite Act of 1962—to military satellite communications and domestic satellite communications. Both efforts were rejected. A year after a filing by ABC TV for a television Domsat (domestic satellite), the FCC issued a Notice of Inquiry (Docket 16495) into the matter of “Establishment of Domestic Non-Common Carrier Communications Satellite Facilities by NonGovernmental Entities” (short form: Domsat) on March 6, 1966.1 By 1969, after years of study, and no FCC action, a new administration was ready to make things happen.

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  • David J. Whalen, 2014. "Domsats (COMSTAR and SBS)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Rise and Fall of COMSAT, chapter 7, pages 144-171, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-39693-8_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137396938_8
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