|> From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@automagic.org] |> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:22 PM |> You'd think satellite capacity would be subject to some more |> international set of regulations than those of the FCC. Are you |> saying that if I buy preemptable capacity on PAS-N to uplink from |> New Zealand and downlink to Fiji, that the capacity is subject |> to preemption by the US Government under FCC rules? |> |> Or is there an assumption here that there's an (up|down)link on |> US soil involved? I believe that it has more to do with whom owns the bird and what jurisdiction they are under. US-based companies must follow FCC regs.