JPRS ID: 10421 WORLDWIDE REPORT TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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JPRS L/10421
29 March 1982
WORLDWIDE REPORT
TELECOMMUNICA~'IONS POLICY, r~ESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
C~oUO 7~82~
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CONTENTS
ASIA
- JAPAN
; NTT Satellite Project To Face Opposition
i (ASAHI EVENING NEWS, 3 Max 82) 1
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I WEST EUROPE
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i INTERNATIONAI~ AFFAIRS
, L-SAT To Provide High Payloads, Wide Coverage, Many Uses
(Pierre Langereux; AIR ET COSMOS, 23 Jan 82) 3
ITALY
SIP~s President on Development of Telephone Services
(Ottorino Beltrami Interview; II, MONDO, 15 Jan 82) 12
UNITED KINGDOM
Plan s for Satellites Announced
(Elaine Williams; THE FINANCIaI, TIMES, 2 Mar 82) 16
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JAPAN
NTT SATELLITE PROJECT T~0 FACE OPPOSITION
OW041215 Tokyo ASAHI EVENING NEWS in English 3 Mar 82 p 3 ~
[Text] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone [NTT] Public Corporation has decided
to put two massive business commuunication satellites into orbit by 1992.
But the plan seems likely to run into opposition from the Space Development
- Committee headed by Science and Technology Agency chief Ichiro Nakagawa over
plans to use America's space shuttle instead of domestically pro~uced
rockets.
NTT will launch a one-ton satellite similar to America's successful INTELSAT
in 1988 to handle the mounting flood of international business communica-
tions. While the satellite would contain some 10,000 telephone circuits, it
would be a baby compared to ~he second stage of the project: a four-ton
giant that could simultaneously handle 100,000 circuits. It would be launched
in 1992.
NTT will debate the proposal further with the Ministry of Posts and Telecom-
munir.ations and other organizations before taking it to the space committee
this summer.
But the summer presentation is not likely to be a rubber-stamp affair.
One of the basic goals of Japan's space program is te build up the country's
technological capacity by using domestic technology. However, the H-1~1, a
- three-stage liquid-fuel booster that is Japan's hope for the late 1980s,
will only be able to put 550 kilograms into orbit.
That is far short of. what would be needed for NTT's business satellites,
leading the communication giant to decide that the cavernous cargo bay of
the U.S. space shuttle is the only place where its sateZlites could fly into
orbit.
The ~'pace Development Committee already has plana of its own to launch two
business communications satellites, the 350-kilogram CS-2, with 4,000
circuits, in fiscal 1982, and the 550-ton CS-3, with a 6,000-circuit capacity,
in fiscal 1987.
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NTT, however, says demand will far outstrip the limited capacity ~i the CS
~ series, which it labels uneconomical. It is going ahead with plans, and
has already established a research section for the giant satellites.
~~5atellite communications once had an image of being used during disasters,
or for communicating with distant islands," NTT official Ko3i Maeda said.
"Satellite communications also cost more than ground-based communications.
"NTT has offered as inexpensive a service as possible, which is why we t~iought
of using the space shuttle at less than a third the cost of domestic rockets."
A spokesman at the Space Development (:ommittee offices in the Science and
Technology Agency said recently that NTT had yet to contact the committee
directly. BLtt he warned that any plan to use the space shuttle would run
counter to the Japaitese space pro gram's policy of using domestic technology.
COPYRIGNT: Asahi Evening News 1982
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
L-SAT TO PROVIDE HIGH PAYLOADS, WIDE COVERAGE, MANY USES
Paris AIR ET COSMUS in French 23 Jan 82 pp 40-43
~Article by Pierre Langereux: "The ESA Is Preparing the Most Powerful Telecommuni-
cations Satellite"~
~E~.~erpt~ The ESA ~European Space Agency~ has unc~ertaken the construction of ~the
worid's most powerful telecommunications satellite: The L-SAT ~Large Satellite~,
_ a large experimental high-frequency telecommunications and direct TV satellite,
which will also be the larqest satellite ever built in Europe. This satellite's
dimensions (a span c~f from 25 to 46 metersl, its weight (2.4 to 4.3 tons) and its
power (from 3.S kW to more than 7.8 kW) will surpass anything that has been built
until now, even the largest and most powerful American satellites.
The L-SAT program has as its dual objective the development of a large multipur-
pose platfor~r--of the Ariane-3 or -4 class (2.4 to 3.4 tons) or equivalent Shuttle
--suitable for most future telecommunications and direct TV missions, and the
launching in early 1986 of a first L-SAT 1 experimental satellite.that will enable
the in-orbit testing of several European payloads intended to stimulate the in-
terest of potential users and promote new commercial missions, by way of a com-
plete demonstration and operational proyram.
Large Platform
- L-SAT has thus been conceived as a multipurpose platfcorm capable of adaptation to
a large variety of telecommunication;t and direct TV uses wequiring payloads in
excess of 500 kg and powers of over 2.5 kW during solar eclipse and over 7 kW
during solar illumination.
This L-SAT platform is intended to acc~mmodate the building of the four principal
classes of telecommunications satellites of the 1990's, namely: satelJ_ites of the
_ semi-Ariane-3 or'Shuttle-PAM-D class, satEllites of the full-Ariane-3 or Shuttle-
class with perxgee mctor, satellites of the semi-Ariane-4 (or full-Ariane-2)
or Shuttle-PAM-A class, and sat~llites of the full Ariane-4 or Shuttle-IUS class.
L-SAT will therefore be the platform of the future Ariane-4 launcher satellite
which will be capable of placing 2- to 4.3-ton satellites in synchronous transfer
_ orbit beginning in 1986
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The platform will be stabilized about three axes in transfer and earth-synchronous
orbits, and designed for mission durations of 10 years. The general architecture
of the platform, which will consist essentially of three parts (on-board utili-
ties module, propulsion module, and telecommunications module), is flexible
enough to accommodate the different missions being anticipated~ The satellite's
hull, in the form of a parallele~iped (1.75 x 2,10 x 3.50 meters), is dimensioned
as a funation of the Ariane-3 and -4 shrouds (3 and 4 meters in diameter). It is
also designed to carry the telecommunications antennas (nondeployable), 2 to 3.5 m
in diameter, on the east and wes*_ sides of the parallel~epiped. This is so as to
avoid the need for an antenna-support mast, which would increase the congestion
beneath the shroud. The north and west sides of the hull carry the telecommuni-
cations equipment (power amplifiers) and heat-loss panels (consisting of heat-
sinks) having a total surface area of 9 m2 and capable of dissipating up to
4.5 kW of energy not used up by the on-board equipment (allowing for the effi-
ciency of the amplifiers). The satellite's electric power supply--utilities and
- payload--is provicled by a a large, non-~rigid solar generator (deployable on an
"astromast") of the silicon photocell modular-network type, which is constantly
oriented toward the sun. This generator is made up o� two large panels of photo-
cells that can be deployed in parallel to furnish up to 3 kW in transfer orbit,
or fully deployed in earth-synchronous orbit to deliver a maximum power of over
7.8 kW at the end of its service life (10 years). Its maximum power in eclipse
can reach over 3.6 kW with 35- or 50-ampere-hour nickel hydrbgen batteries. Its
electrical energy output is distributed to the satellite by a regulated direct-
current (50-volt) bus for high-power equipment (amplifiers) and by an alternating-
current bus for low-power equipment (utilities, etc). The remote control and
telemetering system utilizes a central data-processii.g unit connected sensors
- distributed along a bus.
Another feature of the L-SAT ~latform is its use of an integrated liquid-bipro-
pellant propulsion system for its injection into earth-synchronous orbit (apogee
motor),as well as for orbit and attitude control throughout the service life of
the satellite, regardless of its mission: Only the quantity of propellants
(liquids) contained in the tanks i~ varied, as well as the attitude- and orbit-
control system software (in accordance with the weight of the satellite). This
propulsion system is contained in a cylindrical tube located at the center of the
structure. Attitude and orbit control is effected by means of a conventional
3-axis stabilizing system,including gyroscopes for yaw control and four inertial
wheels for the control of roll and pitch all associated with infrared senso~s or.
radio markers and commanded by a central microprocessor unit. The platform's
aiming accuracy is thus held to within approximately 0.1 degree, with its anten-
nas also equipped with an automatic vernier-aiming device.
L-SAT 1 Satellite
The ESA program provides for the building, on this aasis, of a first L-SAT 1
experimental satellite to be launched at the begin~~ir~~g of 1986 in geostationary
orbit by 19 degrees West using an Ariane 3 rockP* (or the Shuttle). This satel-
lite weighing 2.4 tons at launching, of which 1.2 tons is propellants (liquids)
for its mainrenance in service over 7 years, will be equipped with a 3.3-kW solar
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generator (power consumption 3 kW), imparting to L-SAT 1 a span of over 26 meters.
Three developmental models of the satellite (structural, thermal and electrical)
will ~e built, as well as a qualification-test model which will in faat be the
first flight model. A s2cond flight model is to be built and partially integrated
before the first launching,so as to be available for injection into orbit, should
this be necessary, 1 year after L-SAT 1.
F~ur experimental payloads will be carried abo3rd L-SAT 1 on this first demonstra-
tion and new services promotion mission.
. An 11.7-12.5 GHz {reception at 17-18 GHz) direct-TV payl.oad, desi ed and built
by selenia (Italy~, will consist of two TOP ~progressive wave tube~ 230-watts-each
channels (PIRE ~expansion unknown~ 61 dBW) and beam antennas of 1.6 x 1.6 degrees
an 1.0 x 2.4 d2grees. One of these channels will be dedicated to a pre-opera-
tional direct TV service over Italy (see AIR ~T COSMOS No 874); the ~ther ~hannel
will provide European coverage and will be used par.ticularly to ttansmit experi-
mentally a single TV program throughout all of Europe, as has been suggested by
a num.ber of EBU ~European Broadcast Union1 countries.
' A 12-14 GHz "specializ~d services" payload, designed and built by Marconi (Great
Britain), will be used to extend or improve commercial leased circuit facilities
that will be put into service between now and then with EUTELSAT's ~expansion
unknown~ European ECS ~expansion unknown~ sateilites and the French DGT's ~General
Directorate for Telecommunications~ Telecom 1 sat211ites. These links with
L-SAT 1 will use small terrestrial terminals with 3-meter or lesser diameter
antennas; the satellite will cover all of Europe using a multibeam antenna with
five 1.3-degree "spots" (PIRE 45 dBW) and time-division multiple access ~SS-TDMA~.
A 20-30 GHz telecommunications payload, also furnished by Selenia, and using two
transmitting-receiving antennas 1 meter in diameter (one a single-beam and the
other 0.6-degree dual "spot"), will provide demonstration of various typas of
higher-frequency services: Video-conferences.(point-to-point or multipoint) digi-
talized at 8.44 Mbits/sec throughout Europe; tele-education (to multiple addres-
sees) via digital or analoque links (video and sound) over a limited zone; data
and video transmissions (digital) at 2.048 Mbits/sec over Western Europe; and
wideband transmissions of closed-circuit signals over one station.
A 12-GHz, 20-GHz and 30-GHz propagation payload, designed and built by Bell Tele-
phone Manufacturing (Belgium), will be used f.or propagation tests (amplitude and
frequency stability, quality of polar.ization) over Europe with these new frequ~n-
cies that have not yet been used operationally Eexcept for 12 GHz). A group of
some 40 organizations will take part in these experiments, which are aimed at
establishing a propagation model (attenuation and depolarization of the signal,
etc). The 12-GHz (unmodulated) signal will also be used for tracking the satel-
lite by the control station.
The L-SAT 1 platform will be built by some 40 firms under a British Aerospace
prime contract; British Aerospace itself will build a portion of the hull, the
deployment mechanisms and the attitude control. The principal contractors will be
Fokker (Netherlands) for the essential bus assembly, Aeritalia (Italy) for the
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thermal control system, and Spar Aerospace (Canada) for the ~~lar panels. Spar
Aerospace will also partici~ate in the final assembly of the satellite in Canada,
at the Canadian Telecommunications Research Center's new David Flarida Space
Simulation Center.
This new program will rank British Aerospace among the leading European builders
in the field of telecommunications and direct TV satellites, and a rival of the
Franco-German Eurosatellite group with regard to large platforms. British Aero-
space has in fact already partici ated in the European OTS ~expar~~ion unknown~,
ECS and MARECS ~expansion u*.icnown~ programs and has just been awarded a contract
for the British Skynet 4 military telecommunications satellite. It is also clear
that British Aerospace will be the leader of the industrial consortium that will
build the British direct TV satellite if this program is adopted, which it very
probably will be.
L-SAT Market
Market studies carried out in 1979-I980 indicated a total of around 150-200
satellites to be launched during the periods 1986-1994 or 1986-2000, of which more
than 110 would be of the L-SAT class, for the market that is "open" to interna-
tional competiti~n, that is, the market outside the USSR, the United~ States and
Japan (see table). According to estimates, European industry could "reasonably"
expect to provide 20-30 satellites (ESA estimate), possibly even more than 40
satellites (Britisr~ ~~erospace estimate), of the L-SAT type of this total market
requirement, which is estimated to be worth 5 billion pounds sterling. These
estimates do not seem unrealistic if one considers that the European market alone
now represents 26-34 sateliites (uccording to the ESA).
A more recent analysis (July 1981) has furthermore identified a certain number of
potential missions for L-SAT: A second-generation successor to EUTELSAT's ECS
satellites (enabling accommodation of a 10 percent per annum increase in traffic
until 1997); intercity links (high traffic density) for Italy; intra-European
commercial links (data transmission and video-conferences); direct TV service for
small European countries (Switzerland Luxembourg); direct TV service to Canada
(over six zones); an augmented��capacity "INTELSAT 6" sat~llite (B7 version) for
intercontinental links; etc.
Two applications in particular have bee:~ studied: Direct TV to Canada using an
L-SAT satellite (326-kg payload, 5.8 kW of power) equipped with 36 TOP-type,
40-W (18-MHz bandwidth) repeaters and a 1.8 x 2 meter antenna; and direct TV over
Switzerland and Luxembourg using an L-SAT satellite (280-kg payload, 3.7 kW of
= power) equipped with two groups of TOP-type 50- and 100-W (27-MHz bandwidth)
repeaters , a 1.0 x 2.6 antenna for Switzerland, and a 1.0 x 3.1 m an.tennna for
Luxembourg.
According to British Aerospace, the cost of such systems, usin5 L-SAT satellites,
would come to around 140 million pounds sterZing--approximately 1.4 billion
francs--of which 70 million pounds would be for the development and constructior.
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of two satellites, 50 million pounds for the launchings (Ariane rockets) and
20 million pounds for a flight model in reserve on the ground. For the two men-
tioned cases, this would work out to a cost of 4 million pounds sterling ~er
Channel for Canada (36 channels) and 14 million pounds sterling per channel for
Switzerland and Luxembourg (10 channels).
General Configuration of L-SAT 1 Satellite
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'Open' Market for Large Satellites and L-SAT Share
( 2~ Marchi 1ie8 L.. ~ 3 p~
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ESA (Euroae) 113 - Z030
Brltiah Aerosoece (G: B.) - 150 42
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ESA 28 34 26~94
Key:
1. Estimates.
2. Market from 1986 to:
3. L-SAT share.
Total market.
5. European market.
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ITALY
= SIP'S PRESIDENT ON DEVELOPMENT OF TELEPHONE SERVICES
Milan IL MONDO in Italiam 15 Jan 82 pp 38-39
[Interview with Ottorino Beltrami, president of SIP, vice president of STET,
by Ettore Mazzotti: "The Private Investor Must Answer"; date and place of
interview not given.]
[Text] "TeL-:communicat.i.ons, and telephones in particular, together with
housing, will act as the shuttlecock for the economic recover we are all
awaiting." This is what Ottorino Beltrami has promised, and as president of
SIP [Italian Telephone Company] and vice-president of STET [Telephone Finance
Corporation], he is the person who bears the largest share of responsibility
for the management of phone service while simultaneously determining policy
for those companies which manufacture nhone equipment. Beltrami is also a
manager who is prepared to sacrif ice development programs in favor of balanced
management and proper financial management for his companies. On the other
hand, the situation he inherited from SIP (over 6,500 billion lire in the
red by the end of 1980, d..uble the intake figures) appears to go in the
direction of amortizing the development of telephone service. Telecommuni~a-
tions companies also are having a rough time, with Italtel serving as a prime
example of this. This company, which is owned by STET, is Italy's leading
pro3ucer of telephone sets. It lost ove� 300 billion lire in two years and
plans to lay off some several thousand e~.ployees. With the above in mind,
national industry has to face competition from the likes of multinationals
such as ITT. Therefore, what is Beltrami's optimism based on? He explains
this himself in this interview with IL MONDO.
Question: What will short and medium term new telecommunication development
have on Italian economy?
Answer: Just a few data are needed to provide a picture of the possibilities
open to the national economy through the development of telecommunications,
and of telephone service in particular. In five years, for telephone related
matters, we foresee an investment of 21,180 billion lire. If one then applies
the multiplication factor to these investments a much higher sum is realized,
which then guarantees the development and employment of a business sector
which between management, manufacture and distribution counts tipwards of
300,000 employees.
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In the same 5-year period, 4.5 million new customers are expected, of which
over one million are to be businesa accounts.
To these figures I add two other considerations to aid and better def ine the
Ieadership effect telecommunications development has. First of all, the
possibility of providing advanced technologies to our country: in addition
to the new telematic services, there are the diffusion of electronic commuta-
tion (1,450,000 units by the end of 1986) and optical f.iber transmission
(20,000 kilometers of f iber). Secondly, a better qualified staff. Today
- SIP has over 70,000 employees. In 5 years there will be fewer generalists
and more specialists, technicians and engineers. In short, again thanks to
the phone, the technological gap between Italy and the other more advanced
countries will be lessened.
Question: What are the main ob~ectives of the f ive-year plan presented by SIP
to the Ministry of Posts and to State Shareholdings.
Answer: In brief, they are five: upgrading of basic telephone equipment
coupled with improved service; improvement of the company's public image and
its overall telephone service; ex~ansion of new services; a motivating thrust
for electronic industries at 'the national level; and the at~racting of new
capital from private investors. A goal of singular importance is that
involving the investor's trust. Our plans include up to 30 percent of the
social capital to be contributed by private investors beginning in 1984. In
order to obtain this goal, it is necessary to rekindle the sense of trust in
the SIP company via the balance of economic management, improvement of
financial programs, equal distribution in wages from social capital during the
- current year, and improvement of relations with the consumer as a result of
actions aimed at bettering service and the company's image. '
Question: How will the investments foreseen by SIP be distributed?
Answer: It is not possible to give an accurate account of which funds will
be used for the different types of clients inasmuch as, for example, main
plants and networks service both family and business accounts. I am able to
say that our attention regarding business accounts is being underscored by
earmarking the sum of over 1,700 billion lir~ (over 8 percent of the total)
during the five-year plan for investments in telematic services as well as
user systems.
Since 1981 prices (and taking into account the hypothesis of an ever increasing
committment) the primary sources of investment in the 3-year period from 1982
to 1984 are, in billions of lire:
Customer Units 151 152 153
Main Off ices 978 1027 1104
Urban and Sector Networks 859 890 908
Long Distance Network 214 230 240
Buildinge/Offices 190 180 170
Data Processing, new services, etc. 218 251 285
Totals 2610 2730 2860
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Question: From a price/quality perapective, is providing Italian electronic
equipment [to the market] competitive with foreign equipment?
Answer: In general, we feel that Italy's industrial position is competitive.
- Many companies export their products, which is proof of their quality and
competitiveness. Naturally, regarding costs, Italian industry is beset by
signif icant problems due to their having to sustain, unaided, all costs
directed to research and development. It is now necessary that legislation
be passed which calls for quick procedures in orde�r to come to the aid of
researching ~inancing.
Quesrion: Italian manufacturing companies state that they will be able to
produce electronic telephone connections and have a oalanced budget if the
market will absorb beginning in 1982, one million lines per year. From known
data, SIP foresees at the very most, in 1982, the installation of 850,000
lines for a total investment of 3,000 billion lire. Who is to be sacrif iced?
- Answer: I don't believe the first concern of the manufacturing companies
i;: the number of linPs produced as much as the cost/profit ratio. Neverthe-
less, we are not far removed from the figures you mentioned. Our 1982 plans
_ call for an outlay of 3,050 b~~lion lire which will allow us ultimately to
service 850,000 new customers. In 1983 we plan an increase of 880,000 new
customers, 900,000 for 1984, as well as that same figure for both 1985 and
1986. By that time, there will be an average 31 customers per 100 inhabi-
tants and 72 percent of all families will have phone service, compared to 54
percent at the end of 1980. Our long-range goal is to reach, by 1990, 100
percent of the people in order to provide them with phone service.
Question: Does SIP intend to recognize a"political price" of Italian goods,
namely prices that take account of disparities in the production of phone
equipment?
Answer: We can categorically sta.te that we never engaged in preferenrial
treatment, above all to the detriment of quality. The relationship between
SIP and the industrial sector is the same as the one usually found between
producer and purchaser. The same can be said for price policy.
Question: Why does SIP deem it necessary to restrict the distribution of
new electronic systems for phone services while at the same time it encour-
ages the presence on Italian markets of foreign enterprises such as CIT
ALCATEL?
J Answer: SIP has always been concerned with employment problems, with foreign
industries on Italian soil and those companies working under foreign license.
A company such as ours cannot allow itself any illusions of monopoly due to
the fact that in our sector, the quality of service and the balance between
prof its and costs are closely linked to technological development, which does
not know national boundaries. In addition, we must protect the interests of
our customers as well as the country's economy by keeping up to date and
knowing and even experimenting with that which is done abroad.
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Question: In what manner will the financial backing be drawn up for S~p's
' investment programs?
Answer: Financial backing for investment programs has, as a given,
maintenance of the balancing fund at the same 1eve1, a franchise profit
margin of 50 percent, and f ina~ly rate inc~eases designed to maintain oper-
ational costs constantly in line with cash intakes.
The rate plan, however, can only fu~~ction within the limits of the inflation
ceiling if the provisions for rate increases are enacted promptly so as to
avoid those gaps and debits that resulted in years past. (Rate increases are
expected to be 10.2 percent for 1982 and 7.0 percent for 1983, effective
1 January of each year.)
As a result of a timely and cons*ant rate modif ication, users will be able to
benef it from a service of improved quality and decreased real costs. This
will be possible thanks to a more dynamic use of incomes (by initiatives
directed taward development of the traditional market and of new services) and
by a more controlled increase in operating costs (by means of redesigned
operational procedures and organizational structure proposed by SIP). Plans
dealing with the financial-holding sector, on the other hand, have as a given,
new infusions of risk capital and an easier access to the banking community
for credit requests.
Question: In the development of telecommunications, is one of Italy's main
goals the coming up to international standards, even at the risk of going
- abroad to acquire advanced systems, without developing its own native planning
capab il ity?
Answer: We are actively engaged in research and experimentation though we
are also careful in maintaining our contacts abroad. Some of our suppliers
belong to first level multi-national concerns.
Given this opportunity of first-hand comparison, our companies should in no
way feel inferior. Furthermore, we have always supported the utilization and
develo~ment of national telecommunications systems. Personally, I am most
conf ident in the value of our research and development capacity and of the
quality of our national production.
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UNITED KINGDOM
PLANS ~OR SATELLITES ANNOUNCED
PM0215~7 London THE FINANCIAL TIMES in English 2 Mar 82 p 10
[Report by Elains Williams: "The Satellite Way to Europe"]
[Excerpts] By the end of 1983 British TELECOM plans access for UK companies
to satellites for private business communications to Europe.
Services such as electronic mail, teleconferences, high speed computer data
and even conventional telephone calls will be offered.
For organizations needing to send large volumes of information over long
distances as quickly as possible satellites could be more convenient and
cheaper than existing systems.
But in order to assess the potential of such a service, British TELECOM has
plans to run 12 trials this year. Small dish aerials perched on office roof
tops will transmit and receive di'gital data signals via the orbital test
satellite, the forerunner to Europe's first communications satellite system.
THE FINANCIAL TIMES, however, was the first organization in Europe to
cooperate with British TELECOM and Deutsche Bundesposte, the German telecom-
munications authority in running buainess trials on the orbital test satel-
lite.
In November the satellite linked the FT's London headquarters to Frankfurt
where the international edition is printed.
For two weeks complete facsimile pages of the newspaper were transmitted from
London to Frankfurt for production and distribution by road and rail across
Europe and by air around the world.
As well as demonstrating remote printing in Europe for the first time--an
important milestone for the European newspaper industry--it showed the
tremendous potential for busines~ses which need to transmit rapidly large
volumes of information around the world.
The data signals representing words and pictures were transmitted from a small
dish on the roaf of THE FINANCIAL TIMES building, via the satellite to a small
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dish provided by Dornier, the West German aerospace concern, at the company's
printers in Frankfurt.
Originally, it had been hoped that the November trials would have involved
- trar.smitting page: of the newspaper to Stockholm, Paris and Rome, but
administrative and minor technical problems prevented this.
, As well as saving money, satellites could impr~ve the service to readers and
offer new types of services such as electronic mail for *he newspaper--all
applicable to any type of business.
British TELECOM expects that the total capital cost of providing a small dish
satellite service in Europe will be about 100m pounds.
Agreement was reached two years ago to start the service after the launch of
- ECS, the first European communications satellite run by EUTELSAT and TELECOM 1,
the French domestic satelli.te.
Coverage will range from the Shetlands to Gibraltar and from Sweden to Greece.
British TELECOM has already announced a link up with satellite busirLess sys-
tems to allow UK customers access to the private system run by SBS throughout
the U.S. by the end of this year.
COPYRIGHT: The Financial Times Ltd, 1982
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