JPRS ID: 10520 WORLDWIDE REPORT TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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14 May 1982
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLfCY,
RESEARCH AND D~VELOPMENT
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_ 14 May 1982
WORLDWIDE REPORT
TELECOMMIlNICATIONS POLICY, RESEARCH ANfD 11EilELOPMENT
cFOUO ii~sz~
CONTENTS
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_ JAPAN
Satellite Press Transmission To Be Tested
(ASAHI EVENIIJG NEWS, ~ npr s2) i
Satellite Press Transmission Test Successful
(ASAAI EVENING AIEWS, 15 Apr 82) 2
iiES'T EUROPE ~
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS -
Briefs
French-Swedish Remote Sensing 3
FRANCE
Government Tries To Refocus k,orld Radio Station
- (Abdelaziz Dahmani; JEUNE AFRIQOE, 3 Mar 82) 4
_ Satellite Image Distxibuti~+n Companq To Aave 13 Stockholders
- (Pierre Langereux; ATR ET COSMOS, 27 Mar 82) 6
Briefs
New Gamma Imagery Satellite 8
UNITED RINGDOM
Satellite TV Plans Announced
~THE TI1~S, 21 Apr 82) 9
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JAPAN
SATII.LITE PRESS TRAN~IISSION TO BE TESTED
O~W081139 Tokyo ASAHI EVENING NEWS in Eaglish 7 Apr 82 p?
[Text] The first test to transmit newspaper pages via a co~unication
_ satellite with a digital electric trans;mission system wri.ll be held betweea
Apri2 12 and 23, the Posts and Telecomffiimications Ministry announced lrbnday.
The test will be conducted with the cooperation of the Nippon T~legraph and
Telephone Public C~rporation, the Japan Newspaper Publisher~ ani Editors
Associ.ation and the National Space Development Agency, using ASAflI SHII~IIN's
cumputerized digital electrical transmission system.
Similar tests usxng the alalog method were held last Februar3r.
Fourteen newspapers, including the ASAHI, the MAINICHI and the YOMIURI,
are sending pages between tbeir offices in the tests.
If the tests are successful, they ~vill open a path to~w~ard sending large
amount of information very rapidl,y to maay destinations.
The experiment is divided into two different tests. T[re FDM test is to be
held between April 12 and 15: a transmitting station will be set up at the
ASAHI SHIMBUN�s Tokyo head office in Tsuki3i to send and receive the news-
paper's pages via the satellite "Sakura." .
_ The PSK te~t will be held between April 19 and 23. A transadtting station
will also be set up at ASARI SHIMBIIN. The pages will be modulated and sent
to the electric wave research ceater in Kashima via the satellite to be
a~plified and again sent back to the transmitting station via the
satellite. In this test, the information will also be electrically tra~s-
mitte3 to a station s et up at the ASAHI SHIMBIJN's Osaka office.
COPYRIGHT: Asahi Evening Newa 7~82
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JAPA~i
SATELLITE PRESS TRANSIKISSION TEST SIICCESSF[TI,
OW170200 Tokqo ASo1HI EVENING NF3,1S in Fnglish 15 Apr 82 p 3
[Text] The eaperimental wireless transmission of newspaper pages using the
experimen~tal communications satellite, Sakura, was successfully carried
_ out by the Posts and Telecommunications Ministrp Tuesday [13 April] at the
ASAHI SHIl~ffiUN's head office in Tsukiji, Tokyo. The very clear n~gative
film received is sho~ran in the photograph.
The wisel~ss transmission of the test pattern, which was computer-edited by
the ASAHI, was repeated, aad the test results were v~ry good. The tese
started out with an output of 100 watts and output was gradually lowered .
to 10 watts. There were no errors.
The tes~s Were car~ied out by the ministry with the cooperation of tt~e
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone [?1TT] Public Corporation, and other~e .
A vehicle-motmted relay station of the NTT parked in the ASAHI's pa~k3ng
area was used to send the transmission from the newspaper's page trans-
mission device to Salcura. The signals received back from the satellite
were relayed by the station to ~the ASAHI's receiving device to produce
the negative film.
Similar tests were to be carried out Wednesday [14 April] using the pages
~ of 13 newspapers, including the lY1AIAICHI SSII~t'N, YOMIURZ SHII~UN,TORYO
SHII~UN and PIHON REIZ~iI SflII~UN.
COPYRIGHT: Asahi Evening News 1982
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II~TrERPATIONAL AFFAIRS
BRIEFS
FRENCH-SWEDISH RII~10'1'E SENSING--The CNES ~(French) National Center for Space
= Studies] and the SSC ~Swedish Space Corporation~ are putting the finishing
touches on a vooperation agreement in the dcmain of remote spatial sensing. This
agreement, which ha~s already ~een accepted in principle, provides for the putting
in place of a joint remote-sensing satellite-image-acquisition center at Riruna
(SWeden) to receive images fcom the American Landsat D and French SPOT satellites,
and for the creation of tw~ neW oompanies to market the data fraa these satel-
lites. Thes~2 companies will be capitalized at 21 n~il].ion Swedish kroner, 10 per-
- cent of which will be fi~anced by France. We recall tTdat Swedish industry alreadx
participates in the construction of the SPOT satellite, for which MATRA ~Mechan-
ics, Aviation and Traction Company is prime contractor. Text~ ~Paris AIR ET
COS1~lOS in French 27 Feb 82 p 39~ ~COPYRIGHT: A. ~ C. 1982~ 9~99
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FRANCE
GOVFRr~1ENT TRIES TO REFOCUS WORLD RADIO STATION
Paris JEUNE AFRIQIIE in French No 1104, 3 Mar 82 p 58
LArticle by Abdelaziz Dahmanx: "The World Within Voice Range"~
LTextJ During the last presidential campaign, Valery Giscard d'Estaing spoke
- of "the grandeur of France," and Francois Mitterrand of "the good fortune of the
French." But very quickly, Franvois Mitterrand proved to be more Gaulle-ian than
his predecessors in the breadth of his niews on the problems of the planet.
And so the French qovernment has decided to make its voice heard virtually every-
- where throughout the w~orld by means of radio. it has an instrwaent awailable to
it for this purpose: R-FI ~RADIO-B'RANCE INTERNATIONALE~. But the impact of tbis
station is limited owing t.o technical and financial reasons.
Furthermore, this "Voice of France" is essentially oriented towards French speak-
ing Africa south of the Sahara (Southern Service) and, to a lesser extent towards
East Europe (Eastern Service). The Near East, the Persian Gulf, Latin America,
Southeast Asia and even the very near Maghreb are saaehow being negl:cted. It is
not surprising that these have become the favorite targets of other radio broad-
cast net~rorks, such as VOA (WICE OF AMERICA) , the British BBC, the DFATSC~
WELLE and RADIO MOSCOW.
Francois Mitterrand's France now wants to make up for lost time, even at the risk
of being labeled expansionist. The "new world information order" indeed provides
for reducing the stranglehold of the big pa~rers, their press agencies and their
- radio broadcast services on information. This new order has as its sponsor
UNESCO. One of its staunchest defenders has been Herve Bourges, while he Was
_ the spokesraan of that organization. This media specialist has a profound know-
ledge of the problem, having written a book titlec3 "Decoloniser 1'information ~De-
_ colonizing Information~." Now, since January 1982, ~erve Bourges is the head of
R-FI. And it is he upon Whom it has devolved to subanit to the French government
an ambitious plan for developing the activities of R-FI over the next 5 years.
R-FI ranks 28th among the world's radici stations acooYding to the HANDBOOK-1982
classification. It broadcasts 125 hours per week versus 719 hours for the BBC,
804 hours for the DEUTSCSE WELLE. Mor~over, R-FI programs are broadcast in only
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five languages (Eur~ean), versus 30 for the BBC and 33 for the DEUTSCH.~ WELLE.
Its budqet Was 70 million francs in 1981, versus 510 million for the VOA, 410 mil-
lion for the BBC 'overseas service," and 700 million for the German network...
The "Bourges Plan' provides for expanding the 20 transmitters locatecl in France,
building a relay station in Guyane (for Latin America), a tran~mitting center on
Reunion Island (for Soutbeast Asia), and increasing the po~er of the SOI~RA
~expansion unkna+n~ transmitter on Cyprus (for all Arabic countries).
In 1985, acc~ording to the plan, there will be 500 hours of broadcasting: 126 to
Black Africa; 126 to East Europe; 147 to Latin America; 66 to Southeast Asia; 14
to the !~laghreb; 14 to the Near East, and 7 to Germany.
To Black Africa, beginni*ig in 1983, R-FI will introduce programing in SWahili,
Amharic and Hausa. It will broadcast to Anqola and Mozambique. Broadcasts to the
Haghreb ~nd to the Miaaie East will be in French and Arabic. But its main effort
Will be directed torrard Central America and South America, a zone that has become
of the highest priority +to Frenc~ interests.
To counterbalance this ~ffensive, P. FI will provide more oaoperation to the
various national radio braadcast netw~orks, no longer requiring them to broadcast
certain programs as is presen~tly beinq done. To enjoy greater independence, R-FI
Will also creai:e its o~,m writ~en press agency. It Will pool its own information
with telex and press release~ by the Quai d'Orsay (French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs) and the dispatches of the NAP ~NOWELLL AGP~NCE DE FRESSE~. The clients
of this service Will be essentially the African and Magbrebian neWSpapers.
In return, this agency WilA furnish information to the French press, especially
the regional press, on the develc~ping countries. "Sis greatest quality consists
of pairing his sensitiveness together With the hopes of fihe Third World and his
love for his o~m country, his openness to others with being true to himself,"
- said Amadou-Mahtar M'Baw, director general of UNESCO, of Herve Bourges upon the
latter's departure from Place Fontenoy for the R-FI. And those who have lon~~
known him have added: "Se will not betray that quality...
COPYRIGHT: 1982 Jeune Afrique GRUPJIA.
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FRPi1~tCE
SATELLITE I!lAGE I~ISTRIBiPPION COMPANY TO HAVE 13 STOCRHOLDERS
Paris AIR ET COSMOS in French 27 Mar 82 p 39
LArticle by Pierre Langeseux: "Iwpending Creation of SPOT IMAGE Which Will Dis-
tribute SPOT Images"~
~Text~ The interministerial meeting of 24 March authorized the CNES ~National
Center for Space Stud.ies~ and the IGN ~~lational Geographic Institu~e~ to pa~ti-
cipate financially in the capitalization of the future "SPOT Image" cx~apany which
will market the data from the French remote-sensing SPOT ~Eartt? Observation Probe
System~ satellites. A decree will be published shortly confirming this decision,
which will then enable the creation of the company. SPOT imaye Will thus prob-
ably be formed between mid-April and mid-May 19$2. ~
Initially, SPOT Image will have.l3 stockholders, four of whom rill b~ public
entities (CNES, IGN, IFP ~French Petroleum Institute~, BRC~+I ~Bureau of Geological
and Mining Exploration~), four banks (Credit Lyonnais, BNP CNational Bank o�
Paris~, Paribas and Societe Generalep, two industrial aeros ce enterprises
(MATRA Mechanics, Aviation and Traction Company~ and SEP ~European Propellant
Company~, and one IRDI ~Regional Institute for Industrial Development~--the IRDI-
Midi-Pyrenees ~IRDI-Southern France-Pyrenees~. In addition to these French
stockh~lders, there will also be two foreign stockholdersi Th~ Swedish space
agency (Swedish Space Corporation) and a Belgian entity that has yet to be named.
Share ownership will be as follows: CNES 34 percent; IGIN, IFP and BRGNi each 10
percent; and the SPOT prime contractors MATRA and SEP each 7.5 percent. The
SWedish Space Corporation will own 6 percent, and the Belgian entity 4 percent.
~'he banks and the IRDI-Midi-Pyrenees will each own 1.2 percent. This~leaves
5 percent still to be assigned (probably to an aqricultural gublic establishment)
but temporarily held by the CNE&. The capital will be,25 million francs.
The SPOT Image company will be headed by Mr Gerard Brachet of the CNES as presi-
dent; its general manager will be Mr Andre Fontanel of the IFP. SPOT Image will
have its head office at ~oulouse and begin operations this year with a staff of
- 7~ersons that is expected to grow to same 50 persons by 1984. Its staff will
consist mainly of technicians and marketing cadres. By 1982,a svbsidiary will be
established in the United States, where a substantial part of the market for SPOT
images is located. .
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SPO'r Image will operate the French SPOT satellites equipped witki high-resolution,
stereoscopic, visible- and near-infrared-spectrum cameras. The first such satel-
lite, SPOT 1, is scheduled ~o be launched in early July 1984. The second,
BFOT 2, identical to the first, could be launched by June or July 1985 should it
be necessary; otherwise, it wili not be launched until sometime during the second
half of 1986. Both satellites will be put into low orbit at an altitude of 800
_ km (heliosynchronous) by Ariane rockets. Four sat~llites will be needed to pro-
vide service for at least 10 years. The actualization of the satellites that are
to follow SPOT 3 and SPOT 4 will be the object of a proposal to be submitted by
- the company to its stockholders and oversight authorities in 1983.
The company will be responsible f~r marketing the SPOT ~real-time or delayed-
transmission~ data received by the two central stations of the netw~ork, installed
at Toulouse (T.~rance) and Riruna (Sweden). The French station will receive an
average of 5 orbits per day; the Swedish one, in Lapland, will receive up to 10
orbits per day. SPOT Image will also market the data received (directly) by the
toreign stations equipped to pick up SPOT signals. SPOT stations are already
being planned for Ouag~dougou (Africa) and Bangladesh, in addYtion to Sweden.
Negotiations are also under way with Australia, Canada and Brazil to equip these
countries with SPOT stations, and a feasibility study has been made by the CNES
on the i:~stallation of such a station in Kenya. Other interested countries
include Japan, Argentina, India... .
The SPOT satellite data will be marketed by SPOT Image at a price of around 250
francs per raw image for tne data received by foreign stations, and at 5,000
francs per processed and guaranteed (free of cloudage) image for those received
- by the central stations. In the latter case, the user will be assured a fully
exploitable image (filed, preprocessed and recorded on magnetic tape to facili-
- tate specific subsequent utilization~.
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FRAIICE
BRIEFS
NEW GA1~MlA IMAGERY SRTELLLTE=-The CNES jNational Center for Space Studies~ has
undertaken the actualization of a French scientific satellite to be orbited by ~
the end of 1985 (October or December) with the first denanstration flight of the
new European launcher Ariane 4 at Kourc?u (see AIR ET COSMOS No 893). This gamna
imagery sat~llite, baptized Sigma, will be injected into a very elliptic orbit
- having a 3,000 km perigee and a 200,000 km apogee. The satellite, which will
weigh around 7..5 tons, will be equipped essentially with a telescope and gamma .
ray detectors weighing around 500 ~g. Sigma's mission will be to detect and �
localize, with a precision of a few minutes of arc, the sources of ga~mna rays in
outer space. The Sigma draft-project phase is to be concluded in June 1982. We
recall that the future Ariane 4 rocket, the building of which has just been
decided by the member countries of the ESA ~European Space Agency~, will be capa-
ble of putting 4.~ ~ons into geostationary transfer orbit (200-36,000 km).
IText~ IParis AIR ET COSMOS in French 27 Feb 82 p 38~ ~COPYRIGHT: A. & C. 1982~
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UNIT]~D KINGDOM
SATELLTTE TV PLANS ANNOUNCED
PM211441 London THE TIMES in English 21 Apr 82 p 4
[Unattributed report of 20 April UR House of Co~ons Session: "Satellite
Channels by 1986"] ~
- [ExcerptJ The BBC will operate the first two direct broadcasting by
satellite channels likely to be available bq 1986 but three further channels
should be made effective and when there was the demand, Mr ~William Whitelaw,
the home secretary, said in ~pening a debate on satellite and cable
broadcasting.
The government believed it vital, he went on, that industry should be in a
position to reap the benefits of new technology on which the future economic
health of the country depended in part. For that reason there was need to
_ press ahead with proposals as quickly as possible so as not to miss the
opportunity. .
It would be possible with the right equipment to receive foreign services,
and there was concern throughout Europe on the effect this might have on
the arrangements of individual couatries. Discussions were in progress
. within the Council of Europe and the government was represented on a working
group examining the scope for international agreement on programme standards
and advertising. ~
Programming costs could be between lOm pounds a year for a channel reliant
on existing material to 100m pouuds for one comparable in content to BBC1
or ITV. The BBC believed its st~bscription service could be entirely self-
financing within about four years after which it would make a profit which
would eventually benefit the licen~e fee payer. Cash might have to be
borrowed to cover startup costs.
Various services such as teleshopping and telebanking became possible once
- the c:able was there.
No one had yet suggested that it would b e possible to reach anything like
the 99 per cent of the population who could now receive television. He
- believed they had a duty to the majority uf peaple in the country who cnuld
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- continue to re.ly on BBC and IBA services for the foreseeable future. They
wece entitled to expect that the range and quality of those services should
not be diminished by cable s~rvices syphoning off the be.~` sport, best
f ila~s and bes t e~zt ertainment .
With the BBC's satellite subscription service he was confident the geaeral
interests of the liceace fee paypr would remain paramount. With cable,
there were as yet no natural safeguards and no natural mechanisms of
accoimtability, and the government would need to consider in the light of
- the Hunt inquiry's report what safeguards aad mechanisms of supervision
and accouatability there should be.
- COPYR~GHT: Tim~s Newspapers Limited 1982
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