Changes sought on bill to privatize satellite agencies. (House Commerce Committee investigation)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 1997 by Albiniak, Paige

Witnesses told the House Commerce Committee last week that privatization of international satellite treaty organizations Intelsat and Inmarsat is necessary, but most pushed for changes to a bill introduced by House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va,). The bill would require the organizations to privatize within five years and would allow the U.S.

to intervene if that goal were not reached. PanAmSat, which competes with Intelsat and Comsat to provide international satellite services, supports the bill but would prefer to see intelsat split into separate entities and be privatized in less than five years. Comsat, which is a government-mandated, publicly held company, advocates privatization of both Intelsat and Inmarsat but ,does not...

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