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Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One are collectively eligible to win up to $9,700,000,000 in accelerated payments if they clear 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum by 2023-12-05.
The FCC reduced SES’s and Telesat’s accelerated clearing payment amounts to provide modest increases to Paris-based Eutelsat Communications and Brazilian operator Embratel Star One.
Eutelsat proposed reducing SES’s share to 22.1% ($2,150,000,000), Telesat’s share to 0.12% ($11,200,000), and Star One’s share to 0.03% ($2,700,000).
Eutelsat submitted a claim for nearly $1,500,000,000 of the incentive payments, which is about three times the 5% share the FCC proposed for Eutelsat.
A combined allocation of $7,500,000,000 or more to Intelsat and Eutelsat would reduce the shares available to SES and Telesat under the FCC plan.
Eutelsat requested that Intelsat receive 62.6% ($6,070,000,000) of the proposed incentive payments and that Eutelsat receive up to $1,470,000,000.
If the FCC maintains its original allocations, 50% of the incentive payments would go to Intelsat and 41% would go to SES, with the remaining 9% allocated to Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One.
SES and Telesat say the scope of work for clearing C-band has not changed since Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat jointly commissioned a study as part of the C-Band Alliance in 2018.
Eutelsat helped form the C-Band Alliance with Intelsat, SES, and Telesat in 2018 and quit the group in 2019 after disagreeing with its members.
Eutelsat aligned with Intelsat on 2020-02-21 and urged the FCC to allocate 62.6% of the proposed accelerated clearing payments, or $6.07 billion, to Intelsat.
Eutelsat proposed reducing SES’s share to 22.1% ($2,150,000,000), Telesat’s share to 0.12% ($11,200,000), and Embratel Star One’s share to 0.03% ($2,700,000).
Eutelsat proposed that it should receive 15.2% of accelerated clearing payments, or $1,470,000,000.
Eutelsat projects C-band clearing costs of $3,500,000,000 after splitting from the C-Band Alliance.
Eutelsat left the C-Band Alliance in September and in a 2020-01-27 filing with the FCC estimated its total cost from the spectrum changes at $3,500,000,000.
Eutelsat-7C was built by Maxar and launched in June on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Eutelsat transferred customers from Eutelsat-7A to Eutelsat-7C overnight from 2020-01-27 into 2020-01-28.
Eutelsat 5 West B, which launched in October, will enter service in January with only 45% of its intended capacity due to an unusable solar array.
Eutelsat has not yet decided on the size of an insurance claim it will file for Eutelsat 5 West B’s lost performance.
The GEO-3 hosted payload is anticipated to generate around 7,000,000 EUR in annual revenue for Eutelsat and about 102,000,000 EUR over its 15-year life span.
Eutelsat expects the power loss on Eutelsat 5 West B will reduce the company’s revenue by 5 million to 10,000,000 EUR for the remainder of its fiscal year ending 2020-06-30.