... national policy mandating the establishment of a worldwide communications satellite system in coopektion with other nations. This act authorized the formation of a .new 1 i Copyright 0 1976 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Haward Business School case 276195. 1. In the FCC proceeding, representatives of the Coninon Carrier Bureau's trial staff twk the mle of public advocate. To. fulfill this role, they were segregated kom the commission's decision-making personnel. private company to represent the United States in the proposed satellite system. Comsat was incorporated on February 1, 1963, to fulfill this role. Under the .. Satellite Act it was charged with establishing "as expeditiously as practicable" a commercial communications satellite system as part of an improved global communications network. The act specifically required the inclusion of economically less developed countries in the development of this system. Although Comsat was j incorporated as a private company, it was obliged under the ...

See this essay or coursework document in full right now