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DS-1598         January 31, 1996


SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES


THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU MAKES ITS EARTH STATION
LICENSING DATA AVAILABLE OVER THE INTERNET.  


Licensing data from the International Bureau's Consolidated Earth Station (CES) licensing
database is now available from the FCC's Internet site.  The CES system is the FCC's central
database for the licensing of satellite earth station facilities.  Both domestic and international earth
stations are included. Other earth station categories included are:  common carrier, private,
developmental, TVRO, VSAT, transportable, DBS and MSS feeder uplinks.

Earth station data and database documentation can be downloaded using either anonymous FTP
or a World-Wide-Web browser.  CES data and documentation are available in the form of PKZIP
self-extracting archives which are compatible with MS-DOS PCs.  

The World-Wide-Web address is 

     "http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/WWW/cesintro.html"

and the FTP address is 

     "ftp.fcc.gov" or "192.104.54.3".  

CES data and documentation files are:

     /pub/Bureaus/International/WWW/ces-data.exe
     /pub/Bureaus/International/WWW/ces-doc.exe


  -FCC-