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What's New at SWANsat
Check
this page often to learn what's new at SWANsat™.
This page will provide, in summary form, a list of some of our latest
milestone accomplishments regarding SWANsat™
going back as far as mid-2003.
Summary of Major Milestones
Completed to Date:
COMPLETED: (1996-1997)
Frequency Availability Studies
COMPLETED: (1997-1998)
Technology Feasibility Modeling
COMPLETED: (1999-2000)
Orbital Slot Optimization Study
COMPLETED: (2000-2003)
Licensing through ITU Member Nation
COMPLETED: (2004)
ITU First Commercial Use Claim Filing
COMPLETED:
(2004-2005)
Income Analysis for ODA Participation
COMPLETED: (2005-2006)
Crafting Shareware Telecommunications Model
COMPLETED:
(2006-2007)
Draft
Landing Rights MOU
Crafted and Distributed
COMPLETED: (2007-
to
2008) W-band Filing at ITU and
Spreading the Word...
COMPLETED: (2009
- present) Working toward African Union endorsement of
SWANsat
IN
PROGRESS:
USD$36billion,
payable in
6
annual tranches of USD$6
billion over
50
months, plus USD$4
billion for marketing and public awareness
And
here's what's been happening lately:
Milestones
Accomplished in 2010
On 15 February 2010, SWANsat Holdings filed a Notice of Claim of Exemption based on provisions contained in the Republic of Germany's regulations concerning Section 58 exemptions for operations in never-before-assigned electromagnetic frequencies such as the W-band. Copies of the Notice of Claim of Exemption were simultaneously served on the ITU and other international and national regulatory agencies.
Milestones
Accomplished in 2009
 On
11
August we presented our
drafts Notes Verbale to the
African Union that are to lead to a meeting with the African Union
Secretariat regarding a public endorsement of the SWANsat System.
On
11
August we presented our
Technology Readiness Assessment Analysis
to the African Union's Ministry for Infrastructure and Energy for due
diligence analysis that should lead to a public endorsement by the
African Union of the SWANsat System.
 On
17
July 2009 the SWANsat System and Global Settlement Foundation (GSF)
entered into a
Memorandum of Understanding and Joint Interest
Agreement which delegates the
management of the AUric to the GSF.
In late June we completed our
final design for the
400
AURIC gold coin that we're proposing for the gold standard that will
play a role in our proposed Marshall
Plan for the African Union. It looks like this:
In
late April we met with officials of the African Union at their
Permanent Mission to the United States of America in Washington, DC,
to plan our next steps that will lead to a public endorsement by the
African Union of the SWANsat System.
Milestones
Accomplished in 2008
In
mid-October 2008, accompanied by representatives of the NEPAD Council,
we visited the African Union's embassy in Washington, DC to discuss
how SWANsat could revolutionize the economy of the African continent.
We addressed His Excellency Erastus Mwencha, the African Union's
Deputy Chairperson, as well as Prof. Ibrahim, Head of Infrastructure
and Energy for the African Union.
In late August, 2008 we were
invited by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to apply for
funding guarantee for the USD$36
billion we'll need to build and launch SWANsat. This bank began
analyzing our project in November 2008.
 On
1
April 2008, the ITU published SWANsat's formal filings for its first 3
spacecraft that will comprise our initial global network.
Click here to download a PDF copy of
the internet filings.
 From
13-15 February 2008 we attended the
NEPAD Council's ICT Africa 2008
conference, sponsored by the
NEPAD Council, in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, the capital of the African Union. We talked about how
SWANsat can serve as an effective economic model for bridging the
digital divide and as a modern
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
 On
24
December our award winning graphic artist friend Larry Vilott
completed preliminary design work on the obverse side of the
500
AURIC gold coin that we're proposing become the gold and silver
standard of the African Union. The design will be introduced formally
at the
NEPAD Council's ICT Africa 2008
conference to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 13-15 February
2008. Under SWANsat's version of a proposed Marshall
Plan for the African Union,
participation funds equivalent to as much as €1
billion per month will be paid to the African Union, denominated in
gold, which will be purchased from African nations and converted into
AURIC coinage for use by its member states.
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On
18 December we again
conferred with the African Union's embassy regarding our upcoming
address to the
NEPAD Council's ICT Africa 2008
conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia regarding
a
special tutorial
on
how SWANsat will serve as an effective economic model for bridging
the digital divide and as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
Following this private briefing, Ambassador Ali sent an official
invitation to the African Union's Minister of Infrastructure,
Energy, and Information, inviting him to attend our presentation
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In
late November we signed an agreement with the
NEPAD Council
in Washington, DC, under the terms of which the Council will
represent us in a liaison relationship with the African Union by which
we'll present SWANsat as an effective economic model for bridging the
digital divide and as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
 From
29-30 October 2007 we attended the
Connect Africa Summit in Kigali,
Rwanda, where we discussed how SWANsat can serve as an effective
economic model for bridging the digital divide within the context of
SWANsat serving as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
We met with the Secretary-General of the International
Telecommunication Union and with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on
29
October and talked about SWANsat with many of the national leaders of
the African Union who attended the Summit.
On
17
October the
NEPAD Council
agreed to enter into a Joint Interest Agreement and
Memorandum of Understanding with us under the terms of which the
Council will serve as a liaison representing us before the African
Union as together we work toward a landing rights agreement regarding
SWANsat. An option for the African Union to participate as a funding
partner with SWANsat will also be explored.
On
27
September we received an endorsement for SWANsat from the
NEPAD Council.
SWANsat would be a "worthwhile initiative for Africa, provided the
promised €1
per
2
Meg/second of symmetric bandwidth for third world countries will
indeed be achievable. We will be willing to endorse the project based
on that assumption."
On
8
September we attended a reception at the South African embassy in
Washington, DC to benefit the
NEPAD Council, a nonprofit
organization founded by African experts and professionals to advocate
for ICT issues world wide. There we met with NEPAD Council President
Dr. Appolinaire Djikeng and Senior Vice-president Dr. Jabulani
Dhliwayo about how SWANsat can serve as an effective economic model
for bridging the digital divide within the context of SWANsat serving
as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
We sent a set of electronic briefing documents to them.
On
6
September we conferred with the embassy of the African Union to the
United States of America in Washington, DC, regarding SWANsat as an
effective economic model for bridging the digital divide within the
context of SWANsat serving as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
We were asked to prepare a private briefing for the presentation
before the ambassador in a personal meeting. A set of electronic
briefing documents was sent to her office.
 On
19
July we presented a private executive briefing to The Economic and
Commercial Bureau of the
Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
to the United States of America regarding SWANsat as an effective
economic model for bridging the digital divide within the context of
SWANsat serving as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
 
On
19
July we presented a private executive briefing to various executives
affiliated with the
World Bank and its related
organization, the
International Finance Corporation
regarding SWANsat as an effective economic model for bridging the
digital divide within the context of SWANsat serving as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
 On
9
July we presented a private executive briefing to the
Embassy of the Republic of Korea to
the United States of America in Washington, DC, regarding SWANsat as
an effective economic model for bridging the digital divide within the
context of SWANsat serving as a
Marshall Plan for the African Union.
 On
2
July we presented a private executive briefing to executives of
Aerospace Corporation regarding
SWANsat.
 On
1
June we presented a private executive briefing to Mr. Sarbuland Kahn,
Executive Coordinator for the United Nations'
Global Alliance for ICT and Development
regarding SWANsat as an effective economic model for bridging the
digital divide.
 SIGNAL
Magazine devoted its May 2007 cover story to a description of the
SWANsat project.
Click
here to download the
entire May 2007 issue of Signal Magazine in PDF format from the Signal
web site.
Click
here to open a new window in your browser on the SIGNAL
site and read the article in HTML format.
Click
here to download the
entire May 2007 issue of Signal Magazine in PDF format from our web
site. File size is
10,587,158 bytes.
On
27
April we also opened discussions with the
Organization of American States
concerning a proposed Memorandum of Understanding regarding
SWANsat.
On
27
April we also opened discussions with the
Pacific Islands Forum
concerning a proposed Memorandum of Understanding regarding
SWANsat.
On
27
April we opened discussions with the
South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
concerning a Memorandum of Understanding regarding SWANsat.
From 18-20 April the
African Union
held its
First Ministerial Conference on Information and
Communications Technologies
in Cairo, Egypt. Our proposed Memorandum of Understanding was placed
on the agenda for discussion.
On
13
April we contacted the
African Union
regarding a Memorandum of Understanding, under the terms of
which the fifty-three member nations of the AU will grant landing
rights for the SWANsat System in exchange for our provision of
educational and telemedical video capacity to the educational and
medical information ministries of the member states.
From 23-29 March we attended the
Computer Association of Nepal's
InfoTech 2006 Forum in
Kathmandu, Nepal. We discussed the SWANsat Shareware
Telecommunications Model at
a keynote dinner
attended by about
100
of Nepal's key ICT stakeholders and
addressed a plenary session
on the subject of how SWANsat can meet United Nations Millennium
Development Goals and ECOSOC 2000 mandates. We also met with several
members of Nepal's government regarding landing rights for SWANsat and
gave a number of press interviews.
From 1-3 March we attended the
International Forum for ICT Strategies and Investment
in Marrakech, Morocco, where we met with officials from the Islamic
Development Bank and from Ericsson. We also
discussed the SWANsat Shareware
Telecommunications Model.
From 21-24 November we attended the
ITU/BDT
Regional Seminar on Fixed
Mobile Convergence and New
Network Architectures
for
the Arab Region in Tunis and
presented a discussion
on how SWANsat can meet Sustainable Development and Open Access Goals
of the UNICT Task Force via the SWANsat Shareware Telecommunications
Model.
We attended the World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS) conference from November 16-18 in
Tunis, Tunisia and spoke with representatives of the Ministries of
Communication for more than 30 nations.
On
6
November we surrendered the licenses that had been issued by Tuvalu,
citing Tuvalu's unwillingness to authorize SWANsat to make filings
before the ITU. Without authorization to make filings, SWANsat can no
longer pursue its licensure with Tuvalu. SWANsat continues working on
behalf of the Republic of Nauru.
On
1
November the
SWANsat Project was listed
in the ITU's prestigious
Golden Book,
which promotes new
commitments and initiatives, as recorded in the
World Summit on the Information Society
stocktaking database (see:
WSIS-II/PC-3/DOC3).
The Golden Book was launched in October 2005.
In mid-October we delivered a letter to
the Her Excellency Gloria Arroyo, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, in which we proposed that the Philippine government enter
into a strategic partnership with SWANsat™
that could bring post-launch revenues of up to USD$6
billion per year to that country's government.
 17
September 2005 saw a significant milestone reached in the cellular
world as the total number of connections worldwide passed 2 billion.
The growth rate is impressive—after clocking up 1 billion in 2002, 20
years after cellular was first launched, the 2nd billion came up in
just 3 years.
On
17
September we presented a briefing on SWANsat to His Excellency Ludwig
Scotty, President of Nauru, as a side event to the United Nations
summit held in New York City
From 12-15 September we attended
the ITU's Mobile Telecommunications Conference in Kiev, Ukraine, where
we presented a discussion on how SWANsat can meet the Open Access
Goals of the United Nations Information and Communications
Technologies Task Force.
In early June 2005 we began a
feasibility study regarding formation of
mySWANbank, a proposed banking
service for SWANsat™
users. Our
mySWANbank
service will be operated in conjunction with SWANsat's
affiliated Banque de Commerce Internationale.
On
13
May 2005 SWANsat™
founder William Welty received his Ph.D. in Communications from
Louisiana Baptist University.
The subject of his dissertation was a study
On Utilization of the W-Band High
Frequency Electromagnetic Spectrum for Creation of and Deployment of
an Alternative Global Telecommunications Infrastructure;
i.e., SWANsat™.
From 7-17 April 2005 SWANsat™
founder William Welty visited the Philippines to discuss how their
Overseas Foreign Workers program can benefit from MySWANmail™
encrypted email as well as financial, medical, and educational
services to remote islands. We were invited to present a formal
proposal to the government regarding SWANsat™.
From 18-19 November 2004 SWANsat™
founder William Welty attended the Seventh Meeting of the
UNICT Task Force
in Berlin, Germany, where he discussed the potential for SWANsat
to meet many of the goals and objectives of the Task Force with
respect to sustainable development and open access for broadband
communications.
On
16
August 2004 our host country authorized our appointment to membership
in the ITU's Telecommunication Information Exchange Service (TIES).
Our having been granted access to the ITU's information database will
assist us in finishing our SWANsat™
filing before the ITU.
On
6
May 2004 the United Nations
Information and Communications Technologies Task
Force, with which our founder William Welty is affiliated
as a member of several of its working groups, posted a link to the
informal supplemental statement that
we sent to
the ITU
on
1
May 2004.
On
1
May 2004 we filed an
informal supplemental statement
before
the ITU
concerning our
26
April filing of our claim of first commercial use of the W-band. This
document describes what SWANsat™
is, why it's needed, what it will do for the world, and how it will
help bridge the digital divide by providing inexpensive broadband
services to underserved communities worldwide.
On
27
April 2004 we received
an acknowledgement and receipt of the
SWANsat™
filing from
the ITU
regarding our
26
April 2004 filing. With this receipt, our claim of our first
commercial use of the W-band is secured.
On
26
April 2004 we filed an
Advanced Publication Information (API) filing
at the
International Telecommunication
Union
in electronic format concerning the SWANsat™
System. Our filing claimed first commercial use of the W-band for
delivery of broadband services via geosynchronous telecommunications
satellites.
On
24
March 2004 the United States Patent and Trademark Office mailed a
confirmation statement and receipt for our 8 December 2003 patent
filing concerning the
SWANsat
business model. With this receipt, our proprietary intellectual
property for the SWANsat
model is now protected by patent laws.
On
8
March 2004 we received a grant of an Application for
Assignments from the Republic of Nauru. But this time, our host
country also sent a letter to the ITU authorizing us to make an
Advanced Publication Information (API) filing before that body.
On
8
December 2003 Leading Edge Technologies filed with the United States
Patent and Trademark Office for patent protection regarding its
proprietary SWANsat™
business model.
On
27
May 2003 we received grant of an Application for
Assignments to operate SWANsat™
that we had filed with the government of Tuvalu. The grant was
released in mid-July, but Tuvalu never issued a letter to the ITU
authorizing us to file a registration claim for first use of the
W-band. As a result, we had no standing to file on behalf of Tuvalu
any claim of first commercial use of the W-band.
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Milestones
Accomplished in 2006
We
attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference
from November 16-18 in Tunis, Tunisia and spoke with representatives
of the Ministries of Communication for more than 30 nations.
