Ten Benefits of the
SWANsat™ System
 ere are ten strategic
benefits that will be realized by the SWANsat System:
First,
SWANsat™
will be the first and only telecommunication services provider to open up the
electromagnetic spectrum in the W-band with high-capacity, high-power two-way interactive
broadcasting.
Second,
SWANsat™
will utilize the requested broadcast spectrum in a manner that will multiply exponentially
the efficiencies of the high frequencies requested.
Third,
SWANsat™'s onboard digital signal processors and digital switching systems will enable the
offering of super-efficient bandwidth-on-demand services.
Fourth,
SWANsat™
will promote efficient use of the
71-75 GHz and 81-85 GHz portion of the electromagnetic
spectrum that have remained unused to date.
Fifth,
SWANsat™
will meet the growing world-wide demand for satellite services.
Sixth,
SWANsat™
will enhance existing uses of space communications and will promote development of new and
innovative services.
Seventh,
SWANsat™
will operate an affordable section of the information infrastructure. Our
advanced services on a non-revenue basis to the partnering
sovereign's public, private, and home schools, to their students and their families,
to their alumni and their families, to their employees and their families, and to
non-profit, tax exempt public benefit, medical, humanitarian, scientific, religious, or
educational corporations, to their members or constituents and their families, to their
employees and their families, and to their charitable supporters and their families.
Eighth,
SWANsat™
will provide a new telecommunications capability that will play a vital
part of the rapidly expanding telecommunications marketplace worldwide, thus equipping the
economic infrastructure of the partnering sovereign to augment its
agriculturally-based economy with an information technology-based economy.
Ninth,
SWANsat™
will significantly advance the state of the art in satellite technology.
Tenth,
SWANsat™’s
unique membership approach to doing telecommunications will significantly reduce the cost of
telecommunications: we anticipate that the cost of its services
will be a fraction of that of competing satellite-based and analogous terrestrially based
services.
How
SWANsat™
Advances
the Global Information Infrastructure
These
ten benefits that will accrue from
SWANsat™
will result in
an incremental advance toward the ongoing evolution of the global information infrastructure.
Here's why:
First,
unlike other domestic telecommunications satellite systems, no less than sixty
percent of the operational surpluses distributed to the present shareholders of
SWANsat™
will be utilized for charitable giving purposes, including encouragement of
wide-spread acceptance of emerging “leading edge” telecommunications technologies such as
the Applicant’s unique “Digital Telesthetics” approach to doing information. Other surpluses
will be given away for charitable purposes consistent with the goals of the Applicant’s
founder, who has already given more than USD$258 million dollars worth of satellite-based
telecommunications broadcast rights to benefit charitable beneficiaries of the Joshua
Davidson Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust, a U.S.-based recipient of 100% of the surpluses
he realized from sale of his previous holdings in an American Part 100 DBS permittee.
Second,
SWANsat™
will promote efficient use of the
71-75 GHz and 81-85 GHz bands, which have remained unused for commercial satellites to date.
Third,
SWANsat™
will meet the growing demand for satellite
services.
Fourth,
SWANsat™
will enhance existing uses of space communications
and will promote development of new and innovative services as well.
Fifth,
SWANsat™’s unique membership approach to telecommunications
will result in creation of an affordable world-wide information infrastructure.
SWANsat™
will offer its services on a membership basis to:
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Any public school, its
students and their families, its alumni and their families, and its employees and their
families.
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Any private school or other
private educational organization, its students and their families, its alumni and their
families, its employees and their families, and its charitable supporters and their
families.
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Any non-profit, tax exempt
public benefit, scientific, religious, or educational corporation, its members or
constituents and their families, its employees and their families, and its charitable
supporters and their families.
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Any formal or informal home
school educational association or its members, its students and their families, its
alumni and their families, its employees and their families, or its charitable
supporters and their families.
By utilizing this approach to
delivering telecommunications services,
SWANsat™
will be
enabled to provide ubiquitous twenty-four hour per day service to and from any receiver
system located anywhere within the signal area serviced by the
SWANsat™
spacecraft.
Sixth,
SWANsat™
will not charge a line usage tariff denominated
in tenth-of-a-minute increments, minute-long increments, or hour-long increments for basic
telecommunication services (like the telcos and long distance telephone companies do).
Instead,
SWANsat™
will assess a low monthly or annual
standard membership fee to non-citizens of the partnering sovereign,
payment of which will allow access to a plethora of educational and informational
services and free 24-hour per day use of the
SWANsat™
equivalent to a 3Khz standard residential voice-grade service. Citizens
of the partnering sovereign will enjoy non-revenue use of the
SWANsat™
System. In essence, then,
SWANsat™
intends completely to eliminate tariffs for a two-way voice grade telecommunications line
denominated in hourly, tenth-of-a-minute, or minute-long rates. As a result, use by our
customers of a single two-way, inter-active, voice grade telecommunications line (i.e., the
equivalent of a traditional 3Khz standard residential phone service) will be free.
Seventh,
SWANsat™’s approach to education will use portions of the
electromagnetic band that have been unused for commercial satellite services thus far. The
United States of America’s FCC expressed support for use of expanded frequency band
applications when it determined that the Norris Ka-band proposal would “encourage the
development of space and ground station technology in the Ka-band, which should result in
the development of new markets and services.” Norris Satellite Communications, 7 FCC
Rcd 4289, 4290 (1992)
SWANsat™
will create those new markets and services for the
71-75 GHz and 81-85 GHz bands as well.
Eighth,
SWANsat™
will provide a new telecommunications capability that will play a vital part
of the rapidly expanding telecommunications marketplace. Through SWANsat, end users
will gain access to a range of nationwide communications services at affordable prices and
virtually on demand. Many of these services, such as high speed data sharing and
technical/medical imaging, will operate in a similar fashion to the Hughes DirecPC™ and
Expressway™ systems.
Ninth,
SWANsat™
will significantly advance the state of the art in satellite technology.
SWANsat™
will feature such innovative advancements as on-board satellite switching and
processing, coverage, advanced ground terminal technology that allows use of extremely small
and inexpensive earth terminals, and elimination of the need for using the Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN).
SWANsat™
will maximize use of its assigned spectrum.
Tenth,
SWANsat™’s unique approach to doing telecommunications will set a international
precedent that will significantly reduce the cost of telecommunications.
SWANsat™
will utilize its surpluses to self-finance its replacement spacecraft.
SWANsat™
anticipates that the cost of its services will be a
fraction of that of competing satellite-based and analogous terrestrially based services.
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