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13 November 1979 -
WORLDWI~E REPORT
TELECOMh1UNICATIONS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(FOUO 13/79)
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WORLUWIDE AFFAIRS -
Comments on African Claims To Be Submitted to WARC in Geneva
(JEUNE AFRIQUE, 26 Sep 79) 1
. Briefs
. ~~10VOSTI-ASAHI SHIMBUN' Agreement 3 -
ASIA
_ JAPAN
Ftiijitsu Geaxi.ng Up for U.S. Exports
(MAINICHI DAILY NEWS, 21 Sep 7.9) 4
Brief s
Josephson Memory 6
NEC U.S. Dealership 6
Fiber Optics Laser 6
_ Low Loss Optical F~.ber 7
Anti-IBM Alignments Formi.ng 7 -
Fujitsu Supercomputer 7
Fujitsu-TRW Tie-Up 7
Optical Fiber Undersea Cable 7
_ NEAR EAST AND NORTFI AFftICA
, SAUDI ARABIA
Brief s
Arab Corrm?unications SatellitES 9
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CONTENTS (Continued) PBge ~
SUB-SAHARAN AF~,ICA
- IVORY COAST
Ivorian Telecommunications Minister Interviewed
(JEUNE AFR.IQUE, 26 Sep 79) 10
USSR ~
Improvements in Television Broadcasting Discussed
(V. P. Dudkin; VESTNIK SVYAZI, Aug 79) i4
_ YJEST EUROPE
FRANCE
Decisions Awaa.ted on Telecom-1, TDF-1 Satelli~es
_ (Pierre I,angereux; AIR & COSMO~, Sep 79) 19
MA~RA To Build Telecom-1 Satellite _
(Alberi; Ducrocq; AIR & C0~40S, 22 Sep 79) 21
F~.irther Details on Telecom-1 Development
(Pierre Langereux; AIR 8c C05~405, 22 Sep 79) 23
TELSPACE Now Secon3 in Communications Field
(Pierre Langereux; AIi~ & COSl40S, 22 Sep 79) 26
Inventory of TELSPACE Ground Stations to 1 September 1979 :
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COMMENTS ON AFRICAN CLAIMS TO BE SUBMITTED TO WARC IN GENEVA
Paris J'EUNE AFRIQUE in French 26 Sep 79 p 71 LD
[A. A. commentary: "Africa's Voices"]
[Text] Many African and Arab countries are aware that they would not gain ~
anything by turning the Geneva [World Administrative Radio Conference]
. confere~ce into a court of accusation. At the preparatory regional
meeting in Nairobi (Kenya) in February 1979 they prepared the technical
- arguments with which they will support their demands especially in the
field of radio and television. .
Their first concern is to protect and develop national broadcasting.
Almost all broadcasts in Africa are made by using so-called decametric ~
waves better known under the names long and medium waves. These bands _
" have many users: in addition to most international broadcasts they are
used by maritime and aeronautical radio users, post offices, meteorological
services and so forth, which means great congestion. Although African
stations have only these bands for their communications, the industrialized
countries will be able to do without them once they have launched all their
radio communications satellites. Therefore at Geneva Africa will ask -
either for the extension of these bands to reduce interference or for the
great powers simply to withdraw from them.
Furthermore, within these bands certain transmitters are much more powerful
than others, and Africa is at a disadvantage here. This imbalance
encourages intentional or unintentional interferen.ce. Therefore the -
developing countries are calling into question the a~thorized transmitter _
power limits. In this way, especially if they persuade the conference to ~
reserve decametric wavelengths exclus~.vely for broadcasting, African
- broadcasts will finally be able to ?~e heard clearly throughout national
territories and perhaps even in other countries.
~ Furthermore, Airica uses shor~ and very short wavelengths for stationary
services (post office, meteorological sarvice...) and for mobile services
y (aviation, maritime navigation, radio cars...). The bands w~hich have been
allotted [attribuer] to Africa are now proving inadequate.
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Furthermore, account should be taken of new technologies. A new band known
as the single lateral band in the decametric wavelength bands will eoon be
in use. Of course it offers considerable advantages since it enables a
- larger number of stations to function on the same range of waves. However, k
- this new technology requires the complete replacement of all the recei~ters
now in service and, hence, considerable expenditure which most Third World ,
countries cannot afford. They want their access to the single lateral bana _
to be reserved even if they do not yet have the means to use it.
The same demand is being made for access to the famous 1 oi~;ahextz
centimetric band which enables sound broadca~ting direct by satellite.
In a less technical field the Nairobi seminar participants criticized the
- world's division into three telecommunications regions (Amarica, Europe
and Africa-Asia). This division dates from the Atlantic City (United States)
eonference in 1947 [date as published] and is not suited to present needs.
Finally, also in the name of equal rights, the African countries want to ~
reserve access to "orbital parking places" for their future direct radio
- communication and radio-telsvision satellites. ' _
Africa thinks its demands are reasonable. Will it rnanage to convince its ~
interlocutors? . -
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~ 'NOVOSTI-ASAHI SHIMBUN' AGREII~NT--The executives of the NOVOSTI Soviet News
Agency and the ASAHI SHIMBUN agreed on Friday to continue efforts to deepen
their ties by promoting exchanges of news and by 3ointly sponsoring cul-
tural events. The agreement was reached at a meeting held at the ASAHI
SHIMBUN's Tokyo office during a courtesy call paid by a NOVOSTI delegation, .
including President L. N. Tolkunov. The ASAHI SHIMBUN was represented by
Chairman Tomod Hirooka, President Seiki Watanabe and Managing Director
Shoryu Hata. President Mitsugu Nakamura of the ASAIiI EVENING NEWS was also
_ present at the meeting. Watanabe stressed the important role the press can
have in furthering Japanese-Soviet relations. Tolkunov said the press was
required to exert their best efforts when bilateral relations were in a
delicate situation ~nd emphasized the importance of deepening mutual under-
- standing. [Text] [Tokyo ASAAI EVENING NEWS in English 29 Oct 79 p 3 OW]
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- FUJITSU GEARING UP FOR U.S. EXPORTS
Tokyo MAINICHI DAILY NEWS in English 21 Sep 79 p 5
[Textj The leading Japanese computer manufacturer Fu~itsu Ltd announced
_ Wednesday that it has started preparations for exporting its own computer
- systems and computer peripherals under its own brandname "FACOM" to the
United States for the first time by embarking upon a feasibility study
with American conglomerate TRW, Inc on the assumption of eventual forma-
tion of a joint sales venture there.
Fujitsu said the feasibility study got under way this month to last about ~
six months and will cover marketing research on the U.S. market and
business plans for a possible tie-up. The products under consideration
are all the Fujitsu computer systems and related equipment except for
Fujitsu's high-end computer systems produced for Amdhal Corp and magnetic
tape equipment produced for Memorex.
- The Japanese computer maker said that the f easibility study does not bind
the two companies to form a joint sales venture. _
However, it continued, if the study proves to be successful, the joint
venture will be established next March and will become operational in
around September next year. And the size of the joint venture will be
decided by the end of this year, it added. In that event, it said Fujitsu
- will take the majority equity and controlling power in the sales venture.
Fujitsu has long been wanting to get into the world's largest computer
- market under its own brandname, although it has been selling computers
and peripherals ~snder the brandname of Amdhal and Piemorex.
The Amdhal computers manufactured by Fujitsu are usually called plug
compatible machines to the IBM computers because these PCMs can be used
�in place of IBM machines at lower prices.
However, IBM started to market new computers (Series E) whose software
(operating system essential to run computers) are different from pr.e-
vious models and will not leave much room for PCMs manipulation, making -
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it very haYd for IBM compatible computer makers to make money by selling ,
lower-priced machines.
On top, two other Japanese computer makers Nippon Electric Co (I:EC) and
Mitsubishi Electric (Pielcom) have began to export their computers under
their own brandnames. Another major Japanese camuter maker Hitachi is
also wanting to advance into the U.S. market under its own brandname.
Fujitsu said it did not choose to advance into the U.S. market alone be-
cause it would entail too large of an expenditure tQ set up its own sales,
maintenance, and software networks across ~he continent and too long a
time to gain much needed know-how in doing computer business in the U.S.
So it is going to tie-up with America's llth ranking computer business
TRW because it is willing to give the controlling power to Fujitsu and
accept the FACOM brandname in th e event of tie-up.
Fujitsu said, if the joint venture is established, it will enter. the U.S. -
market with POS and financial computer terminals for sales to TKW's cus-
tomer base which includes such giant retailers as Sears, Roebuck and Co
and May Co.
Fujitsu added that it will not sell its high-end computers (M-series)
- through the possible joint sales venture in the U.S. even after the pro-
posed merger between Amdhal and Memorex materializes.
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JOSEPHSON MEMORY--Musashino Electrical Communications Laboratory of Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone has developed a non-destructive read~ut Josephson
memory element. The Musashino ECL last year developed a Josephson high
performance logic element with a delay time of 150~icosecond and power
, consumption of 6 microwatts per gate. /Summar~/ /Tokyo KIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN
in .Japanese 4 Oct 79 p 14/
NEC U.S. DEALERSHIPS--Nippon Electric's U.S. subsidiary NEC Information
Systems has contracted with 12 U.S. firms on the East Coast including
Frontier Management (Boston), DDPS (New York), and Math Box (Washington)
to act as dealers for NEC office computers and printers. NEC's sales targets
for JFY 1980 include 300 office computers and 10,000 spinwriters (printers)
to be exported to the United States. NEC plans to expand its dealership
, network to the West Co~.,st and~.n 2 years have nearly 30 U.S. firms in its
dealership ne~work. /Summary/ %Tokyo NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN in Japanese _
2 Oct 79 p 13/
FIBER OPTICS LASER--Three Japanese research groups have almost simult~neous-
- ly succeeded in developing 1,5-1.6 micron wavelength semiconductor lasers
capable of continuous operation at room temperature. The lasers have an ~
InGaAsP active layer, just as used for the 1,3 micron band but modified by
- changing the (x, y) ratios of Inl_XGaXAs1_XPy , and prevention of inelt-back
of the InP cladding layer on ~he InGaAsP active layer is accomplished by
- adding a thin InGaAsP anti-melt-back laver atop the aetive layer or by crystal -
growth at 592~C instead of the usual 630�C. The new lasers, developed by
KDD's R&D Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and NTT's Musashino Electrical `
Communications Laboratory, enable using the optimum wavelength for optical
fiber (1.55 micron, loss 0.2 dB/km) and are promising lighz sources foi
long-range transmissions of up to 100 km without a repeat~ar. [Tokyo NYKKEI
_ ELECTRONICS in Japanese 1 Oct 79 p 56] _
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LOW LOSS OPTTCAL FIBER--Ibaraki Electrical Communications Iab ~f NTT has _
test manufactured a low-loss optical fiber with propagation loss 0.5 dB/km
at l03 micron wavelength and 0.28 dB/km at 1.6 micron by using the vxpor
axial deposition (VAD} method. In contrast to the MCVD method, a thick,
long prefonn can be continuously produced, a major factor in mass produci-
bility, and cost reduction by an order of magnitude may be possible. The
results cited above were obtained with an optical fiber with a core of
Si02-Ge02~P205 and cladding of Si02-P205. [Tokyo DTIKKEI ELECTRONICS in _
Japanese 1 Oct 79 p 77]
ANTI-IBM ALIGNMENTS FORMING--It appears that an intern~tional realignment
of the computer industry may be about to break out. Fujitsu has tied-up
with TRW, Hitachi, burdened with problems with Itel, seems to be trying
to formulate counter measures, and NEC and Mit~ubishi Electric ~:re both
in the "pre-negotiation stage" with foreign conceras. Mitsubishi Electric
is reported moving ahead toward a possible tie-up with a group of plug-
comgatible manufacturers including Magnuson and Consultant Corp. NEC ie
_ facing negotiations with Honeywell and has presented specificationa on its
ACOS machines to Nixdorf Computer, the ntunber two (to Siemens, which has a
tie-up with Fujitsu) computer company in West Germany. The source of this
information [who appears to be associated with Mitsubishi Electric] con- _
siders Japan-foreign computer company tie-ups to be a major proposition
for survival in the 1980's computer war. [Tokyo NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN in
Japanese 21 Sep 79 p 12] _
_ FUJITSU SUPERCOMPUTER--Fujitsu has announced the development of a"vector
processor" supercomputer capable of handling scientific calculations for
atomic energy and space appl:Lcations. The machine, capable of parallel
procesaing of multivariant numerical data, will be 10 times as fast as
current M-200 and M-200H general purpose computers, and a model under de- -
velopment will be 50 times as fast. Fujitsu plans to commercialize the ~
"vector processor" during the coming year. [Tokyo NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN
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FUJT ISU-TRW TIE-UP--Fuj itsu's tie-up with TRW not only gives it entry into
the U.S. computer market under its own brand name, a step in its strategy
of encirclin~ IBM, but is expected to allow Fujitsu to utilize TRW's space
~electronics, satellite, and other technology and know-how in its efforta
to enter the defense industry arena. [Tokyo NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN in
Japanese 20 Sep 79 p 12]
OPT ICAL FIBER UNDERSEA CABLE--The Optical Fiber Cable Technology JAint
- Research Committee Seab ed Cable Subcommittee (members Nippon Telegraph
and Telephone Public Corp, Furukawa Electric, Sumitomo Electric Industries,
- Fujikura Cable Works, and Ocean Cab1e) started research on undersea optical
fiber cable in spring 1978 and has now completed three prototype cables
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eash about 1 km in length and tested them at NTT's Ibaraki Electrical
Communications Lab. Fiber pressure tolerance and many other technical
problems remain, but u�~e for short diatances and shallow seas may be possi-
ble within a few years. Phase 2, which has started, is aimed at a proto-
type cable with relays for long distsnces that can withstand pressures at
10,000-meter depth, and test manufacture of this cable may be cor,?pleted as
early ae during November. [Tokyo NIHON KOGYO SHIMBUN in Japanese 17 Sep 79
p 1]
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AftAB COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES--ASCO, the Arab Communications Satellite
Consortium, is preparing to make a deposit of $100,000 payable to the
Arianespace Company to have the Ariane rocket launch the first two Arab
cormnunications satellites, called Arabsat. (,Excerpt.j ~,Paris VAI,EURS -
ACTUELLES in French ~ Oct 79 p 74~
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IVORIt1N TELECONIl~IUNICATIONS MINISTER INTERVIEWED
Paris JEUNE AFRIQUE in French 26 Sep 79 pp 4-7 ~
- [Text] [Question] Is it true, sir. that the Ministry of Posts and Tele-
communications is leaning towa.rds a management like that of a business enter- ~
prise and is drawing away from the classic administrative standard model?
What is the ministry's role now that its functions are being carried out by
companies? ~
[Answer] It is true that specific nature of the industrial and commercial ,
= sector of posts and telecommunications has led the government to confer upon ~
them the status of a public agency of the state corresponding to that specific
character. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is a supervisory ;
ministry which in particular controls the office of posts and telecommunications,
an establishment of the state, INTELCI [International Telecomiuunications of
the Ivory Coast], a state firm.
These various bodies are being increasingly run on the basis of their objec- ~
- tives, action programs and management control, just like any business concern ;
worthy of that name. At the end of the fiscal year, accounts and balance ~
sheets make it possible to sanction the management of the various sectors. ,
[Question] Your over-all plan now being carried out covers the period from ~
1976 to 1980. It is an ambitious one. Will its goals be reached?
_ [Answer] Our strict control over management makes it possible to become aware
of the gaps between planning and realization. So it is easy to'answer your
question. At the end of the 1978 fiscal year we established a diagnostic ~
balance sheet of the 1976-19$0 plan, which has been brought up to date and
finally set at 70 billion CFA [African Financial Community (monetary unit)]
francs. For the postal system, its situation is as follows. At the end of
1980 the construction work on the national postal sorting cenCer and ten new
offices will have been completed. In this way the building of 49 offices ~
making up the postal program, within a period of 5 years will have been 90 ~
percent at the end of 1978 with respect to Abid~an. In contrast, with respect ~
to the country's interior, major delays run the risk of occurring. They are ~
mainly attributable to the building firms' construction difficulties.
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Wl~ere international telecommunications are concerned, the center for the
at~tomat-ic transmission of inessages, the laying of the Ahidjan-Lagos cable
for the Akakro~station's second transmitter will achieve nearly 100 percent
realization for us in this sector.
As for the regular services, construction of the building for the Post and
TelecommunicaCions Office's central services, the first segment of the
PTT's Yamoussoukro complex and construction of the Bouake telephone exchange
will get well under way during that period.
[Question] In Abidjan as in other capitals people are talking~about the
telephone crisis. Is the end of that crisis in sight?
_ [Answer] To resolve that crisis, significant actioit has already been undertaken
by the government. It is aimed at greatly increasin,g the telephone network
as well as developing and especially modernizing the network. The total
investments devoted to that sector come to about 62 billion CFA francs, that
is, for the 1976-1980 period 10 times what was achieved from 1960 to 1975.
'ihe country's telephone service [crisis] is well on the way to being resolved.
[(2uestion] What is the status of the Africa-South America cable-laying.
[Answer] 'Che relevant construction agreement has just been signed and the
calling for bids will certainly be made at the end of the year. Putting it
into service will take place during the first quarter of 1982.
- [Question] How are the cadres and higher-level technicians in the Ivory -
Coast's PTT sphere trained? -
In Abidjan, there is a National Advanced Training School for Posts and Tele- -
communications established by Decree 67,525 of 2 May 1967. It opened its
doors in 1975. It trains engineers in telecommunications technology. On the -
other hand, a center for practical professional training turns out high-level
past and telecommunications technicians and practical technical wori;ers.
An advanced multinational training school develops postal inspectors and
~ administrators. -
[QuestionJ How can the Ivory Coast and, in a more general way, Africa, get
i involved in telecommunication programs with very limited means without being ~
i immediately outstripped by technological progress?
' [Answer] The field of telecommunications is actually a vital sector which
~ experiences developments every 10 years. When it was decided to undertake,
as we are doing, network development and modernization programs, it was evi-�- `
dent that it was necessary to take that technological devlopinent into con-
' sideration in the sphere of communications as in that of switch overs.
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In transmissions, for example, outside of the analogical wireless beams, more -
' and more is being said about numerical wireless beams, laser beams, cable
_ , lines, domestic satellites, etc. As to switch overs, our options concern .
electronic space and time telephone er.changes. -
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0�r choices take into account both our needs, our means and our determination -
. to master the development of the network on our own.
- That Ieads us to make the careful but bold choices that should avoid for us =
~ all the stages of network development vehicle the large European and American
countries have gone through. -
In the transmitting sphere, the choice has been made for the analogical
~ wire~"ess beam for the purpose of equipping the major communication lines with
300 to 2,700 telephone circuits. Regional and departmental lines will be
equipped with numerical wireless beams of 30 to 120 telephone circuits. -
- [Questibn] Wtiat lessons are to be ~ierived from PANAFTEL [Pan-African Tele-
communications Network]?
- [Answer] The lessons from it can be summed up briefly if one refers to the
conclusions of the work done on the general telecommunications plan~for
Africa [at the conference] held in Abidjan in March 1979 under the aegis
- oI the International Telecommunications Union. The means for satellite,
underwater cable, wireless beam transmitting are to be taken jointly into
_ account so as to make them complementary to each other.
. [Question] What zra the prospects where telecomputer and telecoimnunication
matters are concerned for the 1981-1985 plan? And in the year 2000?
[Answer] In the field of telecommunicatians where the next plan that we are
in the process of drawing up is concerned, the outlook is very promising. Our
draft planning leads us to envisage that between 1985 and 1990 the Ivory -
Coast'e telephone network shou~ld increase from 75,000 to 120,000 or 150,000
- telephone lines. The electronic exchanges of a time type.will probably be
higtily developed and will replace the electromechanical exchanges. The !
transmitting of telematic data will develop enormously. ~
With respect to prospects for the year 2,000 and assuming particularly that '
the immediate objectives, which preoccupy us far more, are attained, it is �
possible to assert that telecommunications will take on a new look that will
probably be one of computers, satellites, transistors and microcircuits. So
- it wi'~1 be possible to have visiophonic terminal equipment available for the
homes of subscribers, teaching through computers will be feasible, the radio
telephone will make it possible for subscribers to make calls while traveling -
short or moderate distances. We will be able to be in touch with the com- ~
puters by means of telephones with keyboards so as to make inventories,
do accounting or keep stock recQrds.
The long distance automatic telephone will certainly have spread throughout
- the world as a whole thanks to the development of satellites, underwater cables
and overland systems. Finally, the development of the electronic switch will
make possible communication, tone and reduced automatic selection transfers.
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According to those who.make forecasts, the year 2,000 will be that of the
communications computer, that is, communication sy~tems bringing to~ether tele-
` communications, television and the computer.
[Question] Is it possible that the Ivory Coast in ti-~e year 2000 will have
the benefit of a netwcrk equal in quality to those r,f the developed countries. ~
, [Answer] If the policy now being implemented by the government is continued,
the quality of our network will to begin with meet all of our requirements by
the end of the centur;?. For that very reason, it will have nothing to envy
that of. the networks of some developed countries.
[Question] At a time when the International Administrative.Telecommunications -
Conference in Geneva is preparing to look into the problem of al].ocating fre-
quencies, what is the Ivory Coast's position?
_ [Answer] While reserving my answer to that question for that highly signifi-
cant co~?ference, let it suffice to tell you that the Ivory Coast's proposals
' will mainly relate to finding an equitable world-wide across the board allo-
cation of radio-electric frequencies and geostationary space for the benefit
of all humanity with no discrimination regarding means.
[Question] How does the Ivory Coast envisage utilization of diiect radio-
communication satellites?
Develapments in the satellite sphere lead one as a first stage to envisage
regional or continental networks of telecommunication satellites. The pro-
_ blem of direct communication satellites is not a techncial communications
- problem. It is in the sphere of information and includes political pro-
blems of such significance that it will take a great deal more time before =
we see that possibility of disseminating information, especially for the large
countries and then for the whole world.
[Question] Is there a joint view among the African countries on this sub-
- ' ject? -
[Answer] Where the African countries are concerned, I think that when the
time comes, the Pan-African Press Agency will be able to look into that -
matter.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEVISION BROADCASTING DISCUSSED
Moscow VEST~IIK SVY~AZI in Russian No 8, Aug 79 pp 2-3
LAr.ticle by V.P.Dudkin, chief of the Television Broadcasting Division of _
the USSR Ministry of Communications: "Constant Improvement in the Quality
of Operation of Television Broadcasting Facilities"/ -
/Text/ Among the "Basic Trends in the Development of the National Economy
of the USSR for 1976-1~80" are the tasks of "ensuring further development
. of radio and television broadcasting, including color, as well as providing
for more extensive use o~ artificial earth satellites, primarily for pro-
viding television broadcasting to the areas of Western and Eastern Siberia..." -
- Great efforts are already underway ln these areas. The main tasks in the
area of television broa~icasting for the immediate future include further
growth in color-television coverage for the country's population,
accelerated introduction of technical facilities for sending television
- programs to the most distant and inaccesible populated points in the country, -
development of multiple channels for col~r television, and further improve-
ment in the quality of television broadcasting.
At the present time, television is watched by 83 percent of the population
of the USSR, which includes two channels to approximately 50 percent of the -
population, and three or more channels to 15 percent. The television
network includes approximately 410 high-power television (TV) stations with
_ outputs of 5 to 50 kilowatts, among which more than 120 broadcast local -
programs. Nearly 2,100 low-power retransmitters operate in small populated
areas. In practically all cities which recetde central television program- -
ming, it is possible to receive it in color.
The ground network for transmitting television channels contains 100
thousand kilameters of radio relay lines (RRL). Thanks to a significant
volume of work un the renovat~on of the RRL, the principal main lines
comply with the GOST (All-Union State Standard) requirements completely.
Recently there has been a clear-cut tendency toward accelerated development
of the broadcasting network and cessation in growth of program television '
stations. Moieover, the volume of timely television programming on location
, is growin~ and is being included in central and republic programming, and
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" the channels for program transmission are being lengthened greatly. All _
this requires continuous improvement in the exchange network for TV pro-
gramming tra.ffic. Included recently in the network have been the "space
bridges," formed with the aid~of stationary as well as mobile satellite
comanunications stations of the "Mars" type. The network for the distribu-
tion of television programs includes broadcasting units with an output of
- 5 kilowatts of the type "Yakor'," "Igla," and "Zona-1," ax?d those with an
output of 50 kilowatts, the "Uragan" and "Len." During the last 2 years ~
utilization has begun c~f the more effective broadcasting units, the "Zona-2."
In addition to the indicated types of units, which comprise the basis of the
TV broadcasting network, obsolete transmitters are still in use, such as _
the TTR-5/1.5 (Standard Television Station), the TTR-15/7.5, the TU-331
(Repeater), and the MTR-2/1. This equipment is used in specific cities .
primarily for broadcasting the second and third channels. Retransmitters -
which operate in the low-power television retransmitter network include _
such types as the TRSA-56, TRSA-12/12, TRSO, RTsTA-70 (with an output of _
100 watts), RPTN (with an output of one watt), and the TRSN (with an
- output of two watts).
It should be mentioned that the majority or technical equipment in use was
developed without consideration for the requirements of high-qua~ity trans- ~
mission of color television'signals. New equipment has only recently been
developed, such as the transmitter ATRS-5/1, which is now beginning to be
introduced, the "Zona-2," the television retransmitters RTsTA, as well as
, the RPDTA, the first models of which will b~ manufactured by industry and
will meet the GOST requirements for color television.
In an effort to guarantee the necessary high-quality indicators specialists
of the USSR Ministry of Communications have organized the modernization and
renovation of the TV transmitting stations. Nlpdernization of the "Yakor""
Stations is nearly totally complete. At the present time recommendations
are being developed for modernizing the "Uragan" and "Igla" stations.
In order to raise the level of service for radio and television equipment, -
employees of the USSR Ministry of Co~nunications regularly conduct both all-
union and.zonal technical seminars. For example, during the 1977-1979 period _
~ seminars were held in the cities of Oryel, Yerevan, Beleba in the Bashkir
ASSR, and in Volo.gda, which dealt with the new television station~"Zona-2.:"
A seminar in Chelyabinsk was devoted to the problems of raising the quality -
and reliability of transmitting facilities. In Riga a seminar was conducted
concerning automation and control of transmitting facilities. On a yearly
basis up to 60 employees of operational enterprises take part in qualifications-
improvement courses at communication institutes in the cities of Leningrad,
Tashkent, Novosibirsk, and Kuybyshev. ~
All this has had a positive effect on the operations of the transmitting ~
facilities of television broadcasting. The average length of technical
interruptions at a high-powered RTS (Television relay station) (which in ;
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1978 amounted to 0.46 minutes per 1,000 hours of operation, and in 1976 to
0.68 minutes) and the length of deviations from estabilished norms were
- reduced. For a number of years enterprises of many oblasts, ktays, and
autonomous republics of the RSFSR (including the Altayskiy Kray, the
Bryanskaya, Vladimirskaya, and Yaroslavskaya oblasts, the Udmurtskaya,
, Severo-Osetinskaya ASSR, and others) have been operating without technical
interruptions caused by operational personnel.
In 1978 the length of technical interruptions was reduced significantly a~
many oblast and republic enterprises. For example, technical interruptions
were completely eliminated in 1978 at the high-powered RTS in the Kurs~caya
and Kuybyshevskaya oblasts. In the Byelorussian SSR the length of technical
- interruptions was reduced from 0.4 minutes in 1977 to 0.03 minutes in
_ 1978, and in the Litovskaya SSR from one minute to 0.02 minutes correspond-
ingly. The television broadcasting stations in the Estonian SSR, Latvian
SSR, and the Ukrainian SSR operate with minor technial interruptions.
Although reduction in interruptions has been observed, significant technical
- interruptions still were noticed in 1978 at the high-powe~ed TV stations
of the Pskovskaya and Omskaya oblasts, the Tarar ASSR, the Tuvin ASSR, and
the Kirgiz SSR. The length ~f technical interruptions has increased
somewhat at low-powered retransmitters, while deviations from e~tablished
~ norms have decreased sharply. The completed analysis of the disruptions
indicates that in a majority of cases they are the result of many causes,
- including serious deficiencies in matters concerning the organization of
technical operations, particularly involving a lack of systematic preventive
maintenance, deficiencies in labor discipline, and insufficient knowledge
of the procedures for equipment operation. A large percentage of technical
interruptions, particularly at television retransmitters, is made up of
interruptions due to puwer supply disruption.
One of the significant causes of low-quality operations is also the fact
that the overwhelming majority of equipment (71 percent) requires renovation,
however, the USSR Ministry of Communications does not have available a
sufficient volume of equipment for this purpose. As a matter of fact, at
~ the enterprises of the USSR Ministry of the Communications Equipment Industry,
production of the means necessary for the renovation, replacement, and
� supply of equipment in the required amounts still has not begun. Th~s
affects both the broadcasting equipment of various power outputs as well
as the metering equipment with which the operational communications enter~
prises are very insufficiently supplied. The USSR Mi:~istry of the Electronics
Industry does not satisfy the needs of the communications workers for
electric vacuum and semiconductor devices, particular~.for high-power
_ transmitting tubes.
In a number of regions of the country, particularly in the mountains
(for example, in the Dagestan ASSR), channels for the transmission of
television programs are insufficiently developed. In connection with this,
it is necessary to estanlish retransmitters including the organization of
second and even third retransmissions. This sharply reduces the quality ,
' of the television tr.3nsmission. Moreover, it should be noted that for such
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regions it is necessary to have TV retransmitters with various rated outputs
of 1, 10, 100, and 1,000 watts. At the present time industry is producing
retransmitters with outputs of only 1 and 100 watts. The development of
retransmitters with an output of 10 watts has been delayed, and the question
of retransmitters with an output of 1,000 watts still has not been decided.
The existing inventory of broadcasting facilities, with the exception of
the RPTN type of TV retransmistters and the individually remodeled retrans-
mitters TRSA and the RTsTA , requires continuous, highly qualified saintenance,
which is difficult to provide under high mountain conditions and in the remote
and northern regions of the country. This is why in a number of such
_ regions individual television stations, particularly those of low power,
operate poorly. To improve the quality of their operations, automated
technical equipment for television broadcasting is being developed in
enterprises of the USSR Ministry of the Communications Equipment Industry.
With the goal of sharply increasing the quality of television broadcasting,
the USSR Ministry of Communic:ations in cooperation with a number of industrial
ministries and departments has undertaken a wide range of ineasures. For
example, the introduction has begun of the new broadcasting facilities
"ATRS-5/1", the "Zona-2," the TV retransmitters RPTDA, "Rutan," and new
systems of radio relay lines of the "Kurs" type.
Ever more extensive utilization is being made of satellite means of communication. _
The "Orbit" stations, created at the end of the sixties, have made it -
possible, through the use of artificial earth satellites "Molniya" (and ,
since 1975 "Raduga"), to transmit TV programs to the large, populated points
in Siberia, the Far East, and the Extreme North. The satellite systems of -
TV broadcasting in connection with the developing network of ground lines -
will allow the entire country to receive Central Television programming.
The efforts of the operations enterprises of the Ministry of Communications ~
of the USSR to thoroughly renovate the existing broadcasting network are
directed toward a sharp increase in the quality of TV broadcasting. One
of the paths in this renovation is the construction of television stations _
with an output of 25 to 50 kilowatts and with antennas located on towers
up to 350 meters high. One such station replaces a previously operating
and less powerful (usually five kilowatts) television station and several =
low-power retransmitters. Besides improving the quality, this replacement
will make it possible to increase the number of programs broadcast simultaneously. -
Such efforts are practically completed in the "Tul'skaya and Vladimirskaya
oblasts. It is necessary to note that renovation of the receivin~ t~etwork
is also required in these instances. This does not present a complication,
but takes a long period of time. The planned increase in the number of
other types of TV stations, the decimeter wave band, stations which emit
signals with vertical polarization, and so on, will contribute to the
further improvement in broadcasting quality. _
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: Various correcting devices ~are being developed for the purpose of improving
' the characteristics of operating TV transmitters. For example, devices ,
: already developed include a unit for input stabilization and correction of
~ the TV signal, correctors for the trunk lines, an assembly for automatic
- regalation of tlie TV signal level, as well as new meters. The "test
~ line" method is widely used for controlling the television signal transmission.~
In addition to the purely technical measures mentioned, organizational steps
for raising TV transmission quality are also beginning to be taken. Among
~hese steps is the formulation of new operating instructions for television
equipment, which take into account the long, operating experience of
"traditional" equipment and the advent of new devices for satellite TV
broadcasting. Development is continuing of the optimal structure for
_ the TV transmitting network and for frequency planning. The working indexes
for evaluating television enterprises operations are being improved. -
; It should be noted that the advent of such TV broadcasting facilities as
i satellite systems requires thorough consideration of the problems involved
in the creation of television programs. In particular, it is advisable
~ for the Gosteleradio of the USSR (State Committee for Radiobroadcasting
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~ and Television) to consider the question of the creation of special pro-
: gramming for transmission over the satellite without tying it to zonal time.
' This would make it possible to position the ground stations of the system -
throughout the entire, enormous territory of the country, which is included
in the zone of service of the indicated system, as well as to increase
sharply the coverage of the population of Siberia with Central Television _
~ progra~ning.
Only a combination of the efforts of all the scientific, engineering, and
; technical employees of the USSR Ministry of Communications, Gosteleradio
~ of the USSR, and a number of industrial ministries will make it possible to
fully sove the problems of perfecting television broadcasting as specified
' in "Basic Trends in the Development of the National Economy for 1976-1980." ,
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FRANCE
DECISIONS AWAITED ON TELECOM-1, TDF-1 SATELLITES
= Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 1 Sep 79 pp 35, 40
[Article by Pierre Langereux: "Decisions Awaited on Telecom-1 and TDF-1
Satellites"]
[Text] Matra and Aerospatiale, France's two major aerosp ace firms, continue
to vie strenuously with each other for the assignment as prime contractor for the
new Telecom-1 national public and private communications saCellite program.
Selection of the contractor was supposed to have been made in June. Later, �
the minister of industry announced it would be made in July. Since then,
however, it has been postponed from week to week because of the requirement
for additional information. There ~Jas an appreciable difference--reportedly -
on the order o= i~0 million francs--between the bids submitted by Matra (the
lower bid) and Aexospatiale. But this advantage is not necessarily the
~ deciding factor when viewed in the light of the overall services offered
by each of the pr.ime contractor candidates in their respective proposals.
The goverrsnent wants awarding of the Telecom-1 contract to be studied under
all of it:; aspects. In particular, it wants the contractor eventually selected
to be the one who offers the best possible prospects of export markets for
sub sequent communications and da+ta-transmission systems likely to be derived from
Telecom-~' . .
The latte:c is likewise one of t;he arguments advanced, each in its own behalf,
~ by the two compet~cor~ fnr th~s big contract, the estimated total cost of which is
, about 1.5 b~?l~on francs.
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~ But Matra and Aerospatiale are also engaged in cutthroat competition with each other
' for this award as prime contractor because Telecom-1 is one of the only two new
: space programs approved by the government for the 1980's. ThE~ other is the
~ civilian earth observation satellite, SPOT, construction of whi~h �aill be shared -
by Matra and Aerospatiale. An economic interest group is to be formed shortly by
CNES [National Center for Space Studies] and the General Telecommunications
Directorate (DGT) for deveiopment and production of the Telecom-1 satellite. ~
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Because French prime contractors also have misgivings about the government's _
willingness to initiate construction this year of a national direct broad-
casting TV satellite, the TDF-I, they prefer to have a bird in the hand than two
in the bush. Prime Minister Raymond Sarre did, of course, confirm in June at _
the Paris Air Show that a direct broadcasting TV satellite is being studied ~ointly -
with our German partners. But in this case too, the decision is slaw in coming. _
Yet Franco-German negotiations are said to be making progress. In fact, another
meeting is scheduled for 2 October between the French and Getman ministers,
Andre Giraud and Voker Hauff. There is still a possibility that Paris will make
a decision on the TDF-1 before the end of the year.
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- MATRA TO BUILD TELECOM-1 SATELLITE
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 22 Sep 79 p 45
[Article by Albert Ducrocq]
[Text] MATRA [Mechani~~s, Aviation, and Traction Company (also Missiles
Company)] has been cho~en to build the Telecom 1 satellite, based on the
technology developed for OTS [expansion unknown] and the European ECS -
[expansion unknown] satellites.
Completion of the design phase is scheduled for February 1980, and con- ~
struction of the first Telecom l.is expected to be completed in October
1981 for iCs placement in ~eostationary orbit by the Ariane rocket before
the end of 1982. The satellite will then be in commercial operation in
1983, which is to be celebrated worldwide as the communications year
(during which it is also expected to place the second Telecom 1 in orbit).
At launching, Telecom 1 will weigh 1,018 kg (444 kg of which are its
apogee motor, an d 120 kg its payload). In space, its two wings--each
carrying three solar panels (capable of supplying 1 kw under favorable con-
ditions)--will span 13.8 meters tip to tip.
This Telecom l, France's first dom estic satellite, will have two basic
_ missions: -
1) Primarily, with a capacity of 1,000 telephone channels, it will pro-
vide conventional communications facilities to relieve the national net-
work during peak periods and link the mainland with overseas departments. -
Paris television programs will be beamed to the Antitles as well as
Reunion. Its antennas will enable, on the one hand, a semigloba~ cover-
age (France, Spain, the Atlantic, and Af rica), and, on the other, a par-
tial, narrowly beamed coverage of the Antilles-Guiana area, all within
- the 4 gHz band (that is, uplinks operating at 5.9-6.4 gHz and downlinks
at 3.7-4.2 gHz).
For these services, a 30-meter antenna will be assigned to Telecom 1 on
the mainland, and 12-meter antennas in the overseas departments.
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2) But Telecom 1 will also have a data processing mission. It will offer
intercompany links via 6 repeaters in the 12-14 gHz band, each with a =
36 mHz bandwidth able to accommodate 25 megabauds--a total of 150 mega- ~
_ bauds for this function of the satellite--that is, the abiiity, at maximum,
to transmit the contents of 50 books in one second...
This volume of data may be handled in any form: telepho~y, telefacsimile, _
telewriting, telefilm, teleconference, computer program transference,
results of computerized calculations, information extracted from a data
J bank. In other words, Telecom 1 will put a teleprocessing service in
space, in accordance with the wish of whoever in the Jirectorate General
of Telecommunications spurred the architects of this advanced pro~ect. _
For this ~eleprocessing service, 3-meter antennas will be adequate to assure
communications. There will be many of them: more than 100 antennas are
being planned for the first phase. _
The use of Telecom 1 is expected to produce signif icant economic conse-
quences over the next decade: Company operations will undergo substantial
change as it becomes possible for the various establishments of a company, _
no matter how widely dispersed, to work as if they were all together in one
location. France should benefit directly from these gains.
_ In the beginning, the users of Telecom 1 will in effect be an autonomous -
= national network. However, it will be possible to interconnect them later
with otreer similar networks and to the worldwide network.
At MATRA, the Telecom 1 program is being developed under the direction of `
Jacques Susplugas--the telecou~unications engineer and a qualified French
astronaut--whose compe~ance is well known to us.
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FURTHER DETAILS ON TELECOM-1 DEVELOPMENT -
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 22 Sep 79 pp 46,56
- [Article by Pierre Langereux]
[Text] In the beKiniiing, ~%~len the Telecom 1 project was presented by its
_ promoters--the DGT [Directorate General of Telecommunications] and the CNi:S
[National Center for Space StudiesJ--there was no doubt ,~hatever about the -
choice: The officials in charge of the project and the minister of indus-
try himself announced that the Telecom 1 satellites would be based on the
European ECS [expansion unknown] telecommunications satellites that had
been built by MESH [expansion unknown], the European industrial_consortium,
with the major participatioa of MATRA [Mechanics, Aviation, and Traction
Company (also Missile Company)]. The intent was clearly to bypass compe-
titi~ne bidding--a justifiable decision at the time in view of the,fact that
AEROSPATIALE [National Industrial Aerospace Company] had been the success-
. ful bidder for the construction of the ESA's [expansion unknown] H-SAT
experimental direct television broadcast satellite. However, the new
European project will be nipped in the bud by the French-German decision
to develop jointly their own operational satellites for direct Celevision =
- broadcasting: TV-SAT for Germany and TDF-1 for France. Since then, the
other ESA member countries have decided to initiate another direct tele-
vision broadcast satellite project: L-SLT. But the coratract originally
awarded to AEROSPATIALE is obviously dead.
Under these circumstances, AEROSPATIALE applied to the government for per-
mission to bid on the Telecom 1 project, thus opening to question the award
promised to MATRA. Since then, the two major national aerospace firms have
engaged in a ruthless struggle for the Telecom contract.
Telecom 1, Precursor of the European Network �
The stakes are, of course, high. On the domestic scale, Telecom 1 is an -
operation estimated at 1.2 to 2 billion francs all told (instead of the =
1.5 billion francs estimate of 1 year ago) for the building of the network, -
of wh ich the space segment represents a substantial part.
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butthe government and the industrialists are looking farther ahead. As
the DGT puts it, "the French satellite system should certainly have a
gravitational effect on our European partners. To compete with the com-
parable services to be offered shortly by the American SBS system, Eurone
- will actually have to develop its own system. Telecom 1 could thus be
the first link in a new European network of domestic satellites to be in
- operation by the second half of the 1980 decade." This position is
extremely important, since, as explained by Yves Cannac, author of the
report that advocated the realization of the national telecommunications
~ and television satellite projects, "in deciding to build her own national
telecommunications satellite system, France has positioned herself to be
able to set her own standards and provisions of agreement, instead of _
having to submit to decisions taken abroad." Under these conditions, the
standar.ds and provisions for commercial use of Telecom 1 will, in fact,
- foreshadow those of the future European, and perhaps the worldwide, system.
- It is further conceivable that this will place the French prime contractor
in an extremely favorable position to compete with the American ones. This
explains the interest being shown in the domestic project, which is
destined to be the precursor of the European and possibly foreign systems.
The prospective telecommunications satellite system market is indeed
potentially substantial. Countries such as India, Indonesia, Colombia,
and the Arab nations have already decided to have their own space tele-
communications systems. Others such as Brazil, China, Australia and
groups of countries (Andean, Asiatic and African) envision having their
own satellites but have not yet taken a final decision.
.Telecom 1 In Service by Mid-1983
The Telecom 1 domestic network is scheduled to enter service by mid-1983,
if the satellite procurement contracts are, in fact, let at the beginning j
of 1980 as planned. The first satellite is scheduled for launching near
the end of 1982 and the second in April 1983. The system will have two ,
satellites in geostationary orbit, one of them as a standby, at a longi- _
tude between 7 and 10 degrees west. The third satellite (to be delivered -
- by mid-1983) will remain in reserve on the ground. The life of Telecom 1
satellites in orbit is expected to be normally 7 years. These satellites,
weighing 1 ton at lau~ctching--and 550 kg in geostationary orbit, of which -
150 kg is payload--can be launched in tandem with another satellite using
the European Ariane rocket from Kourou.
Telecom 1 will be a geostationary telFCOmmun3.cations satellite system
directly accessible by independen~ -...ions. It will serve two ob~ects.
It will, on the one hand, provide li:iks with the DOM-TOM [Overseas Depart-
ments-Overseas Territories] to handle telecommunications traffic (telephone
and television) between metropolitan France and its remote territories,
thus furnishing a service that is alread}~ being provided via lntelsat
- satellites but that will be expanded. On the other hand, Telecom 1 will ~
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also, for the first time, provide links between enterprises, thanks to
its wideband and high-speed data transmission capabilities (at 11-14 gHz),
- � that will make new teleprocessing services available to users: tele-
conference, video-communicat~ons, high-speed document telefacsimile,
higli-speed transfers of f iles between computers, inter-establishment
telephone, telex and other services.
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TELSPACE NOW SECOND IN COMMUNICATIONS FIELD
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 22 Sep 79 pp 46-48
[Article by Pierre LangereuxJ '
- g [Text] The GIE [Economic Interest Group] TELSPACE [expansion unknown],
formed in 1969 by the two French electrical and electromechanical giants
Thomson-CSF and CGE (CIT-ALCATEL), has in 10 years become the world's
second largest builder of earth stations for telecommunications satel-
lites. As the largest European (and French) builder, TELSPACE is nipping
at the heels of the world's number one builder, the Japanese firm Nippon '
Electric Company (NEC), which has sold more than 100 stations.
The French builder has now far outdistanced the world's third largest
builder--the American firm ITT, which has built some 20 c~tations--as well
other firms in the internat~onal market: STA (Italy), Marconi (Great
Britain). Ford Aerospace (United States), Hughes Aircraft (United States),
and others. This is an excellent example of a French industry's success
in a highly competitive market with a product "Made in France!" _
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~ 74 Stations -
To date, TELSPACE has built 74 earth stations in France, in the DOM-TOM
[Overseas Departments-Overseas Territories], and in 22 foreign countries. ,
TELSPACE's "catalog" today covers every type ot station used in spac~
telecommunications, from the three major sophisticated and costly types
tn the small, simple and economic transportable ones. .
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Thus, the French builder has constructed 19 Intelsat Standard A stations
with antenna diameters of 30 and 32.5 meters; 13 Intelsat Standard B and
transportable stations with antenna diameters from 11.8 to 14.5 metera;
13 Intelsat stati,ons with antenna diameters of 14.5 mexers for the
domestic Zairian network (REZATELSAT), 3 Intelsat tracking, telemetry '
and control [TT&C] stations with antenna diameters of 14.5 meters, and 14
"Symphonie" fixed (16.5 m antennas) and mobile (8.8 m and 4.8 m antennas) ;
stations for telecommunications in the 4-6 gHz band. In addition, TELSPACE
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has built 1 Intelsat Standard C control station for the future Intelsat-5
- satellites; 1 Intelsat Standard C station with antenna diameter of 17.4
meters; and 9 OTS [expansion unknown] fixed (14.5) and mobile (3 m) sta-
tions for seivice in the new 11-14 gHz frequency band. Lastly, TELSPACE
has also built an experimental station with antenna diameter of 9 meters
for channeling and prop~gation teats in the future 10 to 35 gHz frequency
bands. This wide range of activity is moreover continuing to expand to
meet new rtiarkets like that of direct television broadcasting at 12 gHz,
for which TELSPACE is now offering new equipments for common or individual
reception of television broadcasts direct from the satellite by means of
small antennas of only 0.6 to 1.5 meter diameters, which can be installed _
on building "rooftops or in the garden.
_ Objective: 200 Million rrancs of Orders for 1980
= The competition in this market is going to become more and more intense,
in that although only a very few builders compete for the large stations,
there ar~ at least a dozen competitors for the medium-sized ones and at
least 100 for the very small antennas, some of whom are already very well -
established in this market, like the American ones: Scientific Atlanta, -
- Andrew, California Microwave...
This is why Thomson-CSF and CIT ALCATEL have just reorganized TELSPACE,
on the occasion of the renewal of the agreements on 31 May 1979 for 3 years,
and have signed a special agreement to cooperate with the NEYRTEC (Alsthom- _
Atlantique group) company for the supply of the mechanical systems for
large- and medium-diameter antennas. Its technico-marketing potential -
thus reinforced, the group's new management, headed by Jean Lailheugue,
" has set for itself ambitious expanded marketing goals: attainment of a
level of 200 million francs a year of sales beginning in 1980. This would
- be the equivalent, for comparative purposes, of building at least one
Intelsat Standard A and f~.ve Intelsat Standard B stations, as well as a
goodly number of small-diameter household antennas. TELSPACE's sales
reached a level of around 150 million francs last year and this.
New Stations ~
To attain this sales objective of 200 million francs in 1980, TELSPACE is
plannYng to export more than ever. Half of its sales would come from new _
agreements: construction of Intelsat Standard A stations in Greece, Kuwait,
and Colombia--and possibly also in Malta, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, the
- Arab countries, India... Approximately one-fourth would come from expan-
sions of existing station capacities: Thus, TELSYACE is going ta convert
26 earth stations, between now and 1981, to work with the new Intelsat 5
_ satellites, representing sales of more than 100 million francs. The
remaining fourth of TELSPACE'S ~ales would be pro~vided by new small earth
stations for the Intelsat international network, the Telecom 1 domestic
~ network and the European ECS and MARECS networks.
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There is also the market for 12 m diameter antennas, especially, for
stations in the European ECS satellite telecommunications network having
heavy telephone traffic. But t~e market study is still in progress, and
there will in any case be several European manufacturers in the running.
- As regards the MARECS maritime satellite telecommunications network,
there is only one control station in prospect, which the French PTT'pro-
poses to install in New Caledonia. ~
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The Telecom 1 Network
The study of the Telecom 1 network is not yet completed, but it is already -
known that it will include a main Standard A station at 11-14 gHz (30 m ~
antenna) on the mainland, and at least 3 Standard B(12-15 m antennas) ,
in the DOM-TOM, as well as perhaps several stations in Africa for 4-6 gHz -
links. The principal Telecom 1 innovation, however, will be the 11-14
gHz intra-enterpri~e links, and the French PTT facilities plan ca11s for ~
the satellite to be able to serve around 300 "industrial centers," aiming,
that is, at the big users such as airlines, banks, automobile manufacturers, -
large industrial enterprises (Thomson-CSF, for example, has 140 manufac-
turing plants in France), and others. With small stations consisting of
AMRT [expansion unknown] transmitting equipment and antennas 2 to 3 meters
in diameter, the total cost of which woulsl be in the order of 1.5 million
francs, sales of Telecom 1 stations could total 450 million francs over a ,
period of 5 years to equip 300 centers. This is not a very large market,
especially if compared to that of the teleprocessing terminals that will ,
be connected at these centers.
The New TELSPACE Management Team �
~ A new management is now heading up the GIE TELSPACE formed 10 years ago by ~
the Thomson-CSF and the CGE (CT.T-ALCATEL) groups to manufacture and marke~ ~
telecommunications satellite eakth stations. ~
Its new head is Jean Lailheugue, 45, former sales manager of Thomson-CSF's
� Microwave and Space Communications Equipment Division. He is assisted in
the technical sphere by Eugene Oger, deputy director in charge of marketing -
and products, and in the commercial sphere by Jean-Claude Dubois, deputy !
director in charge of foreign and industry relations. Technical manage-
ment is provided by Pierre Houzelot and sales management by Bertrand de
Maupeou. Chief Engineer Jean Salomon continues as scientific adviser of
the group. The new TELSPACE board members are Christian Loeffler, manager _
of Thomson-CSF's Microwave and Space Communications Equipment Division,
and Francois Petit, general managing director of CIT-ALCATEL's Communica- -
tions Department.
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INVENTORY OF TELSPACE GROUND STATIONS TO 1 SEPTEMBER 1979
~ Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 22 Sep 79 p 48
_ [TextJ Inventory of TELSPACE Ground Stations
- (to 1 September 1979)
Country Site Antenna Placed in
Diameter Service
Intelsat Standard A 4-6 ~Hz Fixed Stations ,
France Pleumeur-Boudou (PB2) 27.5 m 1969 _
Pleumeur-Boudou (PB3) 30 m 1973
Pleumeur-Boudou (PB4) 32.5 m 1976
Bercenay-en-Othe (BY1) 32.5 m 1978
Bercenay-en-Othe (BY2) 32.5 m 1974
_ Martinique Trois-Ilets 26 m 1972
Madagascar Arivonimamo 3(1 m 1972
Ivory Coast Akakro 1 30 m 1972 ~
Akakro 2 - -
Senegal Gandoul 30 m 1972 -
Gabon N'Koltang 30 m 1973
Cameroon Zamengoe 1 30 m 1973
New Caledonia Noumea 32.5 m 1976
- Iraq Dujail 1 32.5 m 1976
Dujail 2 32.5 m 1976
, Syria Sednaya 32.5 m 1977
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Antenna Placed in
~ Country Site Diameter Service
Intelsat Standard A 4-6 gHz Fixed Stations ~cont'd]
Congo Mougouni 32.5 1978
- Togo Cacavelli 32.5 1978
French Guiana Trou-Biran 32.5 1974 '
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Reunion Riviere-des-Pluies 14.5 m 1974 :
Mali Bamako 11.8 m 1976
Tahiti Papeete 11.8 m~ 1978
Chad Goudji 14.5 m 1978
Dj ibouti Dj ibouti 11.8 m 1979
New Hebrides Port Vila 11.8 m 1979
Guinea Wonkifong 14.5 m 1980 ;
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(present emplacement)
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Brazil Natal 11.8 m
1977-1:979
French Guiana Trou-Biran 11�8 m '
France Pleumeur-Boudou (No. 1) 11.8 m
Pleumeur-Boudou (No. 2) 11.8 m 1977-1979
11.8 m
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- Country Site Antenna Placed in
Diameter Service
Intelsat B 4-6 gHz SEations for REZATELSAT Network
Zaire Kinshasa (N'Sele) 14.5 m
Lubumbashi 14.5 m -
Kisangani 14.5 m
G-Badolite 14.5 m 1978-1480
Gemena 14.5 L~
" Bukaw 14.5 ai
M'Bujimayi 14.5 m
Bandundu 14.5 m
M'Bandaka 14.5 m
Kamina 14.5 m
Kalemie 14.5 m 1978-1980
- Kindu 14.5 m
Isiro 14.5 m
Intelsat 4-6 gHz Fixed Control Station
Cameroon zamengoe 2 14.5 m 1975
Zamengoe 3 14.5 m 1977
France Pleumeur-Boudou 14.5 m 1979
"Symphonie" 4-6 gHz Fixed Stations -
- France Pleumeur-Boudou 16.5 m 1973
(master station)
Toulouse
(master station)
"Symphonie" 4-6 gHz Transportable Stations
(present emplacement)
Ivory Coast Akakro 8~8 m 1975-1979
Bouake 8.8 m
. Gabon Franceville 8.8 m
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Antenna Placed in
Country Site Diameter Service
"Symphonie" 4-6 gHz Transportable Stations
(present emplacement) [cont'd]
Iran Teheran 8.8 m 1975-1979
Shiraz 8�8 ~
Egypt Cairo 8�$ m
Germany Berlin 8�8 ~
St. Pierre-
et-Miquelon 8�8 1A _
France Levallois 4.8 m 1975-1979
_ Toulouse 4.8 m
Pleumeur-Baudou 4�8 ~
Switzerland Geneva (Telecom 79) 4�8 ~
Intelsat 11-14 gHz Fixed Control Station
France Pleumeur-Boudou 1979
_ Intelsat Standard C 11-14 gHz Fixed Station
France Bercenay-en-Othe (BY3) 17.4 m ~ 1980 '
"OTS" 11-14 gHz Fixed Station
France Bercenay-en-Othe 14.5 m~ 1977 _
"OTS" 11-14 gHz Transportable Stations
(present emplacement)
France Limours 3 m
Pleumeurs-Boudou 3 m 1979-1980
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Country Site Diameter Service
"OTS" 11-14 gHz Transportable Stations
(present emplar_ement) [cont'd]
France Pleumeur-Boudou 3 m
Geneva(Telecom 79) 3 m 1979-1980
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