Talk:Intelsat

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Contents 1 Move to Intelsat? 2 Privatized ∴ no more government members 3 The Reason It Is In Washington 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Logo level 2 nav.gif

[edit] Move to Intelsat?

I think this article should be moved to Intelsat, since that’s the most commonly used, and currently official name. —Fleminra 17:13, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Done. —Fleminra 23:53, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Privatized ∴ no more government members

TODO: Many articles that link here say “country x is a member of Intelsat”, which is no longer true since Intelsat is no longer an intergovernmental organzation, but a private company (c.f. CIA factbook ca. 1999 vs. 2005). Those articles need to be edited. —Fleminra 23:53, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Reason It Is In Washington

I'm not so sure about this sentance: "This arrangement allows the company to lobby politicians in Washington while filing tax from Bermuda."

I'm pretty sure the reason that Intelsat's main offices and operations are in Washington DC is because it was an international treaty organization. Their building, on Connecticut Ave NW, is designed to look like a giant satellite, and was build in the mid-eighties. Before privatization, it was administered by the State Department; everything from parking permits to the color and type of shades used on the windows was regulated by functionaries from State. After privatizing, they weren't about to just move out of their million-dollar building.

Besides, lots of companies lobby Washington with their own lobbying offices in DC, while being incorporated elsewhere (like Delaware) and operating still elsewhere; in fact one could make an argument that being located entirely in the District puts Intelsat at a disadvantage with Congress because DC has no congressional representation (ie, no Senators or congressman to go to bat for the home-town company).

Frankly I think this whole article is poorly written and could use a clean-up; and contains a few too many possibly POV sentances like the one above (like the whole paragraph about their reliability in the sixties...were they more or less reliable than other satellite operators?) There's lots missing, too, that's interesting: nothing about their long relationship with Comsat; nothing about their unique staffing when they were a treaty organization (engineers from all over the world on special diplomatic visas, living tax-free in the US) and nothing about the process of privatizing (like having special legislation passed to allow them to privatize; and still more special legislation to convert those aforementioned diplomatic visas into H1-B's). There's also a little too much satellite-industry jargon--blocks?

Thoughts?

--Free-world 02:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Logo level 2 nav.gif

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BetacommandBot 05:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)