1.   Local media reported a change in Mexican law will allow Televisa to prevent its satellite television competitor DirectTV from airing its broadcast programs.

2.   The recommendation is designed to promote competition in the multichannel video marketplace and to equalize conditions between cable companies and their satellite competitors.

3.   The recommendation is designed to promote competition in the multi-channel video marketplace and to even conditions between cable companies and their satellite competitors.

4.   Two other satellite phone service competitors, Iridium LLC and ICO Global Communications, failed last year.