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...late-breaking development would have to go unreported in those copies of the magazine produced in faraway Hong Kong. But no more. Only a week earlier TIME had begun transmitting its pages to the Far East at lightning speed via RCA'S Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound planes, couriers and other conveyances subject to the failings of man and weather, the system is the first in publishing history equipped to beam four-color finished pages as well as black-and-white...
...Although voices went to Goldstone, NASA technicians found that another 210-ft. dish antenna in Parkes, Australia, provided the best reception for the TV signal. From Parkes the signal was relayed overland to Sydney, flashed to the Moree Earth Station 200 miles to the north, beamed up to the Intelsat communications satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, relayed to Jamesburg, Calif., passed by microwave ground signal and coaxial cable to Houston and finally transmitted to New York for distribution to individual television sets. In spite of the separate systems and the incredibly circuitous routes, both sight and sound...
Luring Away. "We are not worried," says Intelsat Chairman John A. Johnson, with good reason. The U.S. alone accounts for more than half of the world's communications business. That leaves a relatively puny share for the U.S.S.R. The Russians' hope seems to be pinned on luring away some of Intelsat's present members with promises of greater authority in Intersputnik's affairs. Whoever joins, the Russians promise, will have equal voting rights in Intersputnik's council, whatever the country's size or share. Several smaller members of Intelsat resent the fact that management...
...qualify for a seat on Intelsat's 18-member governing committee, a country must have at least a 1.5% share in world telecommunications. The U.S., which owns 53.4% of Intelsat, has more say than the other 61 members combined on how to operate the system. What prices should be charged, even what firms should get supply or service contracts, are decisions made at the top. Four U.S. companies, ITT, A.T. & T., Western Union International and RCA buy up Intelsat's time and circuits and sell or lease them in turn to clients in all 62 countries...
Intersputnik's sponsors have deferred to some unspecified future date all estimates of the size of their investment and projected operating expenses. But clearly, overtaking Intelsat will be a monumentally difficult...