With $1B Satellite Order, Mexican Goy't Looks To Change Satmex Relationship

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The Mexican government intends to use its three-satellite, billion-dollar contract with Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to restructure its relations with Mexico's commercial satellite operator, Satmex, by reducing or eliminating the government's demand for free Satmex bandwidth, a Mexican government official said.rnThe official, Juan Carlos Leal Sosa, Mexico's director for spectrum technology, said the government has concluded that it cannot be "both a shareholder and a regulator" of Satmex, and that it cannot rely on the private sector to provide all the government's satellite communications needs.