---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 761a"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "761a"
heading: "Incentives; limitation on expansion pending privatization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/761a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Communications Satellite System"
  - "Subchapter VI — Communications Competition and Privatization"
  - "Part A — Actions To Ensure Pro-Competitive Privatization"
---

# §761a. Incentives; limitation on expansion pending privatization

- (a) **Limitation—** Until [INTELSAT](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-1), [Inmarsat](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-2), and their successor or separate entities are privatized in accordance with the requirements of this subchapter, [INTELSAT](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-1), [Inmarsat](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-2), and their successor or separate entities, respectively, shall not be permitted to provide [additional services](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-12). The [Commission](/usc/47/702.md?p=10) shall take all necessary measures to implement this requirement, including denial by the [Commission](/usc/47/702.md?p=10) of licensing for such services.
- (b) **Orbital location incentives—** Until such privatization is achieved, the United States shall oppose and decline to facilitate applications by such entities for new [orbital locations](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-9) to provide such services.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 602, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 50.)