---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 763a"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "763a"
heading: "Specific criteria for INTELSAT"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/763a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Communications Satellite System"
  - "Subchapter VI — Communications Competition and Privatization"
  - "Part B — Federal Communications Commission Licensing Criteria: Privatization Criteria"
---

# §763a. Specific criteria for INTELSAT


In securing the privatizations required by [section 763 of this title](/usc/47/763.md), the following additional criteria with respect to [INTELSAT](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-1) privatization shall be applied as licensing criteria for purposes of part A:

- (1) **1 Technical coordination under intelsat agreements.—** Technical coordination shall not be used to impair competition or competitors, and shall be conducted under [International Telecommunication Union](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-6) procedures and not under Article XIV(d) of the [INTELSAT Agreement](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-13).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No par. (2) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 622, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 53.)