The study involved a statistical analysis of the ITU Space Radiocommunications Stations (SRS) database (BR IFIC 2762, 4 February 2014) in order to benchmark differing satellite filing patterns between administrations. The analysis method adopted enabled filing statistics to be presented principally by administration, time, frequency band and orbital slot. The analysis was conducted for the entire SRS database and therefore covered all administrations but the results were generally presented in ‘top ten’ format to make the amount of data manageable.