[BC] Lightsquared vs FCC

[Tom Spencer]

Military input was the killer, most likely - NTIA handles their 
allocations.  All those Tomahawk missiles might miss if Lightsquared got 
a go-ahead.....

Or something.

Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Let's make one thing perfectly clear. The denial strictly applies to 
> LightSquared's terrestrial transmitter roll out.

Since the idea was to take a page from Satellite Radio, and use the same 
transceivers for both satellite and terrestrial links, that's most 
likely put finis to the project - at least until Lightsquared and/or 
someone else finds a different band to use.  How about X-band?  10 GHz.  
Or maybe get above 30 GHz, in unregulated territory...

> On 2/14/2012 11:30 PM, J.G. Gillivan wrote:
>   
>> Might be of interest...
>>
>> LightSquared suffered a possibly fatal blow today when the FCC said it would indefinitely suspend the company's effort to build a national wireless broadband network using satellite spectrum.
-- 
Tom Spencer