LightSquared seeks to “change the rules after the game is...
LightSquared seeks to “change the rules after the game is over,” the Coalition to Save Our GPS said in an FCC filing on the company’s request for declaratory ruling on the legal status of GPS devices. The coalition said NTIA’s…
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opposition to LightSquared’s service makes the company’s request moot and should be dismissed or “at least held in abeyance” until the FCC decides if LightSquared has met the commission’s waiver conditions. As part of a conditional waiver of MSS rules, LightSquared was required to resolve interference issues with GPS. The FCC has proposed canceling the waiver. If taken up at all, the issues of the LightSquared request should be taken up within a rulemaking, not a declaratory ruling, the coalition said. The GPS Industry Council said LightSquared seeks to avoid its obligations by “redefining the requirement out of existence.”