The FCC has taken effective steps to ensure GPS interference...
The FCC has taken effective steps to ensure GPS interference concerns are resolved before LightSquared can offer commercial terrestrial service using the former SkyTerra L-Band spectrum, Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a letter (http://xrl.us/bm3ovj) responding to a request for information…
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from the House Commerce Committee (http://xrl.us/bm3ov4). The commission “has employed thorough, public and fair processes throughout its LightSquared proceedings,” he wrote. It was appropriate for the International Bureau “to issue the orders your letter identifies,” he said: Last year, the FCC adopted two conditions on the SkyTerra/LightSquared transaction requiring commission approval before LightSquared could lease spectrum “or make more than 25 percent of its network capacity available to the two largest wireless providers.” Those conditions were accepted by the staff “as part of its public interest analysis of this particular transaction” because they helped addressed a gap left by the absence of comparable rules for mobile satellite services spectrum, Genachowski said.