LightSquared continued to stress to the FCC its intention to...
LightSquared continued to stress to the FCC its intention to deploy a nationwide 4G wireless broadband network. The commission has several legal and policy responses “that it can take to address the inability of a limited number of GPS receivers…
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to operate properly in spectrum that has not been allocated for GPS use,” LightSquared said in an ex parte filing in docket 11-109 (http://xrl.us/bnnrut). The filing recounted a meeting between LightSquared executives, including Chairman Doug Smith, and Commissioner Ajit Pai and his aide Courtney Reinhard. The company said public interest benefits would flow from the new network, including enhanced competition in the wireless industry and the development of innovative wireless applications. LightSquared’s plans to build the network were stalled when the FCC proposed to take away its ancillary terrestrial component authority.