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A Kentucky county judge supported LightSquared’s effort to go forward...

A Kentucky county judge supported LightSquared’s effort to go forward with the buildout of its stalled terrestrial network. LightSquared will set up its network using no government funding, “and plans to market its services through small local retailers, which will…

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both increase competition and provide jobs,” Powell County Judge James Anderson said in a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in docket 12-340 (http://xrl.us/bn5p9v). Anderson said a goal of his predecessor, Judge Jim Potts, was “a level of broadband Internet and cellular service that would put it on a level playing field with other, more populated counties in Kentucky,” he said: “I encourage the FCC to do everything within its power to bring good cell service to Powell County, Kentucky, and the rest of our state."