The FCC should grant LightSquared permission to modify its ancillary...
The FCC should grant LightSquared permission to modify its ancillary terrestrial component authorization, said Missouri Rep. Judy Morgan, a Democrat. The wholesale satellite company wants to relocate its terrestrial downlink operations and share spectrum with the government (CD Nov 6…
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p14). LightSquared is prepared to launch a new wireless broadband service “at a time when demand for mobile broadband is driving prices and congestion through the roof and holding back our economic recovery,” she said in reply comments in docket 12-340 (http://xrl.us/bn8w5g). Its proposal to combine its licensed spectrum with other spectrum used by the government “is a great solution to allow the company to move forward,” she said. The proposal “will enhance competition significantly by facilitating the ability of new providers to enter local, regional and nationwide markets and serve customers,” PNG Telecommunications said in its reply comments (http://xrl.us/bn8w5x). LightSquared’s wholesale-only model will allow its partners to overcome high barriers to entry, “including potentially prohibitive network deployment and roaming costs, as well as spectrum scarcity,” that could otherwise raise operating costs, PNG said. The World Meteorological Organization said it’s “extremely concerned about the potential precedence setting nature of this solution should it be implemented.” WMO, part of the United Nations, coordinates international activities in meteorology, climatology and other geophysical sciences, it said (http://xrl.us/bn8w7a). The organization urged the FCC to take a global view and avoid this precedent.