The FCC should convert all mobile satellite service licenses to...
The FCC should convert all mobile satellite service licenses to flexible-use licenses and grant LightSquared’s license modification request and allow the company to move forward and use at least some of its spectrum, the Technology Policy Institute said in a…
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report released Tuesday (http://bit.ly/13JCg3H). The most available spectrum is the MSS spectrum, most of which is licensed to Dish Network and LightSquared, it said. “There do not appear to be significant regulatory or legal impediments to the deployment of the Dish spectrum.” LightSquared “has been embroiled in a dispute with the global positioning system industry, which threatens to make the LightSquared spectrum unusable,” it said. By resolving the issue in a manner that allows LightSquared to use its spectrum, the FCC “can produce significant benefits for millions of users of mobile broadband services for the U.S. economy more generally.” Because the GPS band isn’t a typical unlicensed band, the commission hasn’t promulgated standards for GPS devices, it said. The absence of clearly defined rights and a market mechanism for moving spectrum to higher-valued uses “is the cause of the failure to resolve the LightSquared-GPS dispute in an economically efficient manner,” TPI said. This week, the FCC granted LightSquared an experimental authorization to assess the technical feasibility of using the 1675-1680 MHz band with existing federal operations (CD April 30 p7).