The fact their product compromises GPS (aka public safety) should be enough to justify the denial of the waiver. What if grandma dies because the ambulance company cannot locate the closest ambulance because LightSquared's signal rendered the GPS system useless. What if a family is killed in a home invasion because the local police department's GPS locators are knocked offline. What if transit police cannot locate a bus with an armed gunman that is taking passengers hostage. What if the fire department in a rural area cannot locate a burning house with children trapped inside. These are all good reasons to justify the FCC's denial of LightSquared's license and waiver.
Thank you FCC for putting public safety first and corporate profits (greed) second by denying LightSquared's waiver.
Their creditors should just force them into Chapter 7 (complete liquidation of assets and shutdown of business) bankruptcy. -- I wish I still lived in Iowa; Everything there from rent and groceries to Cable TV is much cheaper in Iowa (especially with an overbuilder in town).
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They are trying to force the Government to swap their useless spectrum for valuable usable spectrum and thereby hit the lottery.
It's like a poker player who is down his life savings and yet is still gambling his last few dollars hoping to win it big. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
Thank you FCC for putting public safety first and corporate profits (greed) second by denying LightSquared's waiver.
I wouldn't give the FCC much credit here. They were greasing the skids for a LightSquared waiver until a huge number of other industries and government agencies screamed bloody murder over the FCC's plans to OK Lightsquared LTE. They did finally fall in line because the White House saw a huge turkey being dumped on the WH lawn and Obama gave the FCC Chairman his marching orders. -- »www.mittromney.com/s/repeal-and-···bamacare »www.mittromney.com/issues/health-care
Nice history rewrite. The FCC gave them a waiver to prove they could mitigate the interference. They didn't prove it so the waiver was taken away. Falcone got the testing waiver in part because of his connections (and mostly because it's the right thing to do, because if he was right that they had developed technology to mitigate the interference it would be foolish not to let him try to prove it), those include the Obama administration and a dozen key congresscritters who are about equal numbers of democrat and republican. It was those congresscritters who were writing letters and insisting the FCC grant the waiver.
Because if there is one thing that's bipartisan in Congress it's corruption. Only a fool would lay the entire blame on a the president when you have more than a dozen senators and representatives writing letters every other week to the FCC. And the same fool would argue that the only reason the waiver continuation was denied was political.
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