LightSquared won't give up

[AK9R]

LightSquared, the wireless broadband company whose plans took a blow when the FCC decided to not allow it access to spectrum adjacent to the frequencies used for the Global Positioning System, is at it again with a new proposal.

Article from PCWorld:

Embattled satellite carrier LightSquared proposed on Friday that the government let it share spectrum with federal uses such as weather balloons so it can get enough spectrum to launch its proposed national LTE mobile network.

LightSquared asks to share weather-balloon spectrum for its LTE network | PCWorld

And, from Ars Technica:

LightSquared's plan to build a nationwide 4G network was hit by what seemed like a death blow in February, when the Federal Communications Commission revoked its tentative approval because the network would interfere with GPS devices. But LightSquared has influential friends, and lawmakers were eager to blame the FCC, even if they didn't really understand the technical reasons that caused LightSquared's proposal to fail. Spectrum swaps with federal users to bail out the company have also been proposed.

LightSquared came up with its own proposal on Friday, which involves sharing 5MHz of spectrum with the federal government in a band partially used for weather balloons. It also involves abandoning its most controversial piece of spectrum, the one just below the GPS signals. But LightSquared still wants to build on the lower 10MHz of its spectrum, even though the FCC has already rejected it as unsuitable because millions of existing GPS devices can't filter out neighboring signals. To compensate, LightSquared would lower the power levels in this portion of spectrum to 52dBm per sector EIRP, down from the previously planned power level of 62dBm, which was found to interfere with GPS.

LightSquared still won’t give up on spectrum near GPS band | Ars Technica

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