Bob wrote:
Indeed this is my fear. The authorization really has very little to do with filling in dark holes in the sat coverage and everything to do with setting up a full blown terrestrial system.
Correct. LightSquared's business model is to be a wholesale network provider. The FCC waiver explicitly allows LS to provide terrestrial network capacity only, to customers who do not care about satellite connectivity (which could be most of them). This is a preview of the future, in which there will be other terrestrial licensees on the spectrum that won't even need to have satellites in orbit.
However, if these terrestrial networks do interfere with GPS in any significant way, the GPS interests will howl and something likely will be done. For that matter, LS will be relying on GPS timing receivers mounted next to its base stations to make its LTE network function. So don't give up just yet.
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