Comments on: With LightSquared, Did the FCC Bet on the Wrong Horse? http://gigaom.com/2011/02/24/with-lightsquared-did-the-fcc-bet-on-the-wrong-horse/ Thu, 23 May 2013 23:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Charles http://gigaom.com/2011/02/24/with-lightsquared-did-the-fcc-bet-on-the-wrong-horse/#comment-600557 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:04:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=300311#comment-600557 GPS interference issues came out of nowhere when the FCC ‘fast tracked’ the Lightsquared license modification allowing them to expand the terrestrial segment of their network. There was no perceived problem until that happened.

Did the FCC bet on the wrong horse? The horse race was fixed.

]]> By: tom http://gigaom.com/2011/02/24/with-lightsquared-did-the-fcc-bet-on-the-wrong-horse/#comment-600356 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:08:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=300311#comment-600356 the FCC should have said no current carriers period. the only option should be for new competitors.

]]> By: Brian S Hall http://gigaom.com/2011/02/24/with-lightsquared-did-the-fcc-bet-on-the-wrong-horse/#comment-600041 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:33:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=300311#comment-600041 Very useful article and reporting. Thanks.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2011/02/24/with-lightsquared-did-the-fcc-bet-on-the-wrong-horse/#comment-599956 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:30:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=300311#comment-599956 The FCC did require that LightSquared sell no more than 25 percent of its capacity to AT&T and Verizon.

]]> By: tom http://gigaom.com/2011/02/24/with-lightsquared-did-the-fcc-bet-on-the-wrong-horse/#comment-599773 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:13:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=300311#comment-599773 a wholesale network that sells to one of the major carriers does not really provide any new competition. especially when you consider that the carriers discussed(sprint, t-mobile) are already the cheaper ones.

the FCC deal should have mandated that lightsquared start a retail devision or sell wholesale capacity only to companies not currently competing retail wireless. that would truly create competition.

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