What can possibly be said about LightSquared at this point, besides bad puns? I know that the company is not “dead” dead, but it seems that the hill it has been climbing in trying to launch a wireless service just received a new helping of lubrication. And that lubricant was delivered with GPS-like accuracy. ZING!
FreedomPop, the wireless broadband startup backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, says it will buy wholesale broadband service from Clearwire instead of from LightSquared. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that LightSquared cannot move forward with its effort to provide wholesale mobile broadband as...
Updated: LightSquared’s attempts to become a wholesale provider of mobile broadband services appears to have come to an end as government regulators have declared that interference between LightSquared’s proposed spectrum and some GPS equipment was unavoidable. The decision comes just over a year after...
With time now being a significant factor, LightSquared has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission asking that the government agency develop receiver standards for unlicensed GPS devices. This issue has plagued the company, which has yet to gain access to its 1.6 GHz...
Perhaps looking to hedge its bets, mobile virtual network enabler Simplexity MVNO Services announced a deal with Sprint Nextel (S) to use the carrier’s network to offer third-party branded voice and data services. The announcement follows an agreement struck with LightSquared last year that...
LightSquared has reportedly garnered a six-week extension from Sprint Nextel to gain approval for use of its 1.6 GHz spectrum assets from the Federal Communications Commission that are currently tied up in interference issues with the GPS community.
The six-week reprieve follows a month-long extension...
I try to not feel sorry for huge, multi-national conglomerates. This is due mostly to the fact that they always seem to forget my birthday, unless they want me to buy something.
LightSquared continues to cry foul in its ongoing attempt to secure governmental approval to use its 1.6 GHz spectrum assets to launch a mobile telecommunications service.
Throwing together a last-minute media call yesterday, LightSquared claims that a recent test of GPS devices by the Air...
This week saw a couple of events that makes the conspiracy theorist in me go a bit bonkers, or at least a bit more bonkers than usual in what is the last year of our earthly existence. (Thanks for the heads up, Mayans.)
Sprint Nextel’s LTE plans received some clarity as CEO Dan Hesse announced the first four markets to receive the carrier’s new network offering scheduled to launch later this year, with plans for 10 markets in its initial launch. Hesse, speaking at the Citigroup Entertainment,...
In a move that could indicate future plans, LightSquared announced that it has hired Marc Montager as chief financial officer. Montager was previously with SkyTerra, a company absorbed into LightSquared’s current operations, and has an extensive history in mergers and acquisitions.
Montagner will report to...
LightSquared has reportedly garnered a 30-day extension from potential network host Sprint Nextel (S) to gain governmental approval to use its controversial 1.6 GHz spectrum holdings.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sprint Nextel has extended the deadline for LightSquared to win approval from...
Stung by recent tests that showed potential interference with ground-based GPS systems, LightSquared has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking to confirm the company’s rights to use its 1.6 GHz spectrum license.
LightSquared has said that the interference issues with GPS systems...
Following contentious leaks of the results earlier this week, a government technical group released a report showing continued interference issues between general purpose GPS receivers, flight safety systems and LightSquared’s planned use of 1.6 GHz spectrum.
“Preliminary analysis of the test findings found no significant...
Leaked accounts that the latest round of interference testing to see whether LightSquared’s attempt to launch an LTE network would interfere with commercial GPS communications garnered a strong reaction from LightSquared, though that reaction did not refute claims that interference still exists.
Reports indicated that...
DALLAS -- Sprint Nextel has kept wireless network observers busy recently thanks to its Network Vision initiative, which will see the carrier upgrade virtually all of its current cell sites, as well as its more recent announcement to deploy LTE services and begin hosting...
What does your smartphone have in common with Henry Ford's Model T? Quite a bit, according to LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja. Both the smartphone and the Model T may be innovations that have changed the way society operates, and just as the automobile altered...
LightSquared reported a deal with Brightstar to be its preferred supply chain services provider. Brightstar provides value-added distribution services, logistics, supply chain services and retail outsourcing.
"Many of LightSquared's partners are entering the wireless market for the first time," the company said. "They can harness...
To the surprise of few, Sprint Nextel Corp. officially threw its hat into the LTE ring this morning, announcing details of its planned Network Vision upgrade that will see the carrier begin offering LTE-based services by the middle of next year.
DALLAS – Sprint Nextel’s SVP of networks, Bob Azzi, provided event goers with an overview of how the carrier interacts with the infrastructure community following its agreement to turn over network operations to Ericsson in late 2009.
The company that is spending billions to build a business invisible to consumers wants a consumer products heavyweight in its corner. LightSquared has chosen Japan's Sharp Corporation to make smartphones and tablets to operate on its 4G-LTE network. LighSquared says it wants to leverage...
I have to admit, it has taken nearly all of my willpower to remain neutral on the subject of LightSquared and how the company is managing to remain a viable option in launching a wholesale LTE network. Here is a company that is using satellite’s as part of their network coverage for a wholesale mobile broadband network using spectrum that seems to be nothing but a headache and a network that it seems the company lacks the financial resources to build.
