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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on October 01, 2012, 1341 UTC

Title: LightSquared asks to share weather-balloon spectrum for its LTE network
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 01, 2012, 1341 UTC

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...

...What LightSquared wants to do is take one 5MHz band that it already uses for its satellite service (at 1670-1675MHz) and combine that with the next band up (1675-1680MHz), which is used for federal purposes including National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration weather balloons. The government could keep using that band, while LightSquared's LTE network would share it...

Full story: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9231837/LightSquared_asks_to_share_weather_balloon_spectrum_for_its_LTE_network (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9231837/LightSquared_asks_to_share_weather_balloon_spectrum_for_its_LTE_network)

Title: Re: LightSquared asks to share weather-balloon spectrum for its LTE network
Post by: cmradio on October 01, 2012, 2258 UTC

LightSquared... these are the people that buggered up GPS and aircraft navigation with their test in Nevada?

With luck, they'll go under.

Peace!

Title: Re: LightSquared asks to share weather-balloon spectrum for its LTE network
Post by: Fansome on October 01, 2012, 2303 UTC

LightSquared should have to provide a fee for this, a balloon-payment.

Title: Re: LightSquared asks to share weather-balloon spectrum for its LTE network
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 02, 2012, 0006 UTC

Quote from: Fansome on October 01, 2012, 2303 UTC

LightSquared should have to provide a fee for this, a balloon-payment.

I think they have an inflated opinion of their technology.