NTIA, FCC Waiver No More on LS

摘要

"We conclude that LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband network will impact GPS services and that there is no practical way to mitigate the potential interference at this time." These words from Lawrence Strickling, U.S. assistant secretary for communications and information and head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), appear to signal the end of LightSquared's run. Strickling's letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski appeared in public on February 14. Later that same day, FCC spokesperson Tammy Sun released a statement from that agency that "the Commission will not lift the prohibition on Light-Squared," and that it plans to "vacate the Conditional Waiver Order, and suspend indefinitely LightSquared's Ancillary Terrestrial Component authority."