[Eric in the Ozarks]

Glad to see the FCC finally does something right.
Look for a Sunday weeper piece in the NYT bemoaning the loss of this “high tech” industry.

[justlurking]

Glad to see the FCC finally does something right.

Don't give the FCC too much credit.

They granted LightSquared a "conditional" waiver in January, 2011. Now, it's been withdrawn.

But, it was fishy in the first place. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightSquared#Interference_issues:

The initial modification order to allow terrestrial-only devices onto LightSquared's network was filed on November 19, 2010, with comments due on December 2, 2010, and reply comments due on December 9, 2010. This time frame has the US Thanksgiving holiday squarely in the middle of it, and allowed little official time for correspondence (six business days between filing and comments due, five business days between comments due and reply comments due).