Posted on 02/15/2012 7:26:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Good.
The decision marks a colossal fall from grace for the wireless startup, which has waged a bitter fight over the network for more than a year.
Their money bundling for Obama 2012 must have fallen behind the assigned quota...
I can’t wait for the MSM to report on this one.
If it’s the Obamaloon clown show, and if it’s technology, one can be assured that the choices made will be idiotic, self-serving, corrupt, and worthy of time in prison.
That’s the way it is in the world of progressives.
Advisory board: LightSquared can’t be fixed
posted at 9:11 am on January 14, 2012 by Ed MorrisseyIf the Obama administration plans to use political pressure to rescue LightSquared and its owner, Democratic contributor Philip Falcone, they’d better act quickly. The more of these reports that get published, the tougher it will be to explain away as anything but a political payoff (via William Amos):
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/14/advisory-board-lightsquared-cant-be-fixed/
Remove the corruption and politics (but I repeat myself) and I’m disappointed because I understand the technology would have helped many parts of this Country gain broadband access.
Remove the corruption and politics (but I repeat myself) and I’m disappointed because I understand the technology would have helped many parts of this Country gain broadband access.
U.S. Government Moves To Protect GPS
By Graham Warwick
Washington
Spending millions of taxpayer dollars establishing whether a company’s business plan is viable is not usually government’s role, but in the case of wireless-broadband hopeful LightSquared versus the GPS community, the effort may yet change the way the U.S. regulates the use of frequency spectrum worth billions.
How one U.S. government agency could approve a business plan that jeopardizes a public utility other government entities consider vital to safety and security, not to mention the economy, is the key question that has lurked behind the battle between LightSquared and the GPS industry since it ignited in earnest a year ago.
The answer emerging from countless legal filings and Congressional hearings is that the government itself is the villain of the piece, the absence of collaboration between agencies allowing one to act without consulting the others. In bypassing its normal processes to expedite approval of LightSquared’s plan to use its mobile satellite service frequencies for a terrestrial broadband wireless network, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) left its fellow Defense and Transportation Departments, Homeland Security and others, scrambling to protect GPS signals on which they now depend.
There were other open frequencies available. LightSquared just didn’t want to pay for them.
For example, the huge swaths of bandwidth that analog TV used to take up? Yeah, that was available and wouldn’t have interfered with anything important.
Another Obama crony business that, when touched by the Won, turns to shi’ite.
Good.
At the taxpayer's expense!
How much of our money did they get before the plug was pulled?
How much is going to be or has been funneled back to 0bama or the ‘rats?
Do you have an actual, credible source for that understanding?
....or is this simply some more flackery?
(Consider for a moment the "data" that this regime routinely presents....such as unemployment figures....and try that deal again.)
No, I don't do /sarc for BS.
This was a monumental battle between the right thing to do and political corruption. In the end there was just no way to push this bad idea through. Still kinda surprising though.. when this administration actually does the right thing?
Obama wanted to mandate “free” internet access for “the folks” and this was the path.
Democrats = Buying votes with your money
Not in the same band, however, that Lightsquared wanted to use.
“I can’t wait for the MSM to report on this one.”
No worries, the campaign money has already been forwarded to the DNC and LightSquared can wait a for a year.
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