[09-19-11] Wholesale 4G LTE network operator LightSquared<\/b> was denied an opportunity to testify at a Sept. 15 hearing of the U.S. House Armed Service Committee<\/b>\u2019s Strategic Forces Subcommittee or meet with the committee chair prior to the hearing, LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja said in a statement.
\n The denied testimony followed a request issued by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)<\/b> earlier this week for an additional round of testing of LightSquared\u2019s network. The company has been in an ongoing battle with GPS industry officials over potential interference issues with GPS signals. Ahuja said he was frustrated by the developments and surprised by certain allegations that the company was leveraging political influence to bypass the regulatory process.
\n \u201cAny suggestion that LightSquared has run roughshod over the regulatory process is contradicted by the reality of eight long years spent gaining approvals,\u201d Ahuja said. \u201cWe understand that some in the telecom sector fear the challenges for their business model that LightSquared presents. We understand the opposition of some in the GPS industry; many of their devices \u2018squat\u2019 on someone else\u2019s spectrum and while technological fixes are readily available, some companies are loath to make the necessary engineering changes and would instead prefer to get access to someone else\u2019s spectrum for free.\u201d
\n Ahuja asserted that the company only holds $10,600 in a political action committee fund and that he personally gave $30,400 in contributions to both parties in late 2010. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to charge that LightSquared has undue political influence \u2026 It\u2019s time Washington politicians stop using LightSquared as a pi\u00f1ata. Smart engineers, not political rhetoric, should decide LightSquared\u2019s fate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[09-19-11] Wholesale 4G LTE network operator LightSquared was denied an opportunity to testify at a Sept. 15 hearing of the U.S. House Armed Service Committee\u2019s Strategic Forces Subcommittee or meet with the committee chair prior to the hearing, LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja said in a statement. The denied testimony followed a request issued by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}