LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:08AM from the everything's-up-in-the-air dept.

IDG News Service reports (as carried by PC World) that LightSquared, having lost some of the spectrum they'd hoped to use for a nationwide LTE network because of worries it would interfere with GPS service, has a new plan: to use some of the spectrum currently reserved by the federal government for uses like weather-balloon communications. From the article: "The new plan would give the carrier 30MHz of frequencies on which to operate the LTE network. That's 10MHz less than it had wanted but still comparable to the amount of spectrum Verizon Wireless and AT&T are using for their LTE systems, which in most areas use just 20MHz. Wireless network speeds are determined partly by how much spectrum the network uses, so LightSquared might be able to deliver a competitive service for its planned coverage area of 260 million U.S. residents."

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Re:Nice choice of spectrum by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-30 08:38 · Score: 2, Funny

It's just a trial balloon.
Great by SuperMooCow · 2012-09-30 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Another cloud computing business model.
Re:Some people by Glendale2x · 2012-09-30 12:22 · Score: 3, Funny

That's an outright lie. Your comment is bad and you should feel bad.

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