FCC Chief Sees LightSquared Getting Cleared for Airwaves
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said he expects LightSquared Inc. to eventually win approval for using its airwaves, after it was blocked by the regulators on concern they would interfere with global-positioning system signals.
LightSquared’s airwaves are “too valuable” to be left unused, Genachowski said at an investor conference today in New York. Work is under way on solutions such as possible swaps of frequencies for cleaner airwaves and tighter enforcement of signal parameters in GPS devices, to enable LightSquared’s so-called L-band radio waves to become usable, Genachowski said.