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Worst of the Week: Intergalactic space battle!

by Dan Meyer July 1, 2011
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Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it!
And without further ado:
I have to admit, it has taken nearly all of my willpower to remain neutral on the subject of LightSquared and how the company is managing to remain a viable option in launching a wholesale LTE network. Here is a company that is using satellite’s as part of their network coverage for a wholesale mobile broadband network using spectrum that seems to be nothing but a headache and a network that it seems the company lacks the financial resources to build.
Satellites?!? Wholesale?!? GPS interference?!? Lack of money?!? Did I mention a satellite?!?
And yet the folks at LigthSquared keep chugging along. Amazing!

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