{"id":942,"date":"2011-07-06T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=942"},"modified":"2011-07-06T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:48:31","slug":"lightsquared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"lightsquared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing about a new company called LightSquared a <strong><em>lot<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0recently. Both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2011\/06\/how-gps-interference-could-derail-a-new-national-4g-networkgps-industry-rages-lightsquared-4g-network-would-defy-laws-of-physics.ars\">arstechnica<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thealarmclock.com\/mt\/archives\/2011\/07\/lightsquared_ra.html\">alarm:clock<\/a> have both had interesting articles on the company in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of LS is to create from scratch a nationwide 4G wireless network &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbinger_Capital\">funder<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/philip-falcone\">Philip Falcone<\/a> thinks they can do it for about $15B. That&#8217;s a pretty impressive number, in my book, especially when compared to how much AT&amp;T, Verizon, and Sprint have spent over the last decades building-out their networks.<\/p>\n<p>The ars article points-out that the GPS industry is upset that LS is using a <em>similar<\/em>\u00a0spectrum to the one used by the global position satellite system, and are worried it will make GPS receivers act poorly by overpowering the satellite signal.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think that if your <em>devices<\/em>\u00a0are built so poorly that a non-identical\u00a0signal can interfere with their functionality, you have an issue on <em>your<\/em>\u00a0hands &#8211; not on the hands of the folks with the similar signal. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/lightsquared.com\">LightSquared<\/a>\u00a0could take it upon themselves to be a private, terrestrial location service &#8211; either by repeating signals from the GPS constellation, or by adding location data to the signal they are broadcasting (40 000 towers with multiple antennae per tower <em>ought<\/em>\u00a0to be able to send some useful data over the air along with everything else being carried).<\/p>\n<p>Moving back to the future of the business, it looks like a very exciting time in the telecom industry in the US &#8211; like we may finally get some &#8220;real&#8221; competition to the Big Three already operating. If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/03\/20\/atandt-agrees-to-buy-t-mobile-from-deutsche-telekom\/\">AT&amp;T&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/joewilcox\/article\/How-will-the-ATT-TMobile-USA-merger-affect-you\/1300665862\">T-Mobile<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/20\/att-tmobile-ope\/\">acquisition<\/a> goes through, cell phone and wireless broadband competition would be hurt &#8211; so I&#8217;m thrilled that groups like LightSquared are coming out to play, too.<\/p>\n<p>As a sidebar: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuresinoss.com\/\">Tarus<\/a>, you should get in front of Philip &#8211; they&#8217;re\u00a0going\u00a0to need some <em><strong>serious<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/opennms.com\/open-nms-platform\/\">monitoring<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing about a new company called LightSquared a lot\u00a0recently. Both\u00a0arstechnica and alarm:clock have both had interesting articles on the company in the last week. The goal of LS is to create from scratch a nationwide 4G wireless network &#8211; and funder\u00a0Philip Falcone thinks they can do it for about $15B. That&#8217;s a pretty &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=942\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lightsquared<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}