US satellite/terrestrial venture LightSquared has said that it would “move forward to enforce [its] legal rights” if there is no resolution to its current dispute with the GPS industry. The company added that it was hopeful of resolving the…
US satellite/terrestrial venture LightSquared has said that it would “move forward to enforce [its] legal rights” if there is no resolution to its current dispute with the GPS industry. The company added that it was hopeful of resolving the issue.
The comments were made in a conference call to reporters today.
LightSquared said it had “enough money to last us several quarters”. The company is not trying to raise money right now, it was said.
It added that it was continuing to talk about the situation with Sprint Nextel, the mobile operator.
LightSquared and Sprint signed a network sharing agreement last year. Sprint has extended its deadline to the end of January for LightSquared to get approval from the FCC to begin operating.
In the call with reporters, LightSquared elaborated on its complaints against the testing process organised by the PNT Excom.
It said that the process had been “shrouded in secrecy” and that the process had included some GPS devices that were obsolete.
There were three LightSquared representatives on the call: Jeff Carlisle, the executive VP for regulatory affairs and public policy; Geoff Stern, the VP of spectrum development; Ed Thomas, a paid consultant of LightSquared and a former chief engineer at the FCC.
On Friday, the co-chairs of Excom sent a letter on Friday stating that the “unanimous conclusion” from the tests was that LightSquared’s original and modified plans would cause “harmful interference” to many GPS receivers.
