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Grassley: FCC reversing LightSquared approval not enough
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is not satisfied that the FCC has dropped conditional approval this for LightSquared's embattled wireless technology - he wants to know how it was ever approved in the first place.
Critics have challenged the FCC's conditional approval of LightSquared's combined satellite/terrestrial communications network because it would interfere with GPS systems operating on neighboring radio bands.
The issue was of intense interest to some of Grassley's constituents, including Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins, a leading producer of military GPS handheld receivers.
In this July 10, 2010, a cockpit GPS shows the search area as scientists participate in a marine mammal/sea turtle survey flight related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration twin otter DHC-6, over the Gulf of Mexico near the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast. The Federal Communications Commission said it will seek public comment as early as Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, on revoking LightSquared's permit after a federal agency that coordinates wireless signals, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, concluded that there's no way to mitigate potential interference. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
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