In response to the PNT committee announcement Harbinger said this:
Regardless of how Falcone fares, his spectrum will likely remain “ We are confident that the tests, when the protocol is disclosed and the details are examined, will be shown to be invalid. The devices chosen by GPS manufacturers to be tested were selected to ensure failure. They included obsolete GPS receivers (some a decade out of production) and niche-market receivers. This is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt by government agencies to protect the interests of the GPS industry who are unauthorized users infringing on spectrum licensed to LightSquared.
How can you blame them for being pissed off? They bought the best Washington DC lobbyist money can buy..........LightSquared last month hired Washington’s top-earning lobbying firm, Patton Boggs, to join an already formidable force of 15 lobbying firms that includes Gephardt Group, K&L Gates, Dickstein Schapiro and Podesta Group.
The Reston, Va.-based company’s lobbying expenditures reached $1.24 million as of October 31, compared with just $265,000 in 2010, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
Improperly licensed via a corrupt process. Cancel the licenses. Bar any future attempts to use the spectrum in a manner that interferes with the current user base.