Philip Falcone’s bankrupt LightSquared, in an attempt to revive a planned wireless network stymied by interference concerns, asked US regulators yesterday to let it share airwaves with federal-government users.
The request was filed Friday with the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Tucker, a spokesman for the Reston, Va.-based company, said in a statement.
The company also told the FCC it would give up the right to some operations in airwaves near those used by the global-positioning system. The FCC blocked the service in February after GPS-device makers and users said signals from LightSquared’s service would confound navigation gear.
LightSquared filed for bankruptcy in May and said it intends to resolve the concerns. LightSquared can’t deploy its service while the FCC decides whether to revoke initial approvals, as it proposed doing in February, the agency told Congress Sept. 21. The agency hasn’t yet taken final action.
Makers and users of GPS equipment in March told the FCC there are “no feasible mitigation measures” to prevent interference from LightSquared. Yesterday, LightSquared asked the FCC to allow it to share frequencies used by weather balloons and weather satellites.