Apparently, Phil Falcone commented on a recent Forbes article:
Lightscrewed: How Washington Whipped Phil Falcone
His comment is/was on the forth page:
>pfalcone (wrote):
>I’d like to clarify a few critical points:
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>An ATC network is an ancillary terrestrial network. We were licensed to build an ancillary terrestrial network. Building an ancillary terrestrial network is no different than building a terrestrial network. For those of you who do not understand, you use the same base station in an ATC network as a terrestrial network. So tell me, if we want to build out our ATC network can we? We are not trying to switch anything. All we are trying to do is build the network that we were authorized to build in 2005. The 2011 order has nothing do to with the base station, it has to do with an integrated service package... ie. what services the ATC network can provide to consumers. The integrated package is satellite, satellite and terrestrial and just terrestrial. The network doesn’t change regardless of whether you use satellite and/or terrestrial.
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Ladd Nelson
I cannot stand this crap.
many of these stories are just tiresome PR. This really is not a partisan issue, but both sides are trying to spin it so that it is.... Oh poor Lightsquared is being aided by those Liberals like the corrupt Obama or those evil corrupt in the pocket of big business like Grassley. Really this guy throws around 2 billion in hopes of making tens of billion witout any regard for the folks who have come to rely upon the infrastructure as it currently exists. We live in a representative democracy, supposedly, and that ought to count for SOMETHING.
Further I am starting to be concerned that we are seeing this play all to often now.
It starts with some back room deal that destroys or attmepts to destroy a system or program, one these criminal types have succeeded in throwing everything into CHAOS the conveniently ride to the rescue with a plan to take PUBLIC infrastructure private all so they can profit hansomely. Believe me they do not want to turn2 billion into tens of billions. they want to turn billions into trillions.
Just think, if these guys succeed in destroying our public GPS system, they can fix the problem with the private ssystem that they own. A public system is just to limiting on profits. Under sthe public system you can buy a car navigation system and some maps and then get directions any old time you want BASICALLY FOR FREE.
When these lightsquared guys get there way you will have to pay for directions for your tom tom on a monthly subscription fee that will be ever increasingor per direction like call the phone company for information. i love capitalism don't you.