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Sprint puts the brakes on LightSquared spectrum deal

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(@jhenry)
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Good, the more wheels that fall off this bus, the better...

Unfortunately, I don't think LSQ's failure will be the end of this. LSQ will probably spend what's left of Phil Falcone's fortune on lawyers, and drag this on for years ... or sell the spectrum to someone with more money and better political connections ...

 
Posted : January 5, 2012 6:42 pm
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Here's more on the story:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0d9d219a-37ed-11e1-a5e0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1idyXACqs

My guess is that Sprint found out that defense bill got signed and that FCC approval is even less likely in the near future.

 
Posted : January 5, 2012 7:04 pm
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If you go around screwing people, other people will
realize what you are about.

 
Posted : January 5, 2012 7:40 pm
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And we must never forget them that teied to throw us under a bus.

 
Posted : January 5, 2012 8:20 pm
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"That's so 27 seconds ago"

Is it a regional thing the ATT commercials with the two guys tailgating at a football game fiddling around with their 4G phones? Is this what people want at the expense of trashing the GPS?

 
Posted : January 5, 2012 9:21 pm
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"That's so 27 seconds ago"

"Do you guys know how to post videos to Facebook?"

 
Posted : January 6, 2012 5:46 am
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"That's so 27 seconds ago"

No, but I got this new lightsquared app from iTunes that makes planes go off course, and it comes with the new game called "Angry Surveyors"

 
Posted : January 6, 2012 9:20 am
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"That's so 27 seconds ago"

> ......fiddling around with their 4G phones? Is this what people want at the expense of trashing the GPS?

If you go to a Broadway musical and sit in the mezzanine (often between $70-$125 a ticket) you get to see something amazing (besides the show itself).

Before the start of the show, nearly everyone in the orchestra section below you has their cell phone on (as well as in the mezz/balcony around you). When the announcement comes to turn off all cell phones, most wait until the lights are actually down, the theater has gone dark and the orchestra starts playing before turning their devices off. And INVARIABLY, within the first few minutes, someone's phone goes off.

Then, as soon as the curtain comes down at intermission, all the phones go back on again and the process starts all over.....:-S

Obviously, there is something about these phones, iPads, etc., that people find irresistable.

 
Posted : January 6, 2012 10:57 am