By Terry Neal, Senior Vice President for Public Relations and Communications
September 9, 2011
At a U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing yesterday, Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) spoke of the urgent need to expand broadband access to underserved communities across the United States. The subject of the hearing was LightSquared?s plan to build out the first-ever national wholesale broadband 4G-LTE network integrated with satellite coverage that will bring wireless broadband to 260 million Americans by 2014.
At the hearing, LightSquared executive Jeff Carlisle explained the company?s efforts to mitigate concerns that LightSquared?s spectrum might interfere with some GPS devices. LightSquared has cooperated with the GPS industry and modified its original plan, eliminating the interference issue for 99.5 percent of all GPS devices and offering a proposal to address the small number of devices that remain problematic.
But Rep. Edwards made the point that LightSquared should not be the only entity searching for a solution. Given the importance of expanding broadband access for all Americans, she challenged federal agencies to work harder to find a solution that will allow LightSquared and GPS to co-exist. LightSquared, she noted, would help bring greater choice and lower prices to American consumers, especially underserved communities. Watch this video to hear Rep. Edwards? comments:
Terry Neal serves as LightSquared?s senior vice president of public relations and communications. Neal is an award-winning journalist and served in a variety of positions with The Washington Post including assignments as assistant metro editor, national political columnist and national political reporter. He previously covered politics as a reporter for both The Miami Herald and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
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