https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2010/10/09/one-sat-two-sat-red-sat-blue-sat/ Satellites, spectrum and other stuff Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2010/10/09/one-sat-two-sat-red-sat-blue-sat/comment-page-1/#comment-803 TMF Associates MSS blog » That’s all folks!…but awkward questions remain Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:42 +0000 http://tmfassociates.com/blog/?p=598#comment-803 [...] Of course, the FCC may also be looking to deflect attention from its own release of some documents in response to the numerous Freedom Of Information Act requests that have been filed. Buried in this release are numerous damaging documents which raise questions about the apparent coordination of LightSquared’s November 2010 waiver request with FCC staff prior to it being filed (and incidentally disclose LightSquared’s pricing plan of $6 per Gbyte for terrestrial capacity and $10 per Mbyte for satellite capacity, as well as the overall planned system capacity of 2800 Tbytes per hour terrestrially and 100 Gbytes per hour via satellite) which led to it being put out for comment immediately. It is also unclear whether this meeting with LightSquared on November 16 was disclosed in any ex parte filing. Indeed LightSquared had also been discussing with the FCC a change to their business plan to only launch one satellite, which has never been disclosed publicly (except in one accidental comment that I blogged about at the time). [...] [...] Of course, the FCC may also be looking to deflect attention from its own release of some documents in response to the numerous Freedom Of Information Act requests that have been filed. Buried in this release are numerous damaging documents which raise questions about the apparent coordination of LightSquared’s November 2010 waiver request with FCC staff prior to it being filed (and incidentally disclose LightSquared’s pricing plan of $6 per Gbyte for terrestrial capacity and $10 per Mbyte for satellite capacity, as well as the overall planned system capacity of 2800 Tbytes per hour terrestrially and 100 Gbytes per hour via satellite) which led to it being put out for comment immediately. It is also unclear whether this meeting with LightSquared on November 16 was disclosed in any ex parte filing. Indeed LightSquared had also been discussing with the FCC a change to their business plan to only launch one satellite, which has never been disclosed publicly (except in one accidental comment that I blogged about at the time). [...]

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