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| May 14, 2012 | LightSquared goes dark, files for bankruptcy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Troubled wireless-startup LightSquared filed for bankruptcy Monday, according to documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manh... |
| May 14, 2012 | LightSquared goes dark, files for bankruptcy | Troubled wireless-startup LightSquared filed for bankruptcy Monday, according to documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
LightSquared listed debt and assets of over $1 billion in the documents. The company filed under C... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | To avoid defaulting on its massive debt, LightSquared’s Falcone is stepping aside | About the only thing troubled wireless-network startup LightSquared is buying these days is time, which is useful since the company is about to defaulting on millions in debt. To do this, founder and public face of LightSquared Philip Falco... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | To avoid defaulting on its massive debt, LightSquared’s Falcone is stepping aside | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
About the only thing troubled wireless-network st... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Lights out for LightSquared? Startup considers filing for bankruptcy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After months of devastating setbacks, wireless network startup LightSquared is considering filing for bankruptcy, according to founder ... |
| Mar 17, 2012 | Desperate LightSquared claims 5th Amendment violation, demands new spectrum | reader comments 111 with 67 posters participating, including story author
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An increasingly desperate LightSquared today accused the Federal Communications Commission of viol... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Yikes: Sprint terminates its 15-year agreement with LightSquared | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The country’s third largest wireless carrier, Sprint Nextel, has terminated its 15-year agreement with wholesale wireless startup Light... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | TERMINATED: Sprint reimburses $65M to LightSquared | After product concerns, litigation, Sprint cancels contract to use 4G LTE services from LightSquared
Just days after word came out that LightSquared hired a legal team to go after the Federal Communications Commission, the company feels a s... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Lightsquared hires a slew of top lawyers, loses Leap Wireless to Clearwire | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The hits keep coming for wholesale wireless network startup LightSquared, which just lost big client Leap Wireless due to uncertainty a... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Lightsquared hires a slew of top lawyers, loses Leap Wireless to Clearwire | The hits keep coming for wholesale wireless network startup LightSquared, which just lost big client Leap Wireless due to uncertainty about the future of its high-speed LTE network.
Back in February, the Federal Communications Commission (F... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Troubled wireless startup Lightsquared’s CEO quits | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Not only is wholesale wireless network startup LightSquared dealing with a lack of support from U.S. regulators and financial difficult... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | Ailing LightSquare To Cut 45% Of Work Force As Regulatory Battle Rages On | Things are beginning to look even dimmer for LightSquared . Just one day after satellite network operator Inmarsat announced that LightSquared had defaulted on a $56 million payment, new reports indicate that the company plans to slash its ... |
| Feb 20, 2012 | Why LightSquared failed: It was science, not politics | Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson reader comments 153 with 78 posters participating, including story author
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The seeds of LightSquared's failure to win government cle... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Happy Valentine’s Day: US government breaks up with LightSquared | reader comments 86 with 60 posters participating, including story author
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said today that it will not approve LightSquared's... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | GPS air traffic navigation system would be crippled by LightSquared network, Congress is told | Shai Barzilay/Flickr reader comments 237 with 71 posters participating, including story author
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| Dec 19, 2011 | LightSquared’s latest problem? It may run out of money | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wholesale wireless network startup LightSquared is in danger of running out of money by the second quarter of 2012.
The information com... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | LightSquared’s latest problem? It may run out of money | Wholesale wireless network startup LightSquared is in danger of running out of money by the second quarter of 2012.
The information comes from the company’s latest financial statement reviewed by Reuters. The statement indicated that LightS... |
| Dec 11, 2011 | LightSquared’s LTE network disrupts 75% of GPS devices in tests | Mobile broadband startup LightSquared’s GPS interference troubles aren’t over yet. The company’s LTE network has been found to disrupt 75 percent of GPS devices in a government test, Bloomberg reports.
The test, conducted by the National Sp... |
| Dec 11, 2011 | LightSquared’s LTE network disrupts 75% of GPS devices in tests | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile broadband startup LightSquared’s GPS interference troubles aren’t over yet. The company’s LTE network has been found to disrupt ... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Meet Niklas Zennstrom’s New, Mysterious ‘Free Broadband’ Venture: FreedomPop | I’d never heard of FreedomPop until earlier this morning, when the company announced a partnership with U.S. wireless broadband network operator LightSquared.
FreedomPop, according to the press release and the laughably amateurish landing w... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | Lightsquared antenna fix solves potential billon-dollar problem | Mobile broadband startup LightSquared has developed a new antenna in cooperation with PCTEL that will prevent the company’s new 4G LTE network from interfering with high precision GPS receivers, the company has announced.
Lightsquared had r... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | LightSquared blames GPS industry for interference problems | Mobile broadband startup LightSquared is blaming the GPS industry for the interference problems between GPS enabled-services and its LTE high-speed wireless network, the company stated Thursday in a letter to the Federal Communications Comm... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | LightSquared blames GPS industry for interference problems | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile broadband startup LightSquared is blaming the GPS industry for the interference problems between GPS enabled-services and its LT... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | Oh snap, FCC may kill LightSquared to save GPS services | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Federal Communications Commission and other regulators are prepared to stop wireless broadband startup LightSquared from operating ... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | New Clearwire CEO Faces Tough Road as Wireless Provider Looks for Cash | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Clearwire has named Erik Prusch its new president and CEO, replacing interim chief John Stanton as the Kirkland, WA-based wireless broadband provider struggles with Wall Stree... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | Oh snap, FCC may kill LightSquared to save GPS services | The Federal Communications Commission and other regulators are prepared to stop wireless broadband startup LightSquared from operating if its network poses any risk to GPS services, the government agencies stated Tuesday during their monthl... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | LightSquared raises $265M for nationwide broadband | The wholesale-only network will reach 260 million Americans across the nation by 2015
LightSquared, the first open, nationwide, wholesale-only 4G-LTE broadband network, announced Monday that it has raised $265 million in a round of funding ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | LightSquared nabs $265M for wholesale LTE 4G | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A cool $265 million is being banked today by Ligh... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | LightSquared Raises $265 Million To Build High-Speed Wireless Network | LightSquared, a company that is developing a wholesale only, net-neutral 4G-LTE network that combines with satellite to provide nation-wide broadband wireless access, has raised $265 million in new funding.
The company says that the capital... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | LightSquared Snares New Equity |
LightSquared, the Virginia-based wireless broadband and satellite network, has raised $265 million to use funds for general corporate purposes.
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| Jul 5, 2011 | LightSquared Raises $265M | LightSquared, a Reston, VA-based wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network, has raised $265m in funding.
Investors include undisclosed existing and new backers.
LightSquared plans to use these funds for gener... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | LightSquared nabs $265M for wholesale LTE 4G | A cool $265 million is being banked today by LightSquared, the first wholesale-only integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network in the United States. Over the last 12 months LightSquared has raised more than $2.3 billion.
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| Jun 30, 2011 | LightSquared files proposal for new spectrum block | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wholesale wireless network provider LightSquared will move the launch of its wireless network to a new block of spectrum after tests sh... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Nevermind the GPS interference, LightSquared has a solution | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wholesale mobile broadband provider LightSquared issued a new plan today outlining a solution for the GPS interference problems caused ... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Nevermind the GPS interference, LightSquared has a solution | Wholesale mobile broadband provider LightSquared issued a new plan today outlining a solution for the GPS interference problems caused by the company’s 4G LTE wireless network.
LightSquared says the solution will “protect the public’s stake... |
| Jun 17, 2011 | Will Sprint benefit from LightSquared's broken LTE network? | Troubled wholesale mobile broadband provider LightSquared has confirmed today that the company has entered a 15-year deal with Sprint to provide high-speed wireless service for the carrier’s 4G LTE network, reports Bloomberg.
The news comes... |
| Jun 17, 2011 | Will Sprint benefit from LightSquared's broken LTE network? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Troubled wholesale mobile broadband provider LightSquared has confirmed today that the company has entered a 15-year deal with Sprint t... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | Uh oh, LightSquared’s network is screwing with GPS | New government tests conducted by two separate agencies have concluded that LightSquared‘s mobile broadband network interferes with the signal on all GPS devices.
The news doesn’t bode well for the Virginia-based wireless startup company, w... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Sprint close to $20B LightSquared deal for 4G LTE rollout | Sprint is nearing a deal with wholesale 4G LTE company LightSquared to build and share networks that could give Sprint a whopping $20 billion, Businessweek reports.
Sources tell the magazine that the deal would span 15 years and allow Light... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Smart Phones & Devices Now Growing 3X As Fast as Babies Are Born [Stats] | Did you know there are 3X as many smartphones being activated every minute around the world than there are babies being born? That’s according to Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson. “Those of us in this room can remember when mobile coverage wa... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Heads up Microkia watchers, LightSquared gets $586M for new LTE network | LightSquared, the company building a hybrid LTE and Mobile Satellite wireless network that will be sold as wholesale bandwidth to the major U.S. networks, announced Tuesday that it has closed a $586 million loan led by Swiss investment bank... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Nokia to make phones for LightSquared’s wholesale 4G network | Nokia has announced that it will develop mobile devices for billionaire Philip Falcone’s LightSquared — an ambitious 4G cellular network venture meant to compete with established carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, Bloomberg report... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | LightSquared, wholesale 4G-LTE + satellite network coming soon | A new data network arrived on the scene today. LightSquared will be a wholesale only, net-neutral 4G-LTE network that combines with satellite to provide nation-wide broadband wireless access. The aim is to have LTE cover 90% of the populati... |
