LightSquared's move could signal a court battle against the FCC. According to politico’s Eliza Krigman LightSquared has retained two of the most prominent conservative litigators in the country — Theodore Olson and Eugene Scalia — in a sign it could be preparing to launch a court battle against the FCC.
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed scrapping LightSquared’s authority to conduct land-based signals over its airwaves and revoking a waiver that enabled the company’s business model. Without this regulatory authority, LightSquared’s entry into the wireless market as a competitor to Verizon, AT&T and other traditional carriers is doomed.
What happened to LightSquared is “an egregious example” of the government encouraging a company to invest an enormous amount of money to meet a national objective and then “pulling the rug out from under them capriciously and precipitously,” Olson told POLITICO. “On the face of things, it looks to me like the government has acted arbitrarily after inducing the expenditure of an enormous number of resources.”
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