Of course, LightSquared’s similar attempts to refarm – and cash in on – its satellite spectrum for terrestrial use went down in flames after a drag-down fight with GPS industry. Globalstar’s petition, however, has a much better chance of succeeding for a couple of reasons:
Globalstar isn’t trying to build a high-powered LTE network in its spectrum. The potential for LTE to interfere with nearby GPS signals derailed LightSquared’s plans. While there are interference concerns with other radios like Bluetooth using nearby bands, Wi-Fi is a much lower power technology than LTE. The FCC has definitely shown willingness to approve such terrestrial refarming in the past for the sake of creating new spectrum for wireless data use. Dish Network last year won FCC permission to use its 2 GHz spectrum for an LTE network.
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