A Sprint network glitch is incorrectly directing users to the home of Wayne Dobson in North Las Vegas. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, an unexplained location and GPS data glitch is sending victims of cellphone and tablet theft — and the police looking for them — to this poor guy’s home at all hours of the day and night. The problem only appears to be plaguing owners of Sprint phones, who Dobson says [...]

With the help of former FCC boss Kevin Martin, LightSquared has been engaged in a last-ditch lobbying attempt to try and save their LTE network plans. After being denied a necessary spectrum waiver due to GPS interference problems, LightSquared is trying to sell the FCC on a new plan that would involve the company avoiding using their controversial interference-prone spectrum (instead using (at 1670-1675MHz), and is seeking an additional five megahertz of new spectrum they [...]

Bankrupt LightSquared still doesn’t have anything close to an actual product on the market, and they likely never will — given the FCC’s decision to block a necessary waiver due to interference of their planned LTE network with GPS services. The company is also just burning through money, having spent at least $134 million since their May bankruptcy, much of it on futile lobbying efforts. Still, that isn’t stopping the company from paying at least [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that LightSquared is preparing for a bankruptcy filing that could come sometime today. Last February the FCC denied the company a necessary spectrum waiver, all but killing the company whose LTE network build has struggled with its potential for GPS technology interference. LightSquared and the company’s lenders still have until 5 p.m today to decide on a deal that could potentially keep the company out of bankruptcy, though the Journal [...]

While LightSquared’s plan to build a nationwide LTE network are all but dead at the moment, the company (if you can call a pile of dwindling cash and no product a company) insists they’ll continue fighting. Hoping to drive a final nail in the saga’s coffin, the Coalition to Save our GPS is urging the FCC to revoke LightSquared’s conditional authorization immediately. ” Try as it might, LightSquared cannot hide the fact that the International [...]

As had been rumored, Sprint has officially backed out of their deal with LightSquared after the company failed to clear regulatory hurdles caused by their network’s potential to interfere with GPS services. Sprint will terminate the deal as of today and return $65 million to LightSquared according to a report in the Wall Street Journal (see this non-paywalled CNET report instead). The deal cancellation comes after Sprint gave LightSquared two extensions to deal with their [...]

The FCC stated on Friday they would be delaying their decision to grant Dish a necessary spectrum condition waiver, required for the company’s planned LTE network. The FCC didn’t cite reasons for the delay, but stated they would likely have a decision on the waiver by the end of the year. Dish Chair Charlie Egen recently stated they had roughly a 80% chance of success in getting the network built, a number they stated would [...]

With their LTE network plans all but dead, LightSquared has taken the inevitable action of laying off 45% of the company’s workforce. The company employs 330 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. “This and other cost savings measures will allow LightSquared to continue to navigate the regulatory process as it works with the appropriate government agencies to find solutions to the GPS interference issue and bring its $14 billion privately funded wireless broadband network [...]

Yesterday the FCC put a nail in LightSquared’s coffin by announcing that they would not be granting a previously-promised waiver on spectrum conditions necessary to get the hybrid LTE/satellite network up and running. As we noted yesterday, LightSquared’s chance at survival at this point without that waiver is virtually nonexistent due to limited cash and the constant flood of negative GPS interference reports. For what it’s worth, LightSquared says they’ll fight the decision, but issued [...]

The FCC has put a nail in the coffin for LightSquared, late yesterday stating they’d be revoking LightSquared’s spectrum waiver. The waiver on spectrum that would have been used for the hybrid satellite/LTE network was doled out just about a year ago, with the FCC saying they hoped the network would help increase competition. However, LightSquared’s technology was repeatedly shown to cause significant interference, and combined with a little political pressure on lawmakers from AT&T [...]