LightSquared's Carlisle Added to Witness List for Tomorrow
Jeffrey Carlisle, Executive Vice President of LightSquared, has been added to the witness list for the House Small Business committee hearing tomorrow.
LightSquared is under attack from some quarters because of concerns that its mobile broadband system will interfere with GPS signals. Several congressional hearings have been held. The hearing tomorrow is the first to focus on the impact on small businesses.
According to The Hill newspaper, Carlisle will tell the committee that his company will create jobs for small business and “support over 15,000 jobs a year for each of the five years that it will take to construct this network…” LightSquared has a satellite, SkyTerra, and plans to build 40,000 cell towers nationwide to provide mobile broadband service. Service may involve the satellite only, the “ancillary terrestrial component” cell towers only, or both.
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