[time-nuts] Lightsquared and the FCC

[John Green]

If the FCC weren't a government entity they would be called whores.
This reminds me of the time several years ago when it was taking a
year or more to get a grant for a 800 MHz license. The FCC granted
thousands, yes thousands of requests from the company that would
become Nextel all in one day. Quite often granting them a license for
a frequency that was already licensed at the same location by someone
else. All who objected were told to shut up and go away. Some years
later when interference to public safety systems by Nextel got bad
enough, the FCC made Nextel relocate those systems to different
frequencies less prone to interference. But, they granted them access
to the adjacent 900 MHz spectrum without having to file paperwork.
When the first plane crashes because of Lightsquared interference, I
hope the political s**t storm drowns those clowns.