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LightSquared to pay Inmarsat $338m for spectrum
LightSquared to pay Inmarsat $338m for spectrum
telecomasia.net
US wireless broadband startup LightSquared has activated a spectrum deal with Inmarsat in which it will pay $337.5 million to the mobile satellite firm.
LightSquared will use Inmarsat’s L-band frequencies to deploy a hybrid satellite-LTE network across the US, launching in the second half of 2011.
The company, backed by US hedge fund equity Harbinger Capital Partners, said Wednesday it had triggered a December 2007 agreement with Inmarsat on using the spectrum.
Harbinger owns 28% of Inmarsat, whose London stock spiked up 7.5% on the news on Wednesday. resisting the wide selloff of UK stocks.
In the first stage of the deal, Inmarsat will rejig its L-band configuration over the next 18 months and release the vacated airwaves to LightSquared.
LightSquared chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja said the agreement would provide the operator with contiguous spectrum for additional network capacity to support wireless data services.
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