LightSquared Pushes FCC on Its Post-Bankruptcy Plans

LightSquared is readying its post-bankruptcy regulatory steps, as Reed Hundt -- representing the satellite company -- talked about pending transfer of control applications and its LTE plans in a phone conversation with Chairman Tom Wheeler's senior counselor Philip Verveer, according to an ex parte filing to be posted in docket 12-340. According to the filing, Hundt, a former FCC chairman, "emphasized the need for prompt Commission action on the pending applications and the company’s desire when New LightSquared emerges from bankruptcy to put its midband spectrum at work." The call also covered LightSquared's legal and spectrum clash with GPS firms Deere, Garmin and Trimble and negotiations to end those fights (see 1510090042), the company said.