The Republican government from 2000 set this up to fail. They allowed the creation of "too big to fail companies" creating territorial monopolies out of cable and telecoms who see the death threat of a lightsquared company.
The GPS consortuim was simply the front man, dig deeper and you will see that the big money came from the telecoms and cable industry.
When the Bush crowd, and GOP led FCC of that era ruled that Cable didn't have to follow the rules and serve everyone, they opened the door to allowing maximized profits, minimized customers. They strpped the profitable areas, gave shoddy service, and allowed no competition in - not even to service those who could not beg, borrow or steal broadband connections.
Light squared would change that and therefore had to be stopped at all costs - and what better way than to use the GPS system, one of the most useful tools out there, as a surefire excuse to deny light squared a shot?
cable stopped two miles from my home 20 YEARS AGO. there is no fiber optic cable, no fiber optic telephone abd only 13 percent of the county I live in has access to broadband of anykind -including wireless cell service. We are 30 miles from Williamsburg, 40 miles from richmond, 120 miles from Washington DC.
If a company like Light Squared had started service in this area, the cable users would have begun dropping their poorly serviced product like files, disrupting the telecoms and Cable monopolies.
Of course the FCC said "no" to them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
