Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership [telecom]

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by Stephen Lawson Computerworld

Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership

Harbinger's Falcone, who started the carrier, took advice from a software executive but kept his distance

IDG News Service - LightSquared founder Philip Falcone's response to ethics allegations by a U.S. senator sheds some light on a strange chapter in the carrier's ongoing bid to build a controversial cellular data network.

In a Jan. 23 letter, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa accused Falcone of hinting he could help out the senator in return for his softening an investigation of LightSquared's dealings with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). As part of his allegation, Grassley said a software executive had contacted his office and all but offered to build a data center in Iowa if Grassley left LightSquared alone.

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