LightSquared, Best Buy Associate For Mobile Video Network

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Apr 4, 2011 2:29 PM, By Debra Kaufman

A day after LightSquared cut an LTE in motion attend to Cricket provider Leap Wireless , the firm inked a indiscriminate attend to Best Buy to enable the retailer's Best Buy Connect service to access its LTE network. According to LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja, Best Buy will start trials on the LTE network in Q1 2012.

The pierce is other step in LightSquared's outline to casing 100 million points of participation by the finish of 2012, 145 million by finish of 2013 and 260 million by the finish of 2015. LightSquared moreover committed to spending $14 billion on rolling out and working its network over the next 8 years. LightSquared represents itself as delivering more ability for users to suffer swift mobile Internet access. On the flip side, LightSquared has gotten a few pull back from the Coalition to Save Our GPS , that claims that LightSquared's L-band spectrum is as well shut to GPS spectrum and will result in interference.

This is not the initial mobile video network deal that Best Buy has signed. Last year, the tradesman sealed a attend to Clearwire to give service on its mobile WiMAX network. This service is approaching to launch this year.