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TerreStar snares more spectrum at 2 GHz.

RCR Wireless News, May, 2007

Content provided in partnership with HighBeam Research

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

The Federal Communications Commission agreed to reserve a spectrum block for mobile satellite services provider TerreStar Networks Inc., one of a handful of firms trying to avoid past mistakes that nearly wiped out the MSS sector in the previous decade.

How does TerreStar expect to succeed where so many others have failed? By pursuing more rational business strategies based on satellite-terrestrial network architectures capable of exploiting niche growth markets either not served or underserved by national wireless carriers and other telecom service providers. TerreStar and other MSS licensees are expected to make their play using similar multi-functional handheld phones used by cellular subscribers today.

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