Attachment LightSquared - Nicke

This document pretains to SAT-MOD-20101118-00239 for Modification on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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                                                                                           OFFICE: (606) 784—5151
JIM NICKELL                                                                                  CELL: (606) 776—4479
Rowan County Judge/Executive                                                                  FAX: (606) 784—3535
                                                                           E—MAIL: judgeexec@windstream.net


                              600 West Main Street « Morehead, KY 40351                 Receivod & Insnactes

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                                                                     February 1, 2012
   The Honorable Julius Genachowski, Chairman                                            FCGD Mall3 am
   Federal Communications Commission
   445 12th Street, SW                                             $2358       SAT—MOD—20101118—00239       1B2010003539
   Washington, DC 20554                                            LightSquared Subsidiary LLC

                                          Re: Docket No. 11—109

   Dear Chairman Genachowski:

   I am writing to support the efforts of the LightSquared company to use the satellite and tower—
   based LTE system that it is in the process of developing, to bring good cell phone service to all
   of our country, not just the urban and wealthy areas. I specifically write to support
   LightSquared‘s position in the Petition for Declaratory Ruling pending before the FCC.

   Because small counties have been left out of the loop on technology issues for so long, we have
   taken a back seat economically to larger, more industrial areas. One of the things that could help
   counties like mine is having someone make a big investment in the type of communications
   systems that would provide good cell phone and internet service. I never understood how hard it
   was to govern until I was elected as County Judge—Executive of Rowan County, Kentucky. Until
   then, I did not understand that every decision in government involved weighing competing
   interests and making a decision in the best interest of the public. In a small county like mine,
   good cellular and wireless broadband coverage is a public safety issue as well as an economic
   issue. The county seat of Rowan County is Morehead, which is a larger town than the county
   seats of most Eastern Kentucky counties, and is the home to Morehead State University, and an
   area center of medicine, shopping, and education. And yet even in our county, when you get
   much past the Morehead city limits and out into the county, service quickly falls off, and in
   many rural areas of our county it is nonexistent.

   LightSquared plans to invest over $14 billion in our economy, and has already spent enough of
   that money to put up its satellite, which is already a huge investment. LightSquared will sell its
   service using small retailers, which would be independently owned, and would provide jobs in
   rural communities. I know that using all of our spectrum is also a goal of the FCC. Allowing
   LightSquared to go forward with its system would allow its spectrum to be used productively.

   From what I have read, LightSquared has followed the law, and has done everything that the
   FCC has asked it to do. I understand that the GPS industry has raised concerns about the safety
   of LightSquared‘s system, and in particular that its signals may interfere with those in use by
   GPS units. In its filings, LightSquared has properly described the portion of the broadcast


spectrum that it proposes to use, and which has been assigned to it. My understanding is that
GPS equipment makers have been on notice since 2001 to adjust their equipment so that it does
not look into LightSquared‘s frequencies, but that the equipment continues to do so. I am no
engineer, but it seems to me that this is the kind of problem that has been solved by engineers
many times in the past, and I urge the FCC to give the engineers a further chance to work this
problem out as well.

Counties like mine all across America are suffering from the lack of good cellular service and
good wireless broadband access to the internet. LightSquared appears to be the only competitor
in the market with the ability to solve that problem quickly.Therefore, I respectfully ask the FCC
to grant LightSquared‘s petition, and if possible, to do so quickly.




                                       owan County Judge Executive



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