No Commissioners Slated for FCC LightSquared Oversight Hearing

Federal Communications Commission International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre and Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp are the only two witnesses slated for a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the FCC's handling of the conditional waiver to LightSquared.

The hearing will look at how the FCC came to the January 2011 decision to grant a conditional waiver to LightSquared to use satellite spectrum for terrestrial mobile service. In a background memo on the hearing, committee staffers point out that the FCC has yet to make a final determination on vacating the waiver. While LightSquared has filed for bankruptcy -- LightSquared invested billions, banking that the GPS hurdles would be cleared -- it has said it was still willing to launch the service if the government would let it.