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The Telecom Digest for January 4, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 5 : "text" Format
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Re: Local theaters ready to bow to tweeters in the audience / But distraction to others a primary concern (Wes Leatherock)
Sprint grants LightSquared last-minute stay of execution (Telecom Digest Moderator)

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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 07:27:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Local theaters ready to bow to tweeters in the audience / But  distraction to others a primary concern 
Message-ID: <1325604473.47278.YahooMailClassic@web111711.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

--- On Mon, 1/2/12, Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
> Per Monty Solomon:
> >But distraction to others a primary concern
>
> I mostly gave up on movie theaters when they started turning the
> sound up all the way and playing commercials before the movies.
>
> Granted a move is best experienced on a big screen, but the
> downsides just don't justify it for me.

They were playing commercials in movie theaters when I was a kid and
later a teenager in the 1930s and 1940s.  One of the most prominent
purveyors of such commercials was the Alexander Film Company of
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Wes Leatherock
wleathus@yahoo.com
wesrock@aol.com




Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:49:58 -0500
From: Telecom Digest Moderator <redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Sprint grants LightSquared last-minute stay of execution 
Message-ID: <20120103194958.GA7254@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

This is from The Register:

by Bill Ray

Sprint Nextel has given wireless broadband biz LightSquared until the
end of January to get FCC approval for its network, putting a hard
deadline on the viability of its revolutionary plan.

LightSquared needs the regulator's thumbs-up to build its pan-US LTE
network in bands formerly reserved for satellite comms, but it also
needs Sprint to provide the cell sites and backhaul to make the dream
a reality. So the pressure is on to get that approval, and justify the
billions of dollars the company has already spent.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/03/lightsquared_sprint/

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