Sanjiv Ahuja, Chairman of the Board
Sanjiv Ahuja is the chairman of the board of LightSquared. In 2007 Sanjiv founded Augere, a company delivering affordable, genuine wireless broadband to underserved customers in developing markets such as Bangladesh and Pakistan. He is also the founder and chairman of Eaton Telecom, a telecommunications infrastructure company with a presence in 12 African countries. From 2004 until 2007, Sanjiv was chief executive officer of Orange.
As a wholesale-only wireless network operator, LightSquared is on the frontlines of the effort to provide the necessary capacity to meet the growing demand for wireless Internet access everywhere. Devices are evolving to offer more features, apps are exploding in popularity and consumer habits are generating more traffic than ever before.
Earlier this month, I was
Yesterday we announced a broad-ranging, 15-year agreement with Sprint. The agreement includes spectrum hosting and network services, 4G wholesale and 3G roaming. You can read about the details here. Suffice it to say, I couldn’t be more enthusiastic about this significant milestone in executing our operational plan.
The LightSquared-Sprint agreement is momentous for many reasons. For
Here’s a favorite industry topic: access to networks. In our case, we will sell wholesale access to the LightSquared network to service provider partners who, in turn, will resell the service under their own brand, to their customers. Our partnership with Best Buy is an early, and significant, example. So are our partnerships with Leap
In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama said that making broadband available for 98 percent of Americans is essential to “winning the future.” This was a verbal challenge that underscores the importance of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, which states that “broadband can and must serve as a foundation for long-term economic growth, ongoing investment, and enduring job creation.”
I am pleased to introduce LightSquared’s new blog, Insights. Its purpose is to cover current topics and issues of interest in the wireless world, as well as share news about our company and perspectives from our leadership team and other industry experts.
