LightSquared creates rural initiative

LightSquared continues to try to drum up popular support for its wireless network plans, announcing the creation of what it is calling an “Empower Rural America Initiative.”

The proposed LightSquared network offers a “huge opportunity for broadband in places that don't have broadband now,” a LightSquared spokesman told Connected Planet this morning. “Too much of rural America is on the wrong side of the digital divide.” LightSquared’s rural initiative will be led by an advisory board that currently has three members -- former-Sen Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and former-Reps George Nethercutt (WA) and Charlie Stenholm (TX). Moving forward, the board will be expanded to include additional members, the spokesman said.