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[ NNSquad ] US: LightSquared 4G would have "severe operational impact" on GPS
US: LightSquared 4G would have "severe operational impact" on GPS
http://j.mp/nWdmTg (ars technica)
"The US Department of Commerce's telecommunications division has
released an assessment of problems that the LightSquared 4G service
might create for commercial and government Global Positioning System
services (GPS), and the conclusion isn't pretty. LightSquared's
deployment of wholesale LTE "poses a significant potential for harmful
interference" to commercial and government GPS, the National
Telecommunications and Information Agency's Lawrence Strickling wrote
in his introduction to the report."
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I continue not to understand how the terrestrial component of the
LightSquared system was ever even provisionally approved by the FCC,
given the critical importance of GPS. It really does appear like
someone was asleep at the switch at that point.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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