GPS users continue to fight proposed LightSquared network

The ongoing controversy about whether LightSquared’s proposed network of 40,000 powerful ground-based stations transmitting high-speed Internet across the

By Andrew Wood • Contributor

June 30, 2011

The ongoing controversy about whether LightSquared’s proposed network of 40,000 powerful ground-based stations transmitting high-speed Internet across the nation would interfere with adjacent GPS frequencies became more intense last month. Earlier, AIN was informed that virtually all tests approved jointly by LightSquared and the GPS community, with all types of GPS receivers, had experienced interference ranging from erratic performance to complete loss of signals.

On June 15, LightSquared requested that the final report mandated by the FCC on the joint GPS compatibility test program that was due on that day should be delayed for two weeks, because of the volume of still unprocessed test data. In mandating the final report, the FCC required LightSquared to demonstrate, as a condition of granting its ground transmitter network license, that its stations would not interfere with GPS. The FCC allowed the delay.

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