Kirkland: Wireless Company's Proposal Amounts To A "Hail Mary Move"

LightSquared, a wireless data company which has proposed establishing a network using frequencies adjacent to the GPS spectrum, recently proposed what is says is a "solution" to the problem of severe interference with GPS reception caused by their transmitters during testing.

In response to LightSquared’s proposed “solution” , Jim Kirkland, Vice President and General Counsel of Trimble and a founding member of the Coalition to Save Our GPS, said "the latest gambit by LightSquared borders on the bizarre.

"Last week LightSquared unilaterally delayed filing of the study report that culminated months of intensive work to evaluate interference to GPS, because they purportedly needed two more weeks to analyze the results," Kirkland said in a statement. "Days later, well before the report is scheduled to be filed, LightSquared unilaterally announces that it has found a ‘solution.’

“LightSquared’s supposed solution is nothing but a ‘Hail Mary’ move. Confining its operation to the lower MSS band still interferes with many critical GPS receivers in addition to the precision receivers that even LightSquared concedes will be affected. The government results submitted to date already prove this, and the study group report will also confirm this. It is time for LightSquared to move out of the MSS band.”

FMI: www.SaveOurGPS.org