Mon, Jan 16, 2012
LightSquared Continues To Defend And Promote Troubled
System
The long saga involving the bizarre and inexplicably persistent
efforts of LightSquared to foist an unworkable and reportedly
dangerous wireless system on America might finally be coming to an
end.
Despite the FCC's seemingly indefensible, though limited, waiver
for a system with a multitude of problems and issues, the final
nail in LightSquared's coffin may have been hammered late Friday.
Late in the day; the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation
and Timing Executive Committee (PNT ExComm) stated that the
collection of nine federal agencies that constitute the
organization body had reached a unanimous conclusion in that none
of LightSquared's proposals would overcome significant interference
with GPS technologies.
The National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning,
Navigation, and Timing (PNT) is a US Government organization
established by Presidential directive to advise and coordinate
federal departments and agencies on matters concerning the Global
Positioning System (GPS) and related systems.
The PNT stated that, "Based upon this testing and analysis,
there appear to be no practical solutions or mitigations that would
permit the LightSquared broadband service, as proposed, to operate
in the next few months or years without significantly interfering
with GPS. As a result, no additional testing is warranted at this
time."
Previous testing proved that the LightSquared systems and
technologies interfered with many GPS devices... since then
LightSquared has taken a number of controversial positions
including blaming the GPS industry, itself, for the problems seen
in working in concert with their system.
LightSquared has, of course, responded. The company is, "...
urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to retake
the lead on government testing for GPS filtering solutions after a
series of actions by federal agencies have demonstrated bias and
inappropriate collusion with the private sector..."
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