Claims Independent Confirmation Of Its Position On The Issue

As evidence backing up its filing last week with the FCC claiming owners of legacy GPS equipment have no standing to block its plan to deploy terrestrial 4G transmitters, LightSquared filed the first set of data from independent testing of precision GPS devices which were modified to coexist with the company's proposed nationwide 4G LTE network.

"As we anticipated, the data shows that properly filtered high-precision GPS devices do not suffer any loss of accuracy in the presence of LightSquared's signals," said LightSquared's executive vice president for regulatory affairs and public policy, Jeff Carlisle. "The government has not yet begun the next phase of testing, which will focus on high-precision devices, so this is an important indicator as those tests get underway."

Lightsquared says the government's testing has already confirmed that more than 300 million GPS-enabled cell phones are compatible with LightSquared's signal. This, along with the independent test results available today, proves that engineering solutions are possible, and interference issues are avoidable.

LightSquared says it will invest $14 billion in private equity in the nation's broadband infrastructure. The company says it will continue to work with the federal government to arrive at a complete solution so that it may begin building out its network, which it claims will "create jobs, foster competition and bring more affordable wireless broadband to underserved communities across America."

In its filing, LightSquared said the GPS industry had sold millions of receivers which do not conform with government requirements to "an unsuspecting public." They say that the owners of those receivers should have no expectation that they will be free from interference, and that the GPS industry has no standing to block the deployment of its 4G broadband network based on interference claims.

FMI: www.lightsquared.com, http://saveourgps.org/