Tue, Dec 27, 2011
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.
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