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FCC aims to kill LightSquared wireless network

Federal officials plan to kill a proposal to build a new national high-speed wireless network after concluding that it would in some cases jam personal-navigation and other GPS devices. The Federal Communications Commission sought co [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

GPS tests were rigged, Lightsquared claims

LightSquared and former FCC chief engineer Edmond Thomas on Wednesday said the GPS test devices that were used by a government agency to test its new network were rigged by “manufacturers of GPS receivers and government end users to [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

GPS Group Seeks Partial Ban on LightSquared

A group of GPS vendors and users has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to permanently block LightSquared from using the upper band of its licensed radio spectrum for a cellular data network. LightSquared wants to build a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

GPS companies clash with LightSquared, each other at public ...

Global Positioning System companies remain split on the best way to contend with LightSquared. Representatives from three GPS-based companies spoke alongside LightSquared Executive Vice President Martin Harriman during the two-hour panel [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

GPS: LightSquared's wasting taxpayer cash

With deficit reduction talk sucking up most of the oxygen in Washington, the GPS community is trying to hit LightSquared where it hurts by accusing the broadband company of wasting precious taxpayer dollars. LightSquared is trying to & [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

LightSquared, GPS Maker Boost Lobbying in Washington Showdow...

Philip Falcone’s LightSquared wireless venture and its critic Trimble Navigation Ltd. boosted lobbying this year as a fight escalated in Washington over whether the project will harm the global-positioning system. Lobbying spendi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

LightSquared points finger at GPS makers for interference pr...

In a move that’s sure to win friends and admirers in the GPS industry, LTE network developer LightSquared today said that the reason its pending mobile broadband network might interfere with GPS systems is because GPS manufacturers [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

FCC: We won't let LightSquared hurt GPS

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission won't allow LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband service to interfere with GPS signals, even though the potential interference would be caused by GPS receivers picking up signals outs [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

LightSquared wireless network hits headwinds

Opposition to the wireless startup LightSquared has grown so strong in recent weeks that it’s raising questions about whether the company’s ambitious plans for a new national broadband network are in jeopardy. About a dec [...]

Posted On : Jun, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

LightSquared Reports on GPS Testing Process

LightSquared has begun planning for GPS interference tests that will determine whether it can roll out a combination satellite-LTE mobile data network and issued the first of several required monthly reports on the process.The fledgling [...]