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RADIO LAW: FCC SAYS IT WILL SEEK TO CANCEL
LIGHTSQUARED PROPOSED BROADBAND NETWORK
The Federal Communications Commission says that
it will seek public comment on revoking
LightSquared's permit to build a proposed
national high-speed wireless data network. This,
after concluding that such a system held the
potential in some cases jam personal navigation
and other Global Positioning System or GPS
devices.
According to news reports, the FCC had seen
LightSquared's proposal as a way to make more
spectrum available to feed the need of the public
and industry for added broadband capability for a
wide variety of fixed and mobile devices. But the
manufacturers of GPS receivers and those who rely
on them feared that GPS signals would suffer from
adjacent spectrum interference caused by the
proposed LightSquared network.
As previously reported here on Newsline, after
conducting tests, the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration said that it found
interference with dozens of personal navigation
devices and aircraft control systems that rely on
GPS for positioning. The NTIA concluded that
there's no way to eliminate the risk of
interference with such GPS devices.
As we go to air, LightSquared, which is based in
Reston, Virginia, had not made any comment to the
press on this latest development.
(PC World Blog, Yahoo News, Bloomberg News,
others)
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