Tag: Interference

  • LightSquared Lets Loose Lowly Yowl of Government Bias, Collusion, and Conspiracy Theories

    LightSquared Lets Loose Lowly Yowl of Government Bias, Collusion, and Conspiracy Theories

    LightSquared Lets Loose Lowly Yowl of Government Bias, Collusion, and Conspiracy Theories Today, LightSquared latest a press release, Government Committee’s Refusal to Continue Testing Highlights Systemic Pattern of Bias and Collusion, decries its perceived treatment by the Federal Government, particularly by the National Executive Committee (EXCOM) and Advisory Board for the Space-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT).…

  • More Bad News for LightSquared From Sprint and President Obama

    More Bad News for LightSquared From Sprint and President Obama

    The Bad, The Ugly and The LightScrewed News from around the web today was not good for LightSquared. Earlier this week, I wrote Sprint Grants LightSquared 30 More Days for FCC Approval, Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon?, and today it seems that possibly the Lightsquared wagon’s axle is now broken too. The bad news…

  • Sprint Grants LightSquared 30 More Days for FCC Approval, Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon?

    Sprint Grants LightSquared 30 More Days for FCC Approval, Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon?

    Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon? Today, The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint, who last year had signed a 15-year agreement with LightSquared to help that company build its proposed 4G LTE network, has given LightSquared a 30-day extension to get FCC approval. The original agreement had a December 31, 2011 deadline for…

  • LightSquared Video Claims Independent Tests Validate Coexistence with GPS

    LightSquared Video Claims Independent Tests Validate Coexistence with GPS

    LightSquared Video Claims Independent Tests Validate Coexistence with GPS There are, some say, two sides to every story….  I say, sometimes one side is even correct. Often, the real question is not the correctness of  each combatant, but rather: Who will pay the price when the dust settles after the war is over? In the…

  • House Small Business Committee Ask the FCC to Halt Waiver on LightSquared Proposal

    House Small Business Committee Ask the FCC to Halt Waiver on LightSquared Proposal

    Committee Members Ask the FCC to Halt Waiver on LightSquared Proposal Until Federal Tests Reveal No GPS Interference “LightSquared’s waiver should not be approved until federal tests reveal there will be no interference and unexpected consequences for small businesses.” Washington, Oct 28 – WASHINGTON— House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today along with eight members…

  • LightSquared Shows Filtering Technology

    LightSquared Shows Filtering Technology

    RESTON, Va. – October 13, 2011 – LightSquared, a wholesale carrier building a nationwide wireless broadband network that will create consumer choice and drive industry innovation, has collaborated with several high-tech companies to develop solutions to the GPS interference issue. Despite claims by GPS device manufacturers that a solution would take ten years and billions of…

  • LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators

    LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators

    On The Communicators, the second part of our look at LightSquared, a company building a national wireless broadband network. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) of the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee and Jim Kirkland, founding member of the Coalition to Save our GPS are critical of LightSquared’s goals and business practices. Also joining the discussion…

  • LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

    LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

    On a special hour-long The Communicators, Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO of LightSquared, discusses the company’s effort to build a $14 billion high-speed wireless network and concerns that its network might interfere with GPS global positioning equipment, including some used by the military. Sanjiv Ahuja wrote a full-page letter to the American public published in some newspapers…

  • Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction

    Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa continues to seek answers regarding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its dealings with the firm, LightSquared. This week, Grassley wrote separate letters to the top investor in and the chief executive of the company, seeking materials that would shed light on why the agency has allowed the…

  • Javad GNNS Announces LightSquared Compensation and Integration

    Javad GNNS Announces LightSquared Compensation and Integration

    Javad GNSS Forward Looking or Industry Shill? Javad GNSS, Inc. has announced that its GPS receivers can now compensate for and integrate with the controversial LightSquared network. As has been widely reported, the LightSquared network will emit radio interference which may render useless existing GPS receivers, particularly high-precision units typically used by land surveyors. Does…

  • LightSquared in the News Roundup

    LightSquared in the News Roundup

    Here’s a roundup of LightSquared related news links recently posted on Ericcolburn.com, The Professional Land Surveyor Source: LightSquared in the News Republicans Ask White House for Records of Falcone Contacts – Bloomberg LightSquared Promises Tech Fix To ‘Save’ GPS | Fox News LightSquared | Darrell Issa | House Oversight Investigation | The Daily Caller White…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 18, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18 USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online Sokkia Releases NET-AX Series of Automated Total Stations for 3D Monitoring LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda? Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network House Aviation Subcommittee…

  • LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda?

    Yesterday, I published a press release by House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri Rebuts LightSquared Ad in Letter to CEO and another press release where the Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network. In summary, Congressman Petri, House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman, disputes the LightSquared arguments that the GPS manufacturers are on the wrong side of this interference…

  • Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network

    Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2011 – Defense Department officials are raising concerns that a company’s proposed wireless broadband network would cause harmful interference to essential Global Positioning System operations. LightSquared’s new terrestrial network has the potential to wreak havoc on GPS systems…

  • House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri Rebuts LightSquared Ad in Letter to CEO

    In a letter to the chairman and CEO of a controversial wireless company, House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri (R-WI) sought to set the record straight Thursday following the company’s ad in the Wall Street Journal the day before. LightSquared, a wireless broadband company, has been mired in controversy because it plans to use a portion of the radio…

  • What if LightSquared is Right about GPS?

    LightSquared Files with FCC: GPS Industry’s Failure to Comply With Department of Defense and International Standards for GPS Receivers Cause of Interference So, I’ve been thinking lately about how the land surveying industry has not demanded and been stewards for improvements, necessary and long overdue improvements, in various aspects of the resources and technologies we…

  • FCC Chairman Promises to Protect GPS from LightSquared Interference

    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski tells reporters that the FCC will not allow interference to GPS from the proposed LightSquared hybrid satellite/terrestrial broadband wireless service. At yesterday’s press conference with reporters after the FCC’s Aug. 9 monthly meeting, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski made very encouraging comments concerning LightSquared’s January waiver concerning the more recent testing results showing overwhelming…

  • Let the FCC Know About the Threat that LightSquared Poses to GPS

    HELP SAVE OUR GPS! Please Submit your Comments to the FCC by July 30 Background In January, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conditionally allowed a company called LightSquared to offer wireless broadband services in radio frequency bands adjacent to those used by GPS receivers.  Based on feedback from public and private sector GPS users, the…

  • Testing Shows GPS Interference From Proposed LightSquared Network

    Various reports about recent testing performed to decide whether the proposed LightSquared Network will broadcast harmful interference to GPS say that, in fact, there will be a significant disruption to the GPS system. This potential threat to GPS, that much of the professional land surveying industry and other industries rely upon, is due to a waiver…