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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…
Javad Ashjaee, GPS Pioneer and JAVAD Founder, Admits to GPS Design Flaws
Javad Ashjaee, GPS Pioneer and JAVAD Founder, Admits to GPS Design Flaws The LightSquared verses GPS battle, which has transcended the technical battlefield spilling over into the Presidential political front lines, has recently led to disturbing revelations. Most significant, Javad Ashjaee, GPS pioneer, JAVAD founder and CEO, admitted to GPS manufacturers’ design flaws. In this…
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 30, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30 Atlas Machinery Supply Ltd. Expands into the Construction Market with Leica Geosystems Canada Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 23, 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23 NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth Gatewing X100…
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…
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 16, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16 Topcon GR-5 Product Video GENIVAR ACQUIRES LE GROUPE GIROUX, A LEADING QUEBEC-BASED GEOMATICS AND SURVEYING FIRM Topcon Announces Tesla Large Screen Data Collector GeoDesign Summit Promotes Practical Applications LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads…
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…
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 9, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09 Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company LightSquared CEO on The Communicators Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction Elgin & Knowles-The U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) for Arkansas Reference Book and Manual New…
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
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…
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011
Updates & Upgrades In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup, I want to explain a few site upgrades in addition to this week’s summary. If you are a regular visitor here, you’ve no doubt noticed a new look. You also might have found some of the site features updated, too. What’s happening, simply is…
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
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…