This panel createda testing regime that seemed directed largely by GPS manucturing companies. It excluded all our input. The industry then created laboratory tests that seemed designed to give the results they wanted.
This surge of new smartphones and tablets is creating a traffic jam in the available spectrum. America is expected to run out of network capacity in the next two years – a potentially crippling situation for some of the most promising segments of our economy.
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global positioning system Opinion,Both Democrats and Republicans applauded President Barack Obama’s pledge Tuesday to reform the executive branch. Too often, the president said in his State of the Union, it’s inefficient, outdated and remote.
Google search THE POPULATION BOMB and realize how people really whiff on predictions of the end of something....
We’ve run into a textbook case of what some political scientists call the Washington iron — where industry lobbyists, bureaucrats and congressional power-brokers work together to preserve the status quo. In our case, the iron is built up around the Global Positioning System industry.
This is a textbook case of what political scientists call the Washington iron , the author says. AP Photo
L2 was issued a conditional waiver to change the terms governing the portion of the spectrum they inherited. One of the conditions was that their terrestrial signals couldnt interfere with GPS. They have iled to meed the conditions of that waiver and now want to blame the FCC and GPS.
Is this corruption? Is this structural?
Whod thunk it. A company that didnt get its way complaining about the nasty government. Its , any radio transmitter broadcasts on many channels. Light squared built out a system without regard to adajacent channels and now is complainng when those device makers who stand to lose cry fowl. If light squared cannot obey the rules they should lose.
But then last year, the Space Based Positioning Navigation and Timing Executive Committee was asked to evaluate our plans. This government panel was created in 2004 to guide GPS policy, and we believe it has been captured by the GPS industry.
Here is a business that claims that entrenched business interests are rigging the decision process.
Sorry guys... you took a gamble and you lost.
The author may, or, may not be accurate. But, his accusation should be investigated.
Obama pressed Tuesday for the need to expand broadband access. An incomplete high-speed broadband network, he said, prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world.
asjogren, I think you should know that the author of this oped piece, Sanjiv Ahuja, is CEO of LightSquared.
So LightSquared, encouraged by the Federal Communications Commission under both the Obama and Bush administrations, has spent billions building a new wireless broadband network on parts of the spectrum we legally own.
I suggest consolidating this market at this time is a terrible thing to do. So bandwidth will run out in 2 years?? Suggesting that all ideas are fixed and all ideas that are good ones have been invented. That is arrogant!
Since LightSquared is close to the problem, could they suggest some solutions? If corruption then prosecute. If structural - please suggest changes which would reduce the chance that this happens in the future? Deregulaltion would just result in chaos.
Lightsquared should lose...You cant force the timeline of anything based off your gains and not the actual need for change.
Even inexpensive GPS devices now receive not only GPS signals, but signals across a wide swath of spectrum – sglobal positioning system Opinionpecifically the part licensed to LightSquared. Our company has been working with the FCC to find engineering solutions that can allow our technologies to coexist — and we’ve been successful in solving potential conflicts.
His administration has set a national goal to make more wireless speglobal positioning systemctrum available. With good reason. There are more wireless devices in the U.S. than people, and the demand for data is expected to increase 50 times over in the next four years.
For example, the vice chairman of the committee’s advisory board sits on the board of directors of a GPS company that has spent more than a million dollars lobbying against LightSquared’s technology.
I know he’s right. My company has experienced this aspect of Washington dysfunction up close.
