A four star USAF general just said what we were expecting the Military to say, Lightsquared = GPS JAMMER

LightSquared Would Jam GPS, Defense Officials Tell Congress

http://insidegnss.com/node/2779

I won't spoil the finer details. Now Obama's irresponsible PNT policy
has come into light.

Marcelo Pacheco

The general must obey all 'reasonable' orders issued by the Commander
In Chief. If the White House asked him to espouse a party line that
DoD supports the broadband initiatives, that wouldn't be too far out
of line.

I'm sure DoD couldn't care less about the business shenanigans of
telecoms Verizon, Sprint, AT&T , Clearwire and Lightsquared. That's
not their department until one of those deals infringes upon national
security.

I support broadband initiatives. But if you think that's my
endorsement of Lightsquared being allowed to trash GPS operations,
then if that's what you think your wrong.

--- CHAS

Next chapter... Lightsquared debacle now on Bloomberg.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-15/lightsquared-interferes-with-milit=
ary-gps-devices-lawmaker-says.html

As I expected, with a republican majority in the house, they will make
a lot of noise if the FCC continues pressing forward on this. Even
democrats have expressed huge opposition to this.

I'd say the odds now are 9:1 towards this lightsquared @ L1 band being
done by this year's end.

Marcelo

I agree, they will not be authorized to transmit this year .. their
technological difficulties are exasperated by all the bad press they
have been getting from the political front. It's rapidly becoming
dangerous for their highly placed government cronies to continue
support.

With more testing having been ordered to determine how the lower
network 10 MHz affects GPS devices, Lightsquared's time is running
out. They are using up their cash reserves. Within the current
environment, anyone who has money to bolster their enterprise should
think twice about that.

They are in deep trouble as evidenced by their contrived and
convoluted arguments. Now they claim to have developed a device that
will magically enable their network to coexist; maybe yes but
probably no.

In reality, this tripe might be all that remains for them:

http://www.youtube.com/lightsquaredvideo#p/u/0/b7N8WXzzIKk

An inconvenient truth is GPS devices and applications have evolved in
a manner that's not compatible with Lightsquared's broadband
initiative. That's also what I told FCC (not that anyone there has
read it) in my Docket 11-109 comment.

--- CHAS

Agreed, but the most important factor is that Gen. Shelton said that
even using only the lower 10MHz, it would still cost USAF billions to
solve the resulting problems, and that it would take many years to
implement a solution (if there is one). The training argument is very
serious, it brings the issue GPS will be less useful inside the USA
than outside due to L^2 being a serious GPS jammer. The commander of
space command seems to already know the results of the upcoming
testing already, which wouldn't surprise me at all (the laws of
physics are fairly easy to model when you have enough experts and a
supercomputer available).

And then there's the other obvious point, highlighted by a republican
representative that L^2 frequency assignment was never intended for
such power levels, and that such spectrum was sold at a cheaper price
exactly because it was not intended for building a terrestrial high
power LTE service.

Marcelo