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LightSquared: The Ball is in the FCC's Court
http://www.gpsworld.com/survey/lightsquared-the-ball-fccs-court-12002
"The FCC's public comment period regarding the LightSquared/GPS
interference issue has ended and the reply comment period is over as
well. To date, more than 3,300 comments (not including the 15,000+ that
were submitted by the Boat Owners Association of the United States) were
entered that the FCC must sift through and arrive at some sort of
conclusion. Following are my last comments filed with the FCC as well as
my best guess at where this is heading.
"I decided to file a "reply comment" submission on August 15 to the FCC
based on an August 11 filing by LightSquared where LightSquared
Executive Vice President Jeffrey Carlisle stated "had the GPS industry
complied with the DoD’s recommended filtering standards for GPS
receivers, there would be no issue with LightSquared’s operations in the
lower portion of its downlink band." It's a blatantly false statement,
so I couldn't let it pass without a rebuttal. Following is what I
submitted to the FCC:"
See: http://www.gpsworld.com/survey/lightsquared-the-ball-fccs-court-12002
http://www.gpsworld.com/survey/lightsquared-the-ball-fccs-court-12002
"The FCC's public comment period regarding the LightSquared/GPS
interference issue has ended and the reply comment period is over as
well. To date, more than 3,300 comments (not including the 15,000+ that
were submitted by the Boat Owners Association of the United States) were
entered that the FCC must sift through and arrive at some sort of
conclusion. Following are my last comments filed with the FCC as well as
my best guess at where this is heading.
"I decided to file a "reply comment" submission on August 15 to the FCC
based on an August 11 filing by LightSquared where LightSquared
Executive Vice President Jeffrey Carlisle stated "had the GPS industry
complied with the DoD’s recommended filtering standards for GPS
receivers, there would be no issue with LightSquared’s operations in the
lower portion of its downlink band." It's a blatantly false statement,
so I couldn't let it pass without a rebuttal. Following is what I
submitted to the FCC:"
See: http://www.gpsworld.com/survey/lightsquared-the-ball-fccs-court-12002
