Showing posts with label LightSquared. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LightSquared. Show all posts

Saturday, July 30, 2011

FAA Releases Impact Report from LightSquared Interference

The FAA, as requested by the Executive Office of the President's Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee's National Coordination Office (NCO) Director, (what a mouthful) has delivered a report on the expected impacts from interference due to LightSquared's terrestrial broadcasts.
These impacts are big, including the estimated loss of 800 lives - or rather, lives that would have been saved by moving to GPS technologies - something that is impacted by LightSquared interference.
Here's a list of the expected impacts (from their Executive Summary):

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Do you know LightSquared?

LightSquared (LSQ) is a company that is building a next generation broadband network, those of the "4G LTE" type.  This is a good thing because it allows us all to have faster, more widespread communications, staying online longer.  These networks work by transmitting signals from cell towers.  The issue with LightSquared is that they are planning on transmitting on a frequency that is right next to GPS frequencies.