[ShadowAce]

[grobdriver]

Looks like it's going to be a long month for the FCC

Part of the acronym "FCC" is "Federal".
If we're looking for a Federal agency to do The Right Thing, we're deluding ourselves.

[antiRepublicrat]

sees no reason why they should be forced to change their designs

You're listening on a frequency you're not supposed to. Your problem, you fix it.

[AFreeBird]

Sounds to me like LightSpeed needs to make the adjustments. GPS was there first, and is used by critical systems. Which is not to say, if as LS claims, the GPS industry has been less discriminatory in it’s bandwidth tuning, that the GPS players don’t have work to do. But LS is the new player, and if there’s even a 1 in 10,000 chance that it might interfere with Nav/ILS systems (and I’m not talking Tom Tom), then, no go LS.

[Hodar]

Just thinking .. the amazingly critical calculations for GPS navigation in aircraft; really only matters at airports. You need to drop that aircraft on a very specific spot and speed. Flying cross country, an error of a couple yards just doesn’t matter. It only matters where the rubber meets the runway.

Everywhere else - standard positional GPS should be ‘good enough’.

[Still Thinking]

Wireless broadband firm LightSquared has admitted that its original plan would have knocked out most GPS sat-nav kit, but argues that its new plan will only leave 200,000 users lost.

Oh, well then. Nothing to see here, move along.

[ken in texas]

All of LS's stuff to date has probably been built with the highest quality components so they can prove the technology.

Wait until the lowest cost bidder in China wins the award to manufacture it all.

[Turbopilot]

Lightsquared shouldn’t have gotten those frequencies in the first place. But since they got them, they need to be sure their use of them doesn’t interfere with existing devices. That definitely includes the “only” 200,000 aviation devices that are the most expensive and critical units.