Real simple fix. Get the president to pressure a lot of people to lie to Congress for you.
GEE WHIZ! WHILLIKERS!/S
nuff sed.
Obama has stock in this company
He refused to put his money into a blind trust
The Obama adminsitration tried to force a general to lie and clain there was no problem with interferance with military GPS systems
I dont believe a word from anyone associated with Obama
They have a simple soplution. Just give lots of money to the Democrats and get out of the way.
Are they proposing to retrofit all the millions of devices currently in use? Who pays for it?
Never mind the corruption that seems to underlie LightSquared’s deal; is not anyone worried that the GPS system is so easily jammed?
If I read this right the EXISTING GPS units have to be modified to not be jammed by the new technology. Cool. I have to modify my equipment because of LS.
Nice.
GPS’s have to be modified to ignore this system’s interference? This is serious?
Right - sell this “adaption” for a big profit. Force everyone to get new gps systems as well.
How many GPS devices are there currently the continental US? 100 million? 200 million? 500 million (half a billion)?
Are we going to retrofit up to a half a billion GPS devices? Every car GPS, every cell phone with GPS, every golf GPS, every hiking GPS, every military GPS, every police or fire GPS, every one? Is that a realistic solution?
No, it's not realistic. What will happen is all of these GPS devices will immediatly become obsolete and need to be replaced. The cost to average citizens would be billions and billions. And for what? So some communication company can build their network on the cheap.
What it really is is a huge transfer of money from the general public to a private company.
Not right. Simply morally wrong.
So their “fix” is to modify all existant GPS devices? LOL!
Piece of cake!
The government will hand out coupons so everyone can get the magic device for $10.
Irrespective of the Obama corruption, I hope that they figure out how to work it out, because Sprint is supposed to be using LightSquared for its LTE solution. They have wimax now, but want to switch to LTE. I don’t want to use Verizon or ATT, so I would like Sprint to get the LTE. There is supposed to be an announcement about it in October. But if LightSquared’s spectrum will interfere with GPS, that is simply something that cannot be risked.
These aholes can’t be serious.
I propose if these jerkwads get captain Zero to dictate they can start their network, that people start taking their network back offline, one piece at a time at 3000fps.
Simple fix = easy hack.
The Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, has awarded contract G10PC00160 resulting from competitive solicitation 10WRSS0010 to JAVAD GNSS, Inc. of San Jose, CA. The contract is an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity contract for various configurations of GPS/GNSS receivers and antennas with a five (5) year ordering period and a $3.9M ceiling.
The contract was competitively awarded after a sustained protest and reopening of the solicitation to the original offerors (reference previous announcement for G10PC00100). It is contemplated that one or more orders placed under this contract will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Act), Public Law 111-5; unique provisions required to implement the Act, including those for significant transparency and reporting requirements, have been included and will apply to delivery orders funded by the Act.
In the earlier days of the Mob this was called paying insurance.
A device or circuit adaptations that the GPS manufacturers would have to pay some royalty to use. This "solution" is no solution at all. It's simple robbery of the rights of current owners of GPS units.
So the fix for the problem called by light squared is for OTHER manufacturing entities to make “affordable changes”?
Bull puckey! Light Squared causes the issue and it’s everyone else’s problem to fix... Typical freaking democrat thinking!
Yeah...sure...right. 99% chance of pure Bullshit.