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

On Sep 18, 8:55*pm, HIPAR <captc...@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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/2011-0...aker-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

On Sep 18, 8:43*pm, macpacheco <marc...@macp.eti.br> wrote:
>
> Next chapter... Lightsquared debacle now on Bloomberg.
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...nterferes-with...
>
> 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/lightsquaredv.../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

On Sep 18, 11:41*pm, HIPAR <captc...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 8:43*pm, macpacheco <marc...@macp.eti.br> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Next chapter... Lightsquared debacle now on Bloomberg.
>
> >http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...nterferes-with...
>
> > 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/lightsquaredv.../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

On 9/16/2011 7:29 AM, macpacheco wrote:
> 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

You do realize Lightsquared started with Bush in 2001. It is right on
the lightsquared website.

> http://www.lightsquared.com/document...2006-08-11.pdf

Hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your bullshit.

On Oct 9, 3:29*am, miso <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/2011 7:29 AM, macpacheco wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> You do realize Lightsquared started with Bush in 2001. It is right on
> the lightsquared website.
>
> >http://www.lightsquared.com/document...S%20Timeline%2...
>
> Hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your bullshit.

BTW I hate Dubya... I think he's the least educated president the USA
ever had, 100% a puppy of the oil/defense lobbies. He's got 90% of the
fault of the current USA / World economic issues, since he put the USA
firmly on the way to bankrupcy.
But that doesn't mean that Obama is great. I have a lot of bones to
pick with both major parties, both irresponsible populist politicians
that don't really care if the US will be bankrupt in 20 years, all
they care is about the next election.
This is the first time I come across the someone saying some in the
way of a L² => Dubya connection.
Unfortunately, as much as they're being able to kill Al Qaeda /
Taliban leadership, the economic damage they caused the USA might mean
they will win anyways, even if they're all dead by the time it
happens. Just objective, no bullshit observations. The USA is
suffering from the same fate the UK suffered after WWII.
You can't spend,spend,spend (Obama's mistake), but you also can't cut
taxes without cutting spending (Dubya's mistake). You need to spend
wisely as well as cut spending wisely and you need to increase taxes
somewhat on the rich.

Marcelo Pacheco

In news:j6rf17$l7$(E-Mail Removed) miso <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> You do realize Lightsquared started with Bush in 2001. It is right on
> the lightsquared website.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but Bush hasn't been in office for a while.

The project continues under the current administration.

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On 9 Ott, 16:15, Bert <b...@iphouse.com> wrote:
> Innews:j6rf17$l7$(E-Mail Removed) <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
>
> > You do realize Lightsquared started with Bush in 2001. It is right on
> > the lightsquared website.
>
> Maybe you haven't noticed, but Bush hasn't been in office for a while.

Yes, but it's still responsible for his mistakes, isn't he?

>
> The project continues under the current administration.

Fixing all the bush mistakes... can take a while

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news:2f972f98-a4ca-4dd0-bf98-(E-Mail Removed)
claudegps <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On 9 Ott, 16:15, Bert <b...@iphouse.com> wrote:
>> Innews:j6rf17$l7$(E-Mail Removed) <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
>>
>> The project continues under the current administration.
>
> Fixing all the bush mistakes... can take a while

According to the information presented in this thread, nothing's being
fixed, at least not fixed in the sense of being repaired.

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