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"Sam Wormley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> LightSquared Prospects; FCC Chair Wants Interference Cleared, Hits Back at
> GPS
> http://www.gpsworld.com/wireless/lig...back-gps-11787
>
> June 15, 2011 By: Janice Partyka
> Wireless Pulse, June 2011
>
>
> LightSquared Prospects Dimming. Concerns by government and the private
> sector about GPS interference from LightSquared’s proposed wholesale LTE
> service accelerates. Government experts just reported that interference
> with GPS occurred in high portions of LightSquared's spectrum bands and
> little in the lower spectrum. The National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board’s
> tests showed that some GPS receivers lost signal strength while others
> were fully disabled by LightSquared's signal. FCC Chairman Genachowski,
> under fire for granting LightSquared a conditional waiver, has reiterated
> that he will not permit LightSquared to begin commercial service without
> first resolving concerns about potential interference to GPS devices.
>
> Genachowski hit back at the GPS community in a letter to Sen. Charles
> Grassley, "It should be no surprise to anyone involved in the LightSquared
> matter that the company was planning for some time to deploy a major
> terrestrial network in the spectrum adjacent to GPS.” Members of the
> National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board have stated that they and the GPS
> community were not properly notified when the FCC removed the limit on the
> number of base stations deployed on this spectrum. And so it goes on. (See
> also LightSquared, FCC Rebuttals Distort Record.)
>
> Getting Intimate. Mobile phones are the most personal computing devices.
> How personal? iPass conducted a study of 3,700 mobile employees at 1,000
> enterprises worldwide. Sixty-one percent of these mobile workers sleep
> with their smartphones and 43 percent of those within arm’s reach. It gets
> worse. 58 percent of those that sleep with their phones at least
> occasionally, check it during the night. Not surprisingly, almost a third
> of mobile workers say their relationship with their smartphone causes
> friction with their partner. I’d say.
>
> Frienemies. In a newly extended agreement, Google will continue to provide
> archrival Apple with map and search capabilities. This kills rampant
> rumors that Apple will have a home-grown mapping database ready in the
> near term. In March, AppleInsider discovered an Apple job listing for an
> iOS Maps Application Developer to “radically improve” Apple’s
> location-based services. Even for Apple, a mapping database will take time
> to develop.
>
> App Stores Aren’t the Holy Grail. App developers whose marketing strategy
> starts and ends with getting onto app store “shelves” need a reality
> check. With more than 200,000 apps on Google’s Android Market and 350,000
> on the Apple store, it is hard to stand out. According to Distimo, 20
> percent of free applications and 80 percent of all paid applications have
> been downloaded less than 100 times in the Google Android Market,
> worldwide. Ninety-six applications have been downloaded more than 5
> million times, with Google Maps the winner, with more than 50 million
> downloads in the Android Market.
>
> Traffic Targeted. Navteq will begin delivering its traffic services in
> Transport Protocol Expert Group (TPEG) standard format to enable
> location-targeted traffic services with radius search capabilities and
> user authentication and session management. The format allows more
> targeted data to be delivered in smaller file sizes.
>
> Mobile Advertising Flying High. Many of the location content providers are
> counting on monetizing with mobile advertising, and things are looking
> good. AdMob is receiving more than 2.7 billion mobile ad requests daily,
> spanning more than 80,000 mobile applications and websites. Now they are
> introducing ads for tablet formats. Ad Mob was purchased by Google last
> year for $750 million.
>
> Snippets
>
> Nokia is ending the confusion of its dual names by killing the Ovi brand.
> Ovi maps, Ovi e-mail, Ovi music, Ovi store, and other Ovi products will
> continue to operate under the Nokia brand name.
> Industry-backed Future of Privacy Forum is launching a new
> ApplicationPrivacy.org website to help developers create their own privacy
> policies. Location privacy concerns have so far been focused on the big
> players like Apple and Google, but app providers have a critical role.
> Firefox for Android now includes a “do not track” tool that signals all
> web pages, images and advertisers that the user doesn’t want to be
> tracked.
> Taipei officials are ordering Apple and Google to offer free seven-day
> mobile app trials in alignment with Taiwan’s Consumer Protection Act.
> Google is raking in more than 97 percent of U.S. mobile search spending.
> Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing share the remainder.
> Monetizing with Nothing. The Inside Virtual Goods report estimates $1.6
> billion dollars was spent by game players on virtual goods last year and
> is predicting a 40 percent increase in 2011. There is a gender factor.
> MocoSpace, mobile entertainment provider, reports that although the
> percent of male players (53 percent) is only slightly higher than female,
> men account for 90 percent of all virtual goods purchased in their games.
> Can you lend me your sword, sir

On 2011-06-15 20:22 , ps56k wrote:
> x-post to Garmin, etc -
>
> "Sam Wormley"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1tydnaNJqPPZ2mTQnZ2dnUVZ_u-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> LightSquared Prospects; FCC Chair Wants Interference Cleared, Hits Back at
>> GPS
>> http://www.gpsworld.com/wireless/lig...back-gps-11787
>>
>> June 15, 2011 By: Janice Partyka
>> Wireless Pulse, June 2011
>>
>>
>> LightSquared Prospects Dimming. Concerns by government and the private
>> sector about GPS interference from LightSquared’s proposed wholesaleLTE
>> service accelerates. Government experts just reported that interference
>> with GPS occurred in high portions of LightSquared's spectrum bands and
>> little in the lower spectrum. The National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board’s
>> tests showed that some GPS receivers lost signal strength while others
>> were fully disabled by LightSquared's signal. FCC Chairman Genachowski,
>> under fire for granting LightSquared a conditional waiver, has reiterated
>> that he will not permit LightSquared to begin commercial service without
>> first resolving concerns about potential interference to GPS devices.
>>
>> Genachowski hit back at the GPS community in a letter to Sen. Charles
>> Grassley, "It should be no surprise to anyone involved in the LightSquared
>> matter that the company was planning for some time to deploy a major
>> terrestrial network in the spectrum adjacent to GPS.” Members of the
>> National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board have stated that they and the GPS
>> community were not properly notified when the FCC removed the limit onthe
>> number of base stations deployed on this spectrum. And so it goes on. (See
>> also LightSquared, FCC Rebuttals Distort Record.)

As an other poster has pointed out on a couple occasions it will be
supremely ironic if quality and safety of the GPS signal is better
outside the US than inside the US due to Lightsquared distortion of reality.

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On 6/15/2011, Alan Browne posted:
> On 2011-06-15 20:22 , ps56k wrote:
>> x-post to Garmin, etc -
>>
>> "Sam Wormley"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:1tydnaNJqPPZ2mTQnZ2dnUVZ_u-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> LightSquared Prospects; FCC Chair Wants Interference Cleared, Hits Back at
>>> GPS
>>> http://www.gpsworld.com/wireless/lig...back-gps-11787
>>>
>>> June 15, 2011 By: Janice Partyka
>>> Wireless Pulse, June 2011
>>>
>>>
>>> LightSquared Prospects Dimming. Concerns by government and the private
>>> sector about GPS interference from LightSquared’s proposed wholesale LTE
>>> service accelerates. Government experts just reported that interference
>>> with GPS occurred in high portions of LightSquared's spectrum bands and
>>> little in the lower spectrum. The National Space-Based PNT Advisory
>>> Board’s
>>> tests showed that some GPS receivers lost signal strength while others
>>> were fully disabled by LightSquared's signal. FCC Chairman Genachowski,
>>> under fire for granting LightSquared a conditional waiver, has reiterated
>>> that he will not permit LightSquared to begin commercial service without
>>> first resolving concerns about potential interference to GPS devices.
>>>
>>> Genachowski hit back at the GPS community in a letter to Sen. Charles
>>> Grassley, "It should be no surprise to anyone involved in the LightSquared
>>> matter that the company was planning for some time to deploy a major
>>> terrestrial network in the spectrum adjacent to GPS.� Members of the
>>> National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board have stated that they and the GPS
>>> community were not properly notified when the FCC removed the limit on the
>>> number of base stations deployed on this spectrum. And so it goes on. (See
>>> also LightSquared, FCC Rebuttals Distort Record.)

> As an other poster has pointed out on a couple occasions it will be supremely
> ironic if quality and safety of the GPS signal is better outside the US than
> inside the US due to Lightsquared distortion of reality.

On the hopeful side, there was a piece on NPR news a couple of days ago
abut the LightSquared interference with GPS.

With any luck, a publicity storm will develop that will prevent the
catastrophe.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)