 UHFAll static, all day, ForeverPremium,MVM
join:2002-05-24 | Good riddance Excellent news. It was a flawed system from the beginning. |
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 NickDPremium
join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ | Get lost! Hey LightSquared, get lost, so that everybody else doesn't get lost. |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Dead; but could rise from dead; but unlikely The FCC order for all practical purposes has killed Lightsquared. But it isn't an official death until Falcone and his hedge fund declares they have given up or his fund goes broke.
Next up is Sprint finally saying no longer interested in Lightsquared. Expect any day now. |
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Re: Good riddance So is GPS. |
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| reply to NickD
Re: Get lost! Learn to read a map and you won't get lost. |
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| Read:Sprint? Karl, why exactly does Sprint need a "new" plan? They already had a plan (read: Network Vision) before they came to an agreement with LightSquared. LightSquared was an addition, not the backbone, to those plans so I think their "new" plan is the same as their old plan-Network Vision. |
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| Citation? Does anyone have a link to the FCC release actually stating this? |
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| reply to ArrayList
Re: Good riddance Exactly how is GPS "flawed?" |
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| reply to Derfnerf
Re: Citation? How about using google?
»www.fcc.gov/document/spokesperso···-and-gps
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| reply to jseymour
Re: Good riddance it is susceptible to transmissions outside the frequencies used for GPS. The very reasons that lightsquared is getting the axe. |
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Damn, I was hoping to get a new free GPS unit out of all this  |
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Re: Citation? because people that write articles should learn to cite their sources. |
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 SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
join:2003-05-20
Wild West
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Re: Good riddance That is my feeling... This a failure on all parties parts. GPS manufactures built a flawed product that relies on empty space outside their assigned spectrum for "proper" functionality. LS failed to meet the conditions of the waiver for the assigned spectrum. The FCC, again, just failed all over.
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| reply to ITALIAN926
Only if you'd been willing to buy one. And I'll bet that, had one of LightSquared's proposed solutions been adopted, Falcone and his bunch would have been more than ready to license it to the GPS manufacturers...for a reasonable licensing fee, of course. |
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| reply to ArrayList
Re: Get lost! And dust off your records/cassettes so we can end piracy.
You are nominated for the dumbest response of the day John. Cross your fingers. |
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| reply to Smokey
Re: Good riddance the FCC is too toothless thanks to industry pressures though. I'm not surprised by the results of all of this. I am disappointed though.
Congress let the FCC become as lame as it is. |
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| reply to ITALIAN926
Re: Get lost! How do you figure? |
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SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
join:2003-05-20
Wild West | reply to ArrayList
Re: Good riddance As am I. It offered the idea of a new player who would open up the data market for the small, innovative companies to go to town on Att and Verizon.
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 Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | THANK YOU!! Way to go FCC! |
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Re: Get lost! Cuz your answer to the lightsquared dilemma is for everyone to stop using navigation systems and start using paper maps. |
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