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THANK YOU!!

Please. Maybe lightsqaured should have used the frequencies as intended.

They told the FCC what it would be used for. Light can be used for many things. There is no specific purpose for any specific wavelength of light.

reply to BF69
they were sticking within what they told the FCC it would be used for. The GPS industry has had a flawed product that goes outside of its band for quite some time, and was told to fix it ages ago, and never did. I wholeheartedly believe that lightsquared is in the right here, because they were not outside their spectrum, GPS was, and still is. Its now just a matter of courts once again, proving that the FCC has no legal teeth, and once this is over, lightsquared can proceed, and GPS makers can go take a hike to fix and replace their shoddy products. Just look at who is outside of their spectrum here.

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Their proximity to other wavelengths of light is relevant. There's more crosstalk between neighboring frequencies. Try listening to someone quietly playing an A note on a flute from a hundred yards away while someone else plays a A# on a trombone into your ear. And I realize that sound isn't photons, but the inverse square law applies in either case.

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I'm near deaf. That is a bad example. You can engineer a machine to tell the difference.

Unfortunately there are a lot of ears already being used, replacing them all would be expensive and painful. Likewise with GPS. As someone in another post pointed out, why do you think TV channels aren't adjacent to each other? Interference happens.

with shoddy engineering yes.

Maybe you want to spend $5,000 on a TV or GPS unit that's better engineered; I don't. And even then you'd have interference, you can improve it with better engineering but you can never get it down to 0.

How about this: what if we allocated the spectrum in a way that took reality into account. Actually, that's been done reasonably well (as far as the bandplan, not necessarily who has licenses and such). So now let's stick to it.

Yes, Lets just stick with something that doesn't work.

GPS works just fine, and will continue to do so because companies like LightSquared won't get to use satellite bands for terrestrial transmitters. All is good in the world this morning.