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 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | reply to ArrayList
Re: Good riddance Ya know, there ARE certain design limitations to transmitting a beacon from space, right?
Size of the unit deployed, technology available at the time of launch (the oldest GPS satellite still in service has been up there for 22 years, anyone here commuting in a 22 year old car, or using a 22 year old computer?) Power available at the transmission source, etc.
The technological parameters drawn up when the system was deployed were designed to take the spectrum conditions in place at the time of deployment into consideration. Since we don't have unlimited money to lob fresh GPS sats into the stratosphere on a weekly basis, and no one has found a way to run an extension court into space, I would say it's a pretty well designed system.
Lightsquared is getting the axe because they were going to use spectrum that wasn't designed for the intended purpose in the first place. They bought the spectrum on the cheap, thinking they could bribe the Obama administration into steering a waiver their way, and they lost.
So, the DoD has designed and deployed a constellation of 26 satellites that can reliably tell me my precise position anywhere on earth, and you see it as flawed.
Did you own a piece Lighsquared or something???
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | said by N3OGH:Lightsquared is getting the axe because they were going to use spectrum that wasn't designed for the intended purpose in the first place. They bought the spectrum on the cheap, thinking they could bribe the Obama administration into steering a waiver their way, and they lost.
Evidently Falcone still thinks he has juice with the Obama admin, because he is still acting all tough and confident despite the FCC decision:
»old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120215···_falcone
"It is clearly not on our table," Falcone said in an email to Reuters on Wednesday when asked if LightSquared, the biggest investment in his Harbinger Capital Partners fund, was considering a bankruptcy filing.
He said there is a plan for dealing with the Federal Communications Commission's plan to revoke its permission for LightSquared to build out a land-based network, but he declined to offer any details.
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
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Katy, TX | Falcone lying like that is not going to help him.
The FCC did not revoke permission for lightsquared as it never gave them permission in the first place.
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