Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | GPS should not be allowed to have extra bandwidth forever. While Lightsquared may effectively be dead, the government can't claim spectrum is valuable while at the same time allowing the GPS industry to have an additional 80-100 MHz protecting the 24 MHz GPS band. 18 MHz on each side (36 MHz total) should be more than sufficient for guard bands. If the military and FAA don't have GPS equipment that can work with that then GPS manufacturers ripped off taxpayers and should be held accountable. |
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| I believe you have missed the point of the entire exercise. LSq tried to use the frequency for something other than what was intended. If they had used the spectrum for satellite communications, the signal strength would have caused no problem, but they LSq tried an endrun around the spectrum use and got caught.
I suspect that the military and the FAA are more equipped than you, or most of us to decide what the guard band requirements are for their use. |
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said by Sammer:While Lightsquared may effectively be dead, the government can't claim spectrum is valuable while at the same time allowing the GPS industry ...
By the same token: The likes of Verizon and "AT&T" can't claim spectrum is scarce while at the same time refusing to run fiber/cable/wire to serve fixed-location broadband customers, instead choosing to serve them with wireless. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | said by jseymour:By the same token: The likes of Verizon and "AT&T" can't claim spectrum is scarce while at the same time refusing to run fiber/cable/wire to serve fixed-location broadband customers, instead choosing to serve them with wireless.
In a perfect world AT&T and Verizon expanding fiber to the home might be a required condition of AT&T Mobility or Verizon Wireless or related firms participating in future spectrum auctions. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to Austinloop
said by Austinloop:I suspect that the military and the FAA are more equipped than you, or most of us to decide what the guard band requirements are for their use.
Except that the FCC (not the military or FAA) has jurisdiction over this spectrum and already decided it could be used for other purposes when the conditional license was issued. If the GPS industry wants additional spectrum let them bid for licenses in an auction. |
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| But, since the military and the FAA are very large stakeholders in this tempest in a tea pot, they are allowed to make their positions known, and, fortunately, the FCC saw that their arguments were more persuasive than LightSquared. Perhaps you forget that the GPS system is the military's system and their needs would be superior to LightSquared.
I certainly believe the military and the FAA over LightSquared. |
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