GPS specialists race the clock to resolve concerns about harmful interference from a new U.S. wireless broadband network.
By Wayne Rosenkrans
AeroSafety World, April 2011
By June 15, U.S. aviation industry leaders, manufacturers of global positioning system (GPS) receivers,1 a mobile satellite service (MSS) company and the federal government expect a joint work group’s final report to break through a 5-month-old legal and technical impasse. The unresolved question is whether the wireless broadband network now being built by LightSquared Subsidiary2 — the first of its kind to blend satellite-based mobile communication with terrestrial base stations sharing satellite frequencies — will cause any harmful interference to GPS receivers.
LightSquared has its new satellite ready for full operation in geostation…
