Karl Rove recently weighed in
on the dispute between LightSquared and the GPS community, reiterating LightSquared’s
claim that GPS is “poaching” off of LightSquared spectrum. The problem is that
GPS was there first.
LightSquared was granted a conditional
FCC waiver to use its spectrum terrestrially only if it caused no interference
with nearby spectrum. LightSquared acknowledged potential interference problems
by offering to not use the channels nearest to GPS devices and lowering the
power output that was initially going to be used for their signal. However, the
results of extensive testing with participation by all parties demonstrated
that engineering solutions would not eliminate the potential for harmful
interference.
There is no evidence the Government
wanted LightSquared to fail. But it does want GPS to succeed. National security
and public safety depend on it.
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