*Well, you're wrong there.* Boeing, Airbus, all the airlines that operate* in or into the US, airports themselves, and the FAA were VERY concerned about the impact LightSquared's proposed operation would have had on aviation safety.* With virtually all aviation navigation and approaches rapidly shifting to the exclusive use of GPS, and the very real potential for LightSquared's system to cause inaccuracies in GPS reception, the threat to people's lives was not something our industry was taking lightly.* The potential inconvenience to recreational boating would have been annoying.* The potential threat to air travelers' safety would have been a whole different story.superdiver wrote:
reading about it (having know nothing about it before and just googled it) and just knowing how our government works. I really doubt it would interfere with any frequencies or anything else ...
*I read in one article that most of the problems are that the GPS bleeds into the other Feq not the other way around.* Lightsquared didn't address this because they didn't think it was their problem but the tables got turned on them.sunchaser wrote:
Lightsquared will unfortunately rise again in a different form and company name. There is simply too much money, government graft and political contributions**to be*made here as the various world governments try to regulate and allow growth within the wi-fi and broadband sector.
*And there's no money being controlled or political pull by those that live and die by GPS?sunchaser wrote:
Lightsquared will unfortunately rise again in a different form and company name. There is simply too much money, government graft and political contributions**to be*made here as the various world governments try to regulate and allow growth within the wi-fi and broadband sector.