5G Screwing Up GPS Navigation?

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

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[tpbrady]

I am not sure how this impact marine use of GPS as Ligado doesn't appear to be taking a build it they will come approach, but looking to put in custom networks for specific customers that will combine a terrestrial network with their satellite network. That would seem to make their terrestrial deployment limited initially. The most likely impact would be on terrestrial navigation in vehicles and GPS accuracy in smartphones. Right now many GPS applications work inside houses and boats. In the presence of a terrestrial Ligado transmitter, that may not work as well.

Tom

 

[caltexflanc]

There was big stink about this a few years ago when the company was named Lightsquared. I guess this is the post-bankruptcy version. A number of gps stakeholders, including precision agriculture players like John Deere, lobbied against it heavily. I got peripherally involved in the whole mess from both s the cellular industry and restructuring sides. All kinds of hedge fund types were involved at the center of it. The satellites are up there already.

Maybe they figure there is a more friendly FCC now. The issue here is not 5G at all, it was a mere gleam in the eye at the time, it is that the frequencies Ligado uses are immediately adjacent to those used by the GPS system and they could not convincingly demonstrate that they'd never stray over and interfere. I haven't kept up with things since, and would rather not, though the fees were nice back then, it was kind of ugly. Maybe I'll take a deeper look see over the weekend.