Comment Re:Sucks for Lightsquared (Score 1) 178
Just read another article today about the subject. The author suggests something I hadn't seen elsewhere:
(source link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57378764-94/lightsquared-blew-it-and-heres-why/)
"But it's the GPS equipment that bleeds into LightSquared's proposed network, and not the other way around. LightSquared paid for this spectrum and had a legal right to use it, but were stopped by these interference concerns. The GPS industry actually had years to patch up its equipment to avoid these issues, but largely chose to ignore it."
This byte ignores the original intent of how the spectrum was to be used (satellite based vs terrestrial) but it is the first claim I've read that GPS equipment is what's jumping spectrums here.