Things haven’t been looking so hot for LightSquared, which has trying to overcome numerous reports showing that their planned LTE network will significantly interfere with GPS signals. LightSquared’s technical problems are bad enough, but their political problems keep getting worse. LightSquared’s latest problems come courtesy of Senator Chuck Grassley, who has been accusing the company of trying to bribe him. Grassley (whose top campaign contributors aren’t in telecom,) insists that LightSquared promised Iowa a call [...]

Despite constant claims by LightSquared that they’ve developed low-cost solutions that will mitigate their planned network’s interference with GPS, a Federal Advisory board has declared that that there is “no practical solutions or mitigations” that would allow LightSquared and GPS to peacefully co-exist. Back in June LightSquared proposed utilizing a 10 MHz swath of L-band spectrum in the lower portion of the company’s spectrum assets to avoid interference. The company then proposed several antenna solutions [...]

After both GPS-related industries and government agencies highlighted that LightSquared’s planned LTE/Satellite hybrid network interfered with GPS signals, the company in June LightSquared filed a revised plan with the FCC. The plan involved utilizing a 10 MHz swath of L-band spectrum in the lower portion of the company’s spectrum assets to avoid interference. That still left some highly-sensitive GPS equipment with interference issues, so LightSquared recently proposed an additional fix usingtechnology they’re developing with a [...]

Sanjiv Ahuja, LIghtSquared CEO said the interference issue was solved Aspiring US wholesale player LightSquared, which is planning a nationwide wireless broadband offering over satellite and LTE networks, has released details of a technical solution that it says will put an end to interference between its network and GPS devices. The carrier, backed by billionaire investor Philip Falcone, has come under attack from the Coalition to Save our GPS, an industry grouping including commercial GPS [...]

Despite opposition from the GPS industry, investors are still keen on LightSquared Would-be LTE wholesaler LightSquared may be struggling to get around its opponents in the GPS industry, but that hasn’t stopped investors from beating a path to its door. The company announced today that it has raised an additional $265m in additional funding, bringing the company’s total investment haul for the past year to more than $2.3bn. According to LightSquared, the capital was drawn [...]

With a growing pile of companies, organizations and LightSquared itself showing test evidence that LightSquared’s upcoming LTE network causes interference with GPS devices, LightSquared’s obviously concerned they can navigate this technical and bureaucratic minefield and get their network up and running sometime next year. The company sent out this press release to news outlets today insisting they’ve got things all under control and that they’ve got a plan to manage the interference moving forward. In [...]

A report by engineers studying interference issues betweeen LightSquared and GPS and other interests is due to be released June 15, 2011. But the study might only point out the need for further tests, as observers say LightSquared and other companies cannot agree on whether the problem actually can be fixed by using new filters or other methods of preventing interference. ‘Where government and private GPS Users and LightSquared will disagree is on the potential [...]

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