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Aviation Subcommittee Hearing Moves Beyond LightSquared to GPS Spectrum Protection

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari told a congressional committee today (February 8, 2012) that the expenditure of “substantial federal resources” in assisting LightSquared to gain approval for its terrestrial wireless broadband system was “unusual” yet “merited,” but that “further investment cannot be justified at this time.” Porcari is co-chair of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee (ExCom), which recently told the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that two rounds of testing LightSquared’s transmissions had shown such widespread interference to GPS that no further tests were needed. Read More