MidnightWizard
Executive Member
I notice a lot of articles on the front page about LTE.
I am suprised that this current big debate in the USA has been missed
Integrated 4G-LTE-Satellite Network:
LightSquared plans to provide network capacity on a wholesale-only basis to wireline and wireless communication service providers; cable operators; device manufacturers; web players; and content providers.[1]
The integrated 4G-LTE-satellite network will serve public sector projects including emergency preparedness and communications in times of crisis.[1]
The company announced in July 2010 that the network will be built by Nokia Siemens Networks.[2]
LightSquared expects to launch commercially in the second half of 2011 with four trial markets - Baltimore, Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas.
On March 23, 2011, LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja announced that Best Buy had signed a retail distribution agreement with LightSquared to resell LightSquared's 4G LTE-satellite service under the current Best Buy Connect brand.[3] [4]
On March 22, 2011, LightSquared secured a deal with Leap Wireless, the parent of Cricket phone service, that will allow Cricket to offer customers access LightSquared's 4G-LTE network.[5]
On March 11, 2011, LightSquared announced a multi-year stategic network partnership with Open Range Communications, a broadband wireless provider of voice and data service to rural American communities.[6]
Source: ---> Wiki LightSquared
However there is a LOT more -- this is only a small part of the debate
For more see below.......
Save our GPS Coalition
Register -- "Whizz-Bang"
Testimony of Jim Kirkland, Vice President and General Counsel of Trimble Navigation Limited
Hearing of the Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for this
opportunity to testify. My testimony does not relate to a funding issue.
Rather, I am here to present the committee with information regarding an
issue of key importance to the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration and all Americans.
Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conditionally
approved an application for a waiver allowing a company called
LightSquared to repurpose the satellite spectrum immediately neighboring
that of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for use in extremely
high-powered ground-based transmissions. In doing so, the FCC waived its
own rules, acting with unusual speed. The section of spectrum at issue
is in the L Band 1 (1525 - 1559 MHz) and is immediately adjacent to the
GPS section (1559 - 1610 MHz).
The FCC's action has caused serious concern within the GPS industry and
user community since this planned use is fundamentally incompatible with
existing GPS uses. Initial technical analyses have shown that the
distant, low-powered GPS signals would receive substantial interference
from high-powered, close-proximity transmissions from a network of
ground stations. The consequences of disruption to the GPS signals are
far reaching, likely to affect large portions of the population and the
federal government. Therefore, it is imperative that the new system not
be deployed unless it can be conclusively guaranteed that the GPS users
are fully protected from radio interference.
The Global Positioning System, or GPS, was first launched more than 30
years ago and is now a critical and extremely reliable part of our
national infrastructure. Millions use it routinely every day. The
satellites which feed GPS data to the Earth's surface were initially
intended for military purposes. Following the 1983 Korean Airlines
disaster, President Reagan announced that GPS would be available for
civilian purposes and in 1996 GPS was declared by President Clinton to
be a dual-use system with an Interagency GPS Executive Board established
to manage it as a national asset. Taxpayers have invested billions of
dollars in the system over the decades, while the private sector has
invested in both civilian and military uses. Today, GPS is a national
asset, from which every taxpayer can benefit through both consumer and
professional GPS equipped devices. The Global Positioning System has
stimulated a multi-billion dollar global industry, and technology
leaders such as Trimble contribute both to the domestic economy and to
US exports.
The swath of spectrum where GPS satellites transmit, the L Band, has
long been reserved for satellite to earth communications of various
types. It is fundamental to sound spectrum planning that like uses be
grouped together to ensure similarity of technical characteristics and
avoid interference. Lightsquared's proposal to build 40,000 terrestrial
base stations operating at 1 billion times the power levels of GPS
signals as received on earth represents a tectonic change in the use of
this band. While the GPS community lauds efforts to add new broadband
competition and free up spectrum for mobile uses, this must be done in
the context of rational, long term spectrum planning, rather than the
rushed, ad hoc waiver process followed by the FCC to date. Spectrum is a
public asset and it should not lightly be handed over at the behest of a
private party. More fundamentally, the laws of physics cannot be waived
by the FCC. This is a serious problem with no obvious solution.
Source: ---> Trimble VP Jim Kirkland
Suprised MyBB has not picked up on this seeing as they seem to punt LTE on a regular basis
This also involves NOKIA-SIEMANS Networks. :erm:
I am suprised that this current big debate in the USA has been missed
Integrated 4G-LTE-Satellite Network:
LightSquared plans to provide network capacity on a wholesale-only basis to wireline and wireless communication service providers; cable operators; device manufacturers; web players; and content providers.[1]
The integrated 4G-LTE-satellite network will serve public sector projects including emergency preparedness and communications in times of crisis.[1]
The company announced in July 2010 that the network will be built by Nokia Siemens Networks.[2]
LightSquared expects to launch commercially in the second half of 2011 with four trial markets - Baltimore, Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas.
On March 23, 2011, LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja announced that Best Buy had signed a retail distribution agreement with LightSquared to resell LightSquared's 4G LTE-satellite service under the current Best Buy Connect brand.[3] [4]
On March 22, 2011, LightSquared secured a deal with Leap Wireless, the parent of Cricket phone service, that will allow Cricket to offer customers access LightSquared's 4G-LTE network.[5]
On March 11, 2011, LightSquared announced a multi-year stategic network partnership with Open Range Communications, a broadband wireless provider of voice and data service to rural American communities.[6]
Source: ---> Wiki LightSquared
However there is a LOT more -- this is only a small part of the debate
For more see below.......
Save our GPS Coalition
Register -- "Whizz-Bang"
Testimony of Jim Kirkland, Vice President and General Counsel of Trimble Navigation Limited
Hearing of the Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for this
opportunity to testify. My testimony does not relate to a funding issue.
Rather, I am here to present the committee with information regarding an
issue of key importance to the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration and all Americans.
Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conditionally
approved an application for a waiver allowing a company called
LightSquared to repurpose the satellite spectrum immediately neighboring
that of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for use in extremely
high-powered ground-based transmissions. In doing so, the FCC waived its
own rules, acting with unusual speed. The section of spectrum at issue
is in the L Band 1 (1525 - 1559 MHz) and is immediately adjacent to the
GPS section (1559 - 1610 MHz).
The FCC's action has caused serious concern within the GPS industry and
user community since this planned use is fundamentally incompatible with
existing GPS uses. Initial technical analyses have shown that the
distant, low-powered GPS signals would receive substantial interference
from high-powered, close-proximity transmissions from a network of
ground stations. The consequences of disruption to the GPS signals are
far reaching, likely to affect large portions of the population and the
federal government. Therefore, it is imperative that the new system not
be deployed unless it can be conclusively guaranteed that the GPS users
are fully protected from radio interference.
The Global Positioning System, or GPS, was first launched more than 30
years ago and is now a critical and extremely reliable part of our
national infrastructure. Millions use it routinely every day. The
satellites which feed GPS data to the Earth's surface were initially
intended for military purposes. Following the 1983 Korean Airlines
disaster, President Reagan announced that GPS would be available for
civilian purposes and in 1996 GPS was declared by President Clinton to
be a dual-use system with an Interagency GPS Executive Board established
to manage it as a national asset. Taxpayers have invested billions of
dollars in the system over the decades, while the private sector has
invested in both civilian and military uses. Today, GPS is a national
asset, from which every taxpayer can benefit through both consumer and
professional GPS equipped devices. The Global Positioning System has
stimulated a multi-billion dollar global industry, and technology
leaders such as Trimble contribute both to the domestic economy and to
US exports.
The swath of spectrum where GPS satellites transmit, the L Band, has
long been reserved for satellite to earth communications of various
types. It is fundamental to sound spectrum planning that like uses be
grouped together to ensure similarity of technical characteristics and
avoid interference. Lightsquared's proposal to build 40,000 terrestrial
base stations operating at 1 billion times the power levels of GPS
signals as received on earth represents a tectonic change in the use of
this band. While the GPS community lauds efforts to add new broadband
competition and free up spectrum for mobile uses, this must be done in
the context of rational, long term spectrum planning, rather than the
rushed, ad hoc waiver process followed by the FCC to date. Spectrum is a
public asset and it should not lightly be handed over at the behest of a
private party. More fundamentally, the laws of physics cannot be waived
by the FCC. This is a serious problem with no obvious solution.
Source: ---> Trimble VP Jim Kirkland
Suprised MyBB has not picked up on this seeing as they seem to punt LTE on a regular basis
This also involves NOKIA-SIEMANS Networks. :erm: