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LightSquared Says It Has Cheap and Easy GPS Fix

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what about the rest of us GPS users?

chapelhill

Sep 21, 2011, 11:59 AM
It's not clear to me in this story, what this means to ME...

What about my GPS? Is this technology going to be applied to LightSquared's equipment so that it will not interfere with ANY other GPS equipment, or is it going to be provided or installed on major GPS equipment/groups/entities in order to overcome the interference from LightSquared?

Anyone have any clarification?
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CellStudent

Sep 21, 2011, 12:53 PM
chapelhill said:
It's not clear to me in this story, what this means to ME...

What about my GPS? Is this technology going to be applied to LightSquared's equipment so that it will not interfere with ANY other GPS equipment, or is it going to be provided or installed on major GPS equipment/groups/entities in order to overcome the interference from LightSquared?

Anyone have any clarification?


This looks a physical retrofit at the hardware level. Existing GPS devices would have to be ripped apart, upgraded, and put back together one by one.

For FUTURE GPS devices, there should be no noticeable change in price point or quality, as long as they're built using the new parts.

As LightSquared has been...
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