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LightSquared Alleges Conflict of Interest in GPS Board

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Jan 13, 2012, 8:52 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

LightSquared is asking NASA Inspector General Paul Martin to investigate the possibility that there is a conflict of interest within the government board overseeing the approval process of LightSquared's network. According to LightSquared, Bradford Parkinson is the vice chairman of the National Space-Based Position, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board. Parkinson is also a director for Trimble Navigation. Trimble is a manufacturer of GPS equipment and in March 2011 formed the Coalition to Save Our GPS, which opposes LightSquared's Long Term Evolution 4G network plans. LightSquared is accusing Parkinson of violating a federal law regarding conflict of interest as well as ethics regulations. LightSquared needs government approval to runs its network, but has so far failed to earn it based on what it says is interference caused by the GPS industry. LightSquared has until the end of the month to garner FCC approval before a deal it has in place with Sprint expires.

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dlmjr

Jan 13, 2012, 12:02 PM

B. S.

"LightSquared needs government approval to runs its network, but has so far failed to earn it based on what it says is interference caused by the GPS industry"

LS has to conform to the rule modification from the FCC that says "No Interference"....

Plain and simple.
Pointing their fingers at everyone but their own foolish attempt to run rough shod over public safety to make some people tons of money must be their last desparate attempt to save the billions pumped into a project that had no real chance of working without interference from influence peddlers.
Oh! but we need to get our pitchfork mobs and go after those evil, greedy GPS companies for not reinventing the law of physics.
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