LightSquared Update - Federal Officials Conclude No Way LS Can Not Interfere with GPS - 1/13/12

Even as LightSquared this week raised the issue of a conflict of interest of a committee member (The Hill), on Friday the Federal Aviation Administration released a letter from Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari to the Commerce Department, basically saying there's no short term answer to the LightSquared issue. The money quote:

There appear to be no practical solutions or mitigations that would permit the LightSquared broadband service, as proposed, to operate in the next few years months or years without significant interference with GPS.

LightSquared Update - Testing Results, Pleas to Deere to Withdraw Concerns - 12/8/11

LightSquared, Chief Executive Officer Sanjiv Ahuja showed preliminary results that suggest three GPS devices surpass performance tests when in use alongside its network. An Alcatel-Lucent lab did the tests on devices from Javad GNSS, PCTel and Partron.

The Coalition to Save Our GPS quickly responded that these few data points do not show the problem is solved for all devices.

The next set of testing examines high precision devices.

- Bloomberg
- Save Our GPS statement
- LightSquared PR

Public officails and others are taking on those fighting against LightSquared, including John Deere.

A group of rural public officials and farmers wrote a letter to agriculture device manufacturer John Deere last week, urging the company to drop its lobbying campaign against wireless firm LightSquared.

- The Hill