[time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared has been given the goahead

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 17:43:57 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Don Latham <djl at montana.com> wrote:
> sooooo, once the safety of life equipment is in place, with controlled
> purchase of receivers no doubt, the consumer signals can be shut off at
> will. And we're SOL. Neat.

That is why the Russians and EU are each spending billions to build
their own systems.  They are smart not to trust the US to manage GPS.
Soon there will be three systems up there and most receivers will be
able to make use of all three.

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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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