https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2012/01/18/i-fought-the-law-of-physics-and-the-law-won/ Satellites, spectrum and other stuff Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2012/01/18/i-fought-the-law-of-physics-and-the-law-won/comment-page-1/#comment-778 TMF Associates MSS blog » Get your spectrum here…or not… Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:36:15 +0000 http://tmfassociates.com/blog/?p=2937#comment-778 [...] Other news emerging today is that I’m told the NTIA plans to release its report on the November 2011 testing next week, presumably accompanied by its recommendations to the FCC. It appears that the NTIA will back the PNT Excom recommendations (most likely including that there should be no further testing at this time and that there should instead be a consultation on GPS receiver standards), and it could hardly do otherwise, given that the test procedures criticized by LightSquared were specified by NTIA in the first place. [...] [...] Other news emerging today is that I’m told the NTIA plans to release its report on the November 2011 testing next week, presumably accompanied by its recommendations to the FCC. It appears that the NTIA will back the PNT Excom recommendations (most likely including that there should be no further testing at this time and that there should instead be a consultation on GPS receiver standards), and it could hardly do otherwise, given that the test procedures criticized by LightSquared were specified by NTIA in the first place. [...]

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