You may want to wait before spending a couple of thousand dollars on up grading or buying a new GPS. A private company has made a proposal to the federal Communication Commission to use radio frequency bandwidth right next to the existing GPS radio bandwidth.

At issue is an unusual conditional waiver granted by the Federal Communication Commission to a broadband wireless communication provider. The company Lightsquared has proposed to build 40,000 high powered ground stations.

The FCC has received a report of the widespread harmful interference to the GPS system that this new bandwidth will do.

Old news.
FCC shot them down last week.

Old news.
FCC shot them down last week.

Where did you see that the FCC "shot them down"?

They didn't shoot themdown...they put the bid on hold pending additional testing (which may take years!). Technically different with the same result. Likwid is on track that they heard the majority of commenters and acted at the August 9th meeting of the FCC Commissioners.

May not be the end of Lightsquared. Today's most recent report.

Press Releases - LightSquared (http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/)

http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/

http://broadcastengineering.com/news/fcc-gps-lightsquared-broadband-wireless-08152011/