What the hell is in the water over at the FCC?

[Philip Miller Tate]

You say all this, but it's pretty irresponsible of GPS users to allow  
their receivers to spill over into Lightsquared's transmitter  
bandwidth. And didn't anyone notice that Lightsquared's President and  
CEO is one "Dr Evil"?

Phil M1GWZ

PS. Anyway, our British GPS is much better than your American GPS.



On 2 Feb 2011, at 07:19, wb4jfi wrote:

> Terry's Top-Ten Reasons Why This Will Work:
>
> 10. Ain't technology wonderful!  It allows us to ignore physics and  
> real world limitations.
> 9.  Look, there isn't anyplace better to put this service.  We need  
> 500 million cell phones in the US.
> 8.  We didn't approve jamming, just the low probability of  
> disastrous interference.
> 7.  Adjacent-channel, shmadjacent channel.  Blah, Blah, Blah... you  
> are giving me a headache.
> 6.  Like TV broadcasters, only the rich use GPS, they can afford to  
> fix it themselves.
> 5.  We're the Federal Government, and we're here to help (us).
> 4.  GPS, who needs GPS.  Use LORAN like your fathers did.  Or a  
> compass.  The Earth's poles are changing next year anyway.
> 3.  We need to pay for the new Health Care Plan somehow.
> 2.  We are the FCC.  We will MAKE it work.
> And, the number-one reason why this will work (chant along with us):
> 1.  It worked so well with B.P.L.!
>