The National Society of Professional Surveyors urged the FCC to avoid...
The National Society of Professional Surveyors urged the FCC to avoid burdening the surveying and mapping community with the cost of upgrading GPS equipment, as the commission considers how to move forward in the LightSquared terrestrial network proceeding. NSPS Executive…
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Director Curtis Sumner met with staff of the International Bureau and the Office of Engineering and Technology Monday, Sumner said in a an interview. NSPS is a community of users who collect and provide data to other people, he said. “To replace those networks would be hundreds of millions of dollars nationwide.” The commission hasn’t made a decision on LightSquared’s buildout of a terrestrial network, approval of which was stalled when the FCC proposed to revoke its ancillary terrestrial component authority (CD Feb 15 p1). The FCC hasn’t acted on taking away LightSquared’s conditional waiver, which creates uncertainty in the surveying community, he said. “We need certainty of what they're going to do, when they're going to do it, what the ramifications are, and what testing says the overall interference will be.” Sumner also informed the commission that the surveying community isn’t encompassed in the GPS industry groups.