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LTE wireless technology provider LightSquared has issued a report to the FCC which confirmed that its network could have a catastrophic impact on GPS service if it were to go live in the original spectrum bands.
LightSquared blamed this problem on the GPS industry, claiming that GPS manufacturers have built their receivers to eavesdrop on other spectrum bands. This is in violation of the FCC's policies on receivers, which state that receivers should be immune to nearby frequency bands. The company went to to accuse GPS industry executives of launching major cover-up campaigns to disguise the fact that they are at fault. Recent tests have backed up LightSquared's assertion that their signal doesn't bleed into neighboring bands. Yet it is also a fact that GPS receivers are being affected by the high-powered signal.

