Fair assessment, GPS World represents the professional users (surveying, precision ag, etc). The biggest problem (aside from LightSquareds political manipulation of FCC and the lack of any semblance of technical expertise and/or ethics therein), is the way both sides let lawyers and PR flacks “play engineer”. Like the silly “first come first served” argument, in which they simply embarrass themselves thorough their ignorance.
The only ‘fix’ is the way Obama has been bought off with more campaign cash. It infuriates me that this crony capitalism continues to go on and our political class is either ignorant (Republicans in this case) of the issue at hand, or complicit (Democrats). Much as when Clinton allowed a lot of sensitive guidance technology flow to China in the 90’s, the political classs can’t be trusted when it comes to issues of technology.
Don’t let LightSquared over-simplify this “fix." LightSquared Executive VP and lawyer Jeff Carlisle likes to play “engineer” like he did last week at a congressional hearing looking at the LightSquared GPS-jamming impact on small business. I couldn’t believe it when he pulled out a massive GPS receiver head and demonstrated how he would retrofit it with a $6 component to solve the problem, even going so far as showing where he would place it on a circuit board. The sad part is that there was not an engineer in sight to call him on it. Take a look at the 4:50 mark in this video: