GLG News by Hand-held and Vehicle GPS Device Experts

Eric Gakstatter, Principal

Eric GakstatterPrincipalDISCOVERY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Will the FCC rule for LightSquared, the GPS Industry or neither?

August 22, 2011

In January 2011, the FCC granted a conditional waiver for LightSquared, a wireless broadband company, to proceed with rolling out its 4G LTE wireless wholesale business. Recently, LightSquared and the GPS industry exchanged taunts. LightSquared claimed that the GPS industry didn’t follow Department of Defense standards when designing GPS receivers and the GPS industry retorted that LightSquared is an incompatible spectrum neighbor. What happened?

Eric Gakstatter, Principal

Eric GakstatterPrincipalDISCOVERY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

High-end GPS equipment (approx. 250,000 receivers) will become obsolete.

June 11, 2008

Codeless and Semi-Codeless Access to the Global Positioning | edocket.access.gpo.gov

The DoD's proposal would essentially obsolete legacy high-end GPS receivers after Dec. 31, 2020. The DoD estimates there are approximately 250,000 of these in use today. The replacement cost of each receiver is $10-20,000 each.  This action introduces uncertainty into the high-precision GPS marketplace. Some manufacturers are still selling legacy products.

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