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Default Proposed Mobile Internet Service Interferes With GPS Units

On Dec 14, 8:32*am, Wayne.B wrote:
BusinessWeek is carrying an article today that says that government
tests showed that the proposed LightSquared mobile service caused
interference to 75% of all GPS receivers tested.

The report can be found at:http://preview.tinyurl.com/7jyaazf

There is big money behind this. * I'd recommend writing your elected
representatives and voicing your concerns.


That could be a bad deal. I'm a slow learner, but my wife just updated
her Garmin and gave her old one.

I'm not dependent of it but I'm kinda liking it. too bad if they'll
all be screwed up