On Feb 8, 3:56 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mindless scare tactics.
It's more subtle than that. The problem is that the proposed high powered terrestrial base stations (and mobile devices talking back) would saturate the receivers of GPS devices kilometers away, drowning out the GPS signal. There is a considerable discrepancy of delivered power levels of satellite vs. terrestrial signals on the ground. This means that virtually all consumer level GPS devices, as well as many professional solutions would be incapacitated by the proposed system, even with band pass filters in place. There is no way anybody could reasonably approve such a proposed LTE build-out, one would think, and this is where the story begins: What triggered all the recent articles and posts was the FCC conditionally approving the proposed system last week. Combined with recent announcements at the highest administrative level regarding the build-out of broadband infrastructure (South Korea was named as a country that needed to be caught up with), there seems to be political clout behind the effort. Everybody adding one and one has been alarmed in that the conditions imposed by the FCC could be subject to the same political pressures that are behind the conditional approval in the first place. There is a perceived risk that industry concerns could be rationalized away, and against all reason, an approval of the proposed system implementation could go through. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
