LightSquared Accuses GPS Makers of Scaring Their Customers Baselessly

摘要

LightSquared said GPS manufacturers are alarming their users unnecessarily by telling them nthey will be on the hook for replacing or retrofitting high-precision receivers if the FCC allows nthe company's proposed service. LightSquared plans to assume “the cost of accommodating nhundreds of millions of receivers, meaning GPS manufacturers do not need to replace nreceivers now in consumers’ hands,” Executive Vice President Jeff Carlisle of LightSquared nsays in written testimony for a House Small Business Committee hearing to be nheld Wednesday. “Some portion of the relatively small number of remaining high precision nreceivers will need to be either replaced or retrofitted, but it is wrong for the GPS nmanufacturers to scare their users by arguing that this cost will fall on them. The nmanufacturers themselves should step up to cover this cost, as it was their technology choice nthat created the situation."