LightSquared: If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old

LightSquared continues to assert that GPS devices—only capable of "listening" for signals—are interfering with the failing startup's plans to deploy 40,000 high-powered terrestrial base stations.

This is identical to the logic utilities are using to justify why families, the disabled or electrosensitive, and otherwise informed individuals should have to pay to avoid having a wireless Smart Meter installed on their home.

LightSquared Asks FCC to Regulate GPS Receivers - PC World

In its latest salvo against the GPS industry, the would-be hybrid network operator filed a request on Tuesday for the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a proceeding on how to regulate some GPS receivers. Those rules would keep manufacturers from making navigation devices that use frequencies outside their assigned band, a problem that is at the root of interference issues that have kept LightSquared from launching its network, the company said.

"LightSquared's filing completely ignores the clear regulatory record on this point, and its suggestion that GPS manufacturers should have designed receivers to accommodate a prohibited use is simply self-serving nonsense," the industry group Coalition to Save Our GPS said in a statement on Tuesday.