Source: Hillicon Valley (The Hill’s Technology Blog)
A group of rural public officials and farmers wrote a letter to agriculture device manufacturer John Deere last week, urging the company to drop its lobbying campaign against wireless firm LightSquared.
Philip Falcone and his LightSquared wireless venture declined to provide documents about contacts with the White House and U.S. regulators sought by a Republican senator, according to a letter released by the lawmaker.
Billionaire Phil Falcone's LightSquared wireless venture said certain users of global-positioning systems such as Trimble Navigation Ltd. (TRMB) should pay for filters on their devices that will help mitigate the interference caused by the network.
In addition to a number of agricultural organizations that use GPS to support precision farming operations that are asking the FCC to halt the LightSquared deployment because it would render GPS-enabled agriculture tools useless, several other groups including the European Union, Lockheed Martin Corp. and OnStar have also joined in opposing the new network.
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