Representatives of a wide variety of industries and companies have joined the Coalition to Save Our GPS to resolve a serious threat to the reliability and viability of the Global Positioning System (GPS) - a national utility upon which millions of Americans rely every day.

To safeguard GPS, the Coalition seeks a number of remedies from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which recently granted a waiver to a company called LightSquared that allows them to repurpose the satellite spectrum immediately neighboring that of the GPS.

LightSquared plans to transmit ground-based radio signals that would be one billion or more times more powerful as received on earth than GPS's low-powered satellite-based signals, potentially causing severe interference impacting millions of GPS receivers - including those used by the federal agencies, state and local governments, first responders, airlines, mariners, civil engineering, construction and surveying, agriculture, and everyday consumers in their cars and on handheld devices.

Contact Information

Website: http://saveourgps.org/

Press Releases

December 18th, 2012 - FCC’s Consideration of LightSquared’s Requests Must “Not Come at Expense of Critical GPS Services;” Commission Must Conduct Comprehensive Assessment of Costs and Benefits

March 30th, 2012 - Coalition Tells FCC LightSquared’s Conditional Authorization Must Be Revoked

March 2nd, 2012 - The Transportation Construction Coalition Urges FCC to Adopt “Without Delay” Its Feb. 15 Proposals on LightSquared

March 1st, 2012 - Two Major National Public Safety Groups Concur with FCC Proposals to Withdraw LightSquared Waiver, Prohibit Its Planned Wireless Network

February 14th, 2012 - Statement from the Coalition to Save Our GPS on NTIA LightSquared Conclusions

More Coalition to Save Our GPS press releases