The Obama administration's multi-billion-dollar plan to bring wireless broadband to almost every American could hit an immovable object in society's everyday dependence on GPS, if warnings of disastrous jamming of satellite signals by terrestrial networks come true. Desperate for broadband spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late January fast-tracked conditional approval for LightSquared to deploy up to 40,000 wireless base stations across the U.S. to augment its mobile satellite service.
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