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NextNav: GPS Backup Promises $14.6 Billion in Economic Benefits

Broadband Breakfast

The report also introduced an “insurance premium” estimate, which valued the financial benefit of NextNav's proposed system as $10.8   GPS – the Global Positioning System – is a U.S.-owned, billion over 20 years. 

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Joe Supan: The Rise and Inevitable Downfall of 7,000 Starlink Satellites

Broadband Breakfast

" I've heard stories like Hopson's a lot in my seven years reporting on the broadband industry and its technology. " Maine's broadband coverage. People in rural areas often tell me they have no internet options in their area — or crappy ones at best. CNET/Jeffrey Hazelwood. in the South to $107.64

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Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency

Broadband Breakfast

As noted in a National Security Space Association  report , China and Russia already have terrestrial complements to space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), decades after the U.S. originally invented the Global Positioning System (GPS). Then we must toughen GPS signals against attacks.

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FCC Opens Inquiry into GPS Backup

Broadband Breakfast

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2025 – The Federal Communications Commission moved Thursday to open an inquiry into alternatives or backups to the Global Positioning System. The system currently runs on government satellites. That’s not the FCC’s only consideration for a ground-based system, though.