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Positioning Navigation and Timing Executives Want More Resiliency for GPS

Broadband Breakfast

Virginia Tech’s Professor of Practice David Simpson noted in the Thursday discussion, which included Iridium’s President and Chief Technology Officer Greg Gutt , that the telecommunications industry relies on PNT for wired and wireless technology , the internet of things, and healthcare monitoring.

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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.  military. . "Reducing

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

Broadband Breakfast

"The digital divide is fundamentally tied to inequality," says Christopher Ali , professor of telecommunications at Penn State University. "We "We often think that it's an infrastructure issue, which is the case in rural and remote and Indigenous communities, but the reason most people don't have internet is price."