美国停止了光明的资金

The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on 23rd June approved action to 'fence' or halt the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from expending any funds related to a conditional waiver it granted a company called LightSquared until all concerns have been resolved about interference with Global Positioning System (GPS).

该修正案通过全部拨款委员会以一致的声音投票通过。观察家报告说，投票以“大声”的反应打击，强调了国会对GPS系统有害干预的越来越关注，如果FCC批准LightsQuared计划部署40,000个地面站的计划，这将发生。该修正案由美国众议员史蒂夫·奥地利（R-Ohio）和凯文·约德（R-Kan。）提供，是金融服务拨款小组委员会法案的一部分。
Commenting on the vote, Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel of Trimble, a founding member of the Coalition to Save Our GPS, said, "GPS is a vital national resource that is today fundamental to our economy, national security and to virtually every industry sector. Business, consumers and the government will be hobbled if the FCC proceeds on this path with LightSquared. The vote today puts ‘teeth' into legislation that will protect government and private GPS users from LightSquared's proposal."

在一个不寻常的过程中，今年年初的FCC批准了由纽约对冲基金支持的一家基于弗吉尼亚的公司Lightsquared，以开发与GPS长期使用的光谱相邻的频谱。

立法写道：“本法中没有提供的资金都不能被联邦通信委员会使用，以删除委员会于2011年1月26日通过的命令和授权施加的商业地面运营条件（DA 11-133）），或以其他方式允许此类行动，直到委员会解决了这种商业地面运营对市售全球定位系统设备的潜在有害干扰的担忧。”

LightSquared sought quick FCC action on its plans to deploy 40,000 ground stations and a tight deadline for conducting the industry's Technical Working Group study on the problem of interference with GPS signals. But LightSquared then asked for postponement of the deadline for completing the interference study and unilaterally, before either completion or submission of the study, announced its so-called "solution" for it. All this came out of the blue, without the knowledge, agreement or consensus of the industry group studying the problem.

那很可能是因为相对于测试开始时的Lightsquared承诺，几乎没有任何实际变化。功率水平不会改变。频率也不是。实际上，唯一改变的是将部署与GPS相邻的频段中的频道的顺序。