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Broadband Breakfast on May 28, 2025 – Understanding Global Positioning

Broadband Breakfast

” The Federal Communications Commission has launched an inquiry into Positioning, Navigation, and Timing technologies that could complement or serve as a backup to the Global Positioning System.

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Aileen Ryan: The FCC Must Protect America’s Supply Chains Running on RFID

Broadband Breakfast

But these everyday conveniences and, at times, critical needs rely on an invisible but essential technology: RAIN RFID. Behind the scenes of America’s retail stores, warehouses, transportation systems, and hospitals, RAIN RFID enables the tracking and authentication of billions of items.

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Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency

Broadband Breakfast

America has a proud history of being a leader in many key technologies. 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).

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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. That’s not the FCC’s only consideration for a ground-based system, though.

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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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A Guide to Wireless Communication

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It encompasses various technologies and mediums, such as radio waves, microwaves, and infrared signals, to transmit data over short and long distances. Satellite Communication: Involves the use of satellites to relay signals across vast distances, essential for global positioning systems (GPS) and international broadcasting.

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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. But as with any major technology shift there are potential consequences. "This is folks who when you look at the FCC map, there is no technology code. CNET/Jeffrey Hazelwood.