[time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared ...

[Ralph Smith]

On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz
> <charles_steinmetz at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> From a news release issued by the FCC today:
>> 
>> "The FCC Enforcement Bureau today announced new efforts to clamp down on the
>> marketing, sale, and use of illegal cellphone and GPS jamming devices."
> 
> Why would anyone jam GPS, other then because they want the bandwidth
> for their own service.   What is the market for gps jamers.  Seems
> silly you can't hide position or time

Truck drivers do it to subvert monitoring by equipment such as OmniTRACS. 

Ralph
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