[Satellite TODAY 09-22-11] Wholesale 4G LTE network operator LightSquared has signed an agreement with Javad GNSS to develop a system that will eliminate related interference issues for high-precision GPS devices, LightSquared announced Sept. 21. The move is LightSquared’s latest effort in resolving the interference and regulatory issues that have impeded its network launch over the last year.

   LightSquared said the Javad GNSS system can be adapted to work with high-precision GPS devices including those already in the agriculture, surveying, construction and defense industries. Javad GNSS pre-production units will be released for public tests in October, followed by mass production. High-precision receivers for positioning applications are expected to go to market by November, followed by the roll out of precision timing devices by March 2012.

   “This interference problem is not a difficult one to solve, once you decide to solve it. The tests conducted so far by the GPS industry did not take into account the GPS modernization plan that is in place. We’ve begun manufacturing preproduction models and expect to have 25 available within two weeks,” Javad GNSS Founder Javad Ashjaee said in a statement, “The truth is that high precision GPS users have a wide range of interference issues to contend with. LightSquared made this problem much easier to solve by moving to spectrum farther away from the core GPS frequencies. As LightSquared’s spectrum neighbor, it’s our obligation to build a wall between our spectrum and LightSquared’s. My filter accomplishes that goal.”