Walden Meets With Hill Lawmakers on NextNav's 900 MHz PNT Proposal
Alpine Group’s Greg Walden, a former House Commerce Committee GOP leader whose clients include NextNav, told us Thursday that he's meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill advocating in favor of the company’s petition for the FCC to reconfigure the 902-928 MHz band to enable a “terrestrial complement” to GPS for positioning, navigation and timing (see 2404160043). The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies and other public safety groups have raised interference concerns about the NextNav proposal (see 2511210022).
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“The U.S. doesn't have a [GPS] backup like China and Russia do, and before we get caught in a bad place, we need to develop one,” Walden said. “There's various alternatives out there,” including the NextNav proposal.