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His opening paragraph translated..... " I have been reflecting on events related to the GPS interference issue and LightSquared..... and saw a great opportunity to make a ton of $$$$$$$$$ while screwing everyone over in the process...."
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> His opening paragraph translated..... " I have been reflecting on events related to the GPS interference issue and LightSquared..... and saw a great opportunity to make a ton of $$$$$$$$$ while screwing everyone over in the process...."
The only difference between Javad and his competitors is that his competitors understand the need to hire a professional marketing and PR staff to convince their customers that they are advocates for them.
I'm sure that every other GPS manufacturer was doing the exact same things that Javad was, they're just not stupid enough to make it public.
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> > His opening paragraph translated..... " I have been reflecting on events related to the GPS interference issue and LightSquared..... and saw a great opportunity to make a ton of $$$$$$$$$ while screwing everyone over in the process...."
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> The only difference between Javad and his competitors is that his competitors understand the need to hire a professional marketing and PR staff to convince their customers that they are advocates for them.
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> I'm sure that every other GPS manufacturer was doing the exact same things that Javad was, they're just not stupid enough to make it public.
Javad was blatant and obvious about what he was doing, where the others might be more duplicitous.
Javad is not stupid by any means—arrogant maybe but not stupid.
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> > The only difference between Javad and his competitors is that his competitors understand the need to hire a professional marketing and PR staff to convince their customers that they are advocates for them.
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> > I'm sure that every other GPS manufacturer was doing the exact same things that Javad was, they're just not stupid enough to make it public.
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> Javad was blatant and obvious about what he was doing, where the others might be more duplicitous.
> Javad is not stupid by any means—arrogant maybe but not stupid.
Yeah, he was stupid. Stupidity is shooting yourself in the foot. Being a shill for Lightsquared and expecting the surveying profession not to recognize the obvious and still buy your product is STUPID. Not being savy enough to cover it up is arrogance that went so far that it became stupidity.
I think we should change a phrase. No longer should we say "Whine like little girls" we should instead say "Whine like Surveyors"
How many of you listen to employees whine about your decisions without offering a solution? As surveyors we are but a small part of a community needing constantly improving measuring and navigation tools.
Surveyors failed to lead in GIS. Then Surveyors failed to lead in Machine Control. Then Surveyors failed to lead in Laser Scanning. Now Surveyors will fail to lead in Light Squared. As a small part of a much larger community if surveyors had a solution instead of ONLY a complaint, maybe we might be perceived as leaders.
I applaud Javad for taking a leadership position. That is, after all, what he has done his entire career. You fellas should go apologize to the little girls for leading them in whining.
And, if you have any questions who will eventually whine this issue, remember the golden rule. The one with the Gold makes the rules.
..."And, if you have any questions who will eventually whine this issue, remember the golden rule. The one with the Gold makes the rules."
[sarcasm]oh, you mean like these guys?[/sarcasm]
ALMOST FORGOT THE SARCASM.....
While you have point with GIS, Machine Control, and Scanning, I don't really see how that relates to Lightsquared. Were we supposed to embrace a new idea that makes every high precision GPS receiver ever made to date completely useless when in range of a Sprint tower? A new idea, that if expanded to their full spectrum, could end the possibility of ever having a high precision GPS device again? And how exactly were we surveyors supposed to take the lead, here? Am I supposed to tinker with filters and antennas in my garage until I get something that works? That's not my job. I don't engineer GPS receivers and cell phone transmitters. Am I supposed to be impressed that Javad "partnered" with a company that's in default and soon to be bankrupt? I can't see how surveyors have "failed" here. If anything, the GPS user community won a big a battle.
Does this sound like someone who is trying to "fix" a potential problem, or trying to help cause the problem so he make a quick 100M selling his solution? I love the part when he said all existing GPS revievers are already "semi-obsolete" and need to be replaced. How does he figure that? All my GPS units, and I have 5 of them, still do everything they did when I bought them just fine.
The Honorable Julius Genachowski
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
Ex Parte Communication. IB Docket No. 11-109
February 27, 2012
Dear Chairman Genachowski:
For the reasons outlined below I find your recent decision regarding LightSquared's network deployment to be unfair and harmful to not only the U.S. economy, but to the future of innovation.
It has been proven time and again that GPS and LightSquared can coexist. I demonstrated this to the PNT earlier this year, and results from independent labs confirmed my results. Even more telling, the recently published recommendations from the NTIA to the FCC do not dispute this fact.
The only real issue is retrofitting faulty GPS units. Let's take into consideration the aviation industry, which is highly regulated and extremely safety conscious. You can subpoena their retrofit histories and see when they found a problem in any parts of their aircrafts and how long it took them to fix the problems. Considering that changing a GPS antenna is easy task compared to other retrofits that they conducted, it will not be surprising to see this retrofit can take in some weeks.
The cost of such retrofits is under $500 per aircraft. It would cost less than $20M to fix any existing issues within the industry and only take a few months to complete. Please also note that all existing GPS receivers are semi-obsolete and will soon need to be replaced anyway (with or without LightSquared) because current systems do not track the modernized signals of GPS, GLONASS and Galileo.
Please do not allow $14B of private investment in the nation's broadband infrastructure to disappear, especially when it will cost less than $100M to solve any problems associated with existing units. Your decision could render years of innovation and investment obsolete.
GPS manufacturers should not be able to get away with faulty designs and the U.S. government should do not promote, support, and encourage design of flawed units. Even now, when the GPS industry is aware of a simple solution, they keep manufacturing and selling defective units to compound the problem.
Please do not allow technology to lose to politics. It will be a national disaster if we lose 4G competitiveness and discourage investment in this country. If FCC loses control of the precocious spectrum in this case, who knows what will happen in the future?
Sincerely,
Javad Ashjaee
CEO, Javad GNSS
San Jose, California
Surveyors had no chance of taking over control of GIS because it's just a tool. Many different professions use it for different purposes.
This corollary would be Surveyors should take over control of the pickup truck business because Surveyors use pickup trucks.
Sure. They're about broke. Rrrrrrright.
Your analogy might work but for a few issues: I know Surveyors that run GIS departments. Do you know any that run truck building departments?
More people want better accessibility to navigation tools than surveyors have clients. Javad is an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs solve business problems. It sounds like you guys don’t like solving tough problems.
While you’re at it why don’t you castigate Javad for his 16 patents?
Patents By Inventor Javad Ashjaee
1) U.S. Patent Number 6,731,701
Prediction methods for navigation message symbols of satellite systems, such as GPS (Global Positioning System) and GLONASS (Global Orbiting Navigation System), that use information
2) U.S. Patent Number 6,674,399
GPS and GLONASS Satellites broadcast code signals which are modulated onto respective carrier signals, and which are received by two receivers on Earth. The
3) U.S. Patent Number 6,659,409
A positioning pole comprising an elongated center pole, a first guide disposed on an outer surface of the center pole, a first support leg,
4) U.S. Patent Number 6,633,256
Methods and systems for measuring coordinates of a target, particularly under strong multipath conditions, are described. A satellite navigation system antenna and a tilt
5) U.S. Patent Number 6,594,912
Disclosed are electronic plumb indicators for monopoles, survey poles, global positioning antennas and the like. A exemplary plumb indicator comprises a substrate, a plumb
6) U.S. Patent Number 6,493,378
The present application is applicable to receivers for Global Positions (GP) systems which use delay-lock loops (DLLs) and, optionally, phase-lock loops (PLLs). The application
7) U.S. Patent Number 6,463,091
A receiver of a radio frequency signal having a pseudo-random noise (PRN) code, and techniques of processing such a signal that are especially adapted
8) U.S. Patent Number 6,456,233
The measurements of two GPS and/or GLONASS receivers are related to a common time moment by extrapolating measurement data that has arrived through a
9) U.S. Patent Number 6,337,657
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for generating the estimates of receiver's coordinates and/or time offset for a moment of time tn without large errors
10) U.S. Patent Number 6,313,789
Disclosed are methods for increasing the fail-safety characteristics of tracking systems for navigation receivers which receive signals from many satellites. In an exemplary embodiment
11) U.S. Patent Number 6,278,407
Choke-ring ground planes are commonly used for multipath rejection in geodetic surveying systems. Such ground planes consist of a thick metal disc with deep
12) U.S. Patent Number 6,268,824
Satellites of the GPS and GLONASS navigation systems broadcast code signals which are modulated onto respective carrier signals, and which are received by two
13) U.S. Patent Number 6,219,376
Method of suppression of narrow-band interferences attending at the receiver input added to the useful broadband signal and noise. There is a disclosed compensator
14) U.S. Patent Number 5,769,370
A knocked-down portable geodetic surveying station in kit form is disclosed which utilizes a GPS antenna attached to the top portion of a surveyor's
15) U.S. Patent Number 5,749,549
A portable geodetic surveying station is disclosed which utilizes a GPS antenna attached to the top portion of a surveyor's stake, or other type
16) U.S. Patent Number 4,928,106
A global positioning system (GPS) receiver having a common radio frequencysection and a separate digital signal processing channel for each of a plurality of
Oh wait, most of you are following ACSM into the ground.
> More people want better accessibility to navigation tools than surveyors have clients. Javad is an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs solve business problems. It sounds like you guys don’t like solving tough problems.
And how exactly was Lightsquared going to increase people's access to navigation tools? They are (or were) a cell phone company that was going to make most existing GPS receivers (and all high precision units) obsolete. Seems like they were going to do the opposite of what you claim people want ... well, at least until we all collectively paid Javad $100,000,000 to fix everything. But it should be noted that his so called fix was only tested on unit with external antennas. I've never seen him claim that all internal antenna units, which is probably the majority of units sold recently, could be "fixed".
Anyhow, I love solving tough boundary problems. But that doesn't mean I also support creating tough boundary problems for the next surveyor to solve at their client's expense. See the difference?
Javad bet the farm by jumping on the Lightsquared bandwagon, and lost. I suspect there are a lot of people who are going to boycott his products knowing that he'll turn on existing clients in a second if there is an opportunity to extort more money out of them in the name of advancing technology.
thank you for catching the freudian slip.
"...More people want better accessibility to communication navigation tools than surveyors have clients..."
More patents than dealers
The poor guy probably saw LightSquared as his golden opportunity to cash out.
As others on this forum have mentioned previously, Mr. Ashjaee does not have a clue about distribution and never seems to hire anyone who does either.
For instance - in the United States, the largest market in the world for precision GNSS equipment, the Javad GNSS web site shows a grand total of eleven (11) dealers.
Of those, nine have functioning web sites.
Five of those nine web sites have no mention whatsoever of Javad GNSS, so apparently the product is not their top priority (and they may not even realize they are dealers for Javad GNSS).
The remaining four web sites give the impression that Javad GNSS is at best a secondary line for that dealer.
There is nothing to indicate that any of the eleven dealers focuses primarily on selling products of Javad GNSS.
Mebbe this is because Javad GNSS seems willing and eager to sell direct to customers. IMHO that is not a proven way of providing a satisfactory customer experience in this market.
GB
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> I'm sure that every other GPS manufacturer was doing the exact same things that Javad was, they're just not stupid enough to make it public.
Very true, especially Trimble
Javad is one of the, if not, the best when it comes to signal processing. Brilliant and innovative. Impressive designs.
His marketing, if you can call it that, has always been a dismal failure.
This, to me, is just another example of his poor judgement when it comes to alliances and marketing. He picked the wrong horse , tossed in all his chips and burnt every bridge to any possible high end GPS customers.
I've met him and he didn't seem to have an ego trip or to be overly all about himself but yet he gave me the impression that I often get from Engineers, in that they know better than the rest of us and we should blindly follow them.
He put all his eggs in with Light Squared and waged a campaign for them. A shill? I dunno, but it sure seemed like that to me. Who paid for all those huge adds, layouts and articles? Was it his company or Light Squared?
In a nutshell, Light Squared purchased at a bargain price a set of freqs and then tried to expand them far beyond the scope of the usage in the license. It was never intended to carry high power terrestrial signals.
We found out, others found out, stuff was tested and it proved to be harmful to a systems that billions depend on from things such as us to 911 providers.
Just my take on the entire thing. Light Squared tried to barter a cheap purchase into a premium service to the detriment of any others. Javad bought into that thinking he would be the first to provide some sort of 'brilliant' design that no one needed before.
His cash cow just went dry.
Just my Okie take.
Patents don't necessarily mean much.
As the inventor or co-inventor on six patents, my opinion is that patents are generally overrated. It takes some grain of an idea and a good patent lawyer, but it doesn't have to be a particularly valuable contribution to knowledge.
Large companies generally get them in order to play "patent poker" wherein if one accuses another of infringing on one of their patents, they find it more efficient to negotiate based on how many related patents each has rather than the merits of the individual case.
Here's one knowledgeable cynic's view: http://www.ka9q.net/patents/ and his favorite example of a bad patent (or here).
Hook line and sinker; that's what he fell for in an effort to quench his instaitable ego.
Not one would argue withg his fine credentials and contributions ot GNSS. Not at all, but there is a lot left to be desired in the arena of judgement.
More and more we find that the assumptions which were foistedon us to sell this plan are falling apart.
How about listening to the invnetor of the cell phone to put some perspective on the spectrum "crisis" on which this whole urgency was predicated:
"Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cellphone, says that claims by mobile carriers of a so-called spectrum crisis are largely exaggerated."
The whole piece can be read here.
And what about the $10,000 Gigabyte? Rural folks were sold on the idea that this would be the anser to thier boradband needs. Wrong. Not any more than dishes they can use now, and not at any bargain price. No, it was just a way to push a competing carrier only within the coverage of existing Sprint towers. And you miught argue that it might maybe kinda sorta bring down prices, but it would cost GNSS users and taxpayers a tidy sum to provide this windfall to a company that tried to ram this down our throat. And who shilled for them shamelessly? Who got involved int hep oiltical arguments while two-facedly saying "I'm and negineer and not a polcitican".
Hero worship is one thing, but he really did cut the cheese in a room full of potential customers.
