Company: NXNVW
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001213900-25-023287
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Company: NEXTNAV INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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Single point of failure for a wide range of PNT services.    

Our service platforms include Pinnacle, our altitude (z-axis) solution, TerraPoiNT, which is similar to a terrestrial GPS constellation, and we are developing NextGen, which is being designed to bring complementary, high-quality PNT capabilities to a standards-based 5G NR broadband platform. We expect our NextGen solution to offer wide-scale service, be inherently secure and provide broad service access to appropriately-equipped devices that use location services, including consumer devices such as smartphones.

NextGen

We are evolving our operations to NextGen, which utilizes 5G NR technology. Once fully realized, we expect 5G NR-based NextGen services to result in wide-scale geographic deployment and broad 5G device compatibility. PNT systems are the core services provided by GPS, and NextGen can be thought of as a shared, land-based GPS satellite constellation, operating simultaneously with 5G broadband data services. We expect that NextGen services will be naturally resilient to service disruption and significantly more resistant to jamming than GPS. If GPS is disrupted or destroyed, a NextGen transmitter is designed to continue to operate and provide similar service within the NextGen service area. If one NextGen transmitter is disrupted, service is designed to continue from other nearby transmitters. Thus, there is the potential for both local- and wide-area resilience embedded in the basic system design. Our NextGen services are expected to leverage proven cellular infrastructure, which has been designed to provide wide-scale coverage, and will be able to complement GPS by extending PNT availability to urban canyons and indoor locations where GPS reception is challenging.  

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We anticipate NextGen will increase our spectrum utilization significantly, allowing us to offer both high-quality PNT services and broadband data using the same spectrum. This increased data transmission capacity could be used, subject to FCC approval, to provide other types of 5G NR-based two-way voice and data transmission services while simultaneously improving our PNT capabilities. Our plans to deploy NextGen with one or more broadband data partners could result in minimal capital expenditures by us related to the operation of our high-quality PNT services, while our wireless broadband partners could benefit from the proven economics of additional broadband capacity.

TerraPoiNT

TerraPoiNT is our prior-generation 3D PNT system, which was standardized in the global telecommunications standards group, 3GPP, Release 13 as