Company: NXNVW
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001213900-25-023287
Chunk: 101

Company: NEXTNAV INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 101
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. Under the
terms of the equipment hosting agreement, AT&T is providing all
site-related services during AT&T’s continued use of the service. Our
services agreement with AT&T for distribution of our services to FirstNet®
customers expires in October 2025. 

Competition and Competitive Advantages

GPS and GNSS services are broadly used across a large
number of both industries and specific use cases, however, multiple
technologies provide, or are planned to provide, services to complement and
backup GPS.  Depending upon the specific
use case, we both compete with and complement other geolocation services, as
part of the “system of systems” required to provide a comprehensive solution to
this market.  Key technologies
participating in this segment include enhanced long-range navigation
(“eLORAN”), low Earth orbit (“LEO”) satellite systems, and various short-range
commercial systems.

●
 eLORAN is an advanced version of the World War II-era
hyperbolic radio navigation system that was developed in response to the
perceived vulnerability of the GNSS systems. eLORAN has historically been
targeted towards maritime and aviation applications.  If deployed, eLORAN may also be well-suited
to long-range time distribution.      

●
 LEO
Satellite Systems offer
primarily timing service based on signals transmitted from LEO satellite
constellations. LEO systems potentially offer global coverage. However, for use
cases requiring terrestrial signal strength, their signals are not as strong as
those from terrestrial-based systems. LEO systems are subject to similar
physical vulnerabilities as GPS.    

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Commercial Location Systems, including legacy cellular systems, crowd-sourced systems and locally managed systems, are complements to GPS but generally rely on GPS or highly local surveys for their core performance. Most commercial location systems do not provide an independent timing source, so are limited in their ability to be a viable backup to GPS.     

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Other technologies to deliver PNT independently of GPS
are under development or in the early stages of testbed deployment. These
include the National Association of Broadcasters’ Broadcast Positioning Service
(“BPS”). BPS seeks to supply PNT signals broadcast from terrestrial television
towers using ATSC 3.0, an international standard from the Advanced Television
Systems Committee. However, it has been demonstrated that BPS has accuracy
limitations relative to GPS. BPS also depends on