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 1
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G 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 Metropolitan Beacon System (“MBS”).  TerraPoiNT was designed to maximize compatibility with GPS and other GNSS receivers. We have licensed elements of our receiver technology to third-party chipset providers and device vendors, typically with no per device royalty, to enable the reception of our signal on their devices.

TerraPoiNT can be thought of as a dedicated, land-based GPS satellite constellation. TerraPoiNT service is made available through a highly distributed terrestrial network of transmitters and is naturally resilient to service disruption and significantly more resistant to jamming than GPS. If GPS is disrupted or destroyed, a TerraPoiNT transmitter continues to operate and provide similar service within the TerraPoiNT service area. If one TerraPoiNT transmitter is disrupted, service continues from other nearby transmitters. Thus, there is both local and national resilience embedded in the basic system design.

Pinnacle 

Pinnacle provides devices equipped with a barometric pressure sensor and software connected to our systems with high quality wide-area altitude service