Marking the sixth anniversary of the FCC’s 2020 Ligado Order, the Satellite Safety Alliance and a broad coalition urge the Trump Administration, Congress, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal the order.  The Ligado Order continues to threaten GPS, satellite communications, and users reliant on critical infrastructure and safety-of-life services with a substantial interference risks, undermining  U.S. space and satellite leadership.

For the last six years, GPS, aviation, navigation equipment, weather and other environmental data, satellite communications services, manufacturing, and agricultural services that rely on satellite communications have faced the continued threat of significant interference from the flawed Ligado Order, which left unaddressed the harmful interference risk created by operation of terrestrial mobile service in portions of L-band spectrum where these services operate today. Critical federal and private sector resources have been pulled away from developing policies and services that could contribute to U.S. space superiority in order to continuously address this risk.

Ligado’s plans continue to create significant technical and public interest concerns for all L-band operators and users, their customers, and their beneficiaries among the public, industry, and government. Now is the time to bring this unproductive six-year Ligado Order saga to a close.

Read the letter in full to Congress [Link] and the letter to the Trump Administration [Link].