On November 24, 2020, a letter was sent to House leadership and members of the Appropriations Committee regarding the danger of the Ligado order to the safety of SATCOM services. The bipartisan letter was signed by Representatives GT Thompson (R-PA-15), Collin Peterson (D-MN-07), James Comer (R-KY-01), David Rouzer (R-NC-07), Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-04), Austin Scott (R-GA-08), Rick Crawford (R-AR-01), Dusty Johnson (R-SD, At-Large), Ralph Abraham (R-LA-05) and Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-01) and focused specifically on the negative impact of the Ligado order on the agriculture industry. 

In the letter, the bipartisan group of Representatives stated:

“While the FCC Order acknowledges this interference will impact users in the federal government and requires Ligado to upgrade or replace these devices, the Order fails to require Ligado to accept responsibility for the millions of private devices that will be affected. This will force several industries, including agriculture, who rely on these devices to access satellite-based services to suffer from Ligado’s operations, initiate burdensome and ill-defined procedures to address this interference, or to pay to replace them.”

Take a look at the letter in full here.