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Sept. 15, 2022
By Monica Alleven, FierceWireless
Ligado Networks informed the FCC this week that it’s not going to move forward with a trial deployment of its L-band spectrum in northern Virginia.
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September 15, 2022
A collection of weather, water, Earth science and aviation-related organizations have submitted an FCC filing on the recently released “Spectrum Pipeline Reallocation 1675–1680 MHz Engineering Study (SPRES) Program Report.”
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MIKE DANO, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies
9/13/2022
Ligado Networks said it no longer plans to launch a 5G network in its 1526-1536MHz spectrum by September 30 in parts of Virginia, as it had hoped to do earlier this year.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) has issued a report discussing whether a terrestrial wireless network proposed by Ligado Networks — and approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in April 2020 —will cause widespread interference to millions of GPS receivers.
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By Bryant Harris
Friday, Sep 9
WASHINGTON — Ligado Networks’ plan to establish a terrestrial 5G network could jeopardize some older U.S. Defense Department satellites, according to a congressionally mandated report released Friday. The company is preparing to start operationalizing its system as soon as next month.
The report, released by the National Academies of Sciences with Pentagon sponsorship, noted that satellite services provided to the department by Iridium Communications “will experience harmful interference” when their terminals are within 2,401 feet of Ligado’s terminals.
by Sandra Erwin — September 9, 2022
WASHINGTON — An independent review of Ligado’s planned deployment of a terrestrial wireless network concluded that it will likely interfere with some GPS signals and with space-based communications services provided by Iridium.
The review, conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), was mandated by Congress in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. A committee of experts who worked on the review for over a year released its findings Sept. 9 in a 78-page report.
By Rachel Jewett | September 9, 2022
A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Ligado Networks found that Ligado’s network plans will not cause harmful interference to most GPS receivers, but will cause harmful interference to some Iridium Communications mobile satellite services that are used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
The report, required by Congress to get to the bottom of whether Ligado’s network would interfere with DoD capabilities, classifies much of the military impact.
By THERESA HITCHENS on September 09, 2022 at 11:00 AM
WASHINGTON — A congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that while “most” commercial GPS receivers will not be jammed by Ligado’s controversial 5G wireless network, Iridium’s mobile satellite services used by the Pentagon might experience “harmful interference.”
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Sept 9, 2022
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Defense Department said a study released Friday shows Ligado Networks’ (MOSAV.UL) planned nationwide mobile broadband network will interfere with military global positioning system receivers (GPS) receivers.
Continue reading “Reuters: Pentagon warns of GPS interference from Ligado broadband network”
September 9, 2022
NTIA Statement on National Academies of Sciences Report:
The Report from the National Academies indicates that Ligado’s terrestrial operations would cause harmful interference to GPS devices and that a number of the FCC’s mitigations would be practically unworkable. NTIA will review this detailed Report more carefully, but we believe this offers the Commission an important opportunity to reconsider Ligado’s authorization.
U.S. Department of Defense Press Release on the NASEM Section 1663 Report:
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