Oct. 16, 2017
Portions of Ligado’s spectrum sits next to spectrum used for GPS systems. Private and publicly-funded studies demonstrated significant interference problems, resulting in a 2011 FCC decision to block the earlier plans of Ligado, sending its predecessor into bankruptcy. Subsequently, Ligado has granted some concessions to several larger GPS players, but numerous objections from the GPS and aviation communities, among others, remain. Interference studies continue to show significant interference problems resulting from Ligado’s current proposal…
Read at Bloomberg
Aug. 22, 2017
Ensuring a reliable level of security among IoT devices and the networks they connect to needs stepped-up coordination between device makers and other sectors, widespread security standards, and increased use of common sense and already-established cybersecurity steps, Technology Policy Institute panelists said…
Read at Communications Daily
Aug. 8, 2017
The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board chairman’s letter to the co-chairs of the PNT national committee brings up numerous concerns about Ligado’s potential to interfere with GPS reception, said Aviation Spectrum Resources Inc. (ASRI) in an FCC docket 11-109 filing posted Friday that included the July 5 letter…
Read at Communications Daily
Jul. 27, 2017
Questions about interference to certified aviation GPS receivers continue to hover over Ligado’s terrestrial low-power service plans…
Read at Communications Daily
Jul. 11, 2017
The nation’s leading GPS experts said in a newly released letter that a controversial broadband network would still interfere significantly with GPS receivers despite revisions to the network plan…
Read at Inside GNSS
Jun. 30, 2017
Ligado’s plans within the 1526-1536 MHz band for its terrestrial broadband service are an “existential threat to GPS,” according to a Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board (PNTAB) presentation during the board’s semiannual meeting Wednesday…
Read at Communications Daily
Jun. 29, 2017
Assertions by Virginia-based Ligado that its GPS interference issues were largely resolved were called into question by statements made by two key agencies and fresh opposition to a related spectrum request from nearly two dozen companies and associations…
Read at Inside GNSS
Apr. 4, 2017
Ligado, the re-branded LightSquared, hasn’t changed its tactics, is pushing hard and is hoping today’s policymakers have short memories. It won’t succeed…
Read at The Hill
