Oct. 26, 2017
Ligado is attempting to rewrite the rules to the detriment of GPS and a fast-growing satellite service. That’s certainly not what we voted for in 2003 and not something the FCC should allow today…
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Bloomberg: Repurposing Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Is Great, But Interference Issues Must Be Resolved First
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…
Communications Daily: More Interindustry Cooperation, Standards, Security Use Needed for IoT, Say Issa, Industry Panelists
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…
Communications Daily: PNT Letter Shows Ligado’s dangers to GPS, ASRI Says
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…
Communications Daily: Metro Aviation, Garmin at Odds Over Ligado Helicopter Worries; GPS ‘Threat’ Challenged
Jul. 27, 2017
Questions about interference to certified aviation GPS receivers continue to hover over Ligado’s terrestrial low-power service plans…
Inside GNSS: Expert GPS Panel: New Ligado Plan Still Harms GPS
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…
Communications Daily: Ligado’s TLPS Plan Seen as ‘Existential Threat’ to GPS
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…
Inside GNSS: Opposition to Ligado Plan Expands
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…
The Hill: New Washington, but the same LightSquared is asking for favors from the FCC
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…