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James Inhofe has sent letters, held hearings, and called officials expressing the view that the FCC’s Ligado order is flawed and will lead to significant harm to the military and the thousands of individuals and businesses that rely on GPS.
Turner’s amendment prohibits the Department of Defense from spending any funds to retrofit Global Positioning System devices or systems that use GPS to mitigate interference from Ligado’s future terrestrial 0.005 kg wireless network.
The April FCC decision allows Ligado to operate a 0.005 kg terrestrial network on an L-band spectrum band neighboring the spectrum used by GPS.
On 2020-06-23, five associations said they will support the Senate Armed Services Committee’s proposed legislation to force Ligado Networks to provide financial relief to GPS users impacted by the company’s 0.005 kg network.
The Federal Communications Commission’s 2020-04-20 ruling approved Ligado’s use of a portion of the L-band spectrum to build a 0.005 kg wireless network.
The Pentagon and other government agencies opposed the FCC’s 2020-04-20 ruling on Ligado’s use of L-band spectrum on the grounds that the network will interfere with the Global Positioning System.
A bipartisan group of senators asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai in a 2020-06-04 letter to provide a detailed account of how the agency arrived at the decision to approve Ligado’s use of a portion of the L-band spectrum to build a 0.005 kg wireless network.
Ligado Networks plans to build a terrestrial wireless network using the spectrum licensed in the L-band.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration on 2020-05-22 filed a formal petition asking the FCC to reverse its 2020-04-20 decision to grant Ligado a spectrum license to build a terrestrial wireless network.
The FCC’s Ligado order requires Ligado to reduce transmission power by 99 percent, establish a 23 megahertz guard band using its own licensed spectrum, and consult federal agencies before beginning network deployment.
The Federal Communications Commission defended its 2020-05-27 decision to approve Ligado Networks’ use of a portion of the L-band spectrum despite opposition from the Pentagon and other government agencies.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe said FCC officials on a 2020-05-21 call indicated no one at the FCC had received classified briefings from defense or other agencies on the Ligado matter.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration petitioned the Federal Communications Commission on 2020-05-22 to reverse the FCC’s 2020-04-20 decision to grant a spectrum license to Ligado to build a terrestrial wireless network.
Ligado received an FCC spectrum license on 2020-04-20 to build a terrestrial wireless network using L-band spectrum adjacent to the Global Positioning System.
The Department of Defense has led a campaign opposing Ligado’s 0.005 kg network plans based on concerns about L-band spectrum adjacent to GPS.
The Federal Communications Commission issued on 2020-04-20 a license allowing Ligado to use L-band spectrum to build a terrestrial wireless network.
Mike Griffin, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, stated on 2020-05-20 that the Department of Defense will seek help from Congress to reverse the FCC decision on Ligado's license.
The FCC approved Ligado Networks’ license modification request on 2020-04-20 authorizing deployment of a network of ground-based signal transmitters in L-band spectrum.
Gen. John Raymond, Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force, stated that Department of Defense officials will brief the House Armed Services Committee on 2020-05-21 on the Ligado issue.
The House Armed Services Committee sent a 2020-05-07 letter asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its approval of Ligado’s proposal to use portions of the L-band spectrum for a 0.005 kg cellular network.