Challenge Of FCC’s Ligado Ruling Planned

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The FCC has mandated that Ligado provide a 23-MHz “guard band” and limit its base station power levels to protect against interference with GPS.
Credit: Ligado Networks
Pentagon executives eyed a late-May deadline to appeal the Ligado Networks’ licensing decision, following a Senate hearing that shed little new light on why the Federal Communications Commission granted the company access to L-band spectrum near GPS frequencies. Pentagon officials express surprise...
Bill Carey

Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and uncrewed aircraft systems. He is the author of 'Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America,' published in 2016.

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