Ligado Drops Plans for Virginia Trial Deployment
Ligado told the FCC Monday it won’t move forward at this time on a planned pilot deployment in Virginia. “Ligado has reached this decision to allow time for the company’s discussions with the” NTIA, “acting in its statutory role on…
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behalf of the Executive Branch, to resolve in a fair and reasonable manner issues relating to the government’s ongoing use of Ligado’s terrestrial spectrum,” said a filing in docket 11-109. A National Academies of Sciences report released Friday (see 2209090032) found that while most GPS receivers won't face interference from Ligado’s 5G network, Iridium’s mobile satellite services used by the DOD would likely see “harmful interference.”