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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department said a study https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3153449/pres...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department said a study https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3153449/pres...

NTIA and the FCC say they are revamping their relationship, including more inter-agency meetings and collaboration on technical guidance.

On Monday morning, the Federal Communications Commission announced its unanimous approval of Ligado Network’s application to facilitate 5G and Internet of

AVweb Image: Ligado Ligado Networks’ terrestrial 5G program will continue its development despite aviation-industry pushback concerned with the potential for GPS interference. Earlier this year, aviation groups sent a request to the FCC to reconsider its prior approval, but the FCC last week denied “a request to stay its unanimous decision,” authorizing the program to move forward.   According to the FCC, “A petition filed by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National...

Ligado Networks’ nationwide mobile broadband network. In May, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration filed a request with the FCC on behalf of executive branch agencies, including the Defense and Transportation departments, arguing the commission’s approval would cause “irreparable harms to federal government users” of global positioning systems (GPS). Outgoing FCC chairman Ajit Pai stated it “imposed stringent conditions” to p...

Ligado investors should be scared of its future Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images) By now it shouldn’t be any surprise that I oppose the decision by the Federal Communications Commission to approve Ligado Networks’ application to repurpose low-band spectrum for a terrestrial commercial network that will interfere with GPS and satellite communications signals. What is surprising, however, is that after my push...

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