32 US senators urge FCC to reconsider Ligado spectrum order

A bipartisan group of 32 U.S. senators on Friday urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a decision to allow Ligado Networks to deploy a low-power nationwide mobile broadband network, saying it could pose severe risks to global positioning systems crucial to military operations.

The letter, led by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, a Republican, and ranking Democrat Jack Reed, follows a hearing in which Pentagon leaders argued the decision may result in businesses turning to Russian- or Chinese-based space navigation systems to replace GPS.The letter to all five FCC commissioners called on them to halt and reconsider the decision and"more fully consider the technical concerns raised by numerous federal agencies and private sector stakeholders.

Ligado said on Friday that"the Department of Defense, its contractors, and their special interest lobbyists have blanketed the Hill to spread misinformation and distort the exhaustive, engineering, and fact-driven process that the FCC, under two administrations, led. GPS will not be harmed." The FCC has defended its decision, saying it included stringent conditions aimed at ensuring GPS systems would not experience harmful interference. It has won backing from U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

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