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Lawmakers, Pentagon Coalescing Around Rejection of Ligado 5G Proposal

By Vivienne Machi

Friday, April 17th, 2020

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Lawmakers, Pentagon Coalescing Around Rejection of Ligado 5G Proposal

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and Pentagon officials are stepping off the sidelines to blast a new draft order that would reallocate a GPS-adjacent portion of the radio spectrum to Ligado Network to support new 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) development. Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai released a draft order to provide Ligado with a license modification to deploy a low-power terrestrial nationwide network in L-Band, Defense Daily’s sister publication Via Satellite reported April 16.…

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