“There are too many unknowns, and the risks are too great to allow the proposed Ligado system to proceed in light of the operational impact to GPS.”
The five-member Federal Communications Commission voted in late April to approve the deployment of a 5G cellular network by Ligado Networks.
The FCC decision has received the backing of Attorney General Bill Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, also voiced his opposition to the project by Ligado, a Virginia company formerly known as LightSquared.
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