Regulations and Government
Nearly 80 Organizations Urge Congress To Halt Ligado Network
A letter from 80 organizations appeals to key U.S. Senate leaders to ensure the FCC reconsiders its approval of the Ligado L-Band spectrum use.

Nearly 80 organizations across aviation and other industries are appealing to key U.S. Senate leaders to step up pressure for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider its approval for Ligado to use a band of spectrum that would bump against that used by aviation and others.

The organizations wrote Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and ranking member Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) this week that the FCC’s “flawed Ligado order…would upend decades of sound spectrum policy, negatively impact a significant cross-section of commercial, federal, and academic users who rely on the many different L-band satellite services, and threaten the safety of most Americans.”