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Title: GPS committee calls FCC Ligado order a “grave error”
Post by: Elderberry on July 01, 2020, 10:08:57 pm

Space News by Jeff Foust 7/1/2020

A committee charged with giving the U.S. government advice on space-based navigation services concluded that the Federal Communication Commission’s approval of Ligado’s 5G network is a “high-risk” decision that jeopardizes Global Positioning System services.

During a July 1 meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, held online, members discussed a report prepared for the committee about the April FCC decision to allow Ligado to operate a 5G terrestrial network on a spectrum band neighboring that used by GPS.

“It abruptly changed the whole character of the radio spectrum near the GPS primary frequency,” said Brad Parkinson, a vice-chair of the committee and chief architect of the GPS system during its development in the 1970s, of the FCC’s approval of Ligado. “The FCC has made a grave error in authorizing the high-power terrestrial comm network in this spectrum right next to GPS.”

More: https://spacenews.com/gps-committee-calls-fcc-ligado-order-a-grave-error/ (https://spacenews.com/gps-committee-calls-fcc-ligado-order-a-grave-error/)