Satellite Data Users to FCC: Deny Ligado Application Unless Interference Addressed

Ligado’s proposed terrestrial operations could cause harmful interference, said users of data from satellites for positioning, weather information and communications, in meetings last week with aides to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, recounted a filing posted Friday in docket 12-340. Consumer benefits of services provided by “the GPS, SATCOM, aviation and real-time environmental satellite data communities are too important to jeopardize,” said Iridium, the National Emergency Number Association, Airlines for America and others. Benefits of Ligado’s “constantly evolving proposals” are “speculative,” they said. Deny the license modification application unless the company can show it addressed the interference problem, the filing said.