There was big stink about this a few years ago when the company was named Lightsquared. I guess this is the post-bankruptcy version. A number of gps stakeholders, including precision agriculture players like John Deere, lobbied against it heavily. I got peripherally involved in the whole mess from both s the cellular industry and restructuring sides. All kinds of hedge fund types were involved at the center of it. The satellites are up there already.
Maybe they figure there is a more friendly FCC now. The issue here is not 5G at all, it was a mere gleam in the eye at the time, it is that the frequencies Ligado uses are immediately adjacent to those used by the GPS system and they could not convincingly demonstrate that they'd never stray over and interfere. I haven't kept up with things since, and would rather not, though the fees were nice back then, it was kind of ugly. Maybe I'll take a deeper look see over the weekend.
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