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FCC 'Got It Right,' Hence Lack of Harmful GPS Interference Evidence: Ligado

Letters urging the White House and congressional leaders to stay the FCC's 2020 Ligado authorization (see 2204250057) are "a transparent effort to politicize a robust and unimpeachable regulatory process based on scientific data," Ligado emailed us Monday. “The FCC thoroughly…

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considered and rejected each and every frivolous assertion in this letter in their unanimous bipartisan decision two years ago. No federal agency has identified a single GPS device that needs to be repaired or replaced due to Ligado’s proposed operations. If there’s such an imminent threat, why isn’t there yet a single bit of evidence anywhere -- at the FCC or at the [National Academy of Sciences] -- showing harmful interference to GPS? It’s because the FCC got it right.”