Ligado Networks has raised more than $100 million in a first wave of investment for the build-out of its planned 5G/IoT network, even as a federal agency recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to pause and reconsider Ligado’s ability to operate in its L-Band spectrum under new rules that the commission approved in April. The new network […]

The House Armed Services Committee is one of the strongest allies of the Department of Defense on the Hill. My tenure as Chairman, from 2011-2015, was as close as I will ever come to “serving” with America’s brave and brilliant men and women in uniform, and it was the best professional time of my life. […]

I caught up with Dr. William Webb, former director of Ofcom, the telecom regulator of the United Kingdom where he led the Spectrum Framework Review, the development of Spectrum Usage Rights, and the UK white space policy. As CEO of Weightless SIG, he led a standards body for global M2M technology. He now consults. Webb has […]

Last week, the five Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), by a unanimous bipartisan vote, endorsed the expert conclusion of its engineers and their years of technical study and analysis to adopt a spectrum plan that will advance our nation’s path to 5G while protecting incumbents and especially GPS users. The decision to approve […]