“Following the FCC’s unanimous, bipartisan approval of Ligado’s proposal to use its licensed spectrum to advance 5G for our country’s critical infrastructure industries, the Department of Defense (DoD), its contractors, and their special interest lobbyists have blanketed the Hill to spread misinformation and distort the exhaustive, engineering, and fact-driven process that the FCC, under two Administrations, […]

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 […]

RESTON, VA. April 20, 2020 – Ligado Networks issued the following statements from President and Chief Executive Officer, Doug Smith; Chairman of the Board, Ivan Seidenberg; and Directors Reed E. Hundt and Timothy M. Donahue about today’s unanimous Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval of the company’s license modification applications. Doug Smith, President & Chief Executive […]

RESTON, VA. April 16, 2020 – Ligado Networks issued the following statements from President and Chief Executive Officer, Doug Smith, and Chairman of the Board, Ivan Seidenberg, about today’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcement that Chairman Ajit Pai has circulated an Order on the company’s license modification applications to his fellow Commissioners: Doug Smith, President […]