{"id":52555,"date":"2023-10-13T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ligado-sues-us-government-over-its-spectrum\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:56:57","slug":"ligado-sues-us-government-over-its-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ligado-sues-us-government-over-its-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ligado Sues US Government Over its Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Ligado Networks<\/b> filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming the government unlawfully took the company\u2019s licensed spectrum without compensation. Ligado announced the lawsuit on Oct. 12. It was filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the United States, the <strong>Defense Department<\/strong> (DoD), the <strong>Commerce Department<\/strong> and&nbsp; <strong>National Telecommunications and Information Administration<\/strong> (NTIA).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, Ligado alleges the DoD, DoC, and Congress prevented Ligado from using spectrum licensed by the FCC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ligado accused the government of running a \u201cmisinformation and disparagement campaign\u201d while the DoD operated undisclosed systems with Ligado\u2019s spectrum without compensating the company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo facilitate its multi-billion-dollar taking and cover up its previously undisclosed use of Ligado\u2019s spectrum, DoD (with DoC\u2019s assistance) made false or misleading claims to the FCC, Congress, the White House, other federal agencies, and the public about the effects of Ligado\u2019s proposed 5G terrestrial services on GPS,\u201d The lawsuit reads. \u201cDoD officials even told multiple individuals at the FCC that they wanted to \u2018kill the company.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the FCC gave Ligado approval to operate terrestrial 5G services in its L-band spectrum. The decision has been hotly contested, and DoD officials, members of Congress, aerospace and satellite companies and other stakeholders that use GPS signals have pushed back on the FCC\u2019s decision. The FCC previously denied requests for a stay in January 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ligand said that while the DoD and DoC previously supported Ligado\u2019s proposal, the DoD changed course and launched a \u201creckless campaign of misinformation, scientifically meritless arguments and unsubstantiated fear-mongering about alleged harmful interference by Ligado\u2019s proposed terrestrial 5G services with GPS.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ligado is seeking \u201cjust compensation for the government\u2019s physical, categorical, regulatory and legislative takings of Ligado\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have worked diligently and in good faith with other government agencies to try and reach a fair resolution that would allow us to deploy our spectrum or be compensated appropriately. However, at this stage, DoD\u2019s, DoC\u2019s and NTIA\u2019s unlawful actions have left us no choice but to pursue litigation to defend our interests, protect our employees and stakeholders and uphold the rule of law,\u201d Ligado CEO Doug Smith said about filing the suit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ligado Networks filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming the government unlawfully took the company\u2019s licensed spectrum without compensation. Ligado announced the lawsuit on Oct. 12. It was filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the United States, the Defense Department (DoD), the Commerce Department and&nbsp; National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}