Washington, D.C. – The Cargo Airline Association (CAA), the leading voice for the air cargo industry, joined 93 organizations in calling on the Trump Administration and Congressional leadership to overturn the Ligado Order. The letter urges the President and Congressional leadership to work with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on granting petitions for reconsideration that will help prevent the building of Ligado’s harmful terrestrial wireless network. The proposed network is designed to inappropriately use spectrum reserved for satellite communications, causing significant interference to other services across a multitude of industries including aviation.
“As with prior iterations of Ligado’s and its predecessor’s terrestrial network plans, the Ligado Order threatens the critical GPS, satellite communications, and weather forecasting services relied on by millions of users every day. For this reason, the Order has faced unified and unprecedented opposition from the federal government, including 14 federal agencies and departments. Additionally, America’s farmers and pilots, airlines and weather forecasters, boatsmen and defense industries have operated with a cloud of uncertainty about the reliability of their critical communications systems. To resolve that uncertainty and the Ligado quagmire, Congress mandated the aforementioned NAS study. Congress, and the study, have spoken, and the Ligado Order should be voided.”
Read the full letter to Congress here, and the Trump Administration here.
