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Iridium's Stay Arguments Ignore Inconvenient Distinctions: Ligado

Iridium claims about National Academies of Sciences report findings ignore that the report explicitly doesn't reach a conclusion about whether Iridium would experience harmful interference as defined by the FCC rules, Ligado said in docket 11-109 Thursday. Iridium also glosses…

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over how the NAS report has a different definition of harmful interference from the FCC's, it said. That's a critical distinction because the FCC's rules and licensing regime are the only tools the commission can use, Ligado said, urging the agency to reject the Iridium-sought stay of the Ligado order (see 2211150043).