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Last Friday, the national Academy of Sciences of the United States, with the support of the Ministry of defense published a report, which focuses on the risks of creating a ground-based 5G network for old satellites that are still in use by the military. Company Ligado Networks is preparing to start the commissioning of your system as early as next month. However, the Pentagon is concerned about the implementation of this plan.
In the report, in particular, stated that satellite service may experience harmful interference from 5G network. It was also found that the satellite system Iridium Globalstar, "are unlikely to experience harmful interference" because of the ground network Ligado.
Concerns about the possible impact of the 5G network are related to the fact that the network may cause harmful interference to satellites. We are talking about satellites, not only of defense, and 14 other Federal agencies. Actually, therefore, the problem and went out on a national level, earning interest from Congress.
As stated by the representative of the company Iridium Jordan Hassein, the conclusions of experts of the Academy of Sciences well correlated with opposition from Federal agencies and the company fears that 5G services will lead to harmful interference to satellite communications used by the security forces.
At the same time, the report found that for most commercial, navigation, cell GPS receivers network Ligado 5G does not cause harmful interference. To Ligado told the American edition of Defense News that the report confirms the possibility of coexistence of licensed and authorized operations of the company with GPS. According to the company, only the old and poorly designed devices can require an update in connection with the launch of the 5G network.
Two years ago the company Ligado together with the Federal communications Commission has developed a program of modernization of the Federal equipment. Now the company stands ready to help any Federal Agency that complain about problems with their legacy devices.
The company also expressed hope that the Pentagon will no longer interfere with her activities, and would instead cooperate with the company in order to eliminate possible problems in satellite communications. However, the officials of the military departments are set up differently. They argue that replacing old GPS receivers newer, modern versions of the remote, although would be effective. But the system must undergo a long and difficult certification, and it will significantly delay the introduction into service.
