Ligado Fighting ASR Access to Confidential Data, Recaps FCC Meeting

Ligado is fighting an attempt by Aviation Spectrum Resources (ASR) to have access to Iridium's technical analysis of how Ligado's proposed LTE service might cause interference to the satellite company's receivers. In a filing Monday in docket 11-109, Ligado said it's objecting to disclosure of confidential information to ASR outside counsel, saying ASR's request filed last week didn't indicate what relevance the information has to ASR or how it would contribute to ASR having material comments to submit in the proceeding. ASR didn't comment. In a separate ex parte filing Monday in the docket, Ligado recapped a meeting of its representatives with an aide to Commissioner Mike O'Rielly. The company said it talked about the license modification applications it filed in 2015 to codify the power and out-of-band emission level agreements reached with GPS device makers, and the additional agreements reached with other such makers as well as the lack of any data showing those reduced LTE power levels will still affect GPS devices in the adjacent band. The company talked about reallocating 1675-1680 MHz for shared commercial use and the protection zones Ligado has proposed to safeguard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's earth stations using that spectrum. The firm said it renewed its oft-made push (see 1611250033 and 1611210031) for an NPRM regarding reallocation of that spectrum.