Ligado Wouldn't Be Significant in 5G, Iridium Says

"Ligado is not 5G," and its own commissioned study shows it would play a limited role even in an LTE network as power limits to squelch out-of-band emissions (OOBE) mean it likely could deploy only in densely populated urban areas, Iridium said in an FCC docket 12-340 posting Tuesday. Iridium said Ligado still hasn't addressed OOBE concerns about the 1627.5-1637.5 MHz band and potential interference to Iridium. It said Ligado's spectrum is outside international 5G standards. Ligado didn't comment Tuesday. Iridium has repeatedly raised red flags about Ligado's proposed terrestrial low-power service Iridium-raised red flags (see 1905150008).