India, April 18 -- Remember Ligado It's the company that arose from the ashes of Philip Falcone's failed LightSquared effort, and it wants to build a 5G network using 40MHz of prime, mid-band spectrum backed up by its array of satellites.
Although Ligado's existing satellite communications business has been steadily moving along, providing connections for public safety workers and others, its 5G ambitions have been tangled up in more than a decade of squabbles among commercial and government users worried that a terrestrial network running in Ligado's spectrum holdings will cause interference weather-monitoring stations and other technologies.
While many of those issues still have not yet been fully addressed, the FCC this week took a ver...