Jim Inhofe: “by now, I think people are pretty much aware of something that happened about 2 weeks ago--an FCC approval of an…”

“by now, I think people are pretty much aware of something that happened about 2 weeks ago--an FCC approval of an application that was very, very significant. Yet not many people knew that it was going on. I think by now it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I oppose this decision by the Federal Communications Commission to approve an application by Ligado Networks. Ligado's plan would use Federal spectrum in a way that will interfere with GPS and satellite communications, and despite near-unanimous objection from the rest of the Federal Government, the Federal Communications Commission has just said OK. I said ``near-unanimous.'' It was nearly unanimous. A week before the decision was made by the FCC, they sent a letter outlining all of the reasons that everyone should be opposed to the application made by Ligado to the FCC. Their statement was that Ligado's proposal is not feasible, affordable, or technically executable. It goes on to say how destructive this would be, how the whole country uses this GPS, and how this would alter the GPS system so that it no longer could be used with predictability. When I say ``nearly everyone,'' it is not ``nearly''; it is everyone objected to it. I have never seen anything like this happen, to have something approved that was objected to by all of government.…”