The US government is considering a plan to allow wireless firms to share radio frequencies used in weather forecasts.
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13 July 2016
An earlier version of this story wrongly stated that William Mahoney would lead a panel on spectrum-sharing at an American Meteorological Society meeting later this month. It will be chaired by Jonathan Porter. The text has been upated.
19 July 2016
An earlier of version of the story did not make clear that Ligado Networks is a satellite-communications company. The text has been revised to reflect this.
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Witze, A. Mobile-phone expansion could disrupt key weather satellites. Nature 535, 208–209 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/535208a
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