Posted on 01/02/2022 3:28:22 PM PST by John W
WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications rejected a request to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns but offered to temporarily adopt new safeguards.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson had asked AT&T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg late Friday for a commercial deployment delay of no more than two weeks.
The wireless companies in a joint letter on Sunday said they would not deploy 5G around airports for six months but rejected any broader limitation on using C-Band spectrum. They said the Transportation Department proposal would be "an irresponsible abdication of the operating control required to deploy world-class and globally competitive communications networks."
The aviation industry and FAA have raised concerns about potential interference of 5G with sensitive aircraft electronics like radio altimeters that could disrupt flights.
The exclusion zone AT&T and Verizon propose is currently in use in France, the carriers said, "with slight adaption" reflecting "modest technical differences in how C-band is being deployed."
"The laws of physics are the same in the United States and France," the CEOs wrote. "If U.S. airlines are permitted to operate flights every day in France, then the same operating conditions should allow them to do so in the United States."
The FAA said in a statement on Sunday that it was "reviewing the latest letter from the wireless companies on how to mitigate interference from 5G C-band transmissions. U.S. aviation safety standards will guide our next actions."
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They need to fix their planes, I want fast internet.
How many airline crashes will it take?
Oh, Never mind....investigations take years, and who would write either of those in their final report?
The FAA is probably only slightly less useful than todays FBI.
Dump the EPA, FBI and FAA and it would probably save the USA 1T/year
At the risk of defending Big Wireless, they have had literally years to study this and raise objections.
Um… excuse me? They don’t have a choice here as the FCC can put the kibosh on this.
Has AT&T CEO John Stankey named a woman of color to replace himself yet and set his resignation date? Since in his own words, white male privilege is the real problem and its really his own fault for existing.
5G is NOT going to help lack the of coverage along multiple US Highways out West....
America’s largest flu symptom inducing network.
... and FDA.
The profits of big corporations are more important that the threat of airplane crashes. This conflict should have never have been allowed in the first place. No one did their homework or else they simply did not care bout anything but profits.
Meanwhile they are shutting down 3G. You have perfectly good phones that are less than 5 years old that must all be thrown out and replaced. The companies make a ton of money on the replacements. How is that for environmental impact.
And if you have a double or triple minute trac phone then guess what? They don’t make them anymore. So your replacement phone will only have single minutes. That’s one way to cheat your customers.
Well at least you will be able to call in and report a plane crash.
It is my understanding that 5G actually has less range. The reason for it is that it creates the ability to have many more users for people and devices. But it actually requires more towers/ repeaters spaced closer together.
BINGO!
It won’t help me, even if I had a 5G device.
Delay two weeks so the feds can do what? LOL. This is almost comical.
“And if you have a double or triple minute trac phone then guess what? They don’t make them anymore. So your replacement phone will only have single minutes.”
As of today:
LG 840G Prepaid Phone with Triple Minutes (Tracfone) (White)
“You have perfectly good phones that are less than 5 years old that must all be thrown out and replaced. “
Name a phone less than five years old that does not have 4G.
Cue the ignorant folks who don’t understand RF and ionizing radiation.
Yes. It’s a basic property of RF that the higher the frequency the shorter the range.
“It is my understanding that 5G actually has less range. The reason for it is that it creates the ability to have many more users for people and devices”
T-Mobile has a low-freq 5G that has longer range.
5G will enable accurate 911 location services.
5G has very low latency enabling more precise real-time control of equipment.
5G duplex doubles bandwidth capacity
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