Posted on 01/18/2022 9:10:20 AM PST by Twotone
As telecommunication giants Verizon and AT&T prepare to roll out their hotly anticipated new 5G service on Wednesday, major U.S. airlines are warning that the launch will result in "catastrophic" disruption for the aviation industry.
In a letter sent Monday to Biden administration officials, a group of airline CEOs stressed that the forthcoming C-Band 5G deployment would ground "huge swaths" of the U.S. fleet and "could potentially strand tens of thousands of Americans overseas."
"Unless our major hubs are cleared to fly, the vast majority of the traveling and shipping public will essentially be grounded," they said in the letter, viewed by NBC News.
The airline executives stated plainly that the rollout could be accompanied by an aviation crisis the likes of which the country has never seen.
"To be blunt, the nation's commerce will grind to a halt," they stated plainly.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
The major airlines and telephone giants deserve each other and have earned a crippling catastrophe.
What did we do without radar altimeters?
We went through this crap 35 years ago when we divided up radio spectrum and made the manufacturers tighten up the frequencies they used instead of bleeding all over the radio spectrum. Perhaps it is time we make the RA manufacturers do the same?
Just thinking, it affects government drones far more than airlines.
That is the reason for the “sky is falling” hysteria.
This is the big one today... Sounds more like a paper tiger to me. It is a setup. Is the Biden administration going to save the day with sleepy Joe taking on AT&T and Verizon? Let’s get real here people... I know a lot of people on this forum get jittery about anything more automated than a manual typewriter, but even 5G cell phones transmit with such low energy that you are typically lucky to get a descent signal anywhere that there are not a lot of cell towers.
The old bag phone I used to take in our airplane could get a signal from 50 miles away because it had a high wattage transmitter compared to now...
Not every tower will radiate the mid-band frequencies in question here.
Also the carriers and their tower companies are good at aiming lobes where the RF belongs.
This Is NOT a 5G issue, per se, it’s a permitted spectrum use question.
If you are radiating RF in frequency range XX-YY, then you have the opportunity to interfere with other gizmos in the same and adjacent frequencies. You also have to prepare to overcome the interference the other gizmos might cause.
Kinda interesting the carriers aren’t worried that THEIR devices will be bothered by the airlines’ gizmos, but OMG the planes will fall from the sky.
NET: STOP calling this a 5G issue, and CORRECTLY frame it as a frequency use pissing contest.
In the end the FCC/FAA have to work this out.
Well, then,
Just as soon as they finish ferreting out all the white "supremacists" and installing Democrat circus freaks in their place.
So what have the airlines been doing in the meantime?? Sitting around with their thumbs “up Uranus”? It is not as if the date of the 5G rollout was exactly unknown....
If those in the airline (and airplane) business have failed to take action, the bad is on THEIR heads...
Not worried here because I have a generator and MREs from Y2K. /s
Above posted on 1/17/2022, 8:25:31 AM by Magnum44
“They” said the same thing about Y2K.
“What did we do without radar altimeters?”
Well, we have a “dire warning” and the warning is “the nation’s commerce will grind to a halt”. Nothing about planes smacking the ground in the wrong places.
As another poster said, 5G was defined 10 years ago. Certainly all parts of the aviation industry pay close attention to the frequencies emitted from the ground and from aircraft.
And we read that 5G is already deployed European airports.
Maybe the radar altimeters are necessary today because today’s airline pilots don’t know how to land their planes without them.
Hasn’t Trump referred to pilots as becoming more like managers than plane flyers?
This is testimony to how important the advanced surveillance capabilities of 5G are to the deep state.
As for consumer benefit, most of it is a lie.
They are willing to destroy a foundational element of the economy to know what you are doing and where you are at all times.
5G has been turned on in Canada and Europe already, and the planes keep flying.
This is our airlines being too cheap to upgrade 20 year old altimeters.
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